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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
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How much more abominable is the folly of men, who would represent the Lord Christ in his present Glory by Pictures and Images of him? When they have done their utmost with their burnished Glass and Gildings, an eye of flesh cannot only behold it, but if it be guided by reason, see it contemptible and foolish. But the true Glory of Christ neither inward nor outward sight can bear the rays of in this life.
How much more abominable is the folly of men, who would represent the Lord Christ in his present Glory by Pictures and Images of him? When they have done their utmost with their burnished Glass and Guildings, an eye of flesh cannot only behold it, but if it be guided by reason, see it contemptible and foolish. But the true Glory of Christ neither inward nor outward sight can bear the rays of in this life.
THE dispensation which we are meet for is only that of his presence with us by his Spirit. We know him now no more after the flesh, 2 Cor. 5. 16. We are advanced above that way and means of the knowledge of him by the fleshly carnal Ordinances of the Old Testament. And we know him not according unto that bodily presence of his, which his Disciples enjoyed in the days of his flesh. We have attained somewhat above that also. For such was the nature of his Ministry here on earth, that there could not be the promised dispensation of the spirit until that was finished. Therefore he tells his Disciples that it was expedient for them that he should go away and send the spirit to them, John. 16. 7. Hereon they had a clearer view of the Glory of Christ, than they could have by beholding him in the flesh. This is our spiritual posture and condition. We are past the knowledge of him according to the flesh; we cannot attain nor receive the sight of him in Glory; but the life which we now lead, is by the Faith of the Son of God.