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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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ALAS! we cannot here think of Christ, but we are quickly ashamed of, and troubled at our own thoughts: So confused are they, so unsteady, so imperfect. Commonly they issue in a groan or a sigh; Oh when shall we come unto him? when shall we be ever with him? when shall we see him as he is? And if at any time he begins to give more than ordinary evidences and intimations of his Glory and Love unto our Souls, we are not able to bear ⟨p. 155⟩them, so as to give them any abiding residence in our Minds. But ordinarily, this trouble and groaning is amongst our best attainments in this World, a trouble which, I pray God, I may never be delivered from, until deliverance do come at once from this state of mortality. Yea the good Lord increase this trouble more and more in all that believe.
ALAS! we cannot here think of Christ, but we are quickly ashamed of, and troubled at our own thoughts: So confused are they, so unsteady, so imperfect. Commonly they issue in a groan or a sigh; Oh when shall we come unto him? when shall we be ever with him? when shall we see him as he is? And if at any time he begins to give more than ordinary evidences and intimations of his Glory and Love unto our Souls, we are not able to bear ⟨p. 155⟩them, so as to give them any abiding residence in our Minds. But ordinarily, this trouble and groaning is amongst our best attainments in this World, a trouble which, I pray God, I may never be delivered from, until deliverance do come at once from this state of mortality. Yea the good Lord encrease this trouble more and more in all that believe.
THE heart of a believer affected with the Glory of Christ, is like the Needle touched with the Lodestone. It can no longer be quiet, no longer be satisfied in a distance from him. It is put into a continual motion towards him. The motion indeed is weak and tremulous. Pantings, breathings, sighings, groanings, in prayer, in meditations, in the secret recesses of our Minds, are the life of it. However it is continually pressing towards him. But it obtains not its point, it comes not to its centre and rest in this World.