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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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1. WITH some he employs all his Engines, useth all his Methods of Serpentine Subtlety, and casts in his fiery Darts, so to disquiet, discompose and deject them, as that they can retain no comfortable Views of Christ or his Glory. Hence arise fears, doubts, disputes, uncertainties, with various Disconsolations. Hereon they cannot apprehend the Love of Christ, nor be sensible of any Interest they have therein, or any refreshing persuasions that they are accepted with him. If such things sometimes shine and beam into their Minds, yet they quickly vanish and disappear. Fears that they are rejected and cast off by him, that he will not receive them here nor hereafter, do come in their place; hence are they filled with Anxieties and Despondencies, under which it is impossible ⟨p. 185⟩they should have any clear View of his Glory.
1. WITH some he imploys all his Engines, useth all his Methods of Serpentine Subtilty, and casts in his fiery Darts, so to d•squiet, discompose and deject them, as that they can retain no comfortable Views of Christ or his Glory. Hence arise fears, doubts, disputes, uncertainties, with various Disconsolations. Hereon they cannot apprehend the Love of Christ, nor be sensible of any Interest they have therein, or any refreshing perswasions that they are accepted with him. If such things sometimes shine and beam into their Minds, yet they quickly vanish and disappear. Fears that they are rejected and cast off by him, that he will not receive them here nor hereafter, do come in their place; hence are they filled with Anxieties and Despondencies, under which it is impossible ⟨p. 185⟩they should have any clear View of his Glory.
I KNOW that Ignorance, Atheism and Obstinate Security in sensual Sins, do combine to despise all these things. But it is no new thing in the World, that Men outwardly professing Christian Religion, when they find gain in that Godliness, should speak evil of the things which they know not, and corrupt themselves in what they know naturally, as brute Beasts.