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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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3. THESE things are preparatory unto Glory. The complete Communication of it, is by the Infusion of a new heavenly Light into the Mind, enabling us to see the Lord Christ as he is. The Soul shall not be brought into the immediate Presence of Christ without a new Power to behold him, and the immediate Representation of his Glory. Faith now doth cease as unto the manner of its Operation in this Life, whilst we are absent from Christ. This Light of Glory succeeds into its Room, fitted for that State and all the ends of it, as Faith is for that which is present. And,
3. THESE things are preparatory unto Glory. The compleat Communication of it, is by the Infusion of a new heavenly Light into the Mind, enabling us to see the Lord Christ as he is. The Soul shall not be brought into the immediate Presence of Christ without a new Power to behold him, and the immediate Representation of his Glory. Faith now doth cease as unto the manner of its Operation in this Life, whilst we are absent from Christ. This Light of Glory succeeds into its Room, fitted for that State and all the ends of it, as Faith is for that which is present. And,
4. IN the first Operation of this Light of Glory, Believers shall so behold the glory of Christ, and the glory of God in him, as that therewith, and thereby they shall be immediately and universally changed into his Likeness. They shall be as he is, when they shall see him as he is. There is no growth in glory, as unto Parts, there may be as unto Degrees. Additions may be outwardly made unto what is at first received, as by the Resurrection of the Body; but the internal Light of Glory, and its transforming Efficacy is capable of no degrees, though new Revelations may be made unto it, unto Eternity. For the infinite Fountain of Life, and Light, and Goodness, can never be fathomed, much less exhausted. And what God spake on the Entrance of sin, by the way of contempt and approach. Behold the Man is become like one of ⟨p. 197⟩us, upbraiding him with what he had foolishly designed; on the Accomplishment of the Work of his Grace, he says in Love and infinite Goodness, Man is become like one of us, in the perfect Restoration of our Image in him. This is the first Effect of the Light of Glory.