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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
FAITH also in beholding the glory of Christ in this Life, is accompanied with a transforming Efficacy, as the Apostle expressly declares, 2 Cor. 3. 18. It is the Principle from whence, and the Instrumental Cause whereby all spiritual change is wrought in us in this Life; but the Work of it is imperfect; first because it is gradual, and then because it is partial.
FAITH also in beholding the glory of Christ in this Life, is accompanied with a transforming Efficacy, as the Apostle expresly declares, 2 Cor. 3. 18. It is the Principle from whence, and the Instrumental Cause whereby all spiritual change is wrought in us in this Life; but the Work of it is imperfect; first because it is gradual, and then because it is partial.
1. AS unto the manner of its Operation, it is gradual, and doth not at once transform us into the Image of Christ. Yea, the degrees of its Progress therein, are unto us for the most part imperceptible. It requires much spiritual Wisdom and Observation to obtain an Experience of them in our own Souls. The inward man is renewed day by day, whilst we behold these invisible things, 2 Cor. 4. 16, 17, 18. but how? even as the outward Man decays by Age, which is by insensible Degrees and Alterations. Such is the Transformation which we have by Faith in its present View of the glory of Christ. And according to our Experience of its Efficacy herein, is our Evidence of its Truth and Realty in the beholding of him. No Man can have the least ground of assurance that he hath seen Christ and his glory by Faith, without some Effects of it in changing him into his Likeness. For as on the Touch of his Garment by the Woman in the Gospel, Virtue went out from him to heal her Infirmity: So upon this View of Faith, an influence of transforming Power will proceed from Christ unto the Soul.
1. AS unto the manner of its Operation, it is gradual, and doth not at once transform us into the Image of Christ. Yea, the degrees of its Progress therein, are unto us for the most part imperceptible. It requires much spiritual Wisdom and Observation to obtain an Experience of them in our own Souls. The inward man is renewed day by day, whilst we behold these invisible things,