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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.
THIS effect that View which we have by Faith of the glory of Christ in this World, doth not produce. It is Sanctifying, not Glorifying. The best of Saints are far ⟨p. 200⟩from a perfect or glorified State in this Life. And that not only on the account of the outward Evils, which in their Persons they are exposed unto; but also of the Weakness and Imperfection of their inward State in Grace. Yet we may observe some things unto the Honour of Faith in them who have received it. As,
1. IN its due Exercise on Christ, it will give unto the Souls of Believers some previous Participation of future glory, working in them Dispositions unto, and Preparation for the Enjoyment of it.
2. THERE is no Glory, no Peace, no Joy, no Satisfaction in this World to be compared with what we receive by that weak and imperfect View which we have of the Glory of Christ by Faith. Yea, all the Joys of the World are a thing of nought in Comparison of what we so receive.
3. IT is sufficient to give us such a Perception, such a Foretaste of future Blessedness in the Enjoyment of Christ, as may continually stir us up to breath and pant after it. But it is not Beatifical.