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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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FOR the first of these, although it seems not directly to lye in our way, yet is it suited unto the method of the Gospel, that wherever there is a Declaration of the Excellencies of Christ, in his Person, Grace or Office, it should be accompanied with an Invitation and Exhortation unto Sinners to come unto him. This method he himself first made use of, Mat. 11. 27, 28, 29, 30. Joh. 7▪ 37, 38. and consecrated it unto our use also. Besides, it is necessary from the nature of the things ⟨p. 2⟩themselves, for who can dwell on the consideration of the Glory of Christ, being called therewith to the Declaration of it, but his own mind will engage him to invite lost Sinners unto a participation of him. But I shall at present proceed no further in this Exhortation, but only unto the Proposal of some of those Considerations which may prepare, incline, and dispose their Minds unto a closure with him as he is tendered in the Gospel. As,
FOR the first of these, although it seems not directly to lye in our way, yet is it suited unto the method of the Gospel, that wherever there is a Declaration of the Excellencies of Christ, in his Person, Grace or Office, it should be accompanied with an Invitation and Exhortation unto Sinners to come unto him. This method he himself first made use of, Mat. 11. 27, 28, 29, 30. Joh. 7▪ 37, 38. and consecrated it unto our use also. Besides, it is necessary from the nature of the things ⟨p. 2⟩themselves, for who can dwell on the consideration of the Glory of Christ, being called therewith to the Declaration of it, but his own mind will engage him to invite lost Sinners unto a participation of him. But I shall at present proceed no further in this Exhortation, but only unto the Proposal of some of those Considerations which may prepare, encline, and dispose their Minds unto a closure with him as he is tendred in the Gospel. As,