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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.
THESE and the like things doth the Lord Christ continually declare, proclaim, plead and urge on the Souls of Sinners; as it is fully declared, Prov. 1. ver. 20. to the 34. He doth it in the preaching of the word, as if he were present with you, stood amongst you, and spake personally to every one of you: And because this would not suit his present state of Glory, he hath appointed the Ministers of the Gospel to appear before you, and to deal with you in his stead, avowing, as his own, the Invitations that are given you in his Name, 2 Cor. 5. 19, 20.
THESE and the like things doth the Lord Christ continually declare, proclaim, plead and urge on the Souls of Sinners; as it is fully declaclared, Prov. 1. ver. 20. to the 34. He doth it in the preaching of the word, as if he were present with you, stood amongst you, and spake personally to every one of you: And because this would not suit his present state of Glory, he hath appointed the Ministers of the Gospel to appear before you, and to deal with you in his stead, avowing, as his own, the Invitations that are given you in his Name, 2 Cor. 5. 19, 20.
CONSIDER therefore his Infinite Condescension, Grace, and Love herein: Why all this towards you? doth he stand in need of you? Have you deserved it at his hands? Did you love him first? Cannot he be happy and blessed without you? Hath he any Design upon you, that he is so earnest in calling you unto him? Alas, it is nothing but the overflowing of Mercy, Compassion, and Grace that moves and acts him herein. Here lies the entrance of innumerable Souls into a Death and Condemnation far more severe than those contained in the Curse of the Law, 2 Cor. 2. 15, 16. In the contempt of this Infinite Condescension of Christ, in his Holy Invitation of Sinners to himself, lies the sting and poison of Unbelief, which unavoidably gives over the Souls of Men unto Eternal Ruin: And who shall once pity them to Eternity who are guilty of it? Yea but,