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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. AS unto what you pretend of your Pleasures, the Truth is, you never yet had any real Pleasure, nor do know what it is: How easy were it to declare the folly, vanity, bitterness, poison of those things which you have esteemed your pleasures. Here alone, namely, in Christ, and a participation of him, are true Pleasures, and durable Riches to be obtained; Pleasure of the same Nature with, and such as like pleasant Streams flow down into the Ocean of Eternal Pleasures above. A few moments in these Joys are to be preferred above the longest continuance in the cursed pleasures of this World. See Prov. 3. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
3. AS unto what you pretend of your Pleasures, the Truth is, you never yet had any real Pleasure, nor do know what it is: How easie were it to declare the folly, vanity, bitterness, poyson of those things which you have esteemed your pleasures. Here alone, namely, in Christ, and a participation of him, are true Pleasures, and durable Riches to be obtained; Pleasure of the same Nature with, and such as like pleasant Streams flow down into the Ocean of Eternal Pleasures above. A few moments in these Joys are to be preferred above the longest continuance in the cursed pleasures of this World. See Prov. 3. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
V. IT will be said by some, that they do not see those who profess themselves to be Believers, to be so much better than they are, as that you need to press us so earnestly to so great a change; we know not why we should not be accounted Believers already as well as they. I shall in a few words, as well as I am able, lay this stumbling-block out of the way, though I confess at this day it is weighty and cumbersome. And I say.