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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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THAT this Spiritual Life is in it's Nature and Constitution such as will abide, thrive and grow to the end, is three ways testified unto in the Scripture.
1. IN that it is compared unto things of the most infallible increase and Progress: For besides that, it's growth is frequently likened unto that of Plants and Trees well watered, and in a fruitful Soil, which fail not to spring, unless it be from some external violence; it is likewise compared unto such things as whose progress is absolutely infallible, Prov. 4. 18. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more to the perfect day. The path of the Just is his Covenant-walk before God, as it is frequently called in the Scripture, Psal. 119. 35. 105. Isa. 26. 7. Psal. 23. 3. Mat. 3. 3. Heb. 12. 13. and it compriseth the Principle, Profession, and Fruits of it. This, faith the Wise Man, is as the shining Light; that is, the Morning Light: And wherein is it so? Why, as that goeth on by Degrees, and shineth more and more unto the high Noon; (though it may be interrupted sometimes by Clouds and Storms:) So is this Path of the Just, it goes on and increaseth unto the high Noon, ⟨p. 36⟩the perfect Day of Glory. It is in it's Nature so to do, though it may sometimes meet with obstructions, as we shall see afterwards; and so doth the Morning light also.
1. IN that it is compared unto things of the most infallible increase and Progress: For besides that, it's growth is frequently likened unto that of Plants and Trees well watered, and in a fruitful Soil, which fail not to spring, unless it be from some external violence; it is likewise compared unto such things as whose progress is absolutely infallible,