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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.
AND by the way, this comparing of the Path of the Just unto the Morning Light, minds me of what I have seen more than once. That Light hath sometimes cheerfully appeared unto the World, when after a little season by reason of Clouds, Tempests and Storms; it hath given place again to Darkness, like that of the Night; but it hath not so been lost and buried like the Evening Light; after a while it hath recovered it self unto a greater lustre than before, manifesting that it increased in it self whilst it was eclipsed as to us. So hath it been with not a few at their first Conversion unto God, great Darkness and Trouble have by the Efficacy of Temptation, and Injections of Satan possessed their minds: But the Grace which they have received being as the Morning Light, hath after a while disentangled ⟨p. 38⟩it self, and given Evidence, that it was so far from being extinguished, as that it grew and thrived under all those Clouds and Darkness; For the Light of the Just doth in the issue always increase by Temptations, as that of the Hypocrite is constantly impaired by them.
AND by the way, this comparing of the Path of the Just unto the Morning Light, minds me of what I have seen more than once. That Light hath sometimes chearfully appeared unto the World, when after a little season by reason of Clouds, Tempests and Storms; it hath given place again to Darkness, like that of the Night; but it hath not so been lost and buried like the Evening Light; after a while it hath recovered it self unto a greater lustre than before, manifesting that it increased in it self whilst it was eclipsed as to us. So hath it been with not a few at their first Conversion unto God, great Darkness and Trouble have by the Efficacy of Temptation, and Injections of Satan possessed their minds: But the Grace which they have received being as the Morning Light, hath after a while disentangled ⟨p. 38⟩it self, and given Evidence, that it was so far from being extinguished, as that it grew and thrived under all those Clouds and Darkness; For the Light of the Just doth in the issue always increase by Temptations, as that of the Hypocrite is constantly impaired by them.