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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.
THOUGHTS of this Glory of Christ are too high for us, or too hard for us, such as we cannot long delight in; we turn away from them with a kind of Weariness; yet are they of the same Nature in general with our beholding of the Glory of Christ in Heaven, wherein there shall be no weariness or Satiety unto Eternity. Is not the Cause of it, that we are unspiritual or carnal, having our Thoughts and Affections wonted to give Entertainment unto other things? For this is the principal Cause of our Unreadiness and Incapacity to exercise our Minds in and about the great Mysteries of the Gospel. 1 Cor. 3. 1, 2, 3. And it is so with us moreover, because we do not stir up our selves with Watchfulness and Diligence in continual Actings of Faith on this Blessed Object. This is that which keeps many of us at so low an Ebb, as unto the Powers of an Heavenly Life, and spiritual Joys.
DID we abound in this Duty, in this Exercise of Faith, our Life in walking before God would be more sweet and pleasant unto us; our spiritual Light and Strength would have a daily Increase; we should more represent the Glory of Christ in our Ways and Walking, than usually we do; and Death it self would be most welcome unto us.
DID we abound in this Duty, in this Exercise of Faith, our Life in walking before God would be more sweet and pleasant unto us; our spiritual Light and St••ngth would have a daily Encrease; we should more represent the Glory of Christ in our Ways and Walking, than usually we do; and Death it self would be most welcome unto us.
THE Angels themselves desire to look into the things of the Glory of Christ, 1 Pet. 1. 10, 12