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Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Meditations and discourses on the glory of Christ, in his person, office, and grace with the differences between faith and sight applied unto the use of them that believe / by the late Reverend John Owen, D.D.
London: printed by B.A., 1691
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3. IT is he, in whom our Nature hath been carried successfully, and victoriously, through all the Oppositions that it is liable unto, and even Death it self. But the Glory hereof I shall speak unto distinctly in its proper place, which follows, and therefore shall here pass it by.
4. HE it is, who in himself hath given us a Pledge of the capacity of our Nature to inhabit those blessed Regions of Light, which are far above these aspectable Heavens. Here we dwell in Tabernacles of Clay, that are crushed before the Moth; such as cannot be raised, so as to abide one foot breadth above the Earth we tread upon. The heavenly Luminaries which we can behold, appear too great and glorious for our Cohabitation. We are as Grasshoppers in our own eyes, in comparison of those Gigantic Beings; and they seem to dwell in places, which would immediately swallow up, and extinguish our Natures. How then shall we entertain an Apprehension of being carried and exalted above them all? to have an everlasting subsistence in places incomprehensibly more glorious than the Orbs wherein they reside? What capacity is there in our Nature of such an Habitation? But hereof the Lord Christ hath given us a Pledge in himself. Our Nature in him, is passed through these Aspectable Heavens, and is exalted far above them. Its eternal Habitation is in the blessed Regions of Light and Glory; and he hath promised that where he is, there we shall be, and that for ever.
4. HE it is, who in himself hath given us a Pledge of the capacity of our Nature to inhabit those blessed Regions of Light, which are far above these aspectable Heavens. Here we dwell in Tabernacles of Clay, that are crushed before the Moth; such as cannot be raised, so as to abide one foot breadth above the Earth we tread upon. The heavenly Luminaries which we can behold, appear too great and glorious for our Cohabitation. We are as Grashoppers in our own eyes, in comparison of those Gigantick Beings; and they seem to dwell in places, which would immediately swallow up, and extinguish our Natures. How then shall we entertain an Apprehension of being carried and exalted above them all? to have an everlasting subsistence in places incomprehensibly more glorious than the Orbs wherein they reside? What capacity is there in our Nature of such an Habitation? But hereof the Lord Christ hath given us a Pledge in himself. Our Nature in him, is passed through these Aspectable Heavens, and is exalted far above them. Its eternal Habitation is in the blessed Regions of Light and Glory; and he hath promised that where he is, there we shall be, and that for ever.