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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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Chapter 3: The Glory of Christ in the Mysterious Constitution of his Person.
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.
IT is to be feared that there are some who profess Religion with an Appearance of Strictness, who never separate themselves from all other Occasions to meditate on Christ and his Glory. And yet with a strange Inconsistency of Apprehensions, they will profess that they desire nothing more, than to behold his Glory in Heaven for ever. But it is evident even in the Light of Reason, that these things are irreconcilable. It is impossible that he who never meditates with delight on the Glory of Christ here in this World, who labours not to behold it by Faith as it is revealed in the Scripture, should ever have any real gracious Desire to behold it in Heaven. They may love and desire the Fruition of their own Imaginations, they cannot do so of the Glory of Christ whereof they are ignorant, and wherewith they are unacquainted. It is therefore to be lamented that Men can find time for, and have inclinations to think and meditate on other things, it may be earthly and vain; but have neither Heart nor Inclinations, nor Leisure to meditate on this glorious Object. What is the Faith and Love which such Men ⟨p. 51⟩profess? how will they find themselves deceived in the Issue?
IT is to be feared that there are some who profess Religion with an Appearance of Strictness, who never separate themselves from all other Occasions to meditate on Christ and his Glory. And yet with a strange Inconsistency of Apprehensions, they will profess that they desire nothing more, than to behold his Glory in Heaven for ever. But it is evident even in the Light of Reason, that these things are irreconcilable. It is impossible that he who never meditates with delight on the Glory of Christ here in this World, who labors not to behold it by Faith as it is revealed in the Scripture, should ever have any real gracious Desire to behold it in Heaven. They may love and desire the Fruition of their own Imaginations, they cannot do so of the Glory of Christ whereof they are ignorant, and wherewith they are unacquainted. It is therefore to be lamented that Men can find time for, and have inclinations to think and meditate on other things, it may be earthly and vain; but have neither Heart nor Inclinations, nor Leasure to meditate on this glorious Object. What is the Faith and Love which such Men ⟨p. 51⟩profess? how will they find themselves deceived in the Issue?