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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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THIS in general is declared by the Apostle; 2 Cor. 4. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. But for this cause we faint not, but tho' our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment worketh for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not seen, are eternal.
OUR beholding by Faith things that are not seen, things spiritual and eternal, will alleviate all our Afflictions, make their burden light, and preserve our Souls from fainting under them. Of these things the Glory of Christ whereof we treat, is the principal, and in a due since comprehensive of them all. For we behold the Glory of God himself, in the face of Jesus Christ. He that can at all times retreat unto the contemplation of this Glory, will be carried above the perplexing prevailing sense of any of these evils, of a confluence of them all. Crus nil sentit in nervo dumb animus est in coelo.
OUR beholding by Faith things that are not seen, things spiritual and eternal, will alleviate all our Afflictions, make their burden light, and preserve our Souls from fainting under them. Of these things the Glory of Christ whereof we treat, is the principal, and in a due since comprehensive of them all. For we behold the Glory of God himself, in the face of Jesus Christ. He that can at all times retreat unto the comtemplation of this Glory, will be carried above the perplexing prevailing sense of any of these evils, of a confluence of them all. Crus nil sentit in nervo dum animus est in coelo.