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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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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.
IT is a woeful kind of Life, when men scramble for poor perishing Reliefs in their Distresses. This is the Universal Remedy and Cure, the only Balsam for all our Diseases. Whatever presseth, urgeth, perplexeth; if we can but retreat in our ⟨image 6⟩minds unto a view of this Glory, and a due consideration of our own Interest therein; Comfort and Supportment will be administered unto us. Wicked men in their Distresses (which sometimes overtake even them also) are like a troubled Sea that cannot rest. Others are heartless and despond, not without secret repinings at the wise disposals of Divine Providence, especially when they look on the better Condition (as they suppose) of others. And the best of us are apt all to wax faint and weary, when these things press upon us in an unusual manner, or under their long continuance without a prospect of Relief. This is the strong hold which such Prisoners of hope are to turn themselves unto. In this Contemplation of the Glory of Christ, they will find Rest unto their own Souls. For,