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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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1. LABOUR that your minds may continually be fitted and prepared for such Heavenly Contemplations. If they are carnal and sensual, or filled with earthly things, a due sense of this Love of Christ and its Glory, will not abide in them. Virtue and Vice in their highest Degrees are not more diametrically opposite and inconsistent in the same mind, than ⟨p. 80⟩are an habitual Course of sensual worldly Thoughts, and a due Contemplation of the Glory of the Love of Christ: Yea, an earnestness of Spirit, pregnant with a multitude of Thoughts about the lawful Occasions of Life, is obstructive of all due Communion with the Lord Jesus Christ herein.
1. LABOUR that your minds may continually be fitted and prepared for stch Heavenly Contemplations. If they are carnal and sensual, or filled with earthly things, a due sense of this Love of Christ and its Glory, will not abide in them. Vertue and Vice in their highest Degrees are not more diametrically opposite and inconsistent in the same mind, than ⟨p. 80⟩are an habitual Course of sensual worldly Thoughts, and a due Contemplation of the Glory of the Love of Christ: Yea, an earnestness of Spirit, pregnant with a multitude of Thoughts about the lawful Occasions of Life, is obstructive of all due Communion with the Lord Jesus Christ herein.
FEW there are whose Minds are prepared in a due Manner for this Duty. The Actions and Communications of the most, evidence what is the inward Frame of their Souls. They rove up and down in their Thoughts, which are continually lead by their Affections into the Corners of the Earth. It is in vain to call such Persons unto Contemplations of the Glory of Christ in his Love. An holy Composure of Mind by virtue of spiritual principles, an Inclination to seek after Refreshment in Heavenly Things, and to bath the Soul in the Fountain of them, with constant Apprehensions of the Excellency of this Divine Glory, are required hereunto.