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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. WHAT is the Freedom of it as unto any desert on our Part, 1 Joh. 4. 10. It was Hatred not Love that we in our selves deserved, which is a Consideration suited to fill the Soul with self-abasement, the best of Frames in the contemplation of the Glory of Christ.
4. WHAT is the Efficacy of it in its Fruits and Effects, with sundry other Considerations of the like Nature. By a distinct Prospect and Admiration of these Things, the Soul may walk in this Paradise of God, and gather here and there an Heavenly Flower, conveying unto it a sweet Savour of this Love of Christ. See Cant. 11. 2, 3, 4.
MOREOVER, Be not contented to have right Notions of the Love of Christ in your Minds, unless you can attain a gracious Taste of it in your Hearts; no more than you would be to see a Feast or Banquet richly prepared, and partake of nothing of it unto your Refreshment. It is of that Nature that we may have a spiritual Sensation of it in our Minds; whence it is compared by the Spouse to Apples and Flagons of Wine. We may taste that the Lord is gracious. And if we find not a Relish of it in our Hearts, we shall not long retain the Notion of it in our Minds. Christ is the Meat, the Bread, the Food of our Souls. Nothing is in him of an higher spiritual Nourishment than his Love, which we should always desire.
MOREOVER, Be not contented to have right Notions of the Love of Christ in your Minds, unless you can attain a gracious Taste of it in your Hearts; no more than you would be to see a Feast or Banquet richly prepared, and partake of nothing of it unto your Refreshment. It is of that Nature that we may have a spiritual Censation of it in our Minds; whence it is compared by the Spouse to Apples and Flagons of Wine. We may taste that the Lord is gracious. And if we find not a Relish of it in our Hearts, we shall not long retain the Notion of it in our Minds. Christ is the Meat, the Bread, the Food of our Souls. Nothing is in him of an higher spiritual Nourishment than his Love, which we should always desire.