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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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2. THE minds of men are apt by their Troubles to be cast into Disorder, to be tossed up and down, and disquieted with various Affections and Passions. So the Psalmist found it in himself, in the time of his Distress: whence he calls himself unto that account: Why art thou cast down, O my Soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? And indeed the mind on all such Occasions, is its own greatest Troubler. It is apt to let loose its Passions of Fear and Sorrow, which act themselves in innumerable perplexing thoughts, until it is carried utterly out of its own Power. But in this state a due Contemplation of the Glory of Christ, will restore and compose the mind, bring it into a sedate quiet frame, wherein Faith will be able to say unto the Winds and Waves of distempered Passions, Peace, be still, and they shall obey it.
3. IT is the way and means of conveying a Sense of Gods Love unto our Souls, which is that alone wherein ultimately we find Rest in the midst of all the troubles of this Life, as the Apostle declares, Rom. 5. 2, 3, 4, 5. It is the Spirit of God, who alone communicates a Sense of this Love unto our Souls; It is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. Howbeit there are ways and means to be used on our part, whereby we may be disposed and made meet to receive these Communications of Divine Love. Among these the principal is the contemplation of the Glory of Christ insisted on, and of God the Father in him. It is the season, it is the way and means, at which and whereby the Holy Ghost will give a sense of the Love of God unto us, causing us thereon to rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of Glory. This will be made evident in the ensuing Discourse. This will lift the minds and hearts of Believers above all the Troubles of this Life, and is the Sovereign Antidote that will expel all the Poison that is in them, which otherwise might perplex and enslave their Souls.
3. IT is the way and means of conveying a Sense of Gods Love unto our Souls, which is that alone wherein ultimately we find Rest in the midst of all the troubles of this Life, as the Apostle declares,