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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THERE are sundry things required of us, that we may be able to encounter Death cheerfully, constantly and victoriously. For want of these, or some of them, I have known gracious Souls, who have lived in a kind of Bondage for fear of Death all their days. We know not how God will manage any of our minds and souls in that season, in that Trial. For he acts towards us in all such things, in a way of Sovereignty. But these are the things which he requireth of us in a way of Duty.
THERE are sundry things required of us, that we may be able to encounter Death chearfully, constantly and victoriously. For want of these, or some of them, I have known gracious Souls, who have lived in a kind of Bondage for fear of Death all their days. We know not how God will manage any of our minds and souls in that season, in that Tryal. For he acts towards us in all such things, in a way of Sovereignty. But these are the things which he requireth of us in a way of Duty.
1. PECULIAR actings of Faith to resign and commit our departing Souls into the hand of Him, who is able to receive them, to keep and preserve them, as also to dispose of them into a state of Rest and Blessedness, are required of us.
THE Soul is now parting with all things here below, and that for ever. None of all the things which it hath seen, heard or enjoyed, by its outward senses, can be prevailed with to stay with it one hour, or to take one step with it, in the Voyage wherein it is engaged. It must alone by it self launch into eternity. It is entering an Invisible World, which it knows no more of than it hath received by Faith. None hath come from the dead to inform us of the State of the other World. Yea, God seems on purpose so to conceal it from us, that we should have no evidence of it, at least as unto the manner of things in it, but what is given unto Faith by Divine Revelation. Hence those who died and were raised again from the dead, unto any continuance among men, as Lazarus, probably knew nothing of the Invisible State. Their Souls were preserved by the Power of God