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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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Chapter 7: The Glory of Christ in his Exaltation, after the Accomplishment of the Work of Mediatio…
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THIS is that Glory which our Lord Jesus Christ in an especial manner prayed that his Disciples might behold. This is that whereof we ought to endeavour a Prospect by Faith. By Faith, I say, and not by Imagination. Vain and foolish Men having general Notions of this Glory of Christ, knowing nothing of the real Nature of it, have endeavoured to represent it in Pictures and Images with all that Lustre and Beauty with the Art of Painting, with the Ornaments of Gold and Jewels, can give them. This is that Representation of the present Glory of Christ, which ⟨p. 95⟩being made and proposed unto the Imagination and carnal Affections of superstitious Persons carrieth such a show of Devotion and Veneration in the Papal Church. But they err not knowing the Scripture, nor the eternal Glory of the Son of God.
THIS is that Glory which our Lord Jesus Christ in an especial manner prayed that his Disciples might behold. This is that whereof we ought to endeavor a Prospect by Faith. By Faith, I say, and not by Imagination. Vain and foolish Men having general Notions of this Glory of Christ, knowing nothing of the real Nature of it, have endeavored to represent it in Pictures and Images with all that Lustre and Beauty with the Art of Painting, with the Ornaments of Gold and Jewels, can give them. This is that Representation of the present Glory of Christ, which ⟨p. 95⟩being made and proposed unto the Imagination and carnal Affections of superstitious Persons carrieth such a shew of Devotion and Veneration in the Papal Church. But they err not knowing the Scripture, nor the eternal Glory of the Son of God.
THIS is the sole Foundation of all our Meditations herein. The Glory that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the real actual Possession of in Heaven, can be no otherwise seen or apprehended in this World, but in the Light of Faith, fixing it self on Divine Revelation. To behold this Glory of Christ is not an Act of Fancy or Imagination. It doth not consist in framing unto our selves the Shape of a glorious Person in Heaven. But the steady Exercise of Faith on the Revelation and Description made of this Glory of Christ in the Scripture, is the Ground, Rule and Measure of all Divine Meditations thereon.