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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.
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 ⟨image 8⟩in their Being, but bound up as unto present Operations. This made a great Emperor cry out on the approach of Death; O animula, tremula, vagula, blandula; quae nunc abibis in loca horrida, squalida, &c. O poor trembling wandering Soul, into what places of darkness and defilement art thou going!
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 ingaged. It must alone by it self lanch into eternity. It is entring 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 ⟨image 8⟩in their Being, but bound up as unto present Operations. This made a great Emperor cry out on the approach of Death; O animula, tremula, vagula, blandula; quae nunc abibis in loca horrida, squalida, &c. O poor trembling wandring Soul, into what places of darkness and defilement art thou going!