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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.
WHEREFORE no man can comfortably venture on, and into this condition; but in the exercise of that Faith, which enables him to resign and give up his departing Soul into the Hand of of God, who alone is able to receive it, and to dispose it into a Condition of Rest and Blessedness. So speaks the Apostle, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.
WHEREFORE no man can comfortably venture on, and into this condition; but in the exercise of that Faith, which enables him to resign and give up his departing Soul into the Hand of of God, who alone is able to receive it, and to dispose it into a Condition of Rest and Blessedness. So speaks the Apostle, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.
HEREIN, as in all other Graces, is our Lord Jesus Christ our great example. He resigned his departing Spirit into the hands of his Father, to be owned and preserved by him, in its state of Separation. Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit, Luk. 23. 46; as did the Psalmist his Type, in an alike condition, Psal. 31. 5. But the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ herein, the object and exercise of it, what he believed and trusted unto, in this Resignation of his Spirit into the Hand of God, is at large expressed in the sixteenth Psalm. I have (saith he) set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved, therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth, my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fullness of joy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. He left his Soul in the hand of God, in full assurance that it should suffer no evil in its state of Separation, but should be brought again with his Body into a blessed Resurrection, and eternal Glory. So Stephen resigned his Soul departing under violence, into the hands of Christ himself. When he died, he said, Lord Jesus receive my Spirit.