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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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BUT Jesus Christ it is, who doth immediately receive the Souls of them who believe in him. So we see in the instance of Stephen. And what can be a greater encouragement to resign them into his hands, than a daily Contemplation of his Glory in his Person, his Power, his Exaltation, his Office and Grace? Who that believes in him, that belongs unto him, can fear to commit his departing Spirit unto his Love, Power and Care? Even we also shall hereby in our dying moments see, by Faith, Heaven opened, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, ready to receive us. This added unto the Love which all Believers have unto the Lord Jesus, which is inflamed by Contemplation of his Glory, and their desires to be with him where he is, it will strengthen and confirm our minds in the Resignation of our departing Souls into his hand.
BUT Jesus Christ it is, who doth immediately receive the Souls of them who believe in him. So we see in the instance of Stephen. And what can be a greater encouragement to resign them into his hands, than a daily Contemplation of his Glory in his Person, his Power, his Exaltation, his Office and Grace? Who that believes in him, that belongs unto him, can fear to commit his departing Spirit unto his Love, Power and Care? Even we also shall hereby in our dying moments see, by Faith, Heaven opened, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, ready to receive us. This added unto the Love which all Believers have unto the Lord Jesus, which is enflamed by Contemplation of his Glory, and their desires to be with him where he is, it will strengthen and confirm our minds in the Resignation of our departing Souls into his hand.
SECONDLY; It is required in us unto the same end, that we be ready and wiling to part with the flesh, wherewith we are clothed, with all things that are useful and desirable thereunto. The Alliance, the Relation, the Friendship, the Union, that are between the Soul and the Body, are the greatest the nearest, the firmest, that are or can be among mere created Beings. There is nothing like it, nothing equal unto it. The Union of Three persons in the one single Divine Nature, and the Union of two Natures in one person of Christ, are infinite, ineffable, and exempted from all comparison. But among created Beings, the Union of these two essential parts of the same Nature in one Person, is most excellent. Nor is any thing equal to it, or like it, found in any other Creatures. Those who among them have most of life, have either no Bodies, as Angels; or no Souls, but what perish with them, as all Brute creatures below.