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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
ONLY the Nature of Man in all the Works of God is capable of this Convulsion. The essential parts of it are separable by Death, the one continuing to exist and act its especial Powers in a separate state or condition. The Powers of the whole entire nature acting in Soul and Body in conjunction, are all scattered and lost by Death. But the Powers of one Essential part of the same Nature, that is of the Soul, are preserved after Death in a more perfect acting and exercise than before. This is peculiar unto human nature, as a mean partaking of Heaven and Earth, of the perfection of Angels above, and of the imperfection of the Beasts below. Only there is this difference in these things: Our participation of the heavenly spiritual perfections of the Angelical Nature, is for eternity; our participation of the imperfections of the animate creatures here below, is but for a season. For God hath designed our Bodies unto such a glorious refinement at the Resurrection, as that they shall have no more Alliance unto that brutish nature, which perisheth for ever. For we shall be [Greek or Hebrew], like unto Angels, or Equal to them. Our bodies shall no more be capable of those Acts and Operations which are now common to us with other living creatures here below.
ONLY the Nature of Man in all the Works of God is capable of this Convulsion. The essential parts of it are separable by Death, the one continuing to exist and act its especial Powers in a separate state or condition. The Powers of the whole entire nature acting in Soul and Body in conjunction, are all scattered and lost by Death. But the Powers of one Essential part of the same Nature, that is of the Soul, are preserved after Death in a more perfect acting and exercise than before. This is peculiar unto human nature, as a mean partaking of Heaven and Earth, of the perfection of Angels above, and of the imperfection of the Beasts below. Only there is this difference in these things: Our participation of the heavenly spiritual perfections of the Angelical Nature, is for eternity; our participation of the imperfections of the animate creatures here below, is but for a season. For God hath designed our Bodies unto such a glorious refinement at the Resurrection, as that they shall have no more Alliance unto that brutish nature, which perisheth for ever. For we shall be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, like unto Angels, or Equal to them. Our bodies shall no more be capable of those Acts and Operations which are now common to us with other living creatures here below.