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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 12: Differences between our beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World, and by si…
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CHAP. XII. Differences between our beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World, and by sight in Heaven. The first of them explained.
WE walk here by faith, and not by sight, 2 Cor. 5. 7. That is, in the Life of God, in our walking before him, in the whole of our Obedience therein, we are under the Conduct and Influence of Faith and nor of Sight. Those are the two spiritual Powers of our Souls; by the one whereof, we are made Partakers of Grace, Holiness and Obedience in this Life; and by the other of eternal Blessedness and Glory.
BOTH these, namely, Faith and Sight, the one in this Life, the other in that which is to come, have the same immediate Object. For they are the Abilities of the Soul to go forth unto, and to embrace their Object. Now this Object of them both, is the Glory of Christ, as hath been declared, as also what that glory is, and wherein it doth consist; wherefore my present Design is to enquire into the difference that is between our beholding of the Glory of Christ in this World by Faith, and the Vision which we shall have of the same Glory hereafter.