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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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THE latter of these is peculiarly intended in that Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ for his Disciples, Joh. 17. 24. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, that they may behold my Glory which thou hast given me. But I shall not distinctly insist upon it, ⟨p. 140⟩my design being another way, respecting principally the Work of God in this Life, and the Privileges which we enjoy thereby: Yet I shall now take a short Prospect of that also; not absolutely, but in the Differences that are between Faith and Sight, or the View which we have of the glory of Christ in this World by Faith, and that which they enjoy by Vision who are above; the Object of them both being adequately the same.
THE latter of these is peculiarly intended in that Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ for his Disciples, Joh. 17. 24. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, that they may behold my Glory which thou hast given me. But I shall not distinctly insist upon it, ⟨p. 140⟩my design being another way, respecting principally the Work of God in this Life, and the Priviledges which we enjoy thereby: Yet I shall now take a short Prospect of that also; not absolutely, but in the Differences that are between Faith and Sight, or the View which we have of the glory of Christ in this World by Faith, and that which they enjoy by Vision who are above; the Object of them both being adequately the same.
BUT herein also, I shall have respect only unto some of those things which concern our Practise, or the present immediate Exercise of Faith. For I have elsewhere handled at large the State of the Church above, or that of present glory; giving an account of the Administration of the Office of Christ in Heaven, his Presence among the glorified Souls, and the Adoration of God under his Conduct: I have also declared the Advantage which they have by being with him, and the Prospect they have of his glory. Therefore these things must here be only touched on.