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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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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.
THESE Differences may be referred unto two heads. (1.) Those which arise from the different Natures and Actings of those Means and Instruments whereby we apprehend this glory of Christ, namely, Faith and Vision. And (2.) Those that arise from the different Effects produced by them. Instances in each kind shall be given.
1. THE View which we have of the glory of Christ by Faith in this World, is obscure, dark, inevident, reflexive. So the Apostle declares, 1 Cor. 12. 12. Now we see through a Glass darkly [Greek or Hebrew]. Through or by a Glass in a Riddle, a Parable, a dark Saying. There is a double figurative Limitation put upon our View of the glory of Christ, taken from the two ways of our Perception of what we apprehend, namely, the Sight of things, and the hearing of Words.
1. THE View which we have of the glory of Christ by Faith in this World, is obscure, dark, inevident, reflexive. So the Apostle declares, 1 Cor. 12. 12. Now we see through a Glass darkly 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Through or by a Glass in a Riddle, a Parable, a dark Saying. There is a double figurative Limitation put upon our View of the glory of Christ, taken from the two ways of our Perception of what we apprehend, namely, the Sight of things, and the hearing of Words.