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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 the Allusion may be taken from an Optic Glass or Tube also, whereby the sight of the Eye is helped in beholding things at a great distance. By the aid of such Glasses Men will discover Stars or heavenly Lights, which by reason of their distance from us, the Eye of it self is no way able to discern. And those which we do see, are more fully represented, though remote enough from being so, perfectly. Such a Glass is the Gospel, without which we can make no discovery of Christ at all, but in the use ⟨p. 142⟩of it, we are far enough from beholding him in the just dimensions of his glory.
BUT the Allusion may be taken from an Optick Glass or Tube also, whereby the sight of the Eye is helped in beholding things at a great distance. By the aid of such Glasses Men will discover Stars or heavenly Lights, which by reason of their distance from us, the Eye of it self is no way able to discern. And those which we do see, are more fully represented, though remote enough from being so, perfectly. Such a Glass is the Gospel, without which we can make no discovery of Christ at all, but in the use ⟨p. 142⟩of it, we are far enough from beholding him in the just dimensions of his glory.
AND he adds another intimation of this Imperfection, in an Allusion unto the way whereby things are proposed and conveyed unto the Minds and Apprehensions of Men: Now this is by Words. And these are either plain, proper and direct, or dark, figurative and parabolical: And this latter way makes the Conception of things to be difficult and imperfect; and by reason of the imperfection of our View of the glory of Christ by Faith in this World, the Apostle saith, it is in [Greek or Hebrew] in a Riddle. These [Greek or Hebrew] the Psalmist calls [Greek or Hebrew] dark sayings, Psal. 78. 2.
AND he adds another intimation of this Imperfection, in an Allusion unto the way whereby things are proposed and conveyed unto the Minds and Apprehensions of Men: Now this is by Words. And these are either plain, proper and direct, or dark, figurative and parabolical: And this latter way makes the Conception of things to be difficult and imperfect; and by reason of the imperfection of our View of the glory of Christ by Faith in this World, the Apostle saith, it is in in a Riddle. These the Psalmist calls darklaying,