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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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ON the account hereof we may say at present, How little a portion is it that we know of him? as Job speaks of God, Chap. 26. 14. How imperfect are our Conceptions of him? How weak are our Minds in their Management? There is no part of his glory that we can fully comprehend. And what we do comprehend (as there is a Comprehension in Faith, Eph. 3. 18.) we cannot abide in the steady contemplation of. For ever blessed be that Sovereign Grace, whence it is that he who commanded the light ⟨p. 143⟩to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of his own Glory in the face of Jesus Christ, and there in of the glory of Christ himself; that he hath so revealed him unto us, as that we may love him, admire him and obey him; but constantly, steadily, and clearly to behold his glory in this life we are not able, for we walk by Faith and not by Sight.
ON the account hereof we may say at present, How little a portion is it that we know of him? as Job speaks of God, Chap. 26. 14. How imperfect are our Conceptions of him? How weak are our Minds in their Management? There is no part of his glory that we can fully comprehend. And what we do comprehend (as there is a Comprehension in Faith, Eph. 3. 18.) we cannot abide in the steady contemplation of. For ever blessed be that Soveraign Grace, whence it is that he who commanded the light ⟨p. 143⟩to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of his own Glory in the face of Jesus Christ, and there in of the glory of Christ himself; that he hath so revealed him unto us, as that we may love him, admire him and obey him; but constantly, steadily, and clearly to behold his glory in this life we are not able, for we walk by Faith and not by Sight.