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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
HE therefore that would dye comfortably, must be able to say within himself and to himself; Dye then thou frail and sinful flesh; Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. I yield thee up unto the righteous doom of the holy One. Yet therein also I give thee into the hand of the great Refiner, who will hide thee in thy Grave, and by thy consumption purify thee from all thy Corruption and Disposition to evil. And otherwise this will not be. After a long sincere Endeavour for the Mortification of all sin, I find it will never be absolutely perfect, but by this Reduction into the dust. Thou shalt no more be a residence for the least remainder of sin unto Eternity, nor any clog unto my Soul in its actings on God. Rest therefore in hope; For God in his appointed season, when he shall have a desire unto the work of his hands will call unto thee, and thou shalt answer him out of the dust. Then shall he by an act of his Almighty Power, not only restore thee unto thy pristine Glory, as at the first Creation when thou wast the pure Workmanship of his hands; but enrich and adorn thee with inconceivable Privileges and Advantages. Be not then afraid; away with all Reluctancy, go into the Dust, rest in Hope, for thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
HE therefore that would dye comfortably, must be able to say within himself and to himself; Dye then thou frail and sinful flesh; Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. I yield thee up unto the righteous doom of the holy One. Yet therein also I give thee into the hand of the great Refiner, who will hide thee in thy Grave, and by thy consumption purifie thee from all thy Corruption and Disposition to evil. And otherwise this will not be. After a long sincere Endeavour for the Mortification of all sin, I find it will never be absolutely perfect, but by this Reduction into the dust. Thou shalt no more be a residence for the least remainder of sin unto Eternity, nor any clog unto my Soul in its actings on God. Rest therefore in hope; For God in his appointed season, when he shall have a desire unto the work of his hands will call unto thee, and thou shalt answer him out of the dust. Then shall he by an act of his Almighty Power, not only restore thee unto thy pristine Glory, as at the first Creation when thou wast the pure Workmanship of his hands; but enrich and adorn thee with inconceivable Priviledges and Advantages. Be not then afraid; away with all Reluctancy, go into the Dust, rest in Hope, for thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days.