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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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AND this was one Reason why in the days of his Ministry here on earth, his Glory was veiled with the infirmities of the flesh, and all sorts of sufferings, as we have before related. The Church in this life is no way meet, by the Grace which it can be made partaker of, to converse with him in the immediate manifestations of his Glory.
AND this was one Reason why in the days of his Ministry here on earth, his Glory was vailed with the infirmities of the flesh, and all sorts of sufferings, as we have before related. The Church in this life is no way meet, by the Grace which it can be made partaker of, to converse with him in the immediate manifestations of his Glory.
AND therefore those who dream of his Personal Reign on the earth before the day of Judgment, unless they suppose that all the Saints shall be perfectly glorified also (which is only to bring down Heaven to the Earth for a while, to no purpose) provide not at all for the edification or consolation of the Church. For no present grace advanced unto the highest degree whereof in this World it is capable, can make us meet for an immediate converse with Christ in his unveiled Glory.
AND therefore those who dream of his Personal Reign on the earth before the day of Judgment, unless they suppose that all the Saints shall be perfectly glorified also (which is only to bring down Heaven to the Earth for a while, to no purpose) provide not at all for the edification or consolation of the Church. For no present grace advanced unto the highest degree whereof in this World it is capable, can make us meet for an immediate converse with Christ in his unvailed Glory.
How much more abominable is the folly of men, who would represent the Lord Christ in his present Glory by Pictures and Images of him? When they have done their utmost with their burnished Glass and Gildings, an eye of flesh cannot only behold it, but if it be guided by reason, see it contemptible and foolish. But the true Glory of Christ neither inward nor outward sight can bear the rays of in this life.