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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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2. THERE is an Incapacity in our Minds, as unto their Actings on things spiritual and eternal, that is merely natural from the Posture wherein they are, and the Figure which they are to make in this Life. For they are here clothed with Flesh, and that debased and corrupted. Now in this State, though the Mind act its Conceptions by the Body as its Organ and Instrument: Yet is it variously straitened, encumbered and impeded in the exercise of its native Powers, especially towards things heavenly, by this Prison of the Flesh, wherein it is immured. There is an Angelical Excellency in the pure Actings of the Soul, when delivered from all material Instruments of them; or when they are all glorified and made suitable helps in its utmost spiritual Activity. How and by what degrees our Minds shall be freed from these Obstructions in their beholding the glory of Christ, shall be afterwards declared.
2. THERE is an Incapacity in our Minds, as unto their Actings on things spiritual and eternal, that is meerly natural from the Posture wherein they are, and the Figure which they are to make in this Life. For they are here cloathed with Flesh, and that debased and corrupted. Now in this State, though the Mind act its Conceptions by the Body as its Organ and Instrument: Yet is it variously streightned, encumbred and impeded in the exercise of its native Powers, especially towards things heavenly, by this Prison of the Flesh, wherein it is immured. There is an Angelical Excellency in the pure Actings of the Soul, when delivered from all material Instruments of them; or when they are all glorified and made suitable helps in its utmost spiritual Activity. How and by what degrees our Minds shall be freed from these Obstructions in their beholding the glory of Christ, shall be afterwards declared.
2. AGAIN, a new light, the light of Glory shall be implanted in them. There is a Light in Nature, which is the Power of a Man to discern the things of Man. An Ability to know, perceive and judge of things natural. It is that Spirit of a Man which is the Candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly,