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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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We know not here what power and spirituality there will be in the acts of our glorified Bodies. Such they will be, as shall bear a part in eternal Blessedness. Holy Stephen, the first Martyr, took up somewhat of Glory by Anticipation before he died. For when he was brought to his Trial before the Council, all that sate therein looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as the face of an Angel, Act. 6. 15. He had his Transfiguration, according unto his measure, answerable unto that of our Blessed Saviour in the Mount. And by this initial Beam of Glory, he received such a piercing vivacity and edge on his bodily eyes, that through all those inconceivable distances between the earth and the residence of the Blessed, he looked steadfastly into Heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, Act. 7. 55, 56. Who then can declare what will be the power and acting of this sense of sight when perfectly glorified; or what sweetness and refreshment may be admitted into our Souls thereby?
We know not here what power and spirituality there will be in the acts of our glorified Bodies. Such they will be, as shall bear a part in eternal Blessedness. Holy Stephen, the first Martyr, took up somewhat of Glory by Anticipation before he died. For when he was brought to his Tryal before the Council, all that sate therein looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as the face of an Angel, Act. 6. 15. He had his Transfiguration, according unto his measure, answerable unto that of our Blessed Saviour in the Mount. And by this initial Beam of Glory, he received such a piercing vivacity and edge on his bodily eyes, that through all those inconceivable distances between the earth and the residence of the Blessed, he looked stedfastly into Heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, Act. 7. 55, 56. Who then can declare what will be the power and acting of this sense of sight when perfectly glorified; or what sweetness and refreshment may be admitted into our Souls thereby?