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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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THESE are some of the grounds of this first difference between our beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith here, and by immediate Vision hereafter. Hence the one is weak, imperfect, obscure, reflexive; the other direct, immediate, even and constant; and we may stay a little in the contemplation of these things.
THESE are some of the grounds of this first difference between our beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith here, and by immediate Vision hereafter. Hence the one is weak, imperfect, obscure, reflexive; the other direct, immediate, eaven and constant; and we may stay a little in the contemplation of these things.
THIS view of the Glory of Christ which we have now spoken unto, is that which we are breathing and panting after; that which the Lord Christ prays that we may arrive unto; that which the Apostle testifies to be our best; the best thing, or state, which our nature is capable of, that which brings eternal rest and satisfaction unto our Souls.
HERE our Souls are burdened with innumerable Infirmities, and our Faith is clogged in its Operations by Ignorance and Darkness. This makes our best estate and highest attainments to be accompanied with groans for deliverance. We which have received the first fruits of the spirit, even we our selves groan within our selves, waiting for the Adoption, even the redemption of the body, Rom. 8. 23. Yea, whilst we are in this Tabernacle, we groan earnestly ⟨p. 154⟩as being burdened, because we are not absent from the body, and present with the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 2, 4, 8