Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

Name: Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Author: John Owen

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.

John Owen 1616–1683London: printed by B.A., 1691

[22], 200 p. · 75k words · Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

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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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THE heart of a believer affected with the Glory of Christ, is like the Needle touched with the Lodestone. It can no longer be quiet, no longer be satisfied in a distance from him. It is put into a continual motion towards him. The motion indeed is weak and tremulous. Pantings, breathings, sighings, groanings, in prayer, in meditations, in the secret recesses of our Minds, are the life of it. However it is continually pressing towards him. But it obtains not its point, it comes not to its centre and rest in this World.

THE heart of a believer affected with the Glory of Christ, is like the Needle touched with the Loadstone. It can no longer be quiet, no longer be satisfied in a distance from him. It is put into a continual motion towards him. The motion indeed is weak and tremulous. Pantings, breathings, sighings, groanings, in prayer, in meditations, in the secret recesses of our Minds, are the life of it. However it is continually pressing towards him. But it obtains not its point, it comes not to its center and rest in this World.

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BUT now above, all things are clear and serene; all plain and evident in our beholding the Glory of Christ; we shall be ever with him, and see him as he is. This is Heaven, this is Blessedness, this is Eternal Rest.

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THE Person of Christ, in all his Glory shall be continually before us; and the eyes of our understandings shall be so gloriously illuminated, as that we shall be able steadily to behold and comprehend that Glory.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Owen 1616–1683

Place

London

Printer

B.A.

Year

1691

Size

[22], 200 p.

Words

74,841

Catalogue

Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

Text

EEBO-TCP A53708

Passages

587

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XIII. The second Difference between our beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World, and by Sight in Heaven.