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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 we may take some Direction in our looking into and longing after this perfect view of the Glory of Christ, from the example of the Saints under the Old Testament. The sight which they had of the Glory of Christ, for they also saw his Glory through the obscurity of its Revelation, and its being veiled with types and shadows, was weak and imperfect in the most illuminated believers, much inferior unto what we now have by faith, through the Gospel. Yet such it was, as encouraged them to enquire and search diligently into what was revealed, 1 Pet. 1. 10, 11. Howbeit their discoveries were but dark and confused, such as Men have of things at a great distance, or in a Land that is very far off, as the Prophet speaks, Isa. 33. 16. And the continuance of this Veil on the Revelation of the Glory of Christ, whilst a Veil of Ignorance and Blindness was upon their Hearts and Minds, proved the ruin of that Church in its Apostasy, as the Apostle declares, 2 Cor. 3. 7, 13, 14. This double veil (the covering covered, the veil veiled) God promised to take away, Isa. 25. 7. And then shall they turn to the Lord, when they shall be able clearly to behold the Glory of Christ, 2 Cor. 3. 16.
AND we may take some Direction in our looking into and longing after this perfect view of the Glory of Christ, from the example of the Saints under the Old Testament. The sight which they had of the Glory of Christ, for they also saw his Glory through the obscurity of its Revelation, and its being vailed with types and shadows, was weak and imperfect in the most illuminated believers, much inferior unto what we now have by faith, through the Gospel. Yet such it was, as encouraged them to enquire and search diligently into what was revealed, 1 Pet. 1. 10, 11. Howbeit their discoveries were but dark and confused, such as Men have of things at a great distance, or in a Land that is very far off, as the Prophet speaks,