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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 great was the spiritual Wisdom of believers in those days. They rejoiced and gloried in the Ordinances of Divine Worship which they did enjoy. They looked on them as their chiefest privilege, and attended unto them with diligence, as an effect of Divine Wisdom and Love, as also because they had a shadow of good things to come. But yet at the same time they longed and desired that the time of Reformation were come, wherein they should all be removed; that so they might behold and enjoy the good things signified by them. And those who did not so, but rested in, and trusted unto their present Institutions, were not accepted with God. Those who were really illuminated did not so, but lived in constant desires after the revelation of the whole Mystery of the Wisdom of God in Christ, as did the Angels themselves, 1 Pet. 1. 3. Ephes. 3. 9, 10.
AND great was the spiritual Wisdom of believers in those days. They rejoyced and gloried in the Ordinances of Divine Worship which they did enjoy. They looked on them as their chiefest priviledge, and attended unto them with diligence, as an effect of Divine Wisdom and Love, as also because they had a shadow of good things to come. But yet at the same time they longed and desired that the time of Reformation were come, wherein they should all be removed; that so they might behold and enjoy the good things signified by them. And those who did not so, but rested in, and trusted unto their present Institutions, were not accepted with God. Those who were really illuminated did not so, but lived in constant desires after the revelation of the whole Mystery of the Wisdom of God in Christ, as did the Angels themselves, 1 Pet. 1. 3. Ephes. 3. 9, 10.
IN this frame of heart and suitable actings of their Souls, there was more of the power of true faith and love than is found among the most at this day. They saw the promises afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them,