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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 as it was their Wisdom and their Grace to rejoice in the Light they had, and in those typical Administrations of Divine Worship which shadowed our the Glory of Christ unto them, yet did always pant after that more excellent Light and full Discovery of it, which was to be made by the Gospel; So it will be ours also, thankfully to use and improve the Revelations which we enjoy of it, and those Institutions of Worship, wherein our Faith is assisted in the view thereof; yet so as continually to breath after that perfect, that glorifying sight of it, which is reserved for Heaven above.
AND as it was their Wisdom and their Grace to rejoyce in the Light they had, and in those typical Administrations of Divine Worship which shadowed our the Glory of Christ unto them, yet did always pant after that more excellent Light and full Discovery of it, which was to be made by the Gospel; So it will be ours also, thankfully to use and improve the Revelations which we enjoy of it, and those Institutions of Worship, wherein our Faith is assisted in the view thereof; yet so as continually to breath after that perfect, that glorifying sight of it, which is reserved for Heaven above.
AND may we not a little examine our selves by these things? Do we esteem this pressing towards the perfect view of the Glory of Christ to be our Duty, and do we abide in the performance of it? If it be otherwise with any of us, it is a signal evidence that our Profession is Hypocritical. If Christ be in us, he is the hope of Glory in us; and where that hope is, it will be active in desires of the ⟨p. 160⟩things hoped for. Many love the World to well, and have their minds too much filled with the things of it, to entertain desires of speeding through it unto a state wherein they may behold the Glory of Christ. They are at home, and are unwilling to be absent from the body, tho to be present with the Lord. They hope it may be that such a season will come at one time or another, and then it will be the best they can look for when they can be here no more. But they have but a little sight of the Glory of Christ in this World by Faith, if any at all, who so little, so faintly desire to have the immediate sight of it above. I cannot understand how any Man can walk with God as he ought, or hath that Love for Jesus Christ which true Faith will produce, or doth place his Refreshments and Joy in spiritual things, in things above, that doth not on all just occasions, so meditate on the Glory of Christ in Heaven as to long for an admittance into the immediate sight of it.