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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 13: The second Difference between our beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World,…
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CHAP. XIII. The second Difference between our beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World, and by Sight in Heaven.
FAITH is the Light wherein we behold the Glory of Christ in this World. And this in its own Nature, as unto this great End, is weak and imperfect, like weak Eyes, that cannot behold the Sun in its Beauty. Hence our sight of it differs greatly from what we shall enjoy in ⟨p. 162⟩Glory, as hath been declared. But this is not all; it is frequently hindered and interrupted in its Operations, or it loseth the view of its object by one means or other. As he who sees any thing at a great distance, sees it imperfectly; and the least interposition or motion takes it quite out of his sight. So is it with our Faith in this matter; whence sometimes we can have little, sometimes no sight at all of the Glory of Christ by it. And this gives us, as we shall see, another Difference between Faith and Sight.
FAITH is the Light wherein we behold the Glory of Christ in this World. And this in its own Nature, as unto this great End, is weak and imperfect, like weak Eyes, that cannot behold the Sun in its Beauty. Hence our sight of it differs greatly from what we shall enjoy in ⟨p. 162⟩Glory, as hath been declared. But this is not all; it is frequently hindred and interrupted in its Operations, or it loseth the view of its object by one means or other. As he who sees any thing at a great distance, sees it imperfectly; and the least interposition or motion takes it quite out of his sight. So is it with our Faith in this matter; whence sometimes we can have little, sometimes no sight at all of the Glory of Christ by it. And this gives us, as we shall see, another Difference between Faith and Sight.