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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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1. WITH some he employs all his Engines, useth all his Methods of Serpentine Subtlety, and casts in his fiery Darts, so to disquiet, discompose and deject them, as that they can retain no comfortable Views of Christ or his Glory. Hence arise fears, doubts, disputes, uncertainties, with various Disconsolations. Hereon they cannot apprehend the Love of Christ, nor be sensible of any Interest they have therein, or any refreshing persuasions that they are accepted with him. If such things sometimes shine and beam into their Minds, yet they quickly vanish and disappear. Fears that they are rejected and cast off by him, that he will not receive them here nor hereafter, do come in their place; hence are they filled with Anxieties and Despondencies, under which it is impossible ⟨p. 185⟩they should have any clear View of his Glory.
1. WITH some he imploys all his Engines, useth all his Methods of Serpentine Subtilty, and casts in his fiery Darts, so to disquiet, discompose and deject them, as that they can retain no comfortable Views of Christ or his Glory. Hence arise fears, doubts, disputes, uncertainties, with various Disconsolations. Hereon they cannot apprehend the Love of Christ, nor be sensible of any Interest they have therein, or any refreshing perswasions that they are accepted with him. If such things sometimes shine and beam into their Minds, yet they quickly vanish and disappear. Fears that they are rejected and cast off by him, that he will not receive them here nor hereafter, do come in their place; hence are they filled with Anxieties and Despondencies, under which it is impossible ⟨p. 185⟩they should have any clear View of his Glory.
I KNOW that Ignorance, Atheism and Obstinate Security in sensual Sins, do combine to despise all these things. But it is no new thing in the World, that Men outwardly professing Christian Religion, when they find gain in that Godliness, should speak evil of the things which they know not, and corrupt themselves in what they know naturally, as brute Beasts.