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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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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.
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 bruit Beasts.
2. WITH others he deals after another manner. By various means he seduceth them into a careless Security wherein they promise Peace unto themselves without any diligent search into these things. Hereon they live in a general presumption that they shall be saved by Christ, although they know not how. This makes the Apostle so earnest in pressing the Duty of self-examination on all Christians, 2 Cor. 13. 5. Examine your selves whether you be in the Faith: prove your own selves: know you not your own selves that Christ is in you, except you be reprobates? The Rule of Self-judging prescribed by him, is whether Christ be in us or no; and in us he cannot be, unless he be received by that Faith wherewith we behold his Glory. For by Faith we receive him, and by Faith he dwelleth in our hearts. Joh. 1. 12. Eph. 3. 17.