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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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BUT as for me (saith David) I will behold thy face in Righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake, with thy likeness, Psal. 17. 15. It is Christ alone, who is the Likeness and Image of God. When we awake in the other World, with our Minds purified and rectified, the beholding of him shall be always satisfying unto us. There will be then no Satiety, no Weariness, no Indispositions; but the Mind being made perfect in all its faculties, powers and operations, with respect unto its utmost end, which is the enjoyment of God, is satisfied in the beholding of him for evermore. And where there is perfect satisfaction without Satiety, there is blessedness for ever. So the Holy Spirit affirms of the four living Creatures in the Revelation; They rest not day nor night, saying, holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, Chap. 4. 8. They are continually exercised in the Admiration and Praises of God in Christ, without weariness or interruption. Herein shall we be made like unto Angels.
2. AS our Minds in their essential powers and Faculties shall be enabled to comprehend and acquiesce in this Glory of Christ, so the means or instrument of the beholding of it, is much more excellent than Faith, and in its kind absolutely perfect, as hath in part been before declared. This is vision or sight. Here we walk by Faith, there by Sight. And this Sight is not an external aid, like a Glass helping the weakness of the visive faculty to see things afar off; but it is an internal power, or an act of the internal power of our Minds, wherewith they are endowed in a glorified state. Hereby we shall be able to see him face to face, to see him as he is, in a direct comprehension of his Glory; for this sight or visive power shall be given us for this very end, namely, to enable us so to ⟨p. 188⟩do. Hereunto the whole Glory of Christ is clear, perspicuous and evident, which will give us eternal Acquiescence therein. Hence shall our sight of the Glory of Christ be invariable, and always the same.