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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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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.
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 Acquiescency therein. Hence shall our sight of the Glory of Christ be invariable, and always the same.