Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

Name: Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Author: John Owen

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.

John Owen 1616–1683London: printed by B.A., 1691

[22], 200 p. · 75k words · Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

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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. THE Lord Christ will never in any one instance, on any occasion, so much as one moment withdraw himself from us, or Eclipse the proposal and manifestation of himself unto our sight. This he doth sometimes in this life, and it is needful for us that so he should do. We shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4. 17. without end, without interruption. This is the Centre of good and evil, as to the future different states of Men. They shall be for ever. Eternity makes them absolutely good on the one hand, and absolutely evil on the other. To be in Hell under the wrath of God, is in it self the greatest penal Evil: But to be there for ever, without the Intermission of Misery, or Determination of Time, is that which renders it the greatest evil unto them who shall be in that condition. So is Eternity the Life of future Blessedness. We shall be ever with the Lord, without Limitation of Time, without Interruption of Enjoyment.

2. THE Lord Christ will never in any one instance, on any occasion, so much as one moment withdraw himself from us, or Eclipse the proposal and manifestation of himself unto our sight. This he doth sometimes in this life, and it is needful for us that so he should do. We shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4. 17. without end, without interruption. This is the Center of good and evil, as to the future different states of Men. They shall be for ever. Eternity makes them absolutely good on the one hand, and absolutely evil on the other. To be in Hell under the wrath of God, is in it self the greatest penal Evil: But to be there for ever, without the Intermission of Misery, or Determination of Time, is that which renders it the greatest evil unto them who shall be in that condition. So is Eternity the Life of future Blessedness. We shall be ever with the Lord, without Limitation of Time, without Interruption of Enjoyment.

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THERE are no vicissitudes in the heavenly state. The New Jerusalem hath no Temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb are the Temple thereof,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Owen 1616–1683

Place

London

Printer

B.A.

Year

1691

Size

[22], 200 p.

Words

74,841

Catalogue

Wing O769A · ESTC R38162

Text

EEBO-TCP A53708

Passages

587

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. XIV. Other Differences between our Beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World, and by Sight in Heaven.