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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 14: Other Differences between our Beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World, and…
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CHAP. XIV. Other Differences between our Beholding the Glory of Christ by Faith in this World, and by Sight in Heaven.
AMONG the many other Differences which might be insisted on (although the greatest of them are unto us at present absolutely incomprehensible, and so not to be enquired into) I shall name two only, and so put a close to this Discourse.
AMONG the many other Differences which might be insisted on (altho the greatest of them are unto us at present absolutely incomprehensible, and so not to be enquired into) I shall name two only, and so put a close to this Discourse.
1. IN the View which we have here of the Glory of Christ by Faith, we gather things as it were one by one, in several parts and parcels out of the Scripture, and comparing them together in our Minds, they become the Object of our present Sight, which is our spiritual comprehension of the things themselves. We have no proposal of the Glory of Christ unto us by Vision or illustrious appearance of his Person, as Isaiah had of old, Chap. 6. 1, 2, 3, 4. or as John had in the Revelation, Chap. 1. vers. 13, 14, 15, 16. We need it not, it would be of no advantage unto us. For as unto the assurance of our Faith, we have a word of prophecy more useful unto us, than a Voice from Heaven, 2 Pet. 1. 17, 18, 19. And of those who received such Visions, tho of eminent use unto the Church; yet as unto themselves, one of them cried out, Woe is me, I am undone; and the other fell as dead at his feet. We are not able in this life to bear such glorious Representations of him, unto our Edification.