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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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2. THE Spirits of just Men being freed by Death from the Clog of the Flesh, not yet refined; all the Faculties of their Souls, and all the Graces in them, as Faith, Love and Delight, are immediately set at Liberty, enabled constantly to exercise themselves on God in Christ. The end for which they were created, for which our Nature was endowed with them, was, that we might adhere unto God by them, and come unto the Enjoyment of him. Being now freed wholly from all that Impotency, perverseness, and Disability unto this End, with all the Effects of them, which came upon them by the Fall; they are carried with a full Stream towards God, cleaving unto him with the most intense Embraces. And all their Actings towards God, shall be natural, with Facility, Joy, Delight and Complacency. We know not yet the Excellency of the Operations of our Souls in divine things, when disburdened of their present Weight of their Flesh. And this is a second step towards the Consummation of Glory. For,
2. THE Spirits of just Men being freed by Death from the Clog of the Flesh, not yet refined; all the Faculties of their Souls, and all the Graces in them, as Faith, Love and Delight, are immediately set at Liberty, enabled constantly to exercise themselves on God in Christ. The end for which they were created, for which our Nature was endowed with them, was, that we might adhere unto God by them, and come unto the Enjoyment of him. Being now freed wholly from all that Impotency, perversness, and Disability unto this End, with all the Effects of them, which came upon them by the Fall; they are carried with a full Stream towards God, cleaving unto him with the most intense Embraces. And all their Actings towards God, shall be natural, with Facility, Joy, Delight and Complacency. We know not yet the Excellency of the Operations of our Souls in divine things, when disburdened of their present Weight of their Flesh. And this is a second step towards the Consummation of Glory. For,
IN the Resurrection of the Body, upon its full Redemption, it shall be so purified, sanctified, glorified, as to give no Obstruction unto the Soul in its Operations, but be a ⟨p. 196⟩