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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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4. IN the first Operation of this Light of Glory, Believers shall so behold the glory of Christ, and the glory of God in him, as that therewith, and thereby they shall be immediately and universally changed into his Likeness. They shall be as he is, when they shall see him as he is. There is no growth in glory, as unto Parts, there may be as unto Degrees. Additions may be outwardly made unto what is at first received, as by the Resurrection of the Body; but the internal Light of Glory, and its transforming Efficacy is capable of no degrees, though new Revelations may be made unto it, unto Eternity. For the infinite Fountain of Life, and Light, and Goodness, can never be fathomed, much less exhausted. And what God spake on the Entrance of sin, by the way of contempt and reproach, Behold the Man is become like one of ⟨p. 197⟩us, upbraiding him with what he had foolishly designed; on the Accomplishment of the Work of his Grace, he says in Love and infinite Goodness, Man is become like one of us, in the perfect Restoration of our Image in him. This is the first Effect of the Light of Glory.
4. IN the first Operation of this Light of Glory, Believers shall so behold the glory of Christ, and the glory of God in him, as that therewith, and thereby they shall be immediately and universally changed into his Likeness. They shall be as he is, when they shall see him as he is. There is no growth in glory, as unto Parts, there may be as unto Degrees. Additions may be outwardly made unto what is at first received, as by the Resurrection of the Body; but the internal Light of Glory, and its transforming Efficacy is capable of no degrees, though new Revelations may be made unto it, unto Eternity. For the infinite Fountain of Life, and Light, and Goodness, can never be fathomed, much less exhausted. And what God spake on the Entrance of sin, by the way of contempt and reproach, Behold the Man is become like one of ⟨p. 197⟩us, upbraiding him with what he had foolishly designed; on the Accomplishment of the Work of his Gace, he says in Love and infinite Goodness, Man is become like one of us, in the perfect Restoration of our Image in him. This is the first Effect of the Light of Glory.