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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. AS unto the Event it is but partial. It doth not bring this Work unto perfection. The change wrought by it, is indeed great and glorious; or as the Apostle speaks, it is from Glory to Glory, in a Progress of glorious ⟨p. 198⟩Grace: But absolute perfection is reserved for Vision. As unto Divine Worship, Perfection was not by the Law. It did many things preparatory unto the Revelation of the Will of God concerning it; but it made nothing perfect: So absolute Perfection in Holiness, and the Restoration of the Image of God, is not by the Gospel, is not by Faith; however it gives us many preparatory degrees unto it, as the Apostle fully declares, Phil. 3. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
SECONDLY, Vision is Beatifical, as it is commonly called, and that not amiss. It gives perfect Rest and Blessedness unto them in whom it is. This may be a little opened in the ensuing Observations.
1. THERE are continual Operations of God in Christ, in the Souls of them that are glorified, and Communications from him unto them. For all Creatures must eternally live even in Heaven, in dependence on him who is the eternal Fountain of Being, Life, Goodness and Blessedness unto all. As we cannot subsist one moment in our Beings, Lives, Souls, Bodies, the inward or outward Man, without the continual Actings of divine Power in us, and towards us; so in the glorified State our All shall depend eternally on Divine Power and Goodness, communicating themselves unto us, for all the ends of our blessed Subsistence in Heaven.
1. THERE are continual Operations of God in Christ, in the Souls of them that are glorified, and Communications from him unto them. For all Creatures must eternally live even in Heaven, in dependance on him who is the eternal Fountain of Being, Life, Goodness and Blessedness unto all. As we cannot subsist one moment in our Beings, Lives, Souls, Bodies, the inward or outward Man, without the continual Actings of divine Power in us, and towards us; so in the glorified State our All shall depend eternally on Divine Power and Goodness, communicating themselves unto us, for all the ends of our blessed Subsistance in Heaven.