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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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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.
2. WHAT is the way and manner of these Communications, we cannot comprehend. We cannot indeed fully understand the Nature and way of his Spiritual Communications unto us in this Life. We know these things by their Signs, their outward Means, and principally by the Effects they produce in the real change of our Natures. But in themselves we see but little of them. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the Sound thereof, but we know not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit, Joh. 3. 8. All Gods real Operations in Heaven and Earth are incomprehensible, as being Acts of infinite Power, and we cannot search them out unto Perfection.