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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. 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.
3. ALL Communications from the Divine Being and infinite Fullness in Heaven unto glorified Saints, are in, and through Christ Jesus, who shall for ever be the Medium of Communication between God and the Church, even in glory. All things being gathered into one head in him, even things in Heaven, and things in Earth; that Head being in immediate dependence on God, this Order shall never be dissolved, Ephese 1. 10, 11. 1 Cor. 3. 23. And on these Communications from God through Christ depends entirely our Continuance in a State of Blessedness and Glory. We shall no more be self-subsistent in glory, than we are in Nature or Grace.
3. ALL Communications from the Divine Being and infinite Fulness in Heaven unto glorified Saints, are in, and through Christ Jesus, who shall for ever be the Medium of Communication between God and the Church, even in glory. All things being gathered into one head in him, even things in Heaven, and things in Earth; that Head being in immediate dependence on God, this Order shall never be dissolved, Ephese 1. 10, 11. 1 Cor. 3. 23. And on these Communications from God through Christ depends entirely our Continuance in a State of Blessedness and Glory. We shall no more be self-subsistent in glory, than we are in Nature or Grace.