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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. THE way on our part whereby we shall receive these Communications from God by Christ, which are the eternal Springs of Life, Peace, Joy and Blessedness, is this Vision, the Sight whereof we speak. For as it is expressly assigned thereunto in the Scripture; so whereas it contains the perfect Operation of our Minds and Souls in a perfect State, on the most perfect Object, it is the only means of our Blessedness. And this is the true Cause whence there neither is, nor can be any Satiety or weariness in Heaven, in the eternal Contemplation of the same glory. For not only the Object of our sight is absolutely infinite, which can never be searched into the bottom; yea, is perpetually new unto a finite understanding; so our subjective Blessedness consisting in continual fresh Communications from the infinite Fullness of the Divine Nature, derived unto us through Vision, is always new, and always will be so to Eternity. Herein shall all the Saints of God drink of the Rivers of Pleasure that are at his Right Hand, be satisfied with his Likeness, and refresh themselves in the eternal Springs of Life, Light and Joy for evermore.
4. THE way on our part whereby we shall receive these Communications from God by Christ, which are the eternal Springs of Life, Peace, Joy and Blessedness, is this Vision, the Sight whereof we speak. For as it is expresly assigned thereunto in the Scripture; so whereas it contains the perfect Operation of our Minds and Souls in a perfect State, on the most perfect Object, it is the only means of our Blessedness. And this is the true Cause whence there neither is, nor can be any Satiety or weariness in Heaven, in the eternal Contemplation of the same glory. For not only the Object of our sight is absolutely infinite, which can never be searched into the bottom; yea, is perpetually new unto a finite understanding; so our subjective Blessedness consisting in continual fresh Communications from the infinite Fulness of the Divine Nature, derived unto us through Vision, is always new, and always will be so to Eternity. Herein shall all the Saints of God drink of the Rivers of Pleasure that are at his Right Hand, be satisfied with his Likeness, and refresh themselves in the eternal Springs of Life, Light and Joy for evermore.