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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…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THIS effect that View which we have by Faith of the glory of Christ in this World, doth not produce. It is Sanctifying, not Glorifying. The best of Saints are far ⟨p. 200⟩from a perfect or glorified State in this Life. And that not only on the account of the outward Evils, which in their Persons they are exposed unto; but also of the Weakness and Imperfection of their inward State in Grace. Yet we may observe some things unto the Honour of Faith in them who have received it. As,
1. IN its due Exercise on Christ, it will give unto the Souls of Believers some previous Participation of future glory, working in them Dispositions unto, and Preparation for the Enjoyment of it.
2. THERE is no Glory, no Peace, no Joy, no Satisfaction in this World to be compared with what we receive by that weak and imperfect View which we have of the Glory of Christ by Faith. Yea, all the Joys of the World are a thing of nought in Comparison of what we so receive.