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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. 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.
3. IT is sufficient to give us such a Perception, such a Foretaste of future Blessedness in the Enjoyment of Christ, as may continually stir us up to breath and pant after it. But it is not Beatifical.
OTHER Differences of an alike Nature between our Beholding of the Glory of Christ in this Life by Faith, and that Vision of it, which is reserved for Heaven, might be insisted on; but I shall proceed no further. There is nothing farther for us to do herein but that now and always we shut up all our Meditations concerning it, with the deepest Self-abasement out of a Sense of our Unworthiness and Insufficiency to comprehend those things, Admiration of that excellent Glory which we cannot comprehend, and vehement Longings for that Season when he shall see him as he is, be ever with him, and know him, even as we are known.
FINIS.