A53708:64
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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I HAVE thought my self on many accounts obliged to cast my Mite into this Treasury. And I have chosen so to do, not in a way of controversy (which formerly I have engaged in) but so, as together with the vindication ⟨p. 5⟩of the Truth, to promote the strengthening of the Faith of true Believers, their Edification in the Knowledge of it; and to express the Experience which they have, or may have of the Power and Reality of these things.
I HAVE thought my self on many accounts obliged to cast my Mite into this Treasury. And I have chosen so to do, not in a way of controversie (which formerly I have engaged in) but so, as together with the vindication ⟨p. 5⟩of the Truth, to promote the strengthning of the Faith of true Believers, their Edification in the Knowledge of it; and to express the Experience which they have, or may have of the Power and Reality of these things.
THAT which at present I design to Demonstrate is, That the Beholding of the Glory of Christ, is one of the greatest Privileges and Advancements that Believers are capable of in this World, or that which is to come. It is that whereby they are first gradually conformed unto it, and then fixed in the Eternal enjoyment of it. For here in this life, beholding his Glory, they are changed or transformed into the likeness of it, 2 Cor. 3. 18. and hereafter, they shall be for ever like unto him, because they shall see him as he is, 1 Joh. 3. 1, 2. Hereon do our present Comforts, and future Blessedness depend. This is the Life and Reward of our Souls. He that hath seen him hath seen the Father also; Joh. 14. 9. For we discern the Light of the Knowledge of God, only in the Face of Jesus Christ,