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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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WHEREFORE let no Man deceive himself: He that hath no Sight of the Glory of Christ here, shall never have any of it hereafter unto his Advantage. It is not therefore unto Edification, to discourse of Beholding the Glory of Christ in Heaven by vision, until we go through a trial, whether we see any thing of it in this World by Faith or no.
WHEREFORE let no Man deceive himself: He that hath no Sight of the Glory of Christ here, shall never have any of it hereafter unto his Advantage. It is not therefore unto Edification, to discourse of Beholding the Glory of Christ in Heaven by vision, until we go through a tryal, whether we see any thing of it in this World by Faith or no.
2ly. THE beholding of Christ in Glory, is that which in it self is too High, Illustrious, and Marvellous for us in our present condition. It hath a splendour and glory too great for our present Spiritual visible faculty; as the direct, immediate sight of the Sun darkens our sight, and doth not relieve or strengthen it at all. Wherefore we have no way to take into our minds any true Spiritual Apprehensions of the Nature of Immediate Vision, or what it is to see the Glory of Christ in Heaven, but by that View which we have by Faith in this life of the same Glory. Whatever otherwise falls into our Minds, is but conjecture and imagination; Such as are the Contemplations of most about Heavenly things.
2ly. THE beholding of Christ in Glory, is that which in it self is too High, Illustrious, and Marvellous for us in our present condition. It hath a splendor and glory too great for our present Spiritual visible faculty; as the direct, immediate sight of the Sun darkens our sight, and doth not relieve or strengthen it at all. Wherefore we have no way to take into our minds any true Spiritual Apprehensions of the Nature of Immediate Vision, or what it is to see the Glory of Christ in Heaven, but by that View which we have by Faith in this life of the same Glory. Whatever otherwise falls into our Minds, is but conjecture and imagination; Such as are the Contemplations of most about Heavenly things.