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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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3. THE constant Contemplation of the Glory of Christ, will give Rest, Satisfaction, and Complacency unto the Souls of them who are exercised therein. Our ⟨p. 12⟩Minds are apt to be filled with a Multitude of perplexed Thoughts, Fears, Cares, Dangers, Distresses, Passions, and Lusts, do make various Impressions on the Minds of Men, filling them with Disorder, Darkness, and Confusion. But where the Soul is fixed in its Thoughts and Contemplations on this glorious Object, it will be brought into, and kept in an Holy, Serene, Spiritual Frame. For to be Spiritually minded, is Life and Peace. And this it doth, by taking off our Hearts, from all undue Regard unto all things below, in comparison of the great Worth, Beauty, and Glory of what we are conversant withal. See Phil. 3. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. A Defect herein makes many of us Strangers unto an Heavenly Life; and to live beneath the Spiritual Refreshments and Satisfactions that the Gospel doth tender unto us.
4. THE Sight of the Glory of Christ, is the Spring and Cause of our Everlasting Blessedness. We shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4. 17. Or, be with Christ, which is best of all, Phil. 1. 23. For there shall we behold his Glory, Joh. 17. 24. and by seeing him as he is, we shall be made like him, 1 Joh. 3. 2. which is our Everlasting Blessedness.
4. THE Sight of the Glory of Christ, is the Spring and Cause of our Everlasting Blessedness. We shall be ever with the Lord,