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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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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, 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 skall be made like him, 1 Joh. 3. 2. which is our Everlasting Blessedness.
THE Enjoyment of God by Sight, is commonly called the Beatifical Vision; and it is the sole Fountain of all the Actings of our Souls in the State of Blessedness, which the old Philosophers knew nothing of; neither do we know distinctly what they are, or what is this Sight of God. Howbeit, this we know, that God in his Immense Essence is invisible unto our Corporeal Eyes, and will be so to Eternity; as also incomprehensible unto our Minds. For nothing can perfectly comprehend that which is Infinite, but what is it self Infinite. Wherefore the Blessed and Blessing Sight which we shall have of God, will be always in the Face of Jesus Christ. Therein will that Manifestation of the Glory of God in his Infinite Perfections,