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Meditations on the Glory of Christ Applied to Unconverted Sinners

by John Owen

A posthumous masterwork drawing from Christ's prayer in John 17:24, these meditations apply the beholding of Christ's glory to two audiences: those yet unconverted, and believers grown spiritually cold. Owen argues that seeing God's wisdom, love, and holiness in the person of Christ is the soul's highest privilege — the root of true faith, the spring of sanctification, and the foretaste of eternal blessedness. Written in Owen's final years and published 1691, it distills a lifetime of Reformed Christology into urgent, devotional appeal.
Chapters
16
Word count
89,366
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 Chapter 1: Beholding the Glory of Christ 4,325 words
  2. 02 Chapter 2: The Glory of Christ's Divine Person 8,391 words
  3. 03 Chapter 3: The Glory of Christ's Hypostatic Union 6,534 words
  4. 04 Chapter 4: Christ's Glory in His Condescension 5,694 words
  5. 05 Chapter 5: The Glory of Christ's Love in His Mediation 2,538 words
  6. 06 Chapter 6: The Glory of Christ in the Discharge of His Office 2,079 words
  7. 07 Chapter 7: The Glory of Christ in His Exaltation 2,786 words
  8. 08 Chapter 8: The Glory of Christ in Scripture Prophecy 2,196 words
  9. 09 Chapter 9: The Glory of Christ in the Mission of the Holy Spirit 3,802 words
  10. 10 Chapter 10: The Glory of Christ in His Mystical Union with the Church 3,921 words
  11. 11 Chapter 11: The Glory of Christ in the Recapitulation of All Things 3,575 words
  12. 12 Chapter 12: Beholding Christ's Glory by Faith 7,749 words
  13. 13 Chapter 13: Faith as the Light to Behold Christ's Glory 9,682 words
  14. 14 Chapter 14: Beholding Christ by Faith Versus by Sight 3,675 words
  15. 15 Application, Chapter 1: To Unconverted Sinners 7,011 words
  16. 16 Application, Chapter 2: To Believers Under Spiritual Decay 15,161 words
Front matter (2 sections)

Title Page

MEDITATIONS AND DISCOURSES Concerning the Glory of Christ, APPLYED TO Unconverted SINNERS, AND SAINTS UNDER SPIRITUAL DECAYES: In Two CHAPTERS, FROM JOHN 17:24.

By the late Reverend JOHN OWEN, Doctor D.

LONDON, Printed by J. A. for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street, 1691.

To the Reader

The design of this preface is not to commend either the author or the matter contained in this little book. Let every reader do as he finds cause. Nor need any assurance be given that Doctor Owen was the author, to any who have conversed with his writings, and will be at the pains to read this over. It is indeed his application of the former discourses upon this subject, printed in the year 1684. But the reason why it was not then added (the omission whereof rendered that book imperfect to judicious readers) seems necessary to be given. Had it pleased God he had lived a little longer, it would have come out as perfect as his other works. But there was no more transcribed in his life-time than what was then printed, and that published soon after his death; these two chapters wrote only with his own hand, were found too late to be then added. They are therefore now printed to complete those discourses. And it is presumed, that as no serious Christian who reads this, will be satisfied without the other also: so all who prize the former, will be glad of the opportunity to add this thereunto.

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