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Excerpt from Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ, in Two Parts: I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; With the Differences Between Faith and Sight, Applied Unto the Use of Them That Believe; II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners; And Saints Under Spiritual Decays Fome may be pro greater Light and Knowledge unto the good -of many. And' that which I defign farther in the prefent Difcourfe, isto give a brief Account of the Necefity and Ufi', in Life and Death, of the Duty exhorted unto. Particular Motives unto the diligent Difcharge of this Duty, will be prefl'ed 1n the Difcourfe ir felfx Here fome 1 Things more general only {hall be premifed. For all Perfons not immerfed in fenfual Pleafures, not overdrencht in the Love of it this World, and prefent Things, who have any generous or noble Thoughts about their own Na lure, Being and End, are under the highefi: Ob ligation to betake themfelves unto this Contempla tion of Cbri/t and bis Glory. Without this they lhall never attain true Reft or Satisfaetion in their own Minds. He it is alone in whom the Race of Mankind may boal't and glory, on whom all' its Felicities do depend. For, 1. He it is in whom our Nature, which was de hafed as low as Hell by Apofla/y from God, IS ex alted above the whole Creation. Our Nature in the Original Confiitution of it, in the Perfons of our firlt Parents, was crowned witb Honour and Dignity. The Image of God wherein 11: was made, and the Ddininion over the lower World where with it was intrulted, made it the Seat of Excel leney, of Beauty and of Glory. But of them all. It was at once develled and made naked by Sin, and laid grovelling in the Dull from whence it was taken. Daft tboa art, and to Dufl tboa/balt return, was its righteous Doom. And all its in ternal Faculties were invaded by deformed Lulis every Thing that might render the whole nalibe unto God, whofe Image it had loft. Hence it became the Contempt of Angels, the Dominion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
