Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

Name: Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Author: John Owen

John Owen (1616–1683) was the foremost Puritan theologian of seventeenth-century England. A child prodigy at Oxford, he became dean of Christ Church and vice-chancellor of the university under Cromwell, while preaching and writing works of great depth. The Mortification of Sin, Communion with God, and his massive exposition of Hebrews — many of them in our library — still define Puritan divinity at its most searching and exact.

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First published: 1684
Category: Devotional
Length: 98k words · about 7 hours
Chapters: 22

About this book

John Owen's Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ, published in 1684, the year after his death, summons believers to behold Christ's glory by faith in this life as preparation for heaven. Owen argues that no sight shapes the soul like the sight of Christ, and that declining Christians are revived by returning to it. A rich, searching Puritan meditation.

Prefatory note.
Preface to the reader.
Chapter I. The explication of the text. 🔒
Chapter II. The glory of the person of Christ, as the only representative of God unto the church. 🔒
Chapter III. The glory of Christ in the mysterious constitution of his person. 🔒
Chapter IV. The glory of Christ in his susception of the office of a mediator — first in his condescension. 🔒
Chapter V. The glory of Christ in his love. 🔒
Chapter VI. The glory of Christ in the discharge of his mediatory office. 🔒
Chapter VII. The glory of Christ in his exaltation after the accomplishment of the work of mediation in this world. 🔒
Chapter VIII. Representations of the glory of Christ under the Old Testament. 🔒
Chapter IX. The glory of Christ in his intimate conjunction with the church. 🔒
Chapter X. The glory of Christ in the communication of himself unto believers. 🔒
Chapter XI. The glory of Christ in the recapitulation of all things in him. 🔒
Chapter XII. Differences between our beholding the glory of Christ by faith in this world and by sight in heaven — the first of them explained. 🔒
Chapter XIII. The second difference between our beholding the glory of Christ by faith in this world and by sight in heaven. 🔒
Chapter XIV. Other differences between our beholding the glory of Christ by faith in this world and by sight in heaven. 🔒
Original preface. 🔒
Chapter I. Application of the foregoing meditations concerning the glory of Christ — first, in an exhortation unto such as are not yet partakers of him. 🔒
Chapter II. The way and means of the recovery of spiritual decays, and of obtaining fresh springs of grace. · Part 1 🔒
Chapter II. The way and means of the recovery of spiritual decays, and of obtaining fresh springs of grace. · Part 2 🔒
Chapter II. The way and means of the recovery of spiritual decays, and of obtaining fresh springs of grace. · Part 3 🔒
Chapter II. The way and means of the recovery of spiritual decays, and of obtaining fresh springs of grace. · Part 4 🔒