# “A holy admiration of what we cannot comprehend” by John Owen

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- Published: 2007-09-14T01:48:00-05:00
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“We _speak_ of these things in a poor, low, broken manner,– we _teach_ them as they
are revealed in the Scripture,– we labour by faith to adhere unto them as revealed;
but when we come into a steady, direct view and consideration of the _thing itself_,
our minds fail, our hearts tremble, and we can find no rest but in a holy admiration
of what we cannot comprehend. Here we are at a loss, and know that we shall be so
whilst we are in this world; but all the ineffable fruits and benefits of this truth
are communicatated unto them that do believe.” 

-–John Owen, “Meditations and Discourses Concerning the Glory of Christ” in _The
Works of John Owen_, ed. William Goold, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1965), Vol.
I: p. 330.

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