# “The beholding of His glory” by John Owen

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- Published: 2024-06-06T11:00:00-05:00
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“The revelation made of Christ in the blessed Gospel is far more excellent, more
glorious, and more filled with rays of divine wisdom and goodness, than the whole
creation and the just comprehension of it, if attainable, can contain or afford.

Without the knowledge hereof, the mind of man, however priding itself in other inventions
and discoveries, is wrapped up in darkness and confusion. This, therefore, deserves
the severest of our thoughts, the best of our meditations, and our utmost diligence
in them.

For if our future blessedness shall consist in being where He is, and beholding 
of His glory, what better preparation can there be for it than in a constant previous
contemplation of that glory in the revelation that is made in the Gospel, unto this
very end, that by a view of it we may be gradually transformed into the same glory?(**
2 Corinthians 3:18**)”

–John Owen, [_The Works of John Owen, Volume 1: The Glory of Christ _](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513921?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
ed. William H. Goold; Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1850-53/1997), 1: 275.

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