1691 JOHN OWEN. Meditations on the Glory of Christ. His Death-Bed Thoughts on the Excellence of Jesus.

First published post-humously in 1684, this rare 1691 edition printed for Benjamin Alsop ("B. A.") represents the scarce second standalone printing of John Owen’s final work, before later posthumous additions were appended.

Recognized as the "Prince of Divines" and the preeminent theologian of English Puritanism, this volume stands as the mature culmination of his theology, translating his robust Christology into personal, experimental divinity. Dictated during his final months of failing health as a personal preparation for eternity, the text functioned as Owen's deathbed testimony, offering a deeply tender, Christocentric meditation on contemplating the Redeemer's glory by faith as the supreme source of earthly consolation and heavenly assurance.

This the copy of Reverend John Wade, a colonial New England Non-Conformist born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in February 1674/5, son of Colonel Thomas Wade. He pursued his education at Harvard College, graduating in 1693 when the institution functioned primarily as a seminary for training Puritan ministers. Following his graduation, he entered the clergy and relocated to the frontier settlement of Berwick, Maine, where he served as a garrison chaplain and preached to the local populace before a formal church was fully established.

His ministry was marked by orthodox Calvinist theology and the ecclesiastical framework characteristic of the early Puritan settlers into the turn of the eighteenth century. On September 3, 1696, he married Elizabeth Gerrish, with whom he had at least two children, John and Sarah. His life and career were cut short when he died relatively young on November 13, 1703, at the age of twenty-nine in Berwick, Maine. 

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Owen, John. Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ, in His Person, Office, and Grace: with The Differences between Faith and Sight. Applied unto the Use of them that Believe. London. Printed for B. A. and are to be Sold by most Book-Sellers in London, 1691. 220pp. 

Text block very good, crisp, and clean, but the whole in need of resewing and rebinding.