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The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /
The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 / by John Howe ...The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 / by John Howe ...
printed by Sarah Griffin for Samuel Thomson, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The nature of this Blessedness propounded unto consideration, in the three ingredients (here mentioned) whereof it consists. 1. Vision of Gods Face. 2. Assimilation to him. 3. The satisfaction resulting thence. These propounded to be considered 1. Absolutely and singly each by it self. 2. Relatively in their mutual respects to each other. The first of these, Vision of Gods Face discoursed of. 1. The Object. 2. The Act.
The nature of this Blessedness propounded unto consideration, in the three ingredients (here mentioned) whereof it consists. 1. Vision of Gods Face. 2. Assimilation to him. 3. The satisfaction resulting thence. These propounded to be considered 1. Absolutely and singly each by it self. 2. Relatively in their mutual respects to each other. The first of these, Vision of Gods Face discourst of. 1. The Object. 2. The Act.
NOW for the Nature of this Blessedness; or the inquiry wherein it lies, so far as the Text gives us any account of it, we are invited to turn our thoughts and discourse to it. And we have it here represented to us in all the particulars that can be supposed to have any nearer interest in the business of Blessedness, or to be more intimate and intrinsical thereunto.
NOW for the Nature of this Blessedness; or the inquiry wherein it lyes, so far as the Text gives us any account of it, we are invited to turn our thoughts and discourse to it. And we have it here represented to us in all the particulars that can be supposed to have any nearer interest in the business of Blessedness, or to be more intimate and intrinsical thereunto.
For (the beatific Object supposed) what more can be necessary to actual, complete formal blessedness, than the sight of it, and adaptation or assimilation to it (which is nothing else but its being actually communicated and imparted to the soul, its being united and made as it were one with it) and the complacential fruition the soul hath of it so communicated, or having so transformed it into its self?