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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.
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?
For (the beatifique Object supposed) what more can be necessary to actual, compleat formall 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?
And these three are manifestly contained in the Text (the beatisique Object being involved with them) the first in the former clause, I shall behold thy face, the second and third in the latter, I shall be satisfied with thy likeness; where, being made like to God hath been discovered to be supposed, & the satisfaction, the pleasant contentful relishes consequent thereto, plainly expressed.