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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.
And by how much more we shall then know of his glory, so much more shall we understand that distance. Yet as he shall then enlarge the capacity of the soul he glorifies to a very vast comprehension, so shall ⟨p. 39⟩the exhibition of his glory to it, be fully adequate to its most enlarged capacity. They are as yet but obscure glimmerings, we can have of this glory; But so far as, without too bold curiosity, we may, and wherein Scripture light will give us any preapprehension of it, let us consider a while,
And by how much more we shall then know of his glory, so much more shall we understand that distance. Yet as he shall then enlarge the capacity of the soul he glorifies to a very vast comprehension, so shall ⟨p. 39⟩the exhibition of his glory to it, be fully adequate to its most inlarged capacity. They are as yet but obscure glimmerings, we can have of this glory; But so far as, without too bold curiosity, we may, and wherein Scripture light will give us any preapprehension of it, let us consider a while,
The Nature Excellency of it.
We cannot indeed consider these separately, for we can no sooner understand it to be glory, than we conceive it excellent; Glory, in the proper Notion of it, being nothing else but resplendent excellency, the lustre of excellency or real worth made conspicuous. Yet as there is an excellency ⟨p. 41⟩