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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.
Proportionably, in the state of glory, a constant, indesicient fullness renders the blessed soul undesirous of any change. There is no need of varieties, or diversions; what did once please, can never cease to do so. This glory cannot fade or lose any thing of its attractive power. The faculty cannot languish or lose the disposition by which it is contempered and made proportionable thereto: Hence no weariness can ensue. What, a soul in which the love of God is perfected, grow weary of beholding him! The Sun will sooner grow weary of shining; The touched Needle of turning its self to its wonted point; every thing will sooner grow weary of its centre, and the most fundamental Laws of Nature be sooner antiquated and made void for ever.
Proportionably, in the state of glory, a constant, indesicient fulness renders the blessed soul undesirous of any change. There is no need of varieties, or diversions; what did once please, can never cease to do so. This glory cannot fade or lose any thing of its attractive power. The faculty cannot languish or lose the disposition by which it is contempered and made proportionable thereto: Hence no weariness can ensue. What, a soul in which the love of God is perfected, grow weary of beholding him! The Sun will sooner grow weary of shining; The touch'd Needle of turning its self to its wonted point; every thing will sooner grow weary of its centre, and the most fundamental Laws of Nature be sooner antiquated and made void for ever.
The eye of the fool, 1Solomon tells us is in the ends of the earth; his only, is a rolling wandering eye, that knows not where to fix, wisdom guides, and fixes the eye of the holy soul, determines it unto God only.2 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel, my reins ••so instruct me.—I have set the Lord always before me. Surely heaven will not render it less capable of dijudication, of passing a right judgment