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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.
2. Again, this Image will be perfect in degree; so as to exclude all degrees of its contrary; and include all degrees of it self. There will now be no longer any colluctation with contrary principles; no law in the members warring against the law of the mind, No lustings of the flesh against the Spirit. That war is now ended in a glorious victory, and eternal peace. There will be no remaining blindness of mind, nor error of judgement, nor perverseness of will, nor irregularity or rebellion of affections. No ignorance of God, no aversation from him, or disaffection towards him. This likeness removes all culpable dissimilitude or unlikeness. This communicated glory fills up the whole soul, causes all clouds and darkness to vanish; leaves no place for any thing that is vile or inglorious; 'tis pure glory, free from mixture of any thing that is alien to it.
2. Again, this Image will be perfect in degree; so as to exclude all degrees of its contrary; and include all degrees of it self. There will now be no longer any colluctation with contrary principles; no law in the members warring against the law of the mind, No lustings of the flesh against the Spirit. That war is now ended in a glorious victory, and eternal peace. There will be no remaining blindness of mind, nor errour of iudgement, nor perverseness of will, nor irregularity or rebellion of affections. No ignorance of God, no aversation from him, or disaffection towards him. This likeness removes all culpable dissimilitude or unlikeness. This communicated glory fills up the whole soul, causes all clouds and darkness to vanish; leaves no place for any thing that is vile or inglorious; 'tis pure glory, free from mixture of any thing that is alien to it.
And it is it self full. The Soul is replenished not with airy, evanid shadows, but with substantial, solid glory, a massive, mighty glory, (for I know not but subjective glory may be1 ⟨p. 118⟩