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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.
As that he is free that lives as he will (from Cicero, insisted on by S. Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 14. c. 25.) that is, who neither wishes any thing, nor fears any thing; who in all things acquiesces in the will of God; who minds nothing but his own things, and accounts nothing his own but God, who savours nothing but God, who is moved only by the will of God.
As that he is free that lives as he will (from Cicero, insisted on by S. Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 14. c. 25.) that is, who neither wishes any thing, nor fears any thing; who in all things acquiesces in the will of God; who minds nothing but his own things, and accounts nothing his own but God, who savors nothing but God, who is mov'd only by the will of God.
Again;1 he is free, that he cannot be hindered being willing, nor forced being unwilling (from Epictetus) i. e. who hath always his will; as having perfectly subjected it to the will of God (as the same Author explains himself.
Again;1 he is free, that he cannot be hindred being willing, nor forced being unwilling (from Epictetus) i. e. who hath alwayes his will; as having perfectly subjected it to the will of God (as the same Author explains himself.
- 1Id. ibid.
Again; He is free that is master of himself (from the Cilians) i. e. (as that liberty respects the spirit of a man) that hath a mind independent on any thing foreign, and alien to himself.