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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 what heart can compass the greatness of this thought, to be made like God! Lord, was there no lower pattern than thy self, thy glorious blessed self according to which to form a worm! This cannot want its due resentments in a glorified state.
4. This transformation of the blessed soul into the likeness of God, may be viewed by it, in reference to the way of accomplishment; as an end, brought ⟨p. 153⟩about by so amazing stupendous means; which will certainly be a pleasing contemplation. When it reflects on the method and course insisted on, for bringing this matter to pass, views over the work of redemption, in its tendency to this end,1 The restoring Gods Image in souls; Considers Christ manifested to us, in order to his being revealed and formed in us. That God was made in the likeness man, to make men after the likeness of God. That he partook with us of the humane nature, that we might with him partake of the divine; that he assumed our flesh, in order to impart to us his Spirit. When it shall be considered for this end had we so many great and precious promises; for this end did the glory of the Lord shine upon us through the glass of the Gospel; 2that we might be made partakers, 3&c. That we might be changed, &c. Yea, when it shall be called to mind, (though it be far from following hence, that this is the only or principal way wherein the life and death of Christ have influence in order to our eternal happiness) that our Lord Jesus lived for this end, that we might learn so to walk, as he also walked, that he dyed that we might be conformed to his death; that he rose again, that we might with him attain the resurrection of the dead; that he was in us the hope of glory, that he might be in us (that is, that same Image that bears his Name) our final consummate glory it self also. With what pleasure will these harmonious congruities, these apt correspondencies, be looked into at last!