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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. That God can never frame more. This 'tis hence also assured of: How can he but take perfect everlasting complacency in his own perfect likeness and image; and behold with pleasure, his glorious workmanship, now never liable to impairment, or decay? how pleasant a thought is this! The blessed God never beholds me but with delight. I shall always behold his serene countenance; his amiable face, never covered with any ⟨p. 157⟩clouds, never darkened with any frown. I shall now have cause to complain no more; my God is a stranger to me, he conceals himself, I cannot see his face, lo he is encompassed with Clouds and darkness, or with flames and terrors. These occasions are for ever ceased. God sees no cause either to behold the blessed soul with displeasure, or with displeasure to avert from it, and turn off his eye. And will not this eternally satisfy! when God himself is so well pleased, shall not we!
2. That God can never frame more. This 'tis hence also assured of: How can he but take perfect everlasting complaceny in his own perfect likeness and image; and behold with pleasure, his glorious workmanship, now never liable to impairment, or decay? how pleasant a thought is this! The blessed God never beholds me but with delight. I shall alwayes behold his serene countenance; his amiable face, never covered with any ⟨p. 157⟩clouds, never darkened with any frown. I shall now have cause to complain no more; my God is a stranger to me, he conceals himself, I cannot see his face, lo he is incompast with Clouds and darkness, or with flames and terrours. These occasions are for ever ceased. God sees no cause either to behold the blessed soul with displeasure, or with displeasure to avert from it, and turn off his eye. And will not this eternally satisfie! when God himself is so well pleased, shall not we!
2. The pleasure it disposes to. Besides that the inbeing, and knowledge of this likeness, are so satisfying: It disposes, and is the souls qualification for a yet further pleasure. That of closest union, and most inward communion with the blessed God.