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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.
That this blessedness thou dost understand to consist only in the vision of the blessed God, in being made like to him, and in the satisfaction that •s thence to result and accrue to thee.
That this blessedness thou dost understand to consist onely in the vision of the blessed God, in being made like to him, and in the satisfaction that •s thence to result and acrue to thee.
Consider (what thy very objection supposeth) that thou findest the temper of thy Spirit to be altogether indisposed, and averse to such a blessedness. Is it not so? is not this thy very case? feel now again thy heart, try is it not at least coldly affected towards this blessed state?
Is it not then obvious to thee to consider that the temper of thy Spirit must be changed, or thou art undone? That, inasmuch as thy blessedness lies in God, this change mustly in the alteration of thy dispositions and the posture ⟨p. 274⟩of thy Spirit towards him. Further,
Is it not then obvious to thee to consider that the temper of thy Spirit must be changed, or thou art undone? That, inasmuch as thy blessedness lyes in God, this change mustly in the alteration of thy dispositions and the posture ⟨p. 274⟩of thy Spirit towards him. Further,