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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.
Repentance is that by which we become like the holy God; to whom our sin had made us most unlike before; how sweet are kindly relentings? penitential tears? and the return of the Soul to its God? and to a right mind!
Repentance is that by which we become like the holy God; to whom our sin had made us most unlike before; how sweet are kindly relentings? penetential tears? and the return of the Soul to its God? and to a right mind!
And who can conceive the Ravishing Pleasures of love to God! wherein we not only imitate, but intimately unite with him, who is Love it self. How pleasant to let our Souls dissolve here! and slow into the Ocean, the element of love!
And who can conceive the Ravishing Pleasures of love to God! wherein we not onely imitate, but intimately unite with him, who is Love it self. How pleasant to let our Souls dissolve here! and slow into the Ocean, the element of love!
Our Fear corresponds to his Excellent Greatness; and is not (as it is a part of the New Creature in us) a tormenting servile passion; but a due respectfulness, and observance of God; and there is no mean pleasure in that holy, awful seriousness, unto which it composes, and forms our Spirits.
Our Fear corresponds to his Excellent Greatnesse; and is not (as it is a part of the New Creature in us) a tormenting servile passion; but a due respectfulness, and observance of God; and there is no mean pleasure in that holy, awful seriousness, unto which it composes, and formes our Spirits.