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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
Chapter 1: THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS.Chapter 1: THE BLESSEDNESSE OF THE RIGHTEOVS.
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.
Which Text I take for a plain Comment upon this; and me-thinks it should not easily be supposable they should both speak so near the same words and not intend the same sense: you have in both the same season When he shall appear, when I shall awake, the same subject the righteous person born of God, (compare the close of the former Chapter with the beginning of this) and I in righteousness, The same Vision, We shall see him as he is, I shall behold his face, The same Assimilation, We shall be like him, I shall be satisfied with his likeness; (concerning the [Greek or Hebrew] or habitude this vision and assimilation mutually have to one another, there will be consideration had in its place.)
Which Text I take for a plain Comment upon this; and me-thinks it should not easily be supposeable they should both speak so near the same words and not intend the same sense: you have in both the same season When he shall appear, when I shall awake, the same subject the righteous person born of God, (compare the close of the former Chapter with the beginning of this) and I in righteousness, The same Vision, We shall see him as he is, I shall behold his face, The same Assimilation, We shall be like him, I shall be satisfied with his likeness; (concerning the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or habitude this vision and assimilation mutually have to one another, there will be consideration had in its place.)
I therefore conceive neither of these Notions of the Divine likeness, do exclude the other; if it be enquired which is principally meant, That needs not be determined; if the latter, it supposes the former; if the former, it infers the latter. Without the first, the ⟨p. 13⟩other cannot be, without this other, the first cannot satisfy.
I therefore conceive neither of these Notions of the Divine likeness, do exclude the other; if it be enquired which is principally meant, That needs not be determined; if the latter, it supposes the former; if the former, it infers the latter. Without the first, the