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A treatise of delighting in God from Psal. xxxvij. 4. Delight thy self also…
A treatise of delighting in God from Psal. xxxvij. 4. Delight thy self also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. In two parts. By John Howe, M.A. sometime fellow of Magdalen College, Oxon.
London: printed by A. Maxwell for Sa. Gellibrand, 1674
A TREATISE OF Delighting in GOD: From PSAL. 37. 4. Delight thy self… › Part 1
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.
They will then be found to speak very agreeably to the language of holy scripture which so frequently expresses the blessedness of the other state by seeing God.
And if the act of vision be delicious, The representation of the object must have proportionable matter of delight in it. It cannot but have so, if we consider the nature of this representation;
Which, answerably to the sensible want and desire of such as shall be delighted there-with, must have somewhat more in it than the common appearances of God which offer themselves equally to the view of all men. Though it is their own as common fault, that they are destitute of the more grateful and necessary additions.
That it hath more in it, is evident from Gods own way of speaking of it. For we find that his revealing himself in this delectable way,