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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.
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,
1. Is attributed to the spirit. 1And as a work to be done by it when it shall be given (supposing it therefore yet not given and that all have it not) yea that such have it not, in such a measure as they may have it, unto this purpose; who yet truly have it, in some measure already;