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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.
But besides, that (though most naturally following thereupon) it also includes,
2. A transforming impression of his image. §IIThis yet more fully answers the enquiry when a person is said to enjoy God; what doth he immediately enjoy? or whereby is he said to enjoy God? what doth God communicate or transmit, by which he may be said to be enjoyed? He communicates his own living likeness, the very image of himself; not the Idea or likeness only by which he is known; Though it must be confessed, the knowledge of him, if he be known to be what he truly is, must suppose a true likeness of him, offered to the mind, and formed there. But this of which we now speak, is a not merely representative but a real image.
2. A transforming impression of his image. §IIThis yet more fully answers the enquiry when a person is said to enjoy God; what doth he immediately enjoy? or whereby is he said to enjoy God? what doth God communicate or transmit, by which he may be said to be enjoyed? He communicates his own living likeness, the very image of himself; not the Idaea or likeness only by which he is known; Though it must be confessed, the knowledg of him, if he be known to be what he truly is, must suppose a true likeness of him, offered to the mind, and formed there. But this of which we now speak, is a not meerly representative but a real image.
The product of the former it is, as is sufficiently to be collected from what hath been said. For that appears to be not a mere airy, spiritless, ineffectual thing, as the notion of God, and of all divine matters is with the most; but as hath been said operative, penetrating, efficacious, apt to beget suitable impressions upon the heart, and wholly transform the Soul. The effect of it then is, this transformative impression it self; By which the Soul becomes another thing than it was;