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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.
Both to be measured and estimated, as to their good or evil, by the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now surely that must be a blessed and delightful state (and its that towards which this divine communication gradually tends) wherein a wretched Soul, that was lost in the impurities of sin, shall be stripped and unclothed of all the pravity, perverse inclinations, corrupt affections which the Gospel of Christ condemns; and invested with all the parts of that purity, that gracious and holy-frame which that Gospel recommends. For as the former carry in them matter of certain vexation and anguish, which it is hereby freed from; So the latter manifestly carry in ⟨p. 51⟩themselves matter of unspeakable delight and pleasure, which it hereby partakes. And by the same degrees by which this divine communication infers the latter of these, it expels the former. By the same degrees by which any are made partakers of the divine nature, they escape the corruptions which are in the world through lust.
Both to be measured and estimated, as to their good or evil, by the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now surely that must be a blessed and delighful state (and its that towards which this divine communication gradually tends) wherein a wretched Soul, that was lost in the impurities of sin, shall be stript and unclothed of all the pravity, perverse inclinations, corrupt affections which the Gospel of Christ condemns; and invested with all the parts of that purity, that gracious and holy-frame which that Gospel recommends. For as the former carry in them matter of certain vexation and anguish, which it is hereby freed from; So the latter manifestly carry in ⟨p. 51⟩themselves matter of unspeakable delight and pleasure, which it hereby partakes. And by the same degrees by which this divine communication infers the latter of these, it expels the former. By the same degrees by which any are made partakers of the divine nature, they escape the corruptions which are in the world through lust.