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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.
Hence also it was that we find him groaning as one under a pressure or heavy weight to be clothed upon with the heavenly house: and to have mortality swallowed up of life: 1Because God had wrought him to this self-same thing, 2so bent and determined his spirit was towards the blessedness of the future state (which seems the most natural contexture of discourse here,3 though some others have understood it otherwise) as that, though he could bear patiently the delay, he could not but desire most earnestly to be there.
Hence also it was that we find him groaning as one under a pressure or heavy weight to be cloath'd upon with the heavenly house: and to have mortality swallowed up of life: 1Because God had wrought him to this self-same thing, 2so bent and determined his spirit was towards the blessedness of the future state (which seems the most natural contexture of discourse here,3 though some others have understood it otherwise) as that, though he could bear patiently the delay, he could not but desire most earnestly to be there.
- 12 Cor. 5.
- 2v. 4.
- 3v. 5.