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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.
1. That it doth herein no small thing; for is it a small thing to be ascertained of Gods fatherly love to us as his own children?
1. That it doth herein no small thing; for is it a small thing to be ascertain'd of Gods fatherly love to us as his own children?
2. That it doth not a less thing than if it testified the same matter in a way altogether immediate. For wherein is it less? Is the matter less important? that cannot be said; for the thing we are assured of is the same, howsoever we be certified thereof. Is it less evident? That can with as little pretence be said; For doth any one account a thing not evident in it self, and that needs to be proved to him, some way or other, the less evident for being proved to him in a discursive way: ⟨p. 111⟩What pretence can any one have to say or think so? Is it that reasoning is more liable to error and mistake? But I hope the reasoning of Gods Spirit is not so, when it enables us to apprehend the general Truth we should reason from; to assume to it; to collect and conclude from it, guiding us by its own light: In each of these surely we have as much reason to rely upon the certainty and infallibility of the Spirits reasonings as of its most assertory dictates; Otherwise, we would (most unreasonably) think the authority of those conclusions laid down in the Epistle to the Romans, and other parts of Scripture, invalidated by the Holy Ghost's vouchsafing to reason them out to us, as we know it most nervously and strongly doth.
2. That it doth not a less thing than if it testify'd the same matter in a way altogether immediate. For wherein is it less? Is the matter less important? that cannot be said; for the thing we are assured of is the same, howsoever we be certify'd thereof. Is it less evident? That can with as little pretence be said; For doth any one account a thing not evident in it self, and that needs to be proved to him, some way or other, the less evident for being proved to him in a discursive way: