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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 (as may be collected from what hath been said) Holiness consisting in a right disposition of heart towards God, a divine Nature, participated from him, conform to him, and which works and tends towards him, and in it self so delightful a thing; It may thence be seen what holy delight is, or wherein the holiness of it stands.
It must to this purpose be considered, that this holy delight is twofold, according to a ⟨p. 144⟩two-fold consideration of the delectable object; into which, what was formerly said about it may be reduced.
All delight in God supposes, as hath been said, some communication from him.
That communication is either of light, whereby his Nature and Attributes are in some measure known; or of operative influence, whereby his Image is imprest, and the Soul is framed according to his will. And so 'tis partly mental or notional (I mean not merely notional, but that hath with it also an aptitude to beget a correspondent-impression on the Soul, and not engage it in some speculations concerning him only), and partly real, that actually begets such an impression it self. It is partly such as may be understood, and partly such as may be felt; the manifestation of his Love partly belongs to the one of these, and partly to the other.