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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.

John Howe 1630–1705London: printed by A. Maxwell for Sa. Gellibrand, 1674

[16], 365, [1] p. · 101k words · Wing H3043 · ESTC R215977

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A TREATISE OF Delighting in GOD: From PSAL. 37. 4. Delight thy self… › Part 1

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An afflicted state of good men, by the oppression of such as were (in that and other respects) very wicked.

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The prosperity of these wicked ones in their oppressive course.

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An aptness in the oppressed to impatience under the evils they suffered.

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A disposition to behold, with a lingering and an envious eye, the good things which their oppressors enjoyed, and themselves wanted.

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Hence the composure of it is such as might be most agreeable to these suppositions, and serviceable to the fortifying of the Righteous against the sin and trouble which such a state of things might prove the occasion of unto them.

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Section: :26–394
Whole work: 718 passages

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Title as printed: 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.
Author: John Howe 1630–1705
Place: London
Printer: A. Maxwell
Bookseller: Sa. Gellibrand
Year: 1674
Size: [16], 365, [1] p.
Words: 100,581
Catalogue: Wing H3043 · ESTC R215977
Text: EEBO-TCP A44697

Passages: 718
Sections: 9

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John Howe 1630–1705

PuritansEngland

Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell; later Presbyterian minister in London.

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As if it had been said, You have no such cause to look with displeasure or immoderate desire upon their delicacies; You may have better, Better belong to you, and invite you, The Lord himself is your portion; It becomes both your state and spirit, to apply your selves to an holy delight in him; To let your Souls loose, and set them ⟨p. 3⟩at liberty, to satiate themselves, and feed unto fullness upon those undefiled and satisfying pleasures unto which you have a right; and in which you will find the loss and want of their meaner enjoyments abundantly made up unto you. You have your natural desires and cravings as well as other men; and those may be too apt to exceed their just bounds and measures; But if you take this course, they will soon become sober and moderate, such as will be satisfied with what is competent, with an indifferent allowance of the good things of this earth. And towards the Lord, let them be as vast and large as can be supposed, they can never be larger than the Rule will allow; nor than the object will satisfy. The direction and obligation of the former being indeed proportioned to the immense and boundless fullness of the latter.

As if it had been said, You have no such cause to look with displeasure or immoderate desire upon their delicacies; You may have better, Better belong to you, and invite you, The Lord himself is your portion; It becomes both your state and spirit, to apply your selves to an holy delight in him; To let your Souls loose, and set them ⟨p. 3⟩at liberty, to satiate themselves, and feed unto fulness upon those undefiled and satisfying pleasures unto which you have a right; and in which you will find the loss and want of their meaner enjoyments abundantly made up unto you. You have your natural desires and cravings as well as other men; and those may be too apt to exceed their just bounds and measures; But if you take this course, they will soon become sober and moderate, such as will be satisfied with what is competent, with an indifferent allowance of the good things of this earth. And towards the Lord, let them be as vast and large as can be supposed, they can never be larger than the Rule will allow; nor than the object will satisfie. The direction and obligation of the former being indeed proportioned to the immense and boundless fulness of the latter.