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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.
An aptness in the oppressed to impatience under the evils they suffered.
A disposition to behold, with a lingering and an envious eye, the good things which their oppressors enjoyed, and themselves wanted.
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.
This Verse hath a more direct aspect on the last of these cases, or on this last mentioned thing considerable in the case, of Upright men suffering under the oppression of violent and prosperous wickedness, viz. That they might hereupon be apt both to covet and envy the worldly delights of their enemies; To be desirous of their dainties, and grudge they should be theirs, who, they knew, deserved worse things: And while themselves also felt the pressure of worse, which at their hands they deserved not.
This Verse hath a more direct aspect on the last of these cases, or on this last mentioned thing considerable in the case, of Upright men suffering under the oppression of violent and prosperous wickedness, viz. That they might hereupon be apt both to covet and envy the worldly delights of their enemies; To be desirous of their dainties, and grudg they should be theirs, who, they knew, deserved worse things: And while themselves also felt the pressure of worse, which at their hands they deserved not.