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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.
6. The form of expression used in the Text, implies also a stirring up our selves, and the use of endeavours with our own hearts, to foment, heighten, and raise our own delight. The Conjugation (as it is thought fit to be called) into which the word is put, importing (by a peculiarity of expressiveness belonging to the sacred Language) action upon ones self; which must also be understood to have the same force, in reference to that former sense of delighting in God; That is, that we put our selves upon those acts and exercises whereunto such delight is adjoined.
(These things are now more cursorily mentioned, because there will be occasion more at large to insist on them in the Discourse of The Practice of this Duty, reserved to the Second Part).
2. We now proceed to the Modification of §2this Delight in God; or the right manner or measure of it.
Concerning which it is apparent in the general, it can be no further right than as it is agreeable to its Object.