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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.
That though we do not thus delight in him so much as we should, yet we do more than in any thing else.
2. That we continue herein: That this be the constant habitual temper of our Spirits towards him: That we cleave to him with purpose of heart, as not only the most excellent, but the most permanent object of our delight: Having settled the resolution with our selves,1 This God shall be our God for ever and ever; He shall be our God and guide even to the death. And that there be frequent actual workings of heart towards him, agreeable to such a temper, though they are not so frequent as they ought.
2. That we continue herein: That this be the constant habitual temper of our Spirits towards him: That we cleave to him with purpose of heart, as not only the most excellent, but the most permanent object of our delight: Having setled the resolution with our selves,1 This God shall be our God for ever and ever; He shall be our God and guide even to the death. And that there be frequent actual workings of heart towards him, agreeable to such a temper, though they are not so frequent as they ought.
- 1Psal. 48.
Which account we give of this sincerity of delight in God, not to encourage any to take up with the lowest degree of that sincerity; but that none may be encouraged, upon their own mistake in this matter, to take up with any thing short of it; and that we may see whence to take our rise in aiming at the highest pitch thereof.