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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
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.
A TREATISE OF Delighting in GOD: From PSAL. 37. 4. Delight thy self also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
PART II.
Concerning the Practice of Delight in GOD.
WE have in the former Part extended the meaning of the words, Delight thy self in the Lord, beyond what they seem at first sight literally to signify: So as not to understand them merely as requiring that very single act of Delight to be immediately and directly terminated on God himself; ⟨p. 174⟩But to take them as comprehending also the sum of all holy and religious converse with God, i. e. as it is delightful, or as it is seasoned (intermingled, and as it were besprinkled) with delight; and upon the same account, of all our other converse, so far as it is influenced by Religion.
WE have in the former Part extended the meaning of the words, Delight thy self in the Lord, beyond what they seem at first sight literally to signifie: So as not to understand them meerly as requiring that very single act of Delight to be immediately and directly terminated on God himself;