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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
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It will be upon this account needful to Insist in showing more distinctly, What sort of Religion it is, that is in it self wholly undelightful. Propound some things to consideration concerning it, that may tend to beget a dislike of it, and so incline us to look further.
It will be upon this account needful to Insist in shewing more distinctly, What sort of Religion it is, that is in it self wholly undelightful. Propound some things to consideration concerning it, that may tend to beget a dislike of it, and so incline us to look further.
1. That we may know what we are not to take up with; because our present Subject confines us to this one measure of Religion, that it be delightful, it will be proper to limit our Discourse to this Character only of the Religion we are to pass from, as vain and worthless, viz. That which is without delight; which it also will be sufficient to insist on to our present purpose. For since (as hath been largely shown) the delightfulness of the Religion which is true, and living is intrinsical, and most natural to it, 'twill therefore be certainly consequent, that which is not delightful is dead, and can serve for nothing.
1. That we may know what we are not to take up with; because our present Subject confines us to this one measure of Religion, that it be delightful, it will be proper to limit our Discourse to this Character only of the Religion we are to pass from, as vain and worthless, viz. That which is without delight; which it also will be sufficient to insist on to our present purpose. For since (as hath been largely shewn) the delightfulness of the Religion which is true, and living is intrinsecal, and most natural to it, 'twill therefore be certainly consequent, that which is not delightful is dead, and can serve for nothing.