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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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7. Yet disallow not your self to taste and enjoy the pleasure of well-doing: Yea, and (secondarily and in due subordination) to design and endeavour that you may do so. It is in it self, a covetable and a lawful pleasure; so that it be not sought and entertained out of its own place.1 It is a promised pleasure, The good man (it is said) shall be satisfied from himself; And it is by particular direction to be testified to the righteous, they shall eat the fruit of their own doings. 2It's Gods gracious allowance to them, which it is a part of gratitude and dutifulness to esteem and accept; yea, and with great admiration of the Divine Goodness, that hath made and settled such a conjunction between their Duty and their delight; that hath laid such Laws upon them, as in the keeping whereof there is such reward;3 when-as they might have been enjoined a meaner servitude, and by the condition and kind of their work, have been kept strangers to any thing of delight therein.
7. Yet disallow not your self to taste and enjoy the pleasure of well-doing: Yea, and (secondarily and in due subordination) to design and endeavour that you may do so. It is in it self, a covetable and a lawful pleasure; so that it be not sought and entertain'd out of its own place.1 It is a promised pleasure, The good man (it is said) shall be satisfied from himself; And it is by particular direction to be testified to the righteous, they shall eat the fruit of their own doings. 2It's Gods gracious allowance to them, which it is a part of gratitude and dutifulness to esteem and accept; yea, and with great admiration of the Divine Goodness, that hath made and setled such a conjunction between their Duty and their delight; that hath laid such Laws upon them, as in the keeping whereof there is such reward;3 when-as they might have been enjoined a meaner servitude, and by the condition and kind of their work, have been kept strangers to any thing of delight therein.