A44697:578
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.
2. Have not your thoughts of Him been low and mean, such as have imported light esteem? Compare them with those admiring thoughts,1 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods! Who is like thee, glorious in holiness! O Lord, our Lord, 2how excellent is thy name in all the earth! How unlike have yours been to such thoughts? Bethink your selves, how deeply culpable you have made your neglect to delight in God, by your unworthy thoughts, ⟨p. 278⟩by which you have detracted so unspeakably from the Divine excellency! Hence you have more to account for than merely not-delighting in God, a rendering him such to your selves, as if he were not worthy to be delighted in. How ought this to shake your hearts!
2. Have not your thoughts of Him been low and mean, such as have imported light esteem? Compare them with those admiring thoughts,1 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods! Who is like thee, glorious in holiness! O Lord, our Lord, 2how excellent is thy name in all the earth! How unlike have yours been to such thoughts? Bethink your selves, how deeply culpable you have made your neglect to delight in God, by your unworthy thoughts, ⟨p. 278⟩by which you have detracted so unspeakably from the Divine excellency! Hence you have more to account for than meerly not-delighting in God, a rendering him such to your selves, as if he were not worthy to be delighted in. How ought this to shake your hearts!
- 1Deut. 32. 15.
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