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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.
And if no such sweet and pleasant fruit were to be hoped for from the careful government and ordering of our thoughts, Is ⟨p. 328⟩the obligation of Gods Law in this matter nothing with us? whom we are bound to fear, and love, to trust and obey above all things, of him are we not bound so much as to think? And what is loving God with all our mind, so expressly mentioned in that great summary of our duty towards him? Or what can it mean, after the required love of all the heart, and all the soul, to add so particularly, and with all thy mind, when-as the mind we know is not the seat of love? Surely it cannot at least, but imply, that our thoughts must be much exercised upon God even by the direction of our Love, and that our Love must be maintained by thoughts of him; That our minds and hearts must continually correspond and concur to the loving of God; and so our whole soul be exercised and set on work therein.
And if no such sweet and pleasant fruit were to be hoped for from the careful government and ordering of our thoughts, Is ⟨p. 328⟩the obligation of Gods Law in this matter nothing with us? whom we are bound to fear, and love, to trust and obey above all things, of him are we not bound so much as to think? And what is loving God with all our mind, so expresly mentioned in that great summary of our duty towards him? Or what can it mean, after the required love of all the heart, and all the soul, to add so particularly, and with all thy mind, when-as the mind we know is not the seat of love? Surely it cannot at least, but imply, that our thoughts must be much exercised upon God even by the direction of our Love, and that our Love must be maintain'd by thoughts of him; That our minds and hearts must continually correspond and concur to the loving of God; and so our whole soul be exercised and set on work therein.
What doth it mean that our Youth is challenged to the remembrance of him?