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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
A TREATISE OF Delighting in GOD: From PSAL. 37. 4. Delight thy self… › Part 1
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.
As therefore it is a real, so there must be some special communication, by which, being received, we are truly said to enjoy him.
As therefore it is a real, so there must be some special communication, by which, being received, we are truly said to injoy him.
A special good it must be, not such as is common to all. For there is a communication from him that is of that extent, in as much as all live and move and have there Beings in him and the whole earth is full of his goodness.
This is a Good peculiar to them that are born of God. And suited to the apprehension and sense of that divine Creature which is so born.
This is a Good peculiar to them that are born of God. And suted to the apprehension and sense of that divine Creature which is so born.
What this Good is, how fully sufficient it is, and how or which way it is communicable, may be the better understood when we have considered what are the wants and cravings of this Creature, or of them in whom it is formed and wrought. For when we have pitched upon the very thing it self, which they most desire, (and which they can tell is it, when they hear it named, though their thoughts are not so well formed about it as to give it the right Name before) we shall then understand it to be both what will be sufficient to Satisfy, and what may be communicated to that purpose.