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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.
These are the things, in kind, which would satisfy it. And answerably to these we may conceive the communicable good which is the immediate object of their enjoyment. So that, as God himself is the object which is enjoyed; This is the object by which, or in respect whereof he is enjoyable.
These are the things, in kind, which would satisfy it. And answerably to these we may conceive the communicable good which is the immediate object of their enjoyment. So that, as God himself is the object which is enjoyed; This is the object by which, or in respect whereof he is injoyable.
Therefore the divine communication, or that which is communicated from God to regenerate souls wherein they are to delight themselves, contains in it,
1. An inwardly enlightening revelation of §Ihimself to them, that they may know him ⟨p. 20⟩more distinctly. This is a part of the one thing, would be so highly satisfying, and delightful.1 Show us the father and it sufficeth us. When their desires are towards God only, it is with this aim in the first place, that they may know him, which is supposed, when that is given as an encouragement to the pursuit of this knowledge.2 We shall know if we follow on to know the Lord. As if it had been said; This is a thing not doubted of but taken for granted, that we would fain know the Lord; we shall, if we follow on, &c. This is a dictate of pure and primitive nature to covet the knowledge of our own original, him from whom we and all things sprang. Men are herein become most unnaturally wicked when they like not to retain God in their knowledge.