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Howe was born at Loughborough. At the age of five he went to Ireland with his father, who had been ejected from his living by William Laud, but returned to England in 1641 and settled with his father in Lancaster.
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Excerpt from The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M. A., With a Memoir of the Author, Vol. 2 of 8: Containing, I. Of Delighting in God; II. Charity in Reference to Other Men's Sins; III. The Reconcileableness of God's Prescience, &C. With a Postscript First. God may be looked upon in an absolute consideration, as he is in himself, the best and most excellent Being; wherein we behold the concurrence of all perfections; the most amiable and beauteous excellencies, to an intellectual eye, that it can have any apprehension of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The following Work, entitled AT reatise of Delighting in God and which might perhaps be more properly entitled A Practical Treatise on the Love of Gody as connected with the Happiness of Man, is intended as a companion to another work of the same A uthor, On the Blessedness of the Righteous, lately published in a similar form, and upon a similar plan. In this Edition, some extraneous matter, which encumbered the original work, has been omitted. Expressions, once familiar and in common use, but now become obsolete or vulgar, have been exchanged for others more appropriate, and of the correct modern stamp. Attention has also been paid to the punctuation and right division of sentences, from the want of which, in former Editions, it is sometimes difficult, without a second or third reading, to apprehend the true meaning of the writer. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... When the difference shall be visibly put between those that delighted in God and them that never did, when thou shalt be marked out as one that didst in heart depart from him all thy days, and be thereupon abandoned to the society of that horrid accursed crew, in whom only thou didst delight,--surely, thou wilt not then say, thy transgression was small. CHAPTER IV. Appeal to such as disuse or neglect the holy Practice of delighting in God. We are now to expostulate with another sort; who though they are not altogether unacquainted with this heavenly exercise of delighting in God, yet too much disuse it, and apply not themselves to it with that constancy and intention of soul, which the matter requires. And these we are to put upon the consideration of such evils, as either are included in this neglect, or are allied to it as either causing it, or being caused by it. Those whom we now address, are to bethink themselves, what evil is included in their neglect of this part of holy practice. You are to judge of the evil of it, by its disagreement with those known and usual measures, to which our practice should be suitable, and by which, in reason and justice, it is to be estimated or censured; as, for instance, the divine law, conscience, experience, obligation by kindness, stipulation, relation, profession, tendency of the new nature, dictates of God's Spirit, the course and drift of his design;--with all which it will be found to have very ill accord. How directly opposite is it to the law of God! not only to his express written precept, but to that immutable eternal law which arises from our very natures, when referred to his! The binding force of that law doth not so much consist in this, that the thing to be done is such whereto our...
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Howe was born at Loughborough. At the age of five he went to Ireland with his father, who had been ejected from his living by William Laud, but returned to England in 1641 and settled with his father in Lancaster.
He studied at Christ"s College, Cambridge, and at Magdalen College, Oxford (Bachelor, 1650. Master of Arts, 1652), where for a time he was fellow and college chaplain.
Foreign other people with the same name, see: John Howe. He served briefly as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. At Cambridge he came under the influence of Ralph Cudworth and Henry More, from whom he probably received the Platonic tinge that marks his writings.
About 1654 he was appointed to the perpetual curacy of Great Torrington, Devon.
In this place, according to his own statement, he was engaged in the pulpit on fast-days from nine to four, with a recess of fifteen minutes, during which the people sang. While on a visit to London in 1656 Oliver Cromwell prevailed upon him to preach at Whitehall, with the result that Howe, much against his preferences, became one of Cromwell"s chaplains.
Upon Richard Cromwell"s retirement he returned to his former parish at Torrington. When the Acting of Uniformity 1662 was passed he quit his church, but remained for some time in the neighbourhood, preaching in private houses.
In 1666 Howe accepted the Five Mile Acting, but with the limiting clause, "so far as the laws of man are agreeable to the Word of God." In 1671 he became chaplain to Lord Massereene, of Antrim Castle, Ireland.
In 1676 he returned to London as the successor of Lazarus Seaman at Haberdashers" Hall. In 1685, on account of the greater severity shown to the dissenters, he accepted an invitation to accompany Lord Wharton to the Continent, and the year following settled at Utrecht. When James II issued his declaration for liberty of conscience in 1687 Howe returned to his old position in London.
From this time till his death he took an active interest in current discussions on predestination, the Trinity, and conformity.
In 1688 he headed a deputation of dissenting ministers in an address of welcome to William of Orange. He died in London.
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