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Eighthly, the ways of God are full of pleasantness, ¹because they are such as are delightful to God: Now they must be pleasant, when they are such as God takes delight in, they are such as the Church knows Christ takes much delight in. What admirable expressions hath that Book of the Canticles, of Gods delight in the graces of his people, and in the ways of godliness? Now there is no man loves a friend, but accounts every good thing that his friend loves, to be a double good: Now that which God himself accounts pleasantness, and is his delight, must needs be the delight and pleasure of a gracious heart, because there is so much nearness between God and a gracious heart.

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Ninthly, Yet further, there is abundance of pleasantness ¹in the ways of God, in regard of the many encouraging delights that God hath provided for his people while they do live here, and walk with him in these ways, to make their lives to be sweet unto them; God provides his Paradise here for them, to encourage them, they walk in the garden of God; God hath his Eden, his garden, The Covenant of Grace, and the glorious things prepared, are as the Eden and Paradise of God, in which the souls of ⟨p. 179⟩his people walk, wherein they have delightful hills and dales. In the Scripture there are the high mysteries of godliness, and the plain and easy truths of Religion, as valleys and hills to delight them in their way. They have the sweet springs and rivers of Ordinances, that are appointed as sweet streams to refresh them; and the blessed promises, delightful trees to behold, The tree of life, Christ himself, and a feast of fat things in the Ordinances, wine upon the lees, making melody in their hearts, they go no further for that, and therefore sure their ways are ways of pleasantness, there being so many encouraging delightful things that God hath provided for them in their way.