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Fifthly, it is good being with Gods servants, though ¹it be in suffering affliction, because God takes so much delight in them; if God takes delight in being with them, certainly there is great cause we should take delight in them: there are admirable expressions of Gods taking delight in them, Zeph. 3. 17. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save thee, he will rejoice over thee with joy, he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing: One word is heaped upon another, to set out the abundance of delight that God takes in his people: Hence the Church hath that name given her, Hephzibah, because God delighteth in her, Isaiah 62. 4. And in Deut. 33. 3. it is said, He loved his people, there is a general love: All his Saints are in his hand, and they sate down at his feet, that is more particular: and in Cant. 4. 9. Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my Spouse, &c. One would think by the reading of the words, they were rather the speech of the Spouse to Christ; but it is the speech of Christ to his Spouse: And so again in Cantic. 5. 2. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: these are the expressions of the delight that God hath in his people; The Lord loves the gates of Zion, more then all the ⟨p. 154⟩ling places of Jacob, that is, God delights in the public communion of his people, more then in all their private dwellings: If we be of Gods mind, and have Gods Spirit, our hearts must be where God is, Gods bowels yearn towards them, I am afflicted with thee in all thy afflictions, and how shall I give thee up?

Fifthly, it is good being with Gods servants, though ¹it be in suffering affliction, because God takes so much delight in them; if God takes delight in being with them, certainly there is great cause we should take delight in them: there are admirable expressions of Gods taking delight in them,