A treatise of delighting in God from Psal. xxxvij. 4. Delight thy self also…

1. Is attributed to the spirit. ¹And as a work to be done by it when it shall be given (supposing it therefore yet not given and that all have it not) yea that such have it not, in such a measure as they may have it, unto this purpose; who yet truly have it, in some measure already;² even as a thing peculiar to them from the unbelieving world. For it is prayed for to such as concerning whom it is said that after they believed (not before) they were sealed by the spirit of promise, ³that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory would give⁴ ⟨p. 23⟩it them; and it is mentioned by a name and title proper to the end and purpose for which it is desired to be given them, viz. as the spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, that end and purpose being immediately expressed in or (as that particle is some time used) [for] the knowledge of him. ⁵The eyes of their understanding being enlightened by it (which are supposed blind before) for the same purpose. By which prayer it is supposed a communicable thing; Yea and that these had some way a right to the communication of it, or that it was a thing proper to their state, fit to be prayed for, as some way belonging to them, they being in a more immediate capacity of such revelation than others.

1. Is attributed to the spirit. ¹And as a work to be done by it when it shall be given (supposing it therefore yet not given and that all have it not) yea that such have it not, in such a measure as they may have it, unto this purpose; who yet truly have it, in some measure already;² even as a thing peculiar to them from the unbelieving world. For it is prayed for to such as concerning whom it is said that after they believed (not before) they were sealed by the spirit of promise,