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

And to receive him as our Lord, (which is joined with that other capacity wherein we receive him,¹ viz. of a Jesus or Saviour; As ye have received Christ Jesus [the Lord], so &c.). This also, and the heart-subduing influence that disposes to it, is most highly delectable. When the Soul, that was so stoutly averse, ⟨p. 68⟩and that once said within it self, I will not have him to reign over me, is brought freely to yield; and with sincere loyal resolutions and affections devotes it self to him, consents to his government, submits its neck and shoulder to his yoke and burden; says to him with an ungainsaying heart, as its full sense, Now thou Lord of my life and hope, who hast so long striven with me, so oft and earnestly pressed me hereto, so variously dealt with me, to make me understand thy merciful design, and who seekest to rule with no other aim or intent, but that thou mayest save; and who hast founded thy dominion in thy blood, and didst die and revive and rise again that thou mightest be Lord of the living and the dead, and therefore my Lord; Accept now a self-resigning Soul; I make a free surrender of my self, I bow and submit to thy Sovereign Power, I fall at the footstool of thy Throne, Thou Prince of the Kings of the Earth, who hast loved sinners, and washed them from their sins in thy blood; Glory in thy conquest, Thou hast overcome, I will from henceforth be no longer mine own, but thine; I am ready to receive thy commands, to do thy will, to serve thy interests, to sacrifice my all to thy Name and Honour; my whole life and being are for ever thine.

And to receive him as our Lord, (which is joined with that other capacity wherein we receive him,¹ viz. of a Jesus or Saviour; As ye have received Christ Jesus [the Lord], so &c.). This also, and the heart-subduing influence that disposes to it, is most highly delectable. When the Soul, that was so stoutly averse, ⟨p. 68⟩and that once said within it self, I will not have him to reign over me, is brought freely to yeild; and with sincere loyal resolutions and affections devotes it self to him, consents to his government, submits its neck and shoulder to his yoke and burden; says to him with an ungainsaying heart, as its full sense, Now thou Lord of my life and hope, who hast so long striven with me, so oft and earnestly prest me hereto, so variously dealt with me, to make me understand thy merciful design, and who seekest to rule with no other aim or intent, but that thou may'st save; and who hast founded thy dominion in thy blood, and didst dy and revive and rise again that thou mightest be Lord of the living and the dead, and therefore my Lord; Accept now a self-refigning Soul; I make a free surrender of my self, I bow and submit to thy Sovereign Power, I fall at the footstool of thy Throne, Thou Prince of the Kings of the Earth, who hast loved sinners, and washt them from their sins in thy blood; Glory in thy conquest, Thou hast overcome, I will from henceforth be no longer mine own, but thine; I am ready to receive thy commands, to do thy will, to serve thy interests, to sacrifice my all to thy Name and Honour; my whole life and being are for ever thine.