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

And (as its afterwards expressed in this same context which we were considering before) to have our conversation (or Citizenship) in heaven, ¹whence we look for the Saviour, &c. That is, as our chief interests and privileges are above, to have our thoughts and the powers of our Souls chiefly exercised upon that blessed and glorious state, which state is the prize (mentioned above) of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ²It being the scope and import of his Call unto us, and the very design of his sufferings on the Cross, to draw up a people from earth to heaven; ⟨p. 91⟩whence therefore they that under this Call do still mind earthly things, ³are said to be enemies to the Cross of Christ; the great incongruity whereof the Apostle even resents with tears as he there testifies. And it was in this, that he was for his part so willing to comply with the design of the Cross, that he made no difficulty to endure all the hardship and dolour of it, that he might attain this glorious fruit and gain which he reckoned should accrue to him from it; even more of a raised heavenly mind, which signified it to be strongly bent that way already; when no mortifications were reckoned too severe to be undergone in order thereto. And here therefore this, soul-rectifying influence must be understood to have been proportionably strong.

And (as its afterwards expressed in this same context which we were considering before) to have our conversation (or Citizenship) in heaven, ¹whence we look for the Saviour, &c. That is, as our chief interests and priviledges are above, to have our thoughts and the powers of our Souls chiefly exercised upon that blessed and glorious state, which state is the prize (mentioned above) of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ²It being the scope and import of his Call unto us, and the very design of his sufferings on the Cross, to draw up a people from earth to heaven;