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

142 Here distinguish Humane delight into merely natural, in mans corrupt state; & Holy, the subject of the present Discourse, as suited to God the blessed Object. This Holy delight is twofold, according to the consideration of the object in the communication of light 144 & operative influence. So Delight is either mental, understood. or real, felt. And the Delight taken in God, is either more Open and explicit, more directly. Latent, implicit and unobserved, rather collaterally. 145 The former is contemplative, as of the Sight; the latter spiritually sensitive, as of the Taste; that of spiritual reason, this of spiritual sense. 146 1. Of the latter, Delight from spiritual sensation, being a relish of sweetness in the holy quickening communications of God to it, more principally in his spiritually infant state 148 So under Delighting in God thus taken, Christians are called ⟨image 9⟩to the keeping of their Souls open to Divine influences and communications, thirsting after them, praying and waiting for them, and endeavouring to improve them. 149 Delighting in this notion imports then two things, 1. Applying our selves, by help of God communicating influences, to these things wherein the matter of delight lies. 151 2. Reflecting upon the things themselves that are so delightful. Obj. But so we shall bring our whole Religion within the compass of this one thing? Ans. 1. It can only be said there is a delight adhering thereto. 152 2. All the things of Religion are truly delectable. 153 3. What fault, that delight runs through Religion? 154 4. What absurdity the several acts of Religion should be comprehended under Delight in God? 2. Explicit Delight in God may be considered, as to its 1. Nature, which is the rest of the Soul in God, by a satisfiedness of will in him, as the best and most excellent Good. 155 Which supposeth, 1. A knowledge of him. 156 2. Actual thoughts of him. 157 3. A pleasedness with the first view of him. 4. A desire of what is due to him, or wanted from him. 5. Satisfaction and repose it self, so far as desire is satisfied, work as our love to him, either for himself, or our selves. 158 6. A stirring up of our selves to heighten our delight. 159 2. Modification, manner or measure of this delight in God, in respect of the Excellency, highest delight simply and comparatively, 160 Permanency, suitable to the object. 162 2. How 'tis we are called to it.

142 Here distinguish Humane delight into meerly natural, in mans corrupt state; & Holy, the subject of the present Discourse, as suted to God the blessed Object. This Holy delight is twofold, according to the consideration of the object in the communication of light 144 & operative influence. So Delight is either mental, understood. or real, felt. And the Delight taken in God, is either more Open and explicite, more directly. Latent, implicite and unobserved, rather collaterally. 145 The former is contemplative, as of the Sight; the latter spiritually sensitive, as of the Taste; that of spiritual reason, this of spiritual sense. 146 1. Of the latter, Delight from spiritual sensation, being a relish of sweetness in the holy quickening communications of God to it, more principally in his spiritually infant state 148 So under Delighting in God thus taken, Christians are called