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

Nor are they able to prove from Scripture the immediateness of it; For as to what it doth to them in particular, Scripture says nothing, they not being so much as mentioned there: What it doth or hath done to this or that person there mentioned signifies nothing to their case; if any thing were said that must have that import (which will be hard to evince), and that it is any where in Scripture ⟨p. 110⟩signified to be its usual way, in common, towards them on whose hearts it impresses this persuasion, to do it immediately; is much less to be evinced. For what Scripture saith so? and that famous Text that speaks so directly to this matter; The Spirit of God beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God, seemeth rather to imply the contrary: In as much as the Spirit of God is there expressly said to co-witness with our spirit (as the word there used signifies) by which it should seem to take the same course in testifying which our spirit or conscience doth, that is, of considering the general characters of his children laid down in his Word, reflecting upon the same in our selves, and thereupon concluding we are his children: Which if it were supposed the only thing the Spirit of God ordinarily doth in this matter, we may with much confidence assert;

Nor are they able to prove from Scripture the immediateness of it; For as to what it doth to them in particular, Scripture says nothing, they not being so much as mentioned there: What it doth or hath done to this or that person there mentioned signifies nothing to their case; if any thing were said that must have that import (which will be hard to evince), and that it is any where in Scripture ⟨p. 110⟩signified to be its usual way, in common, towards them on whose hearts it impresses this perswasion, to do it immediately; is much less to be evinced. For what Scripture saith so? and that famous Text that speaks so directly to this matter; The Spirit of God beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God, seemeth rather to imply the contrary: In as much as the Spirit of God is there expresly said to co-witness with our spirit (as the word there used signifies) by which it should seem to take the same course in testifying which our spirit or conscience doth, that is, of considering the general characters of his children laid down in his Word, reflecting upon the same in our selves, and thereupon concluding we are his children: Which if it were suppos'd the only thing the Spirit of God ordinarily doth in this matter, we may with much confidence assert;