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

So far as things are otherwise than we (practically) apprehend, 'tis fit they should be with our selves or others whom we love; our Love is exercised in desire, wherein they are as we would have them, in delight; for then our desire is so far satisfied; and desire satisfied ceases, though love do not cease. Or, it ceases not by vanishing into nothing, but by being satisfied; that is, by being perfected in the Delight which now takes place.

So far as things are otherwise than we (practically) apprehend, 'tis fit they should be with our selves or others whom we love; our Love is exercised in desire, wherein they are as we would have them, in delight; for then our desire is so far satisfied; and desire satisfied ceases, though love do not cease. Or, it ceases not by vanishing into nothing, but by being satisfy'd; that is, by being perfected in the Delight which now takes place.

The one of these is therefore truly said to be Love exercised upon a good which we behold at a distance, and are reaching at. The other, ⟨p. 139⟩Love solacing it self in a present good. They are as the wings and arms of love; Those for pursuits, these for embraces. Or the former is love in motion; the latter is love in rest. And as in bodily motion and rest, that is in order to this, and is perfected in it; Things move not, that they may move, but that they may rest (whence perpetual progressive motion is not to be found); so it is also in the motion and rest of the mind or spirit; it moves towards any object with a design and expectation to rest in it, and (according to the course and order which God hath stated and set) can never move forward endlessly towards a good in which it shall not at length rest; though yet Desire and Delight have a continual vicissitude, and do (as it were circularly) beget one another.

The one of these is therefore truly said to be Love exercised upon a good which we behold at a distance, and are reaching at. The other,