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

When we find God at work with us, and graciously dealing with our spirits, to humble them, break and melt them under a sense of sin, incline and turn them towards himself, draw them to a closure with his Son the Redeemer, to a resignation and surrender of our selves to him, upon the terms of his Covenant and Law of Grace; Yea, and ⟨p. 150⟩when afterwards we find him framing our hearts to a course of holy walking and conversation; to the denial of ungodliness and worldly lusts; to a sober, righteous and godly life in this present world; to the exercises of Piety, Sobriety, Righteousness, Charity, Mercy, &c. And now this or the like heavenly Dictate occurs to us, Delight thy self in the Lord; what doth it import? what must we understand it to say or signify to us? Though this that hath been mentioned, and which we are now saying is not all that it signifies (as will be shown hereafter); yet thus much we must understand it doth signify and say to us:

When we find God at work with us, and graciously dealing with our spirits, to humble them, break and melt them under a sense of sin, incline and turn them towards himself, draw them to a closure with his Son the Redeemer, to a resignation and surrender of our selves to him, upon the terms of his Covenant and Law of Grace; Yea, and ⟨p. 150⟩when afterwards we find him framing our hearts to a course of holy walking and conversation; to the denyal of ungodliness and worldly lusts; to a sober, righteous and godly life in this present world; to the exercises of Piety, Sobriety, Righteousness, Charity, Mercy, &c. And now this or the like heavenly Dictate occurs to us, Delight thy self in the Lord; what doth it import? what must we understand it to say or signifie to us? Though this that hath been mentioned, and which we are now saying is not all that it signifies (as will be shown hereafter); yet thus much we must understand it doth signifie and say to us: