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

Hence the composure of it is such as might be most agreeable to these suppositions, and serviceable to the fortifying of the Righteous against the sin and trouble which such a state of things might prove the occasion of unto them.

This Verse hath a more direct aspect on the last of these cases, or on this last mentioned thing considerable in the case, of Upright men suffering under the oppression of violent and prosperous wickedness, viz. That they might hereupon be apt both to covet and envy the worldly delights of their enemies; To be desirous of their dainties, and grudge they should be theirs, who, they knew, deserved worse things: And while themselves also felt the pressure of worse, which at their hands they deserved not.

This Verse hath a more direct aspect on the last of these cases, or on this last mentioned thing considerable in the case, of Upright men suffering under the oppression of violent and prosperous wickedness, viz. That they might hereupon be apt both to covet and envy the worldly delights of their enemies; To be desirous of their dainties, and grudg they should be theirs, who, they knew, deserved worse things: And while themselves also felt the pressure of worse, which at their hands they deserved not.

What is here offered to the consideration of the sufferers, tends aptly to allay their discontent, to check and repress their inordinate desire towards inferior things; or to divert and turn it another way; as in case of bleeding to excess and danger, the way is to open a Vein, and stop the course of that profusion by altering it.