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

2. To the other Head we proposed, The positive judgment we are to make, What Religion is fit to be chosen, and wherein we may safely acquiesce; whereof we shall only give the account which the subject we have in hand allows to be here given, i. e. That it be such as is in it self rationally and justly delectable. And though Religion is not to be chosen only, or chiefly, for the delightfulness of it; yet since, as we have seen, only that Religion is true which is delightful; that only which is delightful is fit to be chosen. So that this is a certain character (though not the chief cause) of the eligibleness of Religion. And when it is so expressly enjoined us as a duty, To delight our selves in the Lord; If, as hath been shown, this be within the meaning of the Precept, That, in the general, we delight our selves in a way and course of Religion; It is plain, such Religion only can be meant or intended, as can afford us matter of delight, or as is in it self truly and really delectable.

2. To the other Head we proposed, The positive judgment we are to make, What Religion is fit to be chosen, and wherein we may safely acquiesce; whereof we shall only give the account which the subject we have in hand allows to be here given, i. e. That it be such as is in it self rationally and justly delectable. And though Religion is not to be chosen only, or chiefly, for the delightfulness of it; yet since, as we have seen, only that Religion is true which is delightful; that only which is delightful is fit to be chosen. So that this is a certain character (though not the chief cause) of the eligibleness of Religion. And when it is so expresly enjoyn'd us as a duty, To delight our selves in the Lord; If, as hath been shew'n, this be within the meaning of the Precept, That, in the general, we delight our selves in a way and course of Religion; It is plain, such Religion only can be meant or intended, as can afford us matter of delight, or as is in it self truly and really delectable.

And here we shall not need to repeat what hath been so largely discoursed in the former part, tending to show the rich matter of delight which the several exercises of true living Religion, and all the actions influenced and directed by it, do carry in them. It will only be requisite, to offer somewhat partly to direct, partly to excite unto that del pleasant life.