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

You must be partaker of a Divine nature, and have the heart-rectifying communication before discoursed of, and become Gods own workmanship (a second time) created in Christ Jesus unto good works. ¹'Tis not to be hoped, it can be delightful to act against inclination; or that a forced imitation of that good whereof you want the implanted vital principle, can be any more pleasing to you than it is to God, whom you cannot mock or impose upon by your most elaborate or specious disguises. And therefore, since that holy heart-rectitude must be had, it must be sought earnestly and without rest. Often ⟨p. 205⟩ought Heaven to be visited with such sighs and longings sent up thither, O that my ways were directed to keep thy righteous judgments. ²Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed. And it should be sought with expectation of good-speed and without despair, remembering we are told, If we ask, we shall receive; if we seek, we shall find; if we knock, it shall be opened unto us; yea, that our heavenly Father will much more readily give his Holy Spirit to them that ask, than you would bread to your Child that calls for it, rather than a stone.

You must be partaker of a Divine nature, and have the heart-rectifying communication before discoursed of, and become Gods own workmanship (a second time) created in Christ Jesus unto good works. ¹'Tis not to be hoped, it can be delightful to act against inclination; or that a forced imitation of that good whereof you want the implanted vital principle, can be any more pleasing to you than it is to God, whom you cannot mock or impose upon by your most elaborate or specious disguises. And therefore, since that holy heart-rectitude must be had, it must be sought earnestly and without rest. Often ⟨p. 205⟩ought Heaven to be visited with such sighs and longings sent up thither, O that my ways were directed to keep thy righteous judgments. ²