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

But if thou wilt not observe how things go with thy Soul, despair that they will ever go well.

4. Be frequent and impartial in the actual exercise of gracious Principles; or in practising and doing as they direct: Your actual delight arises from and accompanies your holy actions themselves, and is to be perceived and tasted in them; not in the mere inclination to them which is not strong enough to go forth into act. And as these Principles are more frequently exercised, they grow more lively and vigorous, and will thence act more strongly and pleasantly; so that your delight in doing good, will grow with the Principles it proceeds from.

4. Be frequent and impartial in the actual exercise of gracious Principles; or in practising and doing as they direct: Your actual delight arises from and accompanies your holy actions themselves, and is to be perceived and tasted in them; not in the meer inclination to them which is not strong enough to go forth into act. And as these Principles are more frequently exercised, they grow more lively and vigorous, and will thence act more strongly and pleasantly; so that your delight in doing good, will grow with the Principles it proceeds from.

But then you must be impartial and even-handed herein, as well as frequent; and run the whole compass of that Duty which belongs to you as a Christian.¹ Exercise your self (as we find the direction is) unto godliness; and in such acts and parts of godliness chiefly and in the first place, as may be the exercise of the mind and spirit, in opposition to the bodily exercise (whether severities imposed upon, or performances that require the Ministry of that grosser part) to which this nobler kind of exercise is justly preferred. Turn the powers of your soul upon God; Act seasonably the several graces of the Spirit that terminate directly upon him. Let none grow out of use. At some times Repentance, at