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

Therefore, if ever you would know what a life of spiritual delight means, you must constantly strive against all your spiritual distempers that obstruct it [in the power of the Holy Ghost].

And do not think that is enjoining you a course wholly out of your power; for though it be true, that the power of the Holy Ghost is not naturally yours, or at your dispose; yet by gracious vouchsafement and ordination it is: If it were not so,¹ what means that exhortation, Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; ²and that, If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit; with the foregoing prescription of Walking in the Spirit, ³that we might not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. Doth the Holy Ghost himself prescribe to us impertinently, in order to our obtaining of his own imparted influences? Doth not He know the method and way wherein they are to be conveyed? Or would he deceive us by misrepresenting it? In short, Walking in the Spirit must signify something; and what can it signify less than dependence on its power, and subjection thereto, with the continuance of both these? These therefore are necessary to the making of that power our own:

And do not think that is enjoining you a course wholly out of your power; for though it be true, that the power of the Holy Ghost is not naturally yours, or at your dispose; yet by gracious vouchsafement and ordination it is: If it were not so,¹ what means that exhortation, Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; ²and that, If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit; with the foregoing prescription of Walking in the Spirit,