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

Think not so meanly of your self; impose not on your self that needless unwarrantable modesty, as to account you are of a lower rank than all that ever became intimately acquainted with the hidden delights of a godly life; At least you are as capable of being thought worthy as any, for his sake upon whose account all must be accepted: Therefore think with your selves, Why should I not labour to attain as far in the matter of Religion, as this or that Neighbour of mine? What should hinder? Who restrains or forbids me?

But you cannot, if you consider, but have somewhat more to assure you of the delightfulness of it, than the mere report of others; For your own Reason and Conscience cannot but so pronounce, if you go to the particulars that have been instanced in. If you acknowledge a God, and consider your self as a reasonable Creature made by him, and depending on him; you cannot but see, it is congruous and fit your spirit should be so framed and affected towards Him, towards your fellow-creatures of your own order, and all things else that do and shall circumstantiate your present and future state, as hath been in some measure (though very defectively) ⟨p. 233⟩represented; And that it must needs be very pleasant, if it were so. You can frame in your mind an Idea of a life transacted according to such rectified inclinations; And when you have done so, do but solemnly appeal to your own judgment, whether that were not a very delectable life? And thereupon bethink your self, what your case is, if you cannot actually relish a pleasure in what your own judgment tells you is so highly pleasurable. Methinks you should reflect thus, What a monstrous creature am I, that confess that delightful wherein yet I can take no delight! How perverse a nature have I! Surely things are much out of order with me; I am not what I should be! And one would think, it should be uneasy to you to be as you are; and that your spirit should be restless till you find your temper rectified, and that you are in this respect become what you should be.