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

You may further say, God is out of your sight, and therefore how can it be expected you should find a sensible delight in him?

But is he out of the sight of your minds? If he be, what would you infer, That then you cannot delight in him at all, and therefore that you do not; the thing that you are charged with all this while. But he is out of sight by the high excellency of his Being; for which reason he should be delighted in the more, i.e. with a deeper delight, though not ⟨p. 245⟩like that you take in the things of sense: And he hath been so beyond all things, notwithstanding his abode in that light which is inaccessible. This therefore is confession without excuse; and would never be offered as an excuse by any, but those that are lost in flesh and sense, have forgot they have reasonable Souls, and had rather be numbered with Brutes than Men; As if there were not many things you have not seen with the eyes of flesh, more excellent than those you have! Or as if you had no other faculty than eyes of flesh to see with! Which since you have, and the depravation thereof is vicious and sinful, as your not-delighting in God (the matter of fact) seems to be yielded, and so you quit your first Post; It will thence appear, that it cannot but be sinful too. And since at that you seem to make a stand (as at your next Post), either thinking to deny or extenuate the evil of it, our Expostulation must follow you thither, and be aimed,

But is he out of the sight of your minds? If he be, what would you infer, That then you cannot delight in him at all, and therefore that you do not; the thing that you are charg'd with all this while. But he is out of sight by the high excellency of his Being; for which reason he should be delighted in the more, i.e. with a deeper delight, though not ⟨p. 245⟩like that you take in the things of sense: And he hath been so beyond all things, notwithstanding his abode in that light which is inaccessible. This therefore is confession without excuse; and would never be offered as an excuse by any, but those that are lost in flesh and sense, have forgot they have reasonable Souls, and had rather be numbred with Brutes than Men; As if there were not many things you have not seen with the eyes of flesh, more excellent than those you have! Or as if you had no other faculty than eyes of flesh to see with! Which since you have, and the depravation thereof is vicious and sinful, as your not-delighting in God (the matter of fact) seems to be yeilded, and so you quit your first Post; It will thence appear, that it cannot but be sinful too. And since at that you seem to make a stand (as at your next Post), either thinking to deny or extenuate the evil of it, our Expostulation must follow you thither, and be aimed,