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

1. How tumultuous and disorderly a thing this your disaffection is? You are here to consider its direct tendency, its natural aptitude or what it doth of it self, and in its own nature lead and tend to. If you may withdraw your delight and love from God, then so may all other men as well: Therefore now view the thing it self in the common nature of it; And so, Is not aversion to delight in God a manifest contrariety to the order of things? A turning all upside down? A shattering and breaking asunder the bond between rational appetite and the First Good? A disjointing and unhinging of the best and noblest part of Gods Creation from its station and rest, its proper basis and centre? How fearful a rupture doth it make! ⟨p. 249⟩How violent and destructive a dislocation! If you could break in pieces the orderly contexture of the whole universe within it self, reduce the frame of nature to utmost confusion, rout all the ranks and orders of creatures, tear asunder the Heavens, and dissolve the compacted body of the earth, mingle Heaven and Earth together, and resolve the World into a mere heap; you had not done so great a spoil, as in breaking the primary and supreme tie and bond between the Creature and his Maker; Yea, between the Creator of all things and his more noble and excellent Creature. All the relations, aptitudes and inclinations of the Creatures to one another, are but inferior and subordinate to those between the Creatures and their common Author and Lord: And here the corruption of the best cannot but be worst of all. Again,

1. How tumultuous and disorderly a thing this your disaffection is? You are here to consider its direct tendency, its natural aptitude or what it doth of it self, and in its own nature lead and tend to. If you may withdraw your delight and love from God, then so may all other men as well: Therefore now view the thing it self in the common nature of it; And so, Is not aversion to delight in God a manifest contrariety to the order of things? A turning all upside down? A shattering and breaking asunder the bond between rational appetite and the First Good? A disjointing and unhinging of the best and noblest part of Gods Creation from its station and rest, its proper basis and center? How fearful a rupture doth it make! ⟨p. 249⟩How violent and destructive a dislocation! If you could break in pieces the orderly contexture of the whole universe within it self, reduce the frame of nature to utmost confusion, rout all the ranks and orders of creatures, tear asunder the Heavens, and dissolve the compacted body of the earth, mingle Heaven and Earth together, and resolve the World into a meer heap; you had not done so great a spoil, as in breaking the primary and supream tie and bond between the Creature and his Maker; Yea, between the Creator of all things and his more noble and excellent Creature. All the relations, aptitudes and inclinations of the Creatures to one another, are but inferior and subordinate to those between the Creatures and their common Author and Lord: And here the corruption of the best cannot but be worst of all. Again,