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

4. It is a most reproachful contemptuous wickedness! To him, I mean, whom it most directly offends against! Carries it not in it most horrid contumely and indignity to the most high God? It is a practical denial of all those ⟨p. 252⟩excellencies in him, that render and recommend him the most worthy object of our delight; it is more than saying, He is not good, holy, wise, just and true. Things may on the sudden be said that are not deliberately thought, and may be retracted the next breath; but a mans stated, constant course and way signifies the apprehension it proceeds from to be fixed, and that it is the settled habitual sense of his Soul.

4. It is a most reproachful contemptuous wickedness! To him, I mean, whom it most directly offends against! Carries it not in it most horrid contumely and indignity to the most high God? It is a practical denial of all those ⟨p. 252⟩excellencies in him, that render and recommend him the most worthy object of our delight; it is more than saying, He is not good, holy, wise, just and true. Things may on the sudden be said that are not deliberately thought, and may be retracted the next breath; but a mans stated, constant course and way signifies the apprehension it proceeds from to be fixed, and that it is the setled habitual sense of his Soul.

Yea, and since, as hath been said, Thou delightest in other things whilst thou delightest not in him; It plainly imports it to be the constant sense of thy very heart, that those things are better than He. What is it then that hath thy delight and love? Whereon is thy heart set? Commune with thy self. Dost thou not tremble, when thou findest this to be thy very case, that thou mayest truly say, I can delight in creatures, but not in God; can take pleasure in my friend, but none in him; I must confess it to be the temper of my heart, that I love my Father, Mother, Son or Daughter more than Christ: Is it not then to be concluded from his own express word,