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

Or was it enough now and then, as it were casually and by chance, to hit upon the doing of what is so momentous a part of your Religion, and ought to be the business of your life? Ought it not to cut your heart to find your self convicted herein of a disobedient omission? And when the great God exacts that stated homage from you, A frequent, practical, explicit, recognition and owning of him as the supreme delight, the great solace, repose and rest of your Souls, that you have been so little awed with the apprehension of his authority and right in this case? When he hath mercifully chosen, to make that the matter of his command and claim, wherein your own advantage, satisfaction and content doth so entirely consist? That your practice is herein disagreeable to a Law, speaks it sinful; that it transgresses so great a Law, highly aggravates your sin: A Law so important, upon which so much depends, so express and plain, legible ⟨p. 259⟩in the very nature of things, and in reference whereto, the very excellency of the object would suffice to be a Law to you, and dictate your duty, if no command had been otherwise given in the case. Surely the neglect of such a Law cannot have been without great transgression.

Or was it enough now and then, as it were casually and by chance, to hit upon the doing of what is so momentous a part of your Religion, and ought to be the business of your life? Ought it not to cut your heart to find your self convicted herein of a disobedient omission? And when the great God exacts that stated homage from you, A frequent, practical, explicite, recognition and owning of him as the supream delight, the great solace, repose and rest of your Souls, that you have been so little aw'd with the apprehension of his authority and right in this case? When he hath mercifully chosen, to make that the matter of his command and claim, wherein your own advantage, satisfaction and content doth so entirely consist? That your practice is herein disagreeable to a Law, speaks it sinful; that it transgresses so great a Law, highly aggravates your sin: A Law so important, upon which so much depends, so express and plain, legible ⟨p. 259⟩in the very nature of things, and in reference whereto, the very excellency of the object would suffice to be a Law to you, and dictate your duty, if no command had been otherwise given in the case. Surely the neglect of such a Law cannot have been without great transgression.