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

2. As the most excellent Portion, in whom all things that may render him such do concur and meet together; all desirable and imaginable riches and fullness, together with large bounty, flowing goodness every way correspondent to the wants and cravings of indigent and thirsty Souls.

2. As the most excellent Portion, in whom all things that may render him such do concur and meet together; all desirable and imaginable riches and fulness, together with large bounty, flowing goodness every way correspondent to the wants and cravings of indigent and thirsty Souls.

The former notion of him intimates to us our obligation of duty to him: The latter prompts to an expectation of benefit from him.

But now because by the apostasy we have ⟨p. 7⟩injured his right in us, as our Lord; forfeited our own right in him, as our portion; and lost our immediate capacity or disposition both to serve and enjoy him: This great breach between him and us was not otherwise to be made up but by a Mediator. Unto which office and undertaking, his own Son, incarnate, the Word made Flesh (being only fit) was designed. By him, dealing between both the distanced Parties, satisfying the Justice of God, overcoming the enmity of man, the difference (so far as the efficacy of his Mediation doth extend) is composed. And to the reconciled, God becomes again their acknowledged both Lord and Portion. His right is vindicated, theirs is restored; and both are established upon new grounds, added to those upon which they stood before. And so, as that now our actings towards God, and expectations from him, must be through the Mediator.