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

You ought to consider then, As you take so little delight in God from that very bad ⟨p. 284⟩cause, that you have not entertained the right knowledge of him, when you had so great opportunity to get much of it, which makes your matter very ill; Do you not also find that by your withholding your selves from delighting in him, you have still less disposition to seek his more inward acquaintance? And doth not that make your matter much worse? If you already know somewhat of him, you yet know but in part; your object is infinite, and this knowledge so excellent, that you cannot fully attain to it, there is still more to be known.

You ought to consider then, As you take so little delight in God from that very bad ⟨p. 284⟩cause, that you have not entertained the right knowledg of him, when you had so great opportunity to get much of it, which makes your matter very ill; Do you not also find that by your withholding your selves from delighting in him, you have still less disposition to seek his more inward acquaintance? And doth not that make your matter much worse? If you already know somewhat of him, you yet know but in part; your object is infinite, and this knowledg so excellent, that you cannot fully attain to it, there is still more to be known.

Now therefore if you did delight much in God, ¹would you not be pressing hard after him? would you not be following on to know him? ²And then would his goings forth be prepared before you as the morning, and he would be still visiting you with fresh and increasing light; whereupon your pleasure would be renewed and increased by every fresh view, and consequently your progress would be from sight to sight, and from pleasure to pleasure; whereas now this wheel stands still, or you are going back into darkness and desolation. Have you not much the more to answer for upon this account?