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

Besides what may further follow hereupon, The languishment and decays of your inward man; The difficulty you find to trust in God, when you are reduced to straits, (as who would commit his concernments to one he doth not love?); Your impatience of adverse and cross emergencies, that may often befall to you; Your aptness to vexation or despondency; The easy victory a temptation hath over you, as surely he is sooner drawn away from God, or into sin against him, who delights not in him); Your less-usefulness in your place and station; Your want of courage, resolution, zeal for God, (which are best maintained by delight and the relishes of a sweet complacency taken in him); Your sluggishness in a course of well-doing; The sense of a toilsome heavy labour in Religion, that it begets you weariness without rest, (whence you rather affect a rest from it, than in it and by it); and lastly, Your continual bondage by the fear of death, (which one would not ⟨p. 286⟩dread, apprehending it only a removal into his presence in whom I delight). All these things (which might have been distinctly insisted on, and more expressly accommodated to the present purpose, but that I would not be over-tedious, and that somewhere else some or other of them may fall again in our way) do bring in great and weighty additions to the evil and guiltiness of this sin, and much tend to lay load upon it, to fill up its measure, even unto pressing down and running over. For how just is it, to impute to it what it naturally causes, and lay its own impure and viperous births at its own door?

Besides what may further follow hereupon, The languishment and decays of your inward man; The difficulty you find to trust in God, when you are reduc'd to straits, (as who would commit his concernments to one he doth not love?); Your impatience of adverse and cross emergencies, that may often befal to you; Your aptness to vexation or despondency; The easie victory a temptation hath over you, as surely he is sooner drawn away from God, or into sin against him, who delights not in him); Your less-usefulness in your place and station; Your want of courage, resolution, zeal for God, (which are best maintained by delight and the relishes of a sweet complacency taken in him); Your sluggishness in a course of well-doing; The sense of a toilsom heavy labour in Religion, that it begets you weariness without rest, (whence you rather affect a rest from it, than in it and by it); and lastly, Your continual bondage by the fear of death, (which one would not