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

Do not dream and slumber in this business; but know your All depends on it. Consider the exigency of your case. Do you find your heart sluggish and indisposed to any such transaction with God and Christ? Doth it decline and draw back? Know, it herein doth but act its own nature, and do as it is, or like it self; Therefore stir up your self,¹ to take hold of his strength; in which way, if you have mind to be at peace, you shall make peace. Cry to him earnestly, Draw a ⟨p. 293⟩poor wretch out of darkness and death, that must otherwise be at eternal distance from thee, and be miserable for ever. Join me to him who will bring me to thee, and make me one for ever with thee. Hereupon,

Do not dream and slumber in this business; but know your All depends on it. Consider the exigency of your case. Do you find your heart sluggish and indispos'd to any such transaction with God and Christ? Doth it decline and draw back? Know, it herein doth but act its own nature, and do as it is, or like it self; Therefore stir up your self,¹ to take hold of his strength; in which way, if you have mind to be at peace, you shall make peace. Cry to him earnestly, Draw a ⟨p. 293⟩poor wretch out of darkness and death, that must otherwise be at eternal distance from thee, and be miserable for ever. Join me to him who will bring me to thee, and make me one for ever with thee. Hereupon,

1. 1Isa. 27.

6. Accepting Jesus Christ as thy Saviour and thy Lord; accept in him, with all humble reverence, thankfulness and admiration of divine mercy and goodness, the blessed God to be thy God; surrendering and yielding up thy self entirely and fully to be his for ever. Do this unfeignedly, and with great solemnity; And let it be to thee for an everlasting memorial! Record it as a memorable day, wherein thou didst go out of thy self, and all finite, narrow, limited good, and pass into union with the eternal, immense, incomprehensible and all-comprehending good, and enter upon it as thine own! And what, wilt thou delight in a God that is not thine? Canst thou be content to look wistly on him, as one unrelated and a stranger? Apprehend (and bless God that this is the state of the case), that in this way he offers himself most freely to thee. It were astonishing to think of purchasing so great a good! the matter were not to be offered at. But how transporting is it, that nothing but acceptance and resignation should be needful to make thee one with the great God, and make his fullness thine! Therefore make haste to do this, and be not hasty in doing it. Defer not, but do it with great seriousness, deliberation, and fullness of consent; considering