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

But yet further, Can you not frame a notion of Wisdom, Goodness, Justice, Holiness, Truth, Power, with other known Perfections, all concurring together in a Being purely Spiritual (not obvious to our sense), and that was Eternally and Originally of Himself, the Author and Original of all things, and who is therefore over all and in all, infinite and unchangeable in all the perfections before-mentioned? Surely such conceptions are not impossible to you? And this is He in whom you are to delight.

Lift up then your minds above your senses and all sensible things; use your understandings, whereby you are distinguished from brute creatures. Consider, this is he from whom you and all things sprang, and in whom your ⟨p. 319⟩life is. Do you perceive life, wisdom, power, love in other things; these must all have some or other fountain. Other things have not these of themselves, for they are not of themselves, therefore they must derive and partake them from him; and thence it is evident, they must be in him in their highest excellency. Of this, your understandings, duly exercised, will render you as sure, as if you saw that infinite glory, in which all these meet, with your eyes; and will assure you, 'tis so much more excellent and glorious, for that it cannot be seen with your eyes. You see the external acts and expressions of these things from such creatures as you are: But life, wisdom, power, love themselves are invisible things, which in themselves you cannot see; yet you are not the less certain that there are such things. And do you not find, that the certain evidence you have, that these things meet in this or that creature, do render it lovely and delightful in your eyes? especially, if you have, or apprehend you may have nearest interest in such a creature? The blessed God not only hath these things in himself, but is these very things himself; therefore must be invisible, as they are; And because he not only hath them, but is them, therefore they are in him perfectly unchangeably and eternally, as being his very Essence. Think then of a Being that is pure, original, substantial, life, wisdom, power, love; And how infinitely amiable and delectable should that ever blessed Being be unto you!