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

Frame the supposition, that you are meant, that the invitation is directed to you, O Come let us sing unto the Lord, let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with Psalms; for the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods, &c. And think with your selves, Is he not as great as he was? Is he not as much our Maker as he was theirs? Is it not now as true, that the Lord reigneth, and is high above all the earth, and exalted far above all gods? Now since these were the considerations upon which so great complacency was taken in him, set the same before your own eyes. And since these were proposed as the matter of so common a joy, and the Creation seems designed for a musical instrument of as many strings as there are Creatures in Heaven and Earth; Awake, and make haste to get your heart fixed: Lest the heavens rejoice, and the earth be glad, the world and all that dwell therein: Lest the sea roar, and the fullness thereof, the floods clap their hands, the fields and the hills be joyful together, and all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, while you only are silent and unconcerned.

Frame the supposition, that you are meant, that the invitation is directed to you, O Come let us sing unto the Lord, let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with Psalms; for the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods, &c. And think with your selves, Is he not as great as he was? Is he not as much our Maker as he was theirs? Is it not now as true, that the Lord reigneth, and is high above all the earth, and exalted far above all gods? Now since these were the considerations upon which so great complacency was taken in him, set the same before your own eyes. And since these were proposed as the matter of so common a joy, and the Creation seems design'd for a musical instrument of as many strings as there are Creatures in Heaven and Earth; Awake, and make haste to get your heart fixed: Lest the heavens rejoice, and the earth be glad, the world and all that dwell therein: Lest the sea roar, and the fulness thereof, the floods clap their hands, the fields and the hills be joyful together, and all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, while you only are silent and unconcern'd.