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

This is a Good peculiar to them that are born of God. And suited to the apprehension and sense of that divine Creature which is so born.

This is a Good peculiar to them that are born of God. And suted to the apprehension and sense of that divine Creature which is so born.

What this Good is, how fully sufficient it is, and how or which way it is communicable, may be the better understood when we have considered what are the wants and cravings of this Creature, or of them in whom it is formed and wrought. For when we have pitched upon the very thing it self, which they most desire, (and which they can tell is it, when they hear it named, though their thoughts are not so well formed about it as to give it the right Name before) we shall then understand it to be both what will be sufficient to Satisfy, and what may be communicated to that purpose.

What this Good is, how fully sufficient it is, and how or which way it is communicable, may be the better understood when we have considered what are the wants and cravings of this Creature, or of them in whom it is formed and wrought. For when we have pitch'd upon the very thing it self, which they most desire, (and which they can tell is it, when they hear it named, though their thoughts are not so well formed about it as to give it the right Name before) we shall then understand it to be both what will be sufficient to Satisfie, and what may be communicated to that purpose.

But now before that new birth take place in the spirit of man, it wants but knows not what; craves indeterminately (who will show us any good?) not fixing upon any particular one that is sufficient and finite, and labouring at once, under an ignorance of the infinite; together with a disaffection thereunto. Its wants and cravings are beyond the measure, of all finite good; for suppose it to have never so large a share, nay could it grasp and engross the whole of it, an unsatisfiedness and desire of more would still remain. But that more is somewhat indeterminate, and merely imaginary. An infinite nothing. An idol of fancy. A God of its own making. God it must have, but what a one he is it misapprehends,