One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

First, Objectively, as he is the Object of our blessedness; it is our blessedness to enjoy God, Psal. 144. 15. Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord. That is our blessedness to have God for our portion. As soon as we are admitted into Covenant with God, we have a right to him, I am thy God; and we have the full consummation of it when we enter into heaven; there we have the highest enjoyment of God that we are capable of. We have many fruitless and unquiet cares to enjoy the creatures, which are neither blessed in themselves, nor can make us blessed. But now God is our summum bonum, our chief good. The enjoyment of him is the chiefest good. Still we are capable of a higher happiness, until we enjoy God. In other things we can neither have satisfaction, nor security; the creature cannot satisfy, nor yet secure us in the enjoyment of it self. In this sense the argument will hold good, Blessed art thou, O Lord; that is, Thou art the object of my blessedness, my blessedness lieth in the enjoyment of thee; therefore teach me thy statutes. If God be our chiefest good, and our utmost end, it concerns us nearly to learn out the way how we may enjoy him. John 17. 3. This is life eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. It concerns believers to study that wherein their eternal happiness consisteth, and what is the way to get it; Thou art blessed, and therefore teach me thy statutes.

First, Objectively, as he is the Object of our blessedness; it is our blessedness to enjoy God, Psal. 144. 15. Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord. That is our blessedness to have God for our portion. As soon as we are admitted into Covenant with God, we have a right to him, I am thy God; and we have the full consummation of it when we enter into heaven; there we have the highest enjoyment of God that we are capable of. We have many fruitless and unquiet cares to enjoy the creatures, which are neither blessed in themselves, nor can make us blessed. But now God is our summum bonum, our chief good. The enjoyment of him is the chiefest good. Still we are capable of a higher happiness, until we enjoy God. In other things we can neither have satisfaction, nor security; the creature cannot satisfie, nor yet secure us in the enjoyment of it self. In this sense the argument will hold good, Blessed art thou, O Lord; that is, Thou art the object of my blessedness, my blessedness lyeth in the enjoyment of thee; therefore teach me thy statutes. If God be our chiefest good, and our utmost end, it concerns us nearly to learn out the way how we may enjoy him.