One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, &c. Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord, &c. And Cant. 2. 3. I sate down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. There is sweetness God bestoweth, or sensible consolation, which ⟨p. 85⟩must be distinguished from that delight which is a fruit of our gracious esteem. I can exclude neither; though that delight which is the fruit of our esteem of the word, is principally here intended: the one is more durable than the other. A gracious affection to the word and ways of God, should ever remain with us; but we are not always feasted with spiritual suavities; now and then we have them, and when they have done their work they return to God. As in the Vision made to Peter, the sheet that was showed him was received up again into heaven, Acts 10. 16. when Peter was informed of Gods will; so this comfort returneth to the giver, when it hath done its work, refreshed our hearts, and engaged us to wait upon God.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, &c. Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord, &c. And Cant. 2. 3. I sate down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. There is sweetness God bestoweth, or sensible consolation, which ⟨p. 85⟩must be distinguished from that delight which is a fruit of our gracious esteem. I can exclude neither; though that delight which is the fruit of our esteem of the word, is principally here intended: the one is more durable than the other. A gracious affection to the word and ways of God, should ever remain with us; but we are not always feasted with spiritual suavities; now and then we have them, and when they have done their work they return to God. As in the Vision made to Peter, the sheet that was shewed him was received up again into heaven,