2. For delight, it is a spiritual disposition, to go about the duty as duty, ut bonum honestum, and not upon this formal account, because it delighteth us; Except the delight be in the Law of the Lord, night and day, as it glorifieth him. 2. It's spiritualness, when abstractedly from private consolation we go about the duty for God,1 and can rest upon suffering and burning quick as it is duty, though the sufferer should be deserted all the while; We often feed our selves with the bonum secundum, the pleasantnesse in the duty, which is our sin, except the sweetness of the holiness of the duty be our delight, and the beauty of pleasing God allure us, but feeling being away, we find how hard it is, to delight our selves in the Lord. 3. We do duties too often, for the success, not for the duty: We pray, the Lord hears not, we weary: ⟨p. 145⟩we rebuke men, they care not, and we weary▪ Success and not duty, self-delight and not the honouring of God,2 which should be all our delight, take us up. I pray and weep for my enemies (Ah! if it could be done) saith David, they are worse, Psal. 35.13▪ but my prayer returned to my bosom, that is, the sweet▪ peace of God, which is the fruit of the duty of praying came to my soul, and cheered me. We consider not that the promise of peace, and consolation is made to the duty it self, Psal. 119.165. Psal. 19.11. Prov. 3.21, 22, 23, 24, 25. not to success of the duty, and we consider not that we are to be quieted in the duty, and to be armed with patience, against the temptation of the duty. Often it enrages Pharisees against CHRIST and the Apostles, yet the Spirit bids them Preach. Therefore whether success in praying, and the sugar of delight in duties hire us, or not; We are to know that though Abraham's offering of Isaac to God had neither in it the one nor the other, nor our Saviours offering himself to God, for the sins of the world; If reason weigh the one and the other, yet because both were performed upon the motive of the love of God commanding, both was most spiritual obedience,3 especially, because the duty is both work and wage, and the more of the Word of God is in the obedience; I mean not the letter only, but the word including the love. 2. The authority of the Commander. 3. The beauty apprehended to be, and▪ the peace in obedience; the more spiritual is the obedience:
2. For delight, it is a spirituall disposition, to go about the duty as duty, ut bonum honestum, and not upon this formall account, because it delighteth us; Except the delight be in the Law of the Lord, night and day, as it glorifieth him. 2. It's spiritualnesse, when abstractedly from private consolation we go about the duty for God,1 and can rest upon suffering and burning quick as it is duty, though the sufferer should be deserted all the while; We often feed our selves with the bonum secundum, the pleasantnesse in the duty, which is our sin, except the sweetnesse of the holinesse of the duty be our delight, and the beauty of pleasing God allure us, but feeling being away, we find how hard it is, to delight our selves in the Lord. 3. We do duties too often, for the successe, not for the duty: We pray, the Lord hears not, we wearie: ⟨p. 145⟩we rebuke men, they care not, and we wearie▪ Sucesse and not duty, self-delight and not the honouring of God,2 which should be all our delight, take us up. I pray and weep for my enemies (Ah! if it could be done) saith David, they are worse, Psal. 35.13▪ but my prayer returned to my bosome, that is, the sweet▪ peace of God, which is the fruit of the duty of praying came to my soul, and cheered me. We consider not that the promise of peace, and consolation is made to the duty it self, Psal. 119.165. Psal. 19.11. Prov. 3.21, 22, 23, 24, 25. not to successe of the duty, and wee consider not that we are to be quieted in the duty, and to be armed with patience, against the temptation of the duty. Often it inrages Pharisees against CHRIST and the Apostles, yet the Spirit bids them Preach. Therefore whether successe in praying, and the suggar of delight in duties hire us, or not; We are to know that though Abrahams offering of Isaac to God had neither in it the one nor the other, nor our Saviours offering himself to God, for the sinnes of the world; If reason weigh the one and the other, yet because both were performed upon the motive of the love of God commanding, both was most spirituall obedience,