Use 1. Let us therefore make this use of it. Labour to make him so to us; for as he is to us, so God by his spirit is our comforter, who being satisfied, giveth us his spirit. We must make God our God, and then he will be a God unto us. These be mutual, wheresoever they be, wheresoever God is God to any, they by the spirit obtained by Christ, have grace to make him so to themselves. What is it for us to make God a God to us? It is this, to set up God a throne in our hearts, and to give him a Sovereignty 1over all things in the world, that we may say in truth of heart, God is our joy, God is our comfort, God is our rock, God is all in all to us. When we give him supremacy of affection above all the world, we esteem nothing above him, we value him above ⟨p. 170⟩all esteem, his loving kindness is better then life it self; for else we do not make him a God to us, and then it is no comfort to hear all the comforts spoken of before. For all to whom he is a God in the Covenant of grace, and have hearts to make him so, the spirit raiseth up their affections to make him a God to themselves. Amor tuus, Deus tuus, as it is said of old, what we love most is our God. What we joy most in is our God, what we rely and trust in most, is our God, as it was said of the wedge of gold. And therefore if any thing hath our affections more then God, or equal with 2God, that we make our God. It is a quaere of the greatest concernment in the world, to put to our hearts. What do I make my God? as David putteth the quaere to himself: now Lord, what is my hope, is it not in thee? And so put this quaere to our selves. Lord what is my joy, what is my hope, what is my trust, what is my comfort, is it not in thee? If our hearts cannot make an answer to this in some sincerity, surely as yet we have not made God our God. ⟨p. 171⟩Time may be, that he may be so; but till by the spirit of God we be brought to see an emptiness, and vanity in the Creature, and a nothingness in all, in comparison of God, that we can say, whom have I in Heaven but thee? We have not comfort, because we do not make him ours by a spirit of mutuality. Where there is a Covenant of grace, there must be a mutual making of God our God, as he maketh himself to us.
Ʋse 1. Let us therefore make this use of it. Labour to make him so to us; for as he is to us, so God by his spirit is our comforter, who being satisfied, giveth us his spirit. We must make God our God, and then he will be a God unto us. These be mutual, wheresoever they be, wheresoever God is God to any, they by the spirit obtained by Christ, have grace to make him so to themselves. What is it for us to make God a God to us? It is this, to set up God a throne in our hearts, and to give him a Soveraignty 1over all things in the world, that we may say in truth of heart, God is our joy, God is our comfort, God is our rock, God is all in all to us. When we give him supremacy of affection above all the world, we esteem nothing above him, we value him above ⟨p. 170⟩all esteem, his loving kindness is better then life it self; for else we do not make him a God to us, and then it is no comfort to hear all the comforts spoken of before. For all to whom he is a God in the Covenant of grace, and have hearts to make him so, the spirit raiseth up their affections to make him a God to themselves. Amor tuus, Deus tuus, as it is said of old, what we love most is our God. What we joy most in is our God, what we relie and trust in most, is our God, as it was said of the wedge of gold. And therefore if any thing hath our affections more then God, or equal with 2God, that we make our God. It is a quaere of the greatest concernment in the world, to put to our hearts. What do I make my God? as David putteth the quaere to himself: now Lord, what is my hope, is it not in thee? And so put this quaere to our selves. Lord what is my joy, what is my hope, what is my trust, what is my comfort, is it not in thee? If our hearts cannot make an answer to this in some sincerity, surely as yet we have not made God our God. ⟨p. 171⟩Time may be, that he may be so; but till by the spirit of God we be brought to see an emptiness, and vanity in the Creature, and a nothingnesse in all, in comparison of God, that we can say, whom have I in Heaven but thee? We have not comfort, because we do not make him ours by a spirit of mutuallity. Where there is a Covenant of grace, there must be a mutual making of God our God, as he maketh himself to us.
- 1God our joy, our comfort, our Rock, our all.
- 2Examine our hearts what we make our God.
