Cha5 . Z. df Exp f r"n ase rhe B=,,,=. of ; OB. Verf. 26. 257 (Ifa. s t 8,) Color let xe rea/on together, &c. As if he had laid, d am now ready todbare the matter with you that repent, and how great loever your boneshave been,they (hall be blottedour. Wr.ereas before the Lord tells them that he was weary ofthem, and that they were a burthen to him in all their fervices ; Now when we are a burthen ro God, God is never plealant to us ; if the Lord fay he is weary ofus,we cannot fay we delight our felves in him. O,.r delight and pleafure inGod is the fruit ofhis delight in and wen pieatèdne(fe with us. Thin dly,Elip az propoleththis delight in the Lord,as the molt winningprosnife. Hence note ; Delight in the Lord id the bightff and choicefi mercy. There isnothing better,nothing tweeter then to delight in the Lord ; delight in the Lord hath all true delights in it. `David (peaks this out fully in that place lately quoted to another occa. fon (Pfal. 37. 4. )Delight thyfelfe in the Lord,and he £hallgive thee the deftres ofthy heart that is thou fhalr have all thy deli res fullfilled in this thing ; delight in the Lord will be the fulfilling of all thy defires; not only (hall they who delight themlelves in the Lord; have all their delires filled up,but their very delight in the Lord is the fulfillingofall their delires. What is the glory of heaven, bui delighting in the Lord ? And he who delights in the Lord, feeles nor the want or abfence ofany earthly G.iod. In thy pretence isfulneffeofj y, and at thy right hand are pleafores for evermore (Pfal. i6. s 1.) Heavenly glory is nothing hut delight in God, and all earthy good is nothing without delight in God. Wemay affirme foure things of this delight, in oppoficion to all worldly delights. Firit, This is a trail delight, worldly delights are but (had- dows, or pageant-like (hews of delight.The ;oyes of a hypocrite, are like his holineffe, meere appearances of oy ;he bath no real!, no true joy. as he bath no true, noueall holineffe. That man doth but faine a cafte of joy, whofoever he is, that doth but fain the prae`tice ofholineffe. Thus who wickedly hold out a holineffe which they feele not, (hall talke of joyes wlaicb they finde not. Secondly, Delight in the Lord is a ftrongdelight, yea it is a flrengthning delight; That mull needs be ftrong joy, which is L 1 ftrengthen-
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