OF DELIGHTING IN GOD; FROM PSALM XXXVII. 4. 66 DELIGHT THYSELF IN THE LORD, AND HE SHALL [A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON The love of GOD, AS CONNECTED WITH THE "Howe seems to have understood the Gospel as well as any uninspired DODDRIDGE.-See his Second Lecture, On the Use and Character LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. BERNERS STREET. MDCCCXXXIX. NOTICE TO THE READER. THE following Work, entitled A Treatise of Delighting in God, and which might perhaps be more properly entitled A Practical Treatise on the Love of God, as connected with the Happiness of Man, is intended as a companion to another work of the same Author, On the Blessedness of the Righteous, lately published in a similar form, and upon a similar plan. In this Edition, some extraneous matter, which encumbered the original work, has been omitted. Expressions, once familiar and in common use, but now become obsolete or vulgar, have been exchanged for others more appropriate, and of the correct modern stamp. Attention has also been paid to the punctuation and right division of sentences, from the want of which, in former Editions, it is sometimes difficult, without a second or third reading, to apprehend the true meaning of the writer. By these and some other slight altera 134138 tions, the Editor has endeavoured to present this excellent Work in a form the most suitable to modern Readers, and such as the Author himself might have approved. CONTENTS. PART THE FIRST. The Object, to be delighted in God considered in his relation to us God considered as our Lord and Portion The Sufficiency of this Portion The Communicableness of this Portion Joy hence arising, a matter of experience 090 The Gospel, the proper Instrument of Conformity to God 32 Delight arising from this Conformity Joy from Trust and Dependance on God Joy from exercise of a Good Conscience |