Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
Joseph Symonds, The Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul, p.29
"When the heart is filled with God, its delight is with him, and he yields obedience in love, and counts his work wages: an evil heart is hardly drawn to good, it quarrels with the rule, and is loath to be bound. David, when he was in distemper, and left in the rage of his corruption, was not willing to be limited by the law of God; but when he was himself, then he loved it, Psal. 119:129. Gold and silver was not so precious, he chose it, ver. 137, he took it as his portion, ver. 57. I said, oh Lord, this is my portion, I will keep thy words. When a man enjoyeth God, his walking with God, is his life; he is much affected with converse with him, partly through love and suitableness to God, in respect of which, he is the Centre to which he tends, and in which he rests, partly through respect to the recompense which he hath in hope, and partly for the sense of sweetness which he hath in his converse, God meeting his servants with satisfying comforts, sweet embracement’s, and blessed coruscations, and beams of mercy and loving kindness, so that they say in their hearts with David, It is good for me to draw near to God, Psal.37:28."
"When the heart is filled with God, its delight is with him, and he yields obedience in love, and counts his work wages: an evil heart is hardly drawn to good, it quarrels with the rule, and is loath to be bound. David, when he was in distemper, and left in the rage of his corruption, was not willing to be limited by the law of God; but when he was himself, then he loved it, Psal. 119:129. Gold and silver was not so precious, he chose it, ver. 137, he took it as his portion, ver. 57. I said, oh Lord, this is my portion, I will keep thy words. When a man enjoyeth God, his walking with God, is his life; he is much affected with converse with him, partly through love and suitableness to God, in respect of which, he is the Centre to which he tends, and in which he rests, partly through respect to the recompense which he hath in hope, and partly for the sense of sweetness which he hath in his converse, God meeting his servants with satisfying comforts, sweet embracement’s, and blessed coruscations, and beams of mercy and loving kindness, so that they say in their hearts with David, It is good for me to draw near to God, Psal.37:28."
