This kind of delight is absolutely necessary for Baxter because “holy delight adjoined to love is the principal part of our religion … When earthly pleasures end in misery, then who would not wish they had preferred the holy, durable delights?”[10] This directly responds to the issues raised by Marlowe in his play about Faust. Delight is not a cheap emotion for Baxter, but the central one. It is the affection that is the mainspring of all human action. “It is not for nothing that God hath made delight