Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

Now such as these are blessed in a fourfold Respect.¹

1. 1Such as do God's Commandments are blessed in Four Respects. I. In the Seed.

First, They are blessed, in Semine, in the Seed: They go forth bearing precious Seed, and shall doubtless rejoice in a plentiful ⟨p. 47⟩Harvest: So the Psalmist tells us, Psal. 97.11. ¹Light is sown for the Righteous, and Gladness for the Upright in Heart. And though they often appear Clods of Earth ploughed up, harrowed, and broken with Affliction; yet is there that blessed Seed cast into them, that will certainly sprout up to Immortality, and Eternal Life, as all the Beauties of a Flower lie couched in a small unsightly Seed: And so truly Grace is Glory in the Seed; and Glory is but Grace full blown.

First, They are blessed, in Semine, in the Seed: They go forth bearing precious Seed, and shall doubtless rejoyce in a plentiful ⟨p. 47⟩Harvest: So the Psalmist tells us, Psal. 97.11. ¹Light is sown for the Righteous, and Gladness for the Upright in Heart. And though they often appear Clods of Earth plowed up, harrowed, and broken with Affliction; yet is there that blessed Seed cast into them, that will certainly sprout up to Immortality, and Eternal Life, as all the Beauties of a Flower lie couched in a small unsightly Seed: And so truly Grace is Glory in the Seed; and Glory is but Grace full blown.