The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

That this righteousness is a renewing righteousness, or the righteousness of one formerly a sinner, a lapsed perishing wretch, who is by it, restored into such a state towards God, as he was in before that lapse (in respect of certain great essentials, though as yet his state be not so perfectly good while he is in his tendency and motion; And shall, by certain additionals, be unspeakably better, when he hath attained the end and rest he is tending to.)

That a reasonable creature, yet untainted with sin, could not but have a temper of mind ⟨p. 23⟩suitable to such apprehensions as these, Viz. That as it was not the Author of being to it self, so it ought not principally to study the pleasing and serving of it self, but him, who gave it being: that it can no more continue and perfect it self unto blessedness, than it could create it self; and can therefore have no expectation hereof, but from the same Author of its being: And hence that it must respect, and eye the great God, its Creator, and Maker, as

That a reasonable creature, yet untainted with sin, could not but have a temper of mind ⟨p. 23⟩•uteable to such apprehensions as these, Viz. That as it was not the Author of being to it self, so it ought not principally to study the pleasing and serving of it self, but him, who gave it being: that it can no more continue and perfect it self unto blessedness, than it could create it self; and can therefore have no expectation hereof, but from the same Author of its being: And hence that it must respect, and eye the great God, its Creator, and Maker, as