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

The Nature Excellency of it.

We cannot indeed consider these separately, for we can no sooner understand it to be glory, than we conceive it excellent; Glory, in the proper Notion of it, being nothing else but resplendent excellency, the lustre of excellency or real worth made conspicuous. Yet as there is an excellency ⟨p. 41⟩conceivable in the nature of it, that excellency whereof it is the splendour and brightness; so we must conceive a peculiar excellency of that very radiation, that splendour it self, wherewith it shines unto blessed souls. In its very nature it is the brightness of Divine excellencies: in its present appearance, it shines in the highest ⟨p. 42⟩excellency of that brightness; in its nature it excelleth all things else: in its present exhibition, compared with all its former radiations, it excelleth it self.

We cannot indeed consider these separately, for we can no sooner understand it to be glory, than we conceive it excellent; Glory, in the proper Notion of it, being nothing else but resplendent excellency, the lustre of excellency or real worth made conspicuous. Yet as there is an excellency ⟨p. 41⟩conceivable in the nature of it, that excellency whereof it is the splendor and brightness; so we must conceive a peculiar excellency of that very radiation, that splendor it self, wherewith it shines unto blessed souls. In its very nature it is the brightness of Divine excellencies: in its present appearance, it shines in the highest ⟨p. 42⟩excellency of that brightness; in its nature it excelleth all things else: in its present exhibition, compared with all its former radiations, it excelleth it self.