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

And here the sensitive intuition, I shall not insist on, as being less intended in the Text, and the discourse of it less suitable to such, as with a spiritual mind and design, set themselves to enquire into the nature of the Saints blessedness. Yet, as this is the most noble, comprehensive, quick, and sprightly sense, so is the Act of it more considerable, in the matter of blessedness, than any other of the outward man, and the most perfect imitation of the act of the mind, whence also this so often borrows the name of the other, and is called seeing. 'Tis an act indeed very proper and pertinent to a state of glory. By how much more any sensible object is glorious (supposing the sensorium to be duly disposed and fortified, as must be here supposed) so much is it the fitter object of Sight; hence when we would express a glorious object, we call it conspicuous, and the less glorious, or more obscure any thing is, the less visible, and approaches the nearer to invisibility, whence that saying in the common Philosophy,¹ To see blackness is to see nothing.

And here the sensitive intuition, I shall not insist on, as being less intended in the Text, and the discourse of it lesse suitable to such, as with a spiritual mind and design, set themselves to enquire into the nature of the Saints blessedness. Yet, as this is the most noble, comprehensive, quick, and sprightly sense, so is the Act of it more considerable, in the matter of blessedness, than any other of the outward man, and the most perfect imitation of the act of the mind, whence also this so often borrows the name of the other, and is called seeing. 'Tis an act indeed very proper and pertinent to a state of glory. By how much more any sensible object is glorious (supposing the sensorium to be duely disposed and fortified, as must be here supposed) so much is it the fitter object of Sight; hence when we would express a glorious object, we call it conspicuous, and the lesse glorious, or more obscure any thing is, the less visible, and approaches the nearer to invisibility, whence that saying in the common Philosophy,¹ To see blackness is to see nothing.

1. 1Arist. in 3. Meteor•lg. Cap. de ride.