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

It is hence a free voluntary chosen rest: Such as God professes his own to be in Zion. This is my rest, ¹here will I dwell, for I have desired it.

1. 1Psal. 132. 14.

It is a complacential rest, wherein the soul abides steady bound only by the cords of love; a rest in the midst of pleasantnesses; The Lord is my portion, ¹the lots are fallen to me [in amanitatibus] it cannot be more fitly expressed than [amidst pleasantnesses] And this speaks, not only what the Psalmists condition was, but the sense, and account he had of it. That temper of mind gives us some Idea of that contentful, satisfied abode with God, which the blessed shall have. He intimates how undesirous he was of any change. Their sorrows (he told us above) should be multiplied that hasten after another God. ²Hereafter there will be infinitely less appearance of reason for any such thought. Now it is the sense of an holy soul, Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none I desire on earth besides thee (q. d. Heaven and Earth yield not a tempting Object, to divert me from thee) 'tis now, so at sometimes, when faith and love are in their triumph and exaltation (but the Lord knows how seldom!) but much more when we see him as he is, and are satisfied with his likeness.

It is a complacential rest, wherein the soul abides steady bound only by the cords of love; a rest in the midst of pleasantnesses; The Lord is my portion, ¹the lots are fallen to me [in amanitatibus] it cannot be more fitly exprest than [amidst pleasantnesses] And this speaks, not only what the Psalmists condition was, but the sense, and account he had of it. That temper of mind gives us some Idea of that contentful, satisfied abode with God, which the blessed shall have. He intimates how undesirous he was of any change. Their sorrows (he told us above) should be multiplied that hasten after another God.