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

And surely as it is highly pleasurable to re••re ones self, so it is charitable to call aside ⟨image 5⟩others out of this noise and throng, to consider silently and feed upon the known and agreed things of our Religion; which immediately lead to both the duties and delights of it.

And surely as it is highly pleasurable to re••re ones s•lf, so it is charitable to call aside ⟨image 5⟩others out of this noise and throng, to consider silently and feed upon the known and agree'd things of our Religion; which immediately lead to both the duties and delights of it.

Among which there are none more evident and undoubted, none less entangled with controversy, none more profitable and pleasant then the future blessedness of the righteous which this discourse Treats of. The last end is a matter to little disputable, that 'tis commonly thought (which is elsewhere more distinctly spoken to) not to be the object of election, and so not of deliberation consequently, but of simple intention only, because men are supposed to be generally agreed as touching that. And the knowledge and intention of it is apparently the very soul of Religion; animates, direct, enlivens, and sweetens the whole thereof. Without which Religion were the vainest irrational and most unsavoury thing in the World.

Among which there are none more evident and undoubted, none lesse intangled with controversie, none more profitable and pleasant then the future blessedness of the righteous which this discourse Treats of. The last end is a matter to little disputable, that 'tis commonly thought (which is elsewhere more distinctly spoken to) not to be the object of election, and so not of deliberation consequently, but of simple intention onely, because men are supposed to be generally agree'd as touching that. And the knowledge and intention of it is apparently the very soul of Religion; animates, direct, enlivens, and sweetens the whole thereof. Without which Religion were the vainest irrational and most unsavoury thing in the World.