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

From whence also, and from the very nature of the thing, we may fitly state the relation of the first of these to the second, to be that of a cause to its effect. Sight begets likeness, is antecedent to it, and productive of it.

That is the face or glory of God seen; that glory, in conjunction with our vision of it: for the vision operates not; but according to the efficaciousness of the thing seen, nor can that glory have any such operation, but by the intervention of vision.

Tis therefore the glory of God seen, as seen, that assimilates, and impresses its likeness upon the beholding Soul: and so its causality it is that of an objective cause (which whether it belong to the efficient or final, I shall not here dispute) that operates only as it is apprehended: so introducing its own form, and similitude into the subject it works upon. Such a kind of cause were Jacobs streaked rods of the productions that ensued; and such a cause is any thing whatever that begets an impression upon an apprehensive subject by the mediation and ministry, whether of the fancy or understanding. This kind of causality the word hath in its renewing transforming work; and the Sacraments wherein they are […] of real physical mutations on the Subjects of them. So much of the Image of God as is here imprest upon souls by Gospel dispensations, ⟨p. 69⟩so much is imprest of his glory. The work of grace is glory begun.

Tis therefore the glory of God seen, as seen, that assimilates, and impresses its likeness upon the beholding Soul: and so its causality it is that of an objective cause (which whether it belong to the efficient or final, I shall not here dispute) that operates onely as it is apprehended: so introducing its own form, and similitude into the subject it works upon. Such a kind of cause were Jacobs streaked rods of the productions that ensued; and such a cause is any thing whatever that begets an impression upon an apprehensive subject by the mediation and ministry, whether of the phancy or understanding. This kind of causality the word hath in its renewing transforming work; and the Sacraments wherein they are of real physical mutations on the Subjects of them. So much of the Image of God as is here imprest upon souls by Gospel dispensations,