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

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, ⟨p. 69⟩so much is imprest of his glory. The work of grace is glory begun.

And now as glory initial, and progressive in this life enters at the eye— (beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord,