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

To the altogether unlearned it will hardly be conceivable; and to the learned it need not be told, how high a gratification this employment of his Reason naturally yields to the mind of a man: When the harmonious contexture of truths with truths; the apt coincidence, the secret links, and junctures of coherent notions are clearly discerned; When effects are traced up to their causes; ¹Properties lodged in their native subjects: Things sifted to their Principles. What a pleasure is it when a man shall apprehend himself regularly led on (though but by a slender thread of discourse) through the Labyrinths of nature; when still new discoveries are successfully made, every further enquiry ending in a further prospect; and every new Scene of things entertaining the mind with a fresh delight! How many have suffered a voluntary banishment from the world, as if they were wholly strangers, and unrelated to it; rejected the blandishments of sense, macerated themselves with unwearied studies for this pleasure; making the ease and health of their bodies, to give place to the content and satisfaction of their minds!

To the altogether unlearned it will hardly be conceiveable; and to the learned it need not be told, how high a gratification this employment of his Reason naturally yields to the mind of a man: When the harmonious contexture of truths with truths; the apt coincidence, the secret links, and junctures of coherent notions are clearly discerned; When effects are traced up to their causes; ¹Properties lodg'd in their native subjects: Things sifted to their Principles. What a pleasure is it when a man shall apprehend himself regularly led on (though but by a slender thred of discourse) through the Labyrinths of nature; when still new discoveries are successfully made, every further enquiry ending in a further prospect; and every new Scene of things entertaining the mind with a fresh delight! How many have suffered a voluntary banishment from the world, as if they were wholly strangers, and unrelated to it; rejected the blandishments of sense, macerated themselves with unwearied studies for this pleasure; making the ease and health of their bodies, to give place to the content and satisfaction of their minds!

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