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

1. 'Tis more distinct and clear, Faith is taking a thing upon report; Who hath believed •ur report? And they are more general, languid apprehensions, we have of things this way. Faith enters at the •ar; it comes by hearing. And if we com••re the perceptions of these two external […] ▪ that of hearing, and sight, the latter is unspeakably more clear, and satisfying. He that hath knowledge of a foreign Country, only by report of another, hath very indistinct apprehensions of it, in comparison of him who hath travelled it himself. While the Queen of Sheba only heard of Solomons glory, she could not satisfy her self, without an [Greek or Hebrew], […] ••ght of her own eye; and, when she saw it. […] •aith, the one half was not told her of wh•• she now beheld. The Ear more slowly and gradually receives; and the Tongue more defectively expresses, to another, an account of things, than ones ocular inspection would take it in▪ But, as to the excellency of this […] above Faith, the comparison […] knowing by the ministry of a more […] sense, and a less noble, but knowing by dependence on a less noble, ⟨p. 96⟩and without dependence upon any at all. When God hath been pleased to afford discoveries in that way of Vision to men in the body (his Prophets, &c.) he hath usually bound up all their senses by sleep, or trances; sense hath had no part or lot in this matter, unto believing it must necessarily concur.

1. 'Tis more distinct and clear, Faith is taking a thing upon report; Who hath believed •ur report? And they are more general, languid apprehensions, we have of things this way. Faith enters at the •ar; it comes by hearing. And if we com••re the perceptions of these two external 〈…〉 ▪ that of hearing, and sight, the latter is unspeakably more clear, and satisfying. He that hath knowledge of a forreign Country, only by report of another, hath very indistinct apprehensions of it, in comparison of him who hath travell'd it himself. While the Queen of Sheba only heard of Solomons glory, she could not satisfie her self, without an , ght of her own eye; and, when she saw it. aith, the one half was not told her of wh she now beheld. The Ear more slowly and gradually receives; and the Tongue more defectively expresses, to another, an account of things, than ones ocular inspection would take it in But, as to the excellency of this above Faith, the comparison knowing by the ministry of a more sense, and a less noble, but knowing by dependance on a less noble,