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

And it is it self full. The Soul is replenished not with airy, evanid shadows, but with substantial, solid glory, a massive, mighty glory, (for I know not but subjective glory may be¹ ⟨p. 118⟩taken in within the significancy of that known Scripture, if it be not more principally intended in as much as the Text speaks of a glory to be wrought out by afflictions, which are the files and furnaces, as it were, to polish or refine the Soul into a glorious frame.) 'Tis cumulated glory, glory added to glory. Here 'tis growing progressive glory; we are changed into the same image from glory to glory. It shall now be stable,² consistent glory; that carries a self-fullness with it (which some include also in the notion of purity^* 'tis full of it self, includes every degree requisite to its own perfection. God hath now put the last hand to this glorious Image, added to it its ultimate accomplishments. Now, a conformity to Christ, even in the resurrection from the dead, in his glorious state is fully attained. That prize of the high calling of God is now won. And the humble sense of not having attained as yet, and of not being already perfect, in which humility, the foundations of the temple of God in a Saint is laid, and the building raised, is turned into joyful acclamations, Grace, Grace for the laying on of the top stone, the finishing of this glorious work.

And it is it self full. The Soul is replenish't not with airy, evanid shadows, but with substantial, solid glory, a massie, mighty glory, (for I know not but subjective glory may be¹ ⟨p. 118⟩taken in within the significancy of that known Scripture, if it be not more principally intended in as much as the Text speaks of a glory to be wrought out by afflictions, which are the files and furnaces, as it were, to polish or refine the Soul into a glorious frame.) 'Tis cumulated glory, glory added to glory. Here 'tis growing progressive glory; we are changed into the same image from glory to glory. It shall now be stable,