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

How unspeakably pleasant to a holy soul will such a perpetual agnition or acknowledgement of God be, when the perpetuation of its being, shall be nothing else than a perpetuation of this acknowledgement; when every renewed ⟨p. 126⟩aspiration, every motion, every pulse of the glorified soul, shall be but a repetition of it, when it shall find it self in the eternity of life, that everlasting state of life, which it now possesses, to be nothing else than an everlasting testimony that God is God: He is so, for I am, I live, I act, I have the power to love him; none of which could otherwise •e. When amongst the innumerable myriads of the heavenly host, this shall be the mutual alternate testimony of each to all the rest, throughout eternity will not this be pleasant? When each shall feel continually, the fresh illapses, and incomes of God, the power, and sweetness of divine influences, the enlivening vigour of that vital breath, and find in themselves, thus we live and are sustained: and are yet as secure, touching the continuance of this state of life, as if every one were a God to himself; and did each one possess an entire God-head. When their sensible dependence on him, in their glorified state, shall be his perpetual triumph over all the imaginary Deities, the fancied Numina, wherewith he was heretofore provoked to jealousy: And he shall now have no rival left, but be acknowledged and known to be all in all. How pleasant will it then be, as it were to loose themselves in him! and to be swallowed up, in the overcoming sense of his boundless, all-sufficient, every where flowing fullness!

How unspeakably pleasant to a holy soul will such a perpetual agnition or acknowledgment of God be, when the perpetuation of its being, shall be nothing else than a perpetuation of this acknowledgment; when every renewed ⟨p. 126⟩aspiration, every motion, every pulse of the glorified soul, shall be but a repetition of it, when it shall find it self in the eternity of life, that everlasting state of life, which it now possesses, to be nothing else than an everlasting testimony that God is God: He is so, for I am, I live, I act, I have the power to love him; none of which could otherwise •e. When amongst the innumerable myriads of the heavenly hoast, this shall be the mutual alternate testimony of each to all the rest, throughout eternity will not this be pleasant? When each shall feel continually, the fresh illapses, and incomes of God, the power, and sweetness of divine influences, the inlivening vigour of that vital breath, and find in themselves, thus we live and are sustained: and are yet as secure, touching the continuance of this state of life, as if every one were a God to himself; and did each one possess an intire God-head. When their sensible dependence on him, in their glorified state, shall be his perpetual triumph over all the imaginary Deities, the phansied Numina, wherewith he was heretofore provoked to jealousie: And he shall now have no rival left, but be acknowledged and known to be all in all. How pleasant will it then be, as it were to loose themselves in him! and to be swallowed up, in the overcoming sense of his boundless, alsufficient, every where flowing fulness!