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

A Soul cast into such a mould, formed into an obediential subject frame, what sweet peace doth it enjoy! how pleasant rest! every thing rests most composedly in its proper place. A bone out of joint knows no ease, nor lets the body enjoy any. The creature is not in its place but when 'tis thus subject, is in this subordination to God. By flying out of this subordination the world of mankind is become one great disjointed body; full of weary tossings, unacquainted with ease, or rest. That soul that is but in a degree reduced to that blessed state & temper, is as it were in a new world; so great, and happy a change doth it now feel in it self. But when this transformation shall be completed in it; and the will of God shall be no sooner known than rested in with a complacential approbation; and every motion of the first and great mover shall be an efficacious law to guide and determine all our motions: and the lesser-wheels shall presently run at the first impulse of the great and master-wheel, without the least rub or hesitation; when the law of sin shall no longer check the law of ⟨p. 132⟩God; when all the contentions of a rebellious flesh; all the counter-strivings of a perverse, ungovernable heart, shall cease for ever; O unconceivable blessedness of this consent, the pleasure of this joyful harmony, this peaceful accord!

A Soul cast into such a mould, formed into an obediential subject frame, what sweet peace doth it enjoy! how pleasant rest! every thing rests most composedly in its proper place. A bone out of joynt knows no ease, nor lets the body enjoy any. The creature is not in its place but when 'tis thus subject, is in this subordination to God. By flying out of this subordination the world of mankind is become one great disjoynted body; full of weary tossings, unacquainted with ease, or rest. That soul that is but in a degree reduc't to that blessed state & temper, is as it were in a new world; so great, and happy a change doth it now feel in it self. But when this transformation shall be compleated in it; and the will of God shall be no sooner known than rested in with a complacential approbation; and every motion of the first and great mover shall be an efficacious law to guide and determine all our motions: and the lesser-wheeles shall presently run at the first impulse of the great and master-wheel, without the least rub or hesitation; when the law of sin shall no longer check the law of ⟨p. 132⟩