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

4. Purity. Herein also, must the blessed soul resemble God, and delight it self. Every one that hath this hope (viz. of being hereafter l•ke God, and seeing him as he is) purifieth himself as he is pure. A God-like purity is intimately connext with the expectation of future blessedness, much more with the fruition. Blessed are the pure in heart; besides the reason there annexed [for they shall see God] (which is to be considered under the other head, the pleasure unto which this likeness disposes) that proposition carries its own reason in it self. It is an incomparable pleasure that purity ⟨p. 135⟩carries in its own nature; As sin hath in its very nature (besides its consequent guilt and sorrow) trouble and torment beyond expression.¹ Whatsoever defiles doth also disturb. Nor do any but pure pleasures deserve the name. An Epicurus himself will tell us, there cannot be pleasure without wisdom, honesty, and righteousness. 'Tis least of all possible there should, when once a person shall have a right knowledge of himself, and (which is moral impurity whereof we speak) the filthiness of sin.² I doubt not but much of the torment of Hell, will consist, in those too-late, and despairing self-loathings, those sickly resentments, the impure wretches will be possessed with, when they see what hideous deformed monsters their own wickedness hath made them. Here the gratifications of sense that attend it, bribe and seduce their judgments into another estimate of sin; but then, it shall be no longer thought of under the more favourable notion of a [Greek or Hebrew], they shall taste nothing but the gall and wormwood.

4. Purity. Herein also, must the blessed soul resemble God, and delight it self. Every one that hath this hope (viz. of being hereafter l•ke God, and seeing him as he is) purifieth himself as he is pure. A God-like purity is intimately connext with the expectation of future blessedness, much more with the fruition. Blessed are the pure in heart; besides the reason there annext [for they shall see God] (which is to be considered under the other head, the pleasure unto which this likeness disposes) that proposition carries its own reason in it self. It is an incomparable pleasure that purity