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

And this liberty,¹ is the perfect Image and likeness of the liberty of God, especially, in its consummate state. In its progress towards it, it increases as the Soul draws nearer to God: which nearer approach is not in respect of place, or local nearness, but likeness, and conformity to him; in respect whereof, as God is most sublime and excellent in himself, so is it in him.

1. 1Libertas n•st•a inhaer•t divina, ut exemplari, & in p••p•luâ ejus imitat•one versatur, sive ortum, sive p•• gressum, sive con••mm•tionem ejus intue […], libertas nostra, in o•tu, est capacitas Dei. In progressu libertas res est longe c•ar•or; progress •senim at••nditur p•nes access•m hominis ad D••m; q•i quidem […] sed imitatione & •ss••latione canst & e•t utiquc, im••atio•e, & assi•il itio•, secuadum quam si•ut Deus est sablimis, & excelsus seipso; ita homo est sublimis, & excelsus Deo, & altitudo ejus Deus est ut inquit D, Augustinu. Consummatio denique libertatis est, cum homo in Deum, felicissimo gloriae coelestis statu, transformatur; & deus omnia illi esse incipit? Qui quidem postremus status, co dissert à priore—quippe homo tum non modo inalligatus est creaturis, sed nec circaillas negotiatur, etiam referendo in finem—nec in creaturis se insundit, nec per illas procedit, ut facibat cum esset viator; sed in solo Deo, & conquiescit & effundit see placidissimè, & motits ejus, cum sit ad presentissimum, & conjunctissimum bonum, similior est quieti, quàm mtui, Gib. l. 2. c. 14.