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

CHAP. IX.

The Pleasure arising from knowing or considering our selves to be like God: from considering it, 1. Absolutely. 2. Comparatively, or respectively to the former state of the soul. To the state of lost souls. To its pattern. To the way of accomplishment. To the souls own expectations. To what it secures. The Pleasure whereto it disposes, of union, communion. A comparison of this Righteousness, with this Blessedness.

2. Here is also to be considered, the pleasure and satisfaction involved in this assimilation to God, as it is known, or reflected on, or that arises from the cognosci of this likeness.

2. HEre is also to be considered, the pleasure and satisfaction involv'd in this assimilation to God, as it is known, or refl•cted on, or that arises from the cognosci of this likeness.

We have hitherto discoursed of the pleasure of being like God, as that is apprehended, by a spiritual sensation, a feeling of that inward rectitude, that happy pleasure of souls now perfectly restored? We have yet to consider a further pleasure, which accrues from the souls animadversion upon it self; its contemplating its self thus happily transformed. And though that very sensation be not without some animadversion (as indeed no sensible perception can be performed without it) yet we must conceive a consequent animadversion, which is much more explicit, and distinct; and