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

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 ⟨p. 147⟩which therefore yields a very great addition of Satisfaction and delight. As when the blessed soul shall turn its eye upon it self, and designedly compose, and set it self to consider its present state and frame, the consideration it shall now have of it self, and this likeness imprest upon it, may be either Absolute, or Comparative & respective.

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 acrews 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 explicite, and distinct; and ⟨p. 147⟩