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

2. If in contemplating it self, clothed with this likeness it respect the state of damned souls. What transports must that occasion! What ravishing resentments! When it compares ⟨p. 151⟩humane nature in its highest perfection, with the same nature in its utmost depravation? An unspeakably more unequal comparison than that would be of the most amiable lovely person, flourishing in the prime of youthful strength and beauty, with a putrefied rotten carcass, deformed by the corruption of a loathsome grave. When glorified Spirits shall make such a reflection as this. Lo here we shine in the glorious brightness of the divine Image; and behold yonder deformed accursed souls. They were as capable of this glory as we. Had the same nature with us; the same reason, the same intellectual faculties and powers; but what monsters are they now become? They eternally hate the eternal excellency. Sin and death are finished upon them. They have each of them an hell of horror and wickedness in it self. Whence is this amazing difference! Though this cannot but be an awful wonder, it cannot also, but be tempered with pleasure and joy.

2. If in contemplating it self, cloathed with this likeness it respect the state of damned souls. What transpor•s must that occasion! What ravishing resentments! When it compares ⟨p. 151⟩humane nature in its highest perfection, with the same nature in its utmost depravation? An unspeakably more unequal comparison than that would be of the most amiable lovely person, flourishing in the prime of youthful strength and beauty, with a putrified rotten carcasse, deformed by the corruption of a loathsome grave. When glorified Spirits shall make such a reflection as this. Lo here we shine in the glorious brightness of the divine Image; and behold yonder deformed accursed souls. They were as capable of this glory as we. Had the same nature with us; the same reason, the same intellectual faculties and powers; but what monsters are they now become? They eternally hate the eternal excellency. Sin and death are finished upon them. They have each of them an hell of horror and wickedness in it self. Whence is this amazing difference! Though this cannot but be an awful wonder, it cannot also, but be temper'd with pleasure and joy.