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

In the mean time what we know of this communion may be gathered up into this general account, The reciprocation of loves; the flowing and reflowing of everlasting love, between the blessed soul and its infinitely blessed God; Its egress towards him, his illapses into it.

Unto such pleasure doth this likeness dispose and qualify: You can no way consider it, but it appears a most pleasurable satisfying thing.

Unto such pleasure doth this likeness dispose and qualifie: You can no way consider it, but it appears a most pleasurable satisfying thing.

Thus far have we shown the qualification for this blessedness, and the nature of it, What it ⟨p. 161⟩prerequires, and wherein it lies, and how highly congruous it is that the former of these should be made a prerequisite to the latter, will sufficiently appear to any one, that shall, in his own thoughts, compare this righteousness and this blessedness together. He will indeed plainly see, that the natural state of the case, and habitude of these each to other, makes this connection unalterable, and eternal; so as that it must needs be simply impossible to be thus blessed, without being thus righteous.

Thus far have we shewn the qualification for this blessedness, and the nature of it, What it ⟨p. 161⟩prerequires, and wherein it lyes, and how highly congruous it is that the former of these should be made a prerequisite to the latter, will sufficiently appear to any one, that shall, in his own thoughts, compare this righteousness and this blessedness together. He will indeed plainly see, that the natural state of the case, and habitude of these each to other, makes this connexion unalterable, and eternal; so as that it must needs be simply impossible to be thus blessed, without being thus righteous.