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

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.

For what is this righteousness other than this blessedness begun, the seed and principle of it? And that with as exact proportion (or rather sameness of Nature) as is between the grain sown, and reaped, which is more than intimated in that of the Apostle,