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

And surely that waiting is not the act of his inanimate, sleeping dust, but, though it be spoken of the person totally gone into H•des, into the invisible state; 'tis to be understood of that part, that should be capable of such an action, q. d. I, in that part, that shall be still alive, shall patiently await thy appointed time of reviving me in that part also, which Death, and the Grave shall insult over (in a temporary triumph) in the mean time; And so will the words carry a facile, commodious sense, without the unnecessary help of an imagined Rhetorical Scheme of Speech. And then, that this waiting carries in it a desirous expectation of some additional good, is evident at first sight, which therefore must needs add to the satisfaction and blessedness, of the expecting soul. And wherein it may do so, is not altogether ⟨p. 182⟩unapprehensible. Admit that a Spirit, had it never been embodied, might be as well without a body, or that it might be as well provided of a body out of other materials; 'tis no unreasonable supposition, that a connate aptitude to a body, should render humane souls more happy in a body sufficiently attempered to their most noble operations. And how much doth relation and propriety endear things, otherwise mean▪ and inconsiderable? or why should it be thought strange, that a soul connaturallized t• matter should be more particularly inclined to a particular portion thereof? So as that it should appropriate such a part, and say 'tis mine▪ And will it not be a pleasure to have a vitality diffused through what even more remotely appertains to me, to have every thing belonging to the Supposition perfectly vindicated from the Tyrannous dominion of death? The returning of the Spirits into a benumbed or sleeping toe or finger, adds a contentment to a ma• which he wanted before. Nor is it hence necessary the Soul should covet a re-union wi•• every effluvious particle of its former body. A desire implanted by God in a reasonable soul will aim at what is convenient, not wh• shall be cumbersome, or monstrous.

And surely that waiting is not the act of his inanimate, sleeping dust, but, though it be spoken of the person totally gone into Hdes, into the invisible state; 'tis to be understood of that part, that should be capable of such an action, q. d. I, in that part, that shall be still alive, shall patiently await thy appointed time of reviving me in that part also, which Death, and the Grave shall insult over (in a temporary triumph) in the mean time; And so will the words carry a facile, commodious sense, without the unnecessary help of an imagined Rhetorical Scheme of Speech. And then, that this waiting carries in it a desirous expectation of some additional good, is evident at irst sight, which therefore must needs add to the satisfaction and blessedness, of the expecting soul. And wherein it may do so, is not altogether