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

And Scripture as plainly speaks the design of God. He regenerates to the undefiled inheritance. Makes meet for it; ¹works, forms, or fashions the soul unto that self same thing, ²viz. to desire & groan after that blessed state; ³and consequently to acquiesce and rest therein. Therefore, vain man, that dreamest of being happy without undergoing such a change; how art thou trying thy skill to abstract a thing from it self. For the prerequired righteousness whereunto thou must be changed, and this blessedness are in kind, and nature the same thing; as much as a Child, and a man. Thou pretendest thou wouldst have that perfected, which thou canst not endure, should ever be begun: Thou settest thy self to prevent and suppress what, in its own nature, and by Divine Ordination tends to the accomplishment of thy own pretended desires. Thou wouldst have the Tree, without ever admitting the Seed, or Plant. ⟨p. 211⟩thou wouldst have heat, and canst not endure the least warmth; so besotted a thing is a carnal heart!

And Scripture as plainly speaks the design of God. He regenerates to the undefiled inheritance. Makes meet for it; ¹works, formes, or fashions the soul unto that self same thing, ²viz. to desire & groan after that blessed state; ³and consequently to acquiesce and rest therein. Therefore, vain man, that dreamest of being happy without undergoing such a change; how art thou trying thy skill to abstract a thing from it self. For the prerequired righteousness whereunto thou must be changed, and this blessedness are in kind, and nature the same thing; as much as a Child, and a man. Thou pretendest thou would'st have that perfected, which thou canst not indure, should ever be begun: Thou settest thy self to prevent and suppresse what, in its own nature, and by Divine Ordination tends to the accomplishment of thy own pretended desires. Thou wouldst have the Tree, without ever admitting the Seed, or Plant.