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

Fourthly, Consider, that to become godly; or §4this change of inclinations, and dispositions towards God, is that which of all other, the soul doth most strongly reluctate and strive against; and ⟨p. 214⟩which therefore it undergoes with greatest difficulty and regret. 'Tis an horrid and amazing thing it should be so, but Scripture, and experience leave it undoubted that so it is. What! that the highest Excellency, the most perfect Beauty, Loveliness, and Love it self should so little attract a reasonable Spiritual being that issued thence? His own off-spring so unkind! what more then monstrous unnaturalness is this, so to disaffect ones own Original! 'Twere easy to accumulate, and heap up considerations that would render this astonishingly strange. So things are reckoned upon several accounts, either as they are more rare, and unfrequent (which is the vulgar way of estimating wonders) or as their causes, are of more difficult investigation; or (if they are moral wonders) as they are more unreasonable, or causeless; upon this last account, Christ marvelled at the Jews unbelief; And so is this hatred justly marvellous;¹ as being altogether without a cause.²

Fourthly, Consider, that to become godly; or §4this change of inclinations, and dispositi•ns towards God, is that which of all other, the soul doth most strongly reluctate and strive against; and ⟨p. 214⟩which therefore it undergoes with greatest difficulty and reget. 'Tis an horrid and amazing thing it should be so, but Scripture, and experience leave it undoubted that so it is. What! that the highest Excellency, the most perfect Beauty, Loveliness, and Love it self should so little attract a reasonable Spiritual being that issued thence? His own off-spring so unkind! what more then monstrous unnaturalness is this, so to disaffect ones own Original! 'Twere easie to accumulate, and heap up considerations that would render this astonishingly strange. So things are reckon'd upon several accounts, either as they are more rare, and unfrequent (which is the vulgar way of estimating wonders) or as their causes, are of more difficult investigation; or (if they are moral wonders) as they are more unreasonable, or causeless; upon this last account, Christ marvelled at the Jews unbelief; And so is this hatred justly marvellous;