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

By this we know we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his Commandments. A respect to God ^*specifies every Virtue, and Duty. What ever is loved, and served, and not in him, and for him (servato ordine fini•, as the School-phrase is) becomes an Idol, and that love and service is Idolatry. And what a discovery is here of disaffection to God; that in the exercise of such the above mentioned virtues, one single act, shall be torn from it self, from its specifying moral •orm, only to leave out him. A promise shall be kept, but without any respect to God—(for even the promises made to him are broken without any scruple.) That which is another's, shall be rendered to him; but God shall not be regarded in the business. An alms given, for the Lords sake, left out. That which concerns my neighbour often done, but what concerns God therein, as it were studiously omitted. This is what he that runs may read; that though the hearts of men are not to one another as they should; they are much more •verse towards God.

By this we know we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his Commandments. A respect to God ^*specifies every Vertue, and Duty. What ever is loved, and served, and not in him, and for him (servato ordine fini•, as the School-phrase is) becomes an Idol, and that love and service is Idolatry. And what a discovery is here of disaffection to God; that in the exercise of such the above mentioned vertues, one single act, shall be torn from it self, from its specifying moral •orm, onely to leave out him. A promise shall be kept, but without any respect to God—(for even the promises made to him are broken without any scruple.) That which is anothers, shall be rendred to him; but God shall not be regarded in the business. An alms given, for the Lords sake, left out. That which concerns my neighbour often done, but what concerns God therein, as it were studiously omitted. This is what he that runs may read; that though the hearts of men are not to one another as they should; they are much more •verse towards God.