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

For thy Regeneration in […]; what can it avail thee, as to this blessedness, if the present ⟨p. 230⟩All worldly evils are willingly endured, and all (such) good things quitted and forsaken for Christs sake, and his Elects. And if the question be asked (as it was once of Alexander, when so frankly distributing his treasures among his followers) what do you reserve for your self? The resolved Christian makes (with him) that short and brave reply, HOPE. He lives upon things future and unseen. The objects any one converses with most, and in which his life is, as it were, bound up, are suitable to the ruling principle of life in him. They that are after the flesh, do savour the things of the flesh; they that are after the Spirit, ¹the things of the Spirit. The Principle of the fleshly life, is Sense; The principle of the Spiritual life, is Faith. Sense is a mean, low, narrow, incomprehensive principle, limited to a point. This Centre of Earth; and [Greek or Hebrew] (this now) of time. It can reach no higher then terrene things; nor further then present things. So brutish is the life of him that is led by it; wholly confined to matter and time.

For thy Regeneration in 〈…〉; what can it avail thee, as to this blessedness, if the present ⟨p. 230⟩All worldly evils are willingly endured, and all (such) good things quitted and forsaken for Christs sake, and his Elects. And if the question be ask't (as it was once of Alexander, when so frankly distributing his treasures among his followers) what do you reserve for your self? The resolved Christian makes (with him) that short and brave reply, HOPE. He lives upon things future and unseen. The objects any one converses with most, and in which his life is, as it were, bound up, are suitable to the ruling principle of life in him. They that are after the flesh, do savour the things of the flesh; they that are after the Spirit, ¹the things of the Spirit. The Principle of the fleshly life, is Sense; The principle of the Spiritual life, is Faith. Sense is a mean, low, narrow, incomprehensive principle, limited to a point. This Center of Earth; and (this now) of time. It can reach no higher then terrene things; nor further then present things. So bruitish is the life of him that is led by it; wholly confined to matter and time.