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

And that state which it shall ultimately and eternally acquiesce in (with a rest that must therefore be understood to be most composed and sedate) towards it must it needs move with the strongest and most unsatisfied desire, a desire that is supreme, prevalent, and triumphant over all other desires, and over all obstructions to it self, least capable of diversion, or of pitching upon any thing short of the term aimed at. Ask therefore the holy Soul, What is thy Supreme desire? and so far as it understands it self, it must answer; to see, and partake the divine glory; to behold the blessed face of God; till his likeness be transfused through all my powers, and his entire image be perfectly formed in me; present to my view what else you will, I can be satisfied in nothing else but this.

And that state which it shall ultimately and eternally acquiesse in (with a rest that must therefore be understood to be most composed and sedate) towards it must it needs move with the strongest and most unsatisfied desire, a desire that is supreme, prevalent, and triumphant over all other desires, and over all obstructions to it self, least capable of diversion, or of pitching upon any thing short of the terme aimed at. Ask therefore the holy Soul, What is thy Supreme desire? and so far as it understands it self, it must answer; to see, and partake the divine glory; to behold the blessed face of God; till his likeness be transfused through all my powers, and his entire image be perfectly formed in me; present to my view what else you will, I can be satisfied in nothing else but this.

Therefore this leaves a black note upon those wretched souls, that are wholly strangers to such desires; that would be better satisfied to dwell always in dust; that shun the blessed face of God as Hell it self; and to whom the most despicable vanity is a more desirable sight, then that of divine glory. Miserable souls! consider your state, can that be your blessedness which you desire not? or do you think God will receive any into his blessed presence, to whom it shall be a burden? methinks, upon the reading of this, you should presently doom your selves, and see your sentence written in your breasts, compare your