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

Happy discovery! welcome tidings! I now know which wa• to turn my eye, and direct my pursuit. I shall no longer spend my ••if in dubious toilsome wanderings, in anxious, va•n inquiries. I have found▪ I have ⟨p. 237⟩found! blessedness is here. If I can but get a lively, efficacious sight of God, I have enough—Show me the Father, and it suffices.

Happy discovery! welcome tidings! I now know which wa• to turn my eye, and direct my pursuit. I shall no longer spend my ••if in dubious toilsome wandrings, in anxious, va•n inquiries. I have found▪ I have ⟨p. 237⟩found! blessedness is here. If I can but get a lively, efficacious sight of God, I have enough—Shew me the Father, and it suffices.

Let the weary wandering soul bethink it self, and retire to God; he will not mock thee with shadows, as the world hath done. This is eternal life to know him the only true God, and Jes•• Christ whom he hath sent. A part, from Christ thou canst not know, nor see him, with fruit and comfort, but the Gospel revelation (which is the Revelation of God in Christ) gives thee a lovely prospect of him. His Glory shines in the face of Jesus Christ, and when, by beholding it, thou art changed into the same likeness, and findest thy self gradually changing more and more, from glory to glory, thou wilt find thy self accordingly in a gradual tendency towards satisfaction, and blessedness. That is, do but seriously set thy self to study, and contemplate the Being, and Attributes of God; and then look upon him, as, through the Mediator, he is willing to be reconciled to thee, and become thy God; and so long let thine eye fix, and dwell here, till it affect thy heart; and the proper impress of the Gospel be by the Spirit of the Lord instamp't upon it; till thou find thy self wrought to a compliance with his holy will, and his image formed in thee; and thou hast soon experience thou art entering into his est; and wilt relish a more satisfying […] in this blessed change; then all thy […] sensual enjoyments, did ever afford thee before.