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

Is it a possible undertaking you put us upon?¹ or is there any thing we can do in order to the change of our own hearts? We find our selves altogether, undesirous of those things wherein you state blessedness, and they are without savour to us. If therefore the notion you give us of blessedness be right, all the work necessary to qualify us for it, is yet to be done; we yet remain wholly destitute of any principle of life, that may dispose us to such relishes and enjoyments. If the new Creature, (as you say) consist in a suitable temper of Spirit unto such a state as this, 'tis as yet wholly unformed in us. And is there any thing to be done by a dead man in order to life? Can a Child contribute any thing to its first formation? or a Creature to its coming into being?

Is it a possible undertaking you put us upon?¹ or is there any thing we can do in order to the change of our own hearts? We find our selves altogether, undesirous of those things wherein you state blessedness, and they are without savour to us. If therefore the notion you give us of blessedness be right, all the work necessary to quallifie us for it, is yet to be done; we yet remain wholly destitute of any principle of life, that may dispose us to such relishes and injoyments. If the new Creature, (as you say) consist in a suitable temper of Spirit unto such a state as this, 'tis as yet wholly unformed in us. And is there any thing to be done by a dead man in order to life? Can a Child contribute any thing to its first formation? or a Creature to its coming into being?

1. 1Doubt. 1.

If you were serious in what you say;¹ methinks you should have little mind to play the Sophisters, ⟨p. 271⟩