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

Consider (what thy very objection supposeth) that thou findest the temper of thy Spirit to be altogether indisposed, and averse to such a blessedness. Is it not so? is not this thy very case? feel now again thy heart, try is it not at least coldly affected towards this blessed state?

Is it not then obvious to thee to consider that the temper of thy Spirit must be changed, or thou art undone? That, inasmuch as thy blessedness lies in God, this change mustly in the alteration of thy dispositions and the posture ⟨p. 274⟩of thy Spirit towards him. Further,

Is it not then obvious to thee to consider that the temper of thy Spirit must be changed, or thou art undone? That, inasmuch as thy blessedness lyes in God, this change mustly in the alteration of thy dispositions and the posture ⟨p. 274⟩of thy Spirit towards him. Further,

Canst thou not consider the power, and fixedness of thy aversation from God? and with how mighty a weight thy heart is carried, and held down from him? Try, lift at thy heart, see if it will be raised God-ward, and Heaven-ward? dost thou not find it is as if thou wert lifting at a Mountain, that it lies as a dead weight, and stirs not? ponder thy case in this respect. And then,