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

And what, do not all men in all the ordinary actions of their lives act, allowable enough, with intuition to much lower ends? even those particular ends, which the works of their several callings tend to, else they should act as brutes in every thing they do. And would such a one scruple, if he were pining for want of bread, to beg, or labour for it, for this end, to be relieved. 'Tis the mistaking of the notion of Heaven, that hath also an ingrediency into this doubt (if it be really a doubt) what is it a low thing to be filled with the Divine fullness? to have his Glory replenishing our souls? ⟨p. 282⟩to be perfectly freed from sin? in every thing conformed unto this holy nature and will? That our minding our interest in this, or any affairs, should be the principal thing with us, is not to be thought; our Supreme end must be the same with his, who made all things for himself, of whom, through whom, and to whom all things are, that he alone might have the glory. But subordinates need not quarrel. A lower end doth not exclude, the higher but serves it; and is, as to it, a means. God is our end, as he is to glorified, and enjoyed by us: our glorifying him is but the agnition of his glory; which we do most in beholding, and partaking it, which is therefore in direct subordination thereto.

And what, do not all men in all the ordinary actions of their lives act, allowable enough, with intuition to much lower ends? even those particular ends, which the works of their several callings tend to, else they should act as bruites in every thing they do. And would such a one scruple, if he were pining for want of bread, to beg, or labour for it, for this end, to be relieved. 'Tis the mistaking of the notion of Heaven, that hath also an ingrediency into this doubt (if it be really a doubt) what is it a low thing to be filled with the Divine fulness? to have his Glory replenishing our souls? ⟨p. 282⟩to be perfectly freed from sin? in every thing conformed unto this holy nature and will? That our minding our interest in this, or any affairs, should be the principal thing with us, is not to be thought; our Supreme end must be the same with his, who made all things for himself, of whom, through whom, and to whom all things are, that he alone might have the glory. But subordinates need not quarrel. A lower end doth not exclude, the higher but serves it; and is, as to it, a means. God is our end, as he is to glorified, and enjoyed by us: our glorifying him is but the agnition of his glory; which we do most in beholding, and partaking it, which is therefore in direct subordination thereto.