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

Is it not much more reasonable it should be thus with us towards him? that we should be more delighted to behold real comeliness than he with what is so only by his gracious vouchsafement and estimation? how careful should we be that our eye may at every turn meet his? that he never look towards us, and find it in the ends of the earth, carelessly wandering from him?¹ How well doth it become us to set the Lord always before us?² to have our eye ever towards the Lord?

Is it not much more reasonable it should be thus with us towards him? that we should be more delighted to behold real comelinesse than he with what is so only by his gracious vouchsafement and estimation? how careful should we be that our eye may at every turn meet his? that he never look towards us, and find it in the ends of the earth, carelesly wandring from him?¹ How well doth it become us to set the Lord alwayes before us?² to have our eye ever towards the Lord?

1. 1Psal. 16. 8
2. 2Psal. 25.

This you see is the initial leading thing in this blessedness of heaven. So it must have also a prime ingrediency into our heaven on earth. It is a part of celestial blessedness; but it is not peculiar to it. The present blessedness the righteous enjoy here is a participation of heaven. It hath something in it of every thing that is ingredient into that perfect blessedness. Our present knowledge of God is often expressed by vision, or sight, as we have