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

Especially let us endeavour to manage and guide our eye aright, in beholding him, that our sight of him may most effectually subserve this design of being like him, and herein nothing will be more conducible than that our looks be qualified with Reverence and Love.

1. Let them be reverential looks. We shall never be careful to imitate a despised pattern; or that we think meanly of, when this is the intimate sense of our souls; Who is a God like unto thee glorious in holiness! There is none holy as the lord; this will set all our powers on work, such sights will command, and overawe our souls into a conformity to him. Subjects have sometimes affected to imitate the very imperfections and deformities of their adored Prince. Let us greaten our thoughts of God. Look to him with a submissive adoring eye. Let every look import worship and subjection. Who can stand before apprehended sovereign ⟨p. 316⟩Majesty, with such a temper of soul • shall signify an affront to it? This will mak• every thing in us unsuitable to God, yield, an• vanish, and render our souls susceptible of al• divine and holy impressions.

1. Let them be reverential looks. We shall never be careful to imitate a despised pattern; or that we think meanly of, when this is the intimate sense of our souls; Who is a God like unto thee glorious in holiness! There is none holy as the lord; this will set all our powers on work, such sights will command, and overawe our souls into a conformity to him. Subjects have sometimes affected to imitate the very imperfections and deformities of their adored Prince. Let us greaten our thoughts of God. Look to him with a submissive adoring eye. Let every look import worship and subjection. Who can stand before apprehended sovereign ⟨p. 316⟩Majesty, with such a temper of soul shall signifie an affront to it? This will mak every thing in us unsutable to God, yield, an vanish, and render our souls susceptible of al divine and holy impressions.