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

And I think, it would not be easy to find one text in all that part of the Bible; where both the words thereof, and the context, do more fairly comply than in this, so as not only to admit, but even to invite that interpretation.

And I think, it would not be easie to find one text in all that part of the Bible; where both the words thereof, and the context, do more fairly comply than in this, so as not only to admit, but even to invite that interpretation.

For the term [awake] about which the present enquiry is, how apt and obvious i• the analogy between our awaking out of natural sleep, and the holy souls emerging out of the darkness and torpor of its present state, into the invigorating light of Gods presence. It is truly said so to awake, at its first quitting these darksome regions, when it lays aside its cumbersome night-veil. It doth so more perfectly in the joyful morning of the Resurrection day, when mortality is swallowed up in life, and all the yet-hovering shadows of it are vanished and fled away. And how known and usual an application this is of the metaphorical terms of sleeping and awaking in holy Writ, I need not tell them, who have read the Bible. Nor doth this interpretation less fitly accord to the other contents of this verse. For to what state do the sight of Gods Face, and satisfaction with his likeness, so fully agree, as to that of future blessedness in the other world.

For the terme [awake] about which the present enquiry is, how apt and obvious i• the analogy between our awaking out of natural sleep, and the holy souls emerging out of the darknesse and torpor of its present state, into the invigorating light of Gods presence. It is truely said so to awake, at its first quitting these darksom regions, when it layes aside its cumbersom night-vail. It doth so more perfectly in the joyful morning of the Resurrection day, when mortality is swallowed up in life, and all the yet-hovering shaddows of it are vanished and fled away. And how known and usual an application this is of the metaphorical terms of sleeping and awaking in holy Writ, I need not tell them, who have read the Bible. Nor doth this interpretation lesse itly accord to the other contents of this verse. For to what state do the sight of Gods Face, and satisfaction with his likenesse, so fully agree, as to that of future blessednesse in the other world.