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

You have then some prospect of a happy ⟨p. 332⟩temper of Spirit.¹ It can now be no difficulty to you, to frame an Idea of it in your thoughts, to get a notional image, (or this likeness, in the notion of it) into your minds: but that will avail you little, if you have not the real image also: that is, your Spirits really fashioned and formed according thereto. If having the knowledge of these things (as the Pagan moralists expression before mentioned is of virtuous Rules and Precepts) they become not habitual to you, and your Spirits be not transfigured into them.

You have then some prospect of a happy ⟨p. 332⟩temper of Spirit.¹ It can now be no difficulty to you, to frame an Idea of it in your thoughts, to get a notional image, (or this likeness, in the notion of it) into your minds: but that will avail you little, if you have not the real image also: that is, your Spirits really fashioned and formed according thereto. If having the knowledge of these things (as the Pagan morallists expression before mentioned is of vertuous Rules and Precepts) they become not habitual to you, and your Spirits be not transfigured into them.

1. 1Philosophia dividitur in haec Scientiam, & habitum animi, unam illam qui didicit & facienda ac vitanda percepit nondum sapiens est, nisi in ea quae didicit animus ejus transfiguratus est. Sen. (ex Agrippâ) Ep. 94.

But now, I treat with such as are supposed to have some such real impressions, that they may be stirred up to endeavour a further perfecting of them. In order whereto I shall add but this two-fold advice.