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

It certainly concerns us not to sit still, under so manifest a distemper. But if the proposal of the object; the discourse (all this while) of this blessed state, do not move us to make some further trials with our selves, see what urging and reasoning with our souls; what rubbing and chasing our hearts will do. And there is a two fold trial we may in this kind make upon our spirits. What the sense of shame will work with us, whether our hearts cannot be made sensible to suppose how vile, and wretched a temper it is to be undesirous of glory. And then what sense of praise can effect, or what impression it may make upon us to consider the excellency, and worth, the high reasonableness ⟨p. 341⟩of that temper, & posture of soul, which I am now persuading to [a continual desirousness of that blessed glorious state.]

It certainly concerns us not to sit still, under so manifest a distemper. But if the proposal of the object; the discourse (all this while) of this blessed state, do not move us to make some further trials with our selves, see what urging and reasoning with our souls; what rubbing and chasing our hearts will do. And there is a two fold trial we may in this kind make upon our spirits. What the sense of shame will work with us, whether our hearts cannot be made sensible to suppose how vile, and wretched a temper it is to be undesirous of glory. And then what sense of praise can effect, or what impression it may make upon us to consider the excellency, and worth, the high reasonableness ⟨p. 341⟩of that temper, & posture of soul, which I am now perswading to [a continual desirousness of that blessed glorious state.]

1. As to the former. Let us bethink our selves, can we answer it to God, or to our own souls; that we should indulge our selves in a continual negligence of our eternal blessedness? A blessedness, consisting in the Vision, and Participation of the Divine Glory?