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

And this being the state of thy case, what more significant expression canst thou make of thy contempt of Divine goodness? O the love that thou neglectest, while the most glorious issue, and product of it, is with thee an undesired thing! Yea, this the thing it self speaks, were there no such competition. What? that when eternal love have conceived, and is travelling to bring forth such a birth? that when it invites thee to an expectation of such glory shortly to be revealed, the result of so deep counsels, and wonderful works, this should be the return from thee, I desire it not? Is this thy gratitude to the Father of Glory? the requital of the kindness, yea, and of the blood of thy Redeemer? If this blessedness were not desirable for it self; methinks the offerers hand should be a sufficient endearment. But thou canst not so deride or abstract, it consists in beholding, and bearing his Glorious likeness, who invites thee to it, and therefore in the neglect of it, thou most highly affrontest him.

And this being the state of thy case, what more significant expression canst thou make of thy contempt of Divine goodness? O the love that thou neglectest, while the most glorious issue, and product of it, is with thee an undesired thing! Yea, this the thing it self speaks, were there no such competition. What? that when eternal love have conceived, and is travelling to bring forth such a birth? that when it invites thee to an expectation of such glory shortly to be reveal'd, the result of so deep counsels, and wonderful works, this should be the return from thee, I desire it not? Is this thy gratitude to the Father of Glory? the requital of the kindness, yea, and of the blood of thy Redeemer? If this blessedness were not desirable for it self; methinks the offerers hand should be a sufficient endearment. But thou can'st not so deride or abstract, it consists in beholding, and bearing his Glorious likeness, who invites thee to it, and therefore in the neglect of it, thou most highly affrontest him.

Yea further, is it not a monstrous unnaturalness towards thy self, as well as impiety towards God, not to desire that perfect, final blessedness? Doth not every thing naturally tend to its ultimate perfection and proper end? what creature would not witness against thee, if thou neglect, in thy own capacity and kind, to aim at thine? Surely thou canst not allow thy self to think any thing beneath this, worthy to be owned by thee, under that notion, of thy highest good, and thy last end. But that thy