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

2. Sense of praise should signify something too, as the Apostle, Whatsoever things are— ⟨p. 354⟩pure, lovely, &c. if there be any virtue,—any praise, think of these things. And hath not the eternal glory those characters upon it of purity, and loveliness beyond all things? Is it not a laudable, and praise-worthy thing to have a mind and heart set upon that?

2. Sense of praise should signifie something too, as the Apostle, Whatsoever things are— ⟨p. 354⟩pure, lovely, &c. if there be any vertue,—any praise, think of these things. And hath not the eternal glory those characters upon it of purity, and loveliness beyond all things? Is it not a laudable, and praise-worthy thing to have a mind and heart set upon that?

The blessed God puts a note of excellency upon this temper of Spirit.¹ But they desire a better Country, that is, an Heavenly, Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, &c. This renders them a people worthy of him, ²who hath called them to his kingdom and glory; fit for him to own a relation to. Had they been of low, terrene Spirits, he would have accounted it a shame to him, to have gone under the name and cognisance of their God. But in as much as they desire the Heavenly Country, have learned to trample this terrestrial world, cannot be contained within this lower Sphere; nor satisfy themselves in earthly things; they now discover a certain excellency of Spirit, in respect whereof God is not ashamed to own a relation to them before all the world to be called their God; to let men see what account he makes of such a Spirit.

The blessed God puts a note of excellency upon this temper of Spirit.