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

Nor is the common and true Maxim otherwise intelligible, that grace and glory differ only in degree For certainly, it could never enter into the mind of a sober man (though how dangerously some speak that might possibly have been so if too much learning had not made them mad, will be animadverted in its place) that objective glory, and grace in Saints, were the same specific (much less the same numerical) thing.

Nor is the common and true Maxime otherwise intelligible, that grace and glory differ only in degree For certainly, it could never enter into the mind of a sober man (though how dangerously some speak that might possibly have been so if too much learning had not made them mad, will be animadverted in its place) that objective glory, and grace in Saints, were the same specifique (much less the same numerical) thing.

'Tis true that Scripture often expresses the future blessedness by vision of God. But where ⟨p. 12⟩that phrase is used to signify it alone, 'tis evident (as within the lower region of grace, words of knowledge do often imply affection, and correspondent impressions on the soul) it must be understood of affective transformative Vision, such as hath conformity to God most inseparably conjunct with it. And, that we might understand so much, they are elsewhere, both expressly mentioned together, as joint-ingredients into a Saints blessedness; as in those words so full of clear and rich sense. When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

'Tis true that Scripture often expresses the future blessedness by vision of God. But where ⟨p. 12⟩that phrase is used to signifie it alone, 'tis evident (as within the lower region of grace, words of knowledge do often imply affection, and correspondent impressions on the soul) it must be understood of affective transformative Vision, such as hath conformity to God most inseparably conjunct with it. And, that we might understand so much, they are elsewhere, both expresly mentioned together, as joynt-ingredients into a Saints blessedness; as in those words so full of clear and rich sense. When he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.