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

There are yet two more Rules to be superadded, that respect the season of this blessedness: [when we awake] i. e. not till we go out of time, into eternity; not till we pass out of the drowsy darkness of our present state, till the night be over with us, and the vigorous light of the everlasting day do shine upon us. Hence therefore it will be further necessary.

THere are yet two more Rules to be superadded, that respect the season of this blessedness: [when we awake] i. e. not till we go out of time, into eternity; not till we pass out of the drowsie darkness of our present state, till the night be over with us, and the vigorous light of the everlasting day do shine upon us. Hence therefore it will be further necessary.

7. That while the appointed proper season of this blessedness is not yet come (i. e. till God shall vouchsafe to translate us from our present earthly state) we compose our Spirits to a patient expectation of it.¹

1. 1Rule 7.

Upon a twofold account, the exercise of patience is very requite in the present case, viz. both in respect of this very expectation it self, and also in respect of the concomitant miseries of this expecting state. In the former respect, an absent good, is the matter of our patience; in the latter, present and incumbent evil. It falls more directly, in our way to speak to the exercise ⟨p. 374⟩of patience upon the former account, yet as to the latter (though it be more collateral as to our present purpose) it cannot be unseasonable, briefly to consider that also.