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

Now our apprehension of the desirableness and intrinsic goodness of the object ought to be such (we are Infidels else, if we have not that account of it) that nothing we can eye under the notion of a good to us, may be reckoned so eligible as that. viz. our final and complete blessedness in the other world, which because, we know, we cannot enjoy without dying, death also must be judged more eligible then Life, that is, Our Blessedness must be judged, eligible for it self, and Death as requisite to make it present. So that the entire object we are discoursing of, being present Blessedness, Consider it in comparison with any thing else, that can be looked upon by us, as a good which we our selves are to enjoy, it ought to be preferred and chosen out of hand, in as much as nothing can be so great a present good to us, as that. And this ought to be the proper habitual inclination of our Spirits, their constant frame and bent, as they respect only our own interest and welfare.

Now our apprehension of the desirableness and intrinsique goodness of the object ought to be such (we are Infidels else, if we have not that account of it) that nothing we can eye under the notion of a good to us, may be reckon'd so eligible as that. viz. our final and compleat blessedness in the other world, which because, we know, we cannot enjoy without dying, death also must be judged more eligible then Life, that is, Our Blessedness must be judged, eligible for it self, and Death as requisite to make it present. So that the entire object we are discoursing of, being present Blessedness, Consider it in comparison with any thing else, that can be lookt upon by us, as a good which we our selves are to enj•y, it ought to be preferr'd and chosen out of hand, in as much as nothing can be so great a present good to us, as that. And this ought to be the proper habitual inclination of our Spirits, their constant frame and bent, as they respect onely our own interest and welfare.

But considering Gods Dominion over us, and interest in our Lives and Beings; and that as well ingenuity, as necessity binds us to be Subject to his pleasure, we should herein patiently suffer our selves to be over-ruled thereby, and not so abstractly mind our own interest