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Psalm 16:10

“May we enjoy after our blessed resurrection those solid delights which we believe lie within your hand alone. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.”
- Vermigli

A chief reason Christian’s ought to dedicate themselves to the study of God’s attributes:

“The true way to ennoble and improve ourselves is by fixing our love on the divine perfections, and we should always have them before us and derive an impression of them upon ourselves” (Pg. 72).

In other words, Scougal is saying that it’s in the beholding of God’s attributes that are changed (2 Cor. 3:18).

“Oh, that the life of the blessed Jesus might be always in my thoughts and before my eyes so that I may gain a deep sense of the graces that shoneso eminently in him! Let me never cease my endeavors till that new and divine nature prevails in my own soul and Christ is formed within me. Amen” (Pg. 66).

“[Jesus] was so entirely swallowed up with a deep sense of the perfections of God that he appeared as nothing in his own eyes (I mean insofar as he was human)” (Pg. 62).

“Religion is a reflection of the divine perfections, the image of the Almighty shining in the soul of man. It is a real participation of his nature. It is a beam of the eternal light, a drop of that infinite ocean of goodness. And those who are endowed with it can said to have God dwelling in their souls and Christ formed within them” (Pgs. 37-38).

“I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it. And I can't believe that, when we have all been changed and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us.”