Chap,, According fOStMATTHEVV. I05 fits and f!aíhes, and they came to nothing. Carnall men care not Cur carnalCS e, to Peek, whomyet they defrre to finde, faith Bernard : Fain they toáere de- would have Chrift, but care not to make after him : as Herodhad fideranr i>rven ofa long time &fired to fee our Saviour, but never flirted out of re. cupientes doors, tocome where he was, Luk.22. But now, The defsre of ceofequi, fed the righteous that (hall beftiefaed, as Solomon hath it, that (hall nos é7 fequi. be well filled,as beafts areafter agood bait (as our Saviours word ó oorat here fignifieth.) Delires, as they mutt be ardent and violent, filch c proprtè Bi- as will take no nay, or be let down with frlence or fad anfwers citur de armen- ( whence it is that defrre andzealgoe together, 2 Cor. 7. II.) So tie. Nam 'Q if they be right, they are ever feconded with endeavour after the a rF agrta/nerea thing &fired. Hence the Apoille contents not himfelf to fay, that if there be firff. a Wilting miede, God accepts, &c. 2 Cor. S. I 2. but prefently adds, Now perform the doing of it : that as there was a readinet'e to Will, ( there may be a performance alfo, that is, afincere endeavour to perfcrm : as a thinlyman will not long for drink only,but labour after it ; or a covetous man with for wealth, but &rives to compaffe it. And thus toruane is to attain, thus towill is to work, thus to&fire is to doe the will ofour hea- venly father : who accepts ofpenco for pounds, of mites for mil- lions, and accounts us as good as we with to be. He hath alto promifed,To fit/ the hungry withgoodthings, to raindown righte- oufnefie on the dry and parched ground, to fulfill the defires of them that fear him. So that it is but our asking, and his giving : our opening the mouth, andhe will fill it : our hungring and his feeding, our thirsting and his watering, our open hand and his openheart. Theoil failed not, till the veffels failed : neither are we itaitned in God, till in our own bowels. Dear wife ( faith z Cor.6.Ia. Lawrence Saunders theMartyr) riches I have none to leave be- hinde, wherewith to endow youafter the worldly manner ; but that treafare of tattinghow fweet Chrift is to hungry confciences ( whereof, I thank my Chrift, I doe feel part, and would feel more) that I bequeathunto you, and to the rett ofmy beloved in Chrift; to retain the fame in fenfe of heart alwaies. Pray, pray : 1 ammerry, and I trutt I fhall be, maugre the teeth ofall the de- vils in hell. I utterly refute my felt, and refignMe to my Chrift, Ad. and Mn. in whom Iknow I fhall beftrong, as he feeth needfull. fol 361, Verte 7. BIeJJ'edare themercifull. ] They that from a coal- fol I3' a.. paflionate heart ( meltingwith fenfe ofGods everlafting mercy to it felt, and yerning over the miferies ofothers) extend and exec- _ cifc
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