ira:16 7,8) 9. Cant.a.f,a,3, 4. Pfal. 10.3. Nuns. 3I So. Dan, Hof, 6.,/Pt Pfal.78.37. y, 0. A Box of precious Ointment Or, grace as it is grace, that they love grace for grace fake,which none can do but fuch as have grace. 'Tis a. fore fign that he was never truly good, that cic.fireth not to be better (tile non eft bonus qui on volt ejfe noelior) yea, he has very great caufe to fear, that his heart is naught, very naught,if not {lark naught, thatdefireth .not to be as good as the heft, to be as gracious as he that is moil gracious, and to be as holy as he that is molt holy. Well Sirs, this will be found an everlafting truth,viz. That no man can fincerely defire, and habitually endeavour after the high& pitches of grace,but he that bath true grace. Eleventhly, No man can alwayes defire grace, but he that has true grace, conflantdefires after grace, argues the reali- ty of grace ; conftant defires after grace, fpeaks out a Date of grace, Pfal. 119. 20. lily foul breaketh for the longetb that it bath unto thy judgments at all times. Pliny fpeaks of a golden vine which never withereth. All gracious defires are fuch golden defires as never wither : Take a Chriflian when you will, and where you will, and among whom you will, and in what condition you- will, and flill you shall find his heart full of gracious defires. 0, that I had grace 0, that I had much grace &c. Salaam in a fit, in a good mood, defires to die the death of the righteous, but his defires were fleeting and flashy, they were tranfient, not permanent. Some poor fin- ners, when they are in a good mood, or under force diftrefs of confcience, or under fame grievous trials, or when they fee the hand-writing upon, the wall ; and when death, which is the King of terrors,- and the terror of -Kings knocks at their doors ; 0 then they cry out, 0, that we had grace ! 0, what shall we do for grace !, 0, fend to fuch a Minifler, and to filch a Chriftian, whom we have hated, fcorned, re- proached and oppofed, and defire them to be earneD with God, that he would give us grace, for now we fee, that with- out grace there,is no duping of hell, nor no coming to hea- ven. But all thefe defires of theirs are but like the morning cloud, or the early dew that quickly paffeth away : But now if you look upon the weak Chriffian, as you ilial commonly find a tear in' his eye, a fig,k in his breaft, and a complaint in his (
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