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How
thole
;that hanger are faid
to
be
bleffed.
would haften those
times,
they fend
up
ftrong cryes
to
God
that
righrcoufnetfe might come
into the world,
how long,
how
long
Chaff
is be holy
and
true,
&c.
They
fend up mighty
pray
-
ers to God
that
righteou,nefle might prevails
in
the
world:'
And
for
their
o\vne
parts
therefore,
they (whatfoever
they
do)
will not
meddle
with
any
unrighteous wayes,
but
rather
tùff'er
-any
mifery
in
the
wo
1d
then to be
any
meanes
to
coùntenance
or
Boyne
with
any
unrighteous
wayes, much
letfe
to
.
doe
any
unrighteous
acions
rhemfelves
:
And
therefore
though they
be
in
any
publick
place,
though
there
be much coming
in by
their
places, they
will
rather be
content
to
loofe
all
the advan-
tages of
their
places,
then to meddle
with
any
unrighteous
aeIi+
ons.
A righteous heart
loth
more hunger
and
thirfl after
righ=
teoufilefs then-after bread or
drink,andtherefore
wil
(hake his
hands
of
ttnrighteoufneffe, though he lives
in
an
unrighteous
world,
yet (faith
he) God
forbid that I fhould
have
to do
-with
this unrtghteoufnefle, no,
it
is
righteoufneffe that my
foul
doth
hunger
&
thirfi àfter,& therefore
though
T
loofah
my
friends,
my
eflate,
my
outward in;oyments,
yet
Ile be
lure
to
keep
my
confciènce
right,
and
be
a
friend
for righteoufneffe
as
long
as
I
live,
ile manifeft
that
I doe not
dally and
trifle
with
God
in
hungering
and
thirfling
after
righteoufneffe,
and
yet
be un-
righteous my felfe.
Ile
labour
to promote
it
as
much
as
Ican,
that
righteoufneffe may prevaile
to
the
world
;
now
bleffed
are
thefe.
Tor Firfl, They
have
for
the prefent the
image
of
God
upon
them,
thou
that
haft
fuch
a
righteous heart, haft
the
image of
God
jufl
-as
Gods
heart is,
fo
thy
heart
is,
the
Lord
is
a
righ-
teous
God,
the
Lord loveth righteoufneffe, and
fo dot'(
thoù,
Bleffed
art
thou
of
the
Lord
who haft
the Image of God
in
thee:
Secondly,
Such
as
do
thus hunger
and
third
after
righteouf-
nefs,
they are
witneffes
for
God
in this unrighteous world,
they
live nowin
an
unrighteous
world,but
fhall the
great God
have none
to
witnefs for him
?
yes,
there
are
a
generation
of
men that
live among
others that
are unrighteous,that do
Band
rep
to
:witnefs
for
Gods
righteoufiiefssthar
delire
nothing
in
the
world