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How
t{1
ofé
that
hùxger
are
Paid
to be dlefJèd.
aa9.
World
more
then righteou
refs,
O bleflèd, bletled
are
you
of
the
Lord,
you are
with
fifes
unto
God.
Thirdly,
You are.blefled
in
this
regard,
for this your
hun-
gering
and
thiri ing after righteoufneis doth
deliver
you from
many
temptations
that
others
are
overcome withall
:
()the::
men that
it
may
have fome
resolutions
not
robe
unrighteous
but yet
when they
fee
the unrighteoufnefs of others they are
overcome,
for
their
hearts are not
fo
fet
againfi Lnrighteoui=
nefs
as
thine
is
to hunger and
thirfi after
ir,
but
now when
the
heart
is fo
griev'd
for
the
unrighteoufnefs
is
in
the
world,
and
fo
longing
after the righteouinefs of
God,
this
will.deliver thee
from
temptations,,
the temptations
that takes other
fades it
takes
notthy
heart:
and
that's
a
bleffed
thing.
to be delivered
from
temptation.
Fourthly,
Thofe
that do
thus hunger and
thirf+
after tighte
--
oufnefs
they
are
bleffed,
for
they
are fit
to be ufed
in publick
fervice; they
are
not men
that
would bring
righteouCnefs
down
to their
own
ends,
and feek
to
make
a
gaine of
the
pr
blick,
what
ufe are
they
fit
for
;
But
now
for
inch
as
doe
above all
things hunger and
thief}
for
fetting
up
of
righteoufnefs in
the
world, thefe
are
men fit
to
be employed
in
publick
fervice,
the
Lord delights to employ
fuch
--And
men
when they come
to
fee
it,
that their
hearts are
fet
upon
righteoufnefs, they will
love
to
employ fuch though ,it
maybe for.a'while thofe that
feeke
to keepe themfdves to the rule,
fome will
fret
and vex
at them, but let
fuch
men goe
on
in
a
confiant
,way
promoteing
righteoufnefs, firth
will
get
honour
before men
in
the
conclufi-
on
;
All
that do convene
with
them
will look
upon them
as
bleffed
here,and
fuch
men
as
area
to
be
employed iii
pullick
fervice.
Fifthly, They
are
bleffed, For they
are
the
men thar Band
againfi
the
fireame
of
unrighteoufnefs,
to hinder the
floods
of
it,
that it doth
not
overflow
the world
;
bleffed are they
that
are
willing
to hand
againfi
the fiream of unrighteous dealings,
to keep
it
from overflowing
of
all,
they are infirunients
of
much
good to
others
as
well
as
to
thernfelves
;Thefethe
Scrip
ture
faith are bleffed, in the
ç
Pfal.
is.
For
the
Lord wilt
hieffe