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the fade- puts forth
it
felfe
in'huxgring.
bath
been
;
but
here
is
righteoufnefs
enough
to
(wallow up all
unrighteoufnefs
whatfoever;
that
all
thine unrighteoufneis in
comparifon
Of
this
it
is
but
as
a
drop to
the,
infinite
ocean
that
can foon
be
fwallowcd
up
;
upon
this
the
foule
doth
as
it
were
lanch
forth into this infinite ocean of righteoufnefle,
and
God
the
Father doth
by
an
a&
of
his
make
it over
to
the
foul
impu-
ting the righteoufnefle of Jefus
Chrift
as
really
to
this
:
foule
as
ever the
fin
of
Adam
was
imputed
to
the
Sons,
of
Adam:
--.
Now
here
you fee
the
rife of this,hungring
and
thirfting
after,
this righteoufneffe, now upon
fuch
a
"wörke
of God
as
this
is.
Then
marke how
the
foule
puts forth
it
felfe
in
the
hungring and
thirfting after this righteoufneife.
Inthefirfl
place,
it
doth feele
it, it
gets an
affurance
of
it
feeles
a
mighty paine for
the
want
of
it,
as
you
know
in
hun-
ger
and
thirft
there
is
a
very great
pain
in'the
body
till nature
be fupplyed,
there
are
not
very
many
of
you
that
have
under
flood what
the
paine
of
hunger and thir& means.
Yet it
may
be
there
are
fome
here
that
may
underftand
it,
and foal:,
more
,
then
others,but
few
of
you
as
föme
have done' in
fortner times;
the
paine
ofhunger
and
thiríl
it
is
one
of the greateft
paints
that our bodyes are capable of
here,
and
a
man
that were
ready
to ftarvewould rather
venter,
though
it were through
the fire,
toget
meat,
then
he would not
have
it. Now that
foule
that
underftands with what a
God
it
bath
to deale,
and
the infinite
n..ceffity of
this
kind
of
righteoufneffe
to
appeare before this
God,if it
bath
not the afluranceof
it,
it
cannot
butbe
faint,
'tis
that
that
lyes
even throbbing
at
the
heart
8c
till
this comes
the
foule
is,
in great
extremity,
in
moll lamentable
extremity
if
it
doth
come
to
under(-and thefe things,
and
yet
bath
not got
affurance
of
it.
Secondly,
All
other
things
whatfoever.that
you can
tender
unto
a
man
that
wants
bread,
or
drinke,
that
is
ready to
perifl.
for
want
of
thófe
things,
tender what
you
will
they
are
all
no-
thing
to him, he regards them
as
nothing,
there's
no favour
in
any
thing, come
and
bring him
bags
of
Gold
or
Silver,it's
breach
that
he muff
have,cóme
and
b:ing
him,
brave
Suits
of
Sáttin and
Velvet,,