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How
the
foul
puts !Ord)
it
felfe in
hungring.
Velvet,
what's that
if
he
be
ready
to perish
for want
of
bread,
if
you
would give him all
the
poife
lions
in all
the world,
if
,yeu
give
him
not
bread,
if
you
do no: fátishe
his
hunger, they
are nothing
to
him.
What's
my
birth-
righr,faith prophane
Efara,
when
as
I
am
ready to dye
for
hunger,
and
fo
it's
with the
foul
that
comes
to underfiand
this
righteoufiaeffe
;
It's
true God
bath
given me there and there outward comforts in
the
world,
but what's,
alibis
to
righceoufn
s,ro
my fouls 'landing,
righteous
before
the great God,
l
muf'i
fiand before him for
the
fentence
of
my
eternal'
elate,
and how long
it
will
be before
I
(hall
be
brought
to
him
I
know
not,
and
therefore
it's
righteoufneflè.
that I
fland in
need
of,
and
fuch
righteoufneile
as
(hall
be ac-
cepted
of
by
the
infinite righteous
God.
Thirdly,
As allthings
are
nothing
to
him
till
this
comes,
fo
in hunger and
thirfl
there
is
a
mighty firong
delre,
fuch
a
firong
delre
as
the
body
is
ready
to
faint
if
the
delire be not
fatisfied, even
to
faint and
dye;
fo
it
is
with
the
foule
here, If
.I
have
not this
righteoufnefs
I
dye,
I
faint
and
dye,
yea
I
dye
eternally,
I
fee my felfe ready
to perifh
eternally
if
I have
not
this righteouineffe, there
is
a
fainting
in
the
fpirit untill
this
righteoufnefs comes in.
Fourthly, -There are firong
indeavours
after
it,
that
muff
'needs
be
in hunger
and
thirfi,
we
ufe
to
fay,
that hunger
will
breake through
flone walls,
there's
no work accounted
difficult
to
a
man
to
get bread,
if
he
be
ready
to
fiarve, he will no: flay
at
home becaufe
it's
ill
weather,
if
there
be
bread
to
be had,
do
we
not
heare
faith
Jacob
that there'
is
corne in Egypt,
fo
the
foule
that
comes
to
underfiand the meaning of this righrenuf,
nefs,
and
the
need of it,doth
not plead
or
pretend the
difficul-
ty of Gods
wayes,fuch and
fuch
things are
hard,for
me to
Lave
fuch and fuch
finfull
lulls and
difiempers
of
my
heart,
it's
hard,
very
hard; and
for
me
to turne
a
new life,
and fet upon
new
wages,
O it's
hard,
very hard
to
me, there's
no
fuch
plea
ding of
a
foule
that
is
in
a
hungring and
thirfiing
way
of-er this
righteoufnefs;
Is
it
póble-
it
maybe
had
?
this is
enough to
my foule
that there
is any
polfibility for righteoufnefíe;
if
the
Lord
will
require
fuch and
fuch
things, whatfoever they
be,'
why