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Reproof
e
af'
thofe
that
doe
not
hunger.
thou
canft
hold,
when thou fault come
to
enjoy
all
the
bene-
fits
and
fruits
that
will
be the confequens
oti
filch
a
righre-
oufneffe
as
this
is.
Bletfed are they
that
hunger
and thirfi
after
this
righteou'Tnef
e
for,
they
(hall
be
filled :
----
--
Thus
we have
opened
this
Second
b:anch
viz.
The
hun-
gring and
thirtling
after the Righteoufnetle of the Lord
JeCus
Chritt.
--
By way
of Application.
4pplication.
In the Firft
place, The
opening
of what we have will
pre
-
fently rebuke
thofe
that
never minded
or
regarded
this
rtgh-
teoufiaelfe
that
we are now fpeaking of,
that never felt
any
want at
all
of
it,
and
therefore never
had
any
hungring and
thirfling after
it
:
I
am
afraid
I
fpeak this day
but riddles ro
moll people.
T
appeale
to
your
confcieles
as
in
the name
of
God,
when
hath
God
difcovered
the
g ty
of
this
righreou:-
neffe
in
the reallity of
it to
your foules,
when
have your
hearts
been
taken with
ir,
and
can
any
clofet of thine,
any
Room
e
of
thine teflifie
thofe mighty cryes
to God
for
thy
hart
in
this
righteouf'neflè? when hath
there been
fuch
(Erring;
in
thy
fouie
after this
righteoufnefle?
Lord,I
am
undone,
I pertth
for
ever,
better
I
had never been
born, but
that
I
had
been
a
Toad,
a
Dog,,
then not to
have
this
righteoufnellè'of
thy
Son
I
a
;-
peak
ro
you, when
was
there ever
any
fuch
kind
of
working
in
your hearts
?
certainly,i
you
be altogether
unacquainted with
thefe
hungrings
and
thisflings
after this,
you are
not one
of
thofe
that Chrift
prononces
bluffed
;
you
have hungrings
áti
t
thirflings
after other
things
that
can
doe
you
no
good
,
here's
Arfo'bjea
to
raife
up
the
defires
of
a
rational(
creature,
Fiere
'indeed
is
that
that
fhorrld
whet your
appetite.
In
the
fecond
place,
Let
what
hath
beenfaid
quicken
and
Tharpen your
appetites after this
righteoufheffè,
and make
you
lay,
O
Lord
thou
haft
thi='day fer before me out
of
thy
word
a
Motions myflery
'of
Religion;
a
righteoufneffe
ofthy
Son,
th'ft
I
eitherknew not,
oX
little
minded heretofore, Lord,
I
fee my
)aappine%
to
confifi in
that,
I
am
forever
made
if
I
have
that,
no