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Confidcrations
to
quicken our
hunger,
no
great
matter
what
becomes ofme in
the..
won
d,
what
be.
comes
of
my
name or
efface,
if
I
have but
that
to
cloath'me
T
than
be -made
for
ever,
ó
that the
heavens
might hear
of the
cryes of fome foules
this evening
after
this
righteoufueife,
or
if
fo
be
that
fore
of
you
upon
the hearing of
what
is
said
may
but
think
what
is
the
meaning
of
this
;
however
let
there
be
this
fruit of
what
hath been
fpo,ken,
as
to get
alone
between
God
and
-your
felves and
cry
to
him
to help
you,
to
underfland
what hath
been
faid; for
certainely
it's
one
of the
great mitle-
ris
of Godlinefs,
you
are undone for
ever
if
you
doe not
Therefore at
leaft do thus much, cry to
God that he
would
reveale this
to
you,
and
that
will be fome good
way
made for
the flirting
up your
appetites
after
this righteoufneife.
There
are
two
orthree
things
that
may ferve for
the
quickning
of
our
appetites.
Fir&,
Confider
that
thou haft to
deal with
a
righteous
God,
we
have
a
notable
Scripture,
in
the
io
Rom:
3.
ver:
For
they
'being ignorant
of Gods
rrghteoufneffe
andgoing
about
to eJJstblifh
their
own
righteottfnef]e,
have
not
fubmitted
themfelves unto
the
rrghteoufnefs
of
God
:
Mark, they are ignorant
of
Gods
righte-
oulnefle, and
fo
they
go
about
to
etlablil
a
their
owne,and have
not
fubmitted themîelves to the
righteoufneife
of
God,
as
if
the
Holy
Ghofl fhould
fay,did
they but
know
Gods righteouf-
nefs, they
-would
never refl
in
their
own
righteoufnefs, but
be-
ing ignorant
of Gods
righteoufnefs' they feeke to
ettablilh
their
ovine
righteoufnefs
:
O that
God
would
but
this
night
caufe one manifeflation
of
his
infinite righteoufneffe
to thy
foule
,
this
would
caufe
thee to
hunger and
thi,ft after
it
indeed.
Secondly,
Confider
this
, That the Lord
is
abfolutely
re-
folved
that he
will have
his
juflice
fatis
ied, that
no foule
+hall
ever be fav'd,
but
he
will have
juflice
fatis
led
for
that
bide;
this
is
Gods derermination,and
the right
un..lerflanding
of this,
and faying
c`his
for
a_cer°:aine
concluiion will
mightily flirre
_up
the heart to
Peek
after
this righteoufn
fife
:
what is
God
a
God
of infinite righteoufneffe,
and
i;
this
a
certain tru
h
,h
it
no
fòùIe
fnall
ever be fav'd, but
God
will
be honoured
n his infi-
M m
fire