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»hat
trrehuniri,w
and
tbirfirr'r.g
®f
the
f
ul
rs,
his
creatures,
I
wiís
made
for
him that I might live unto him,
and
how
happy should
I
be
if
I
could
make him
to
be my high-
eft
end,
and my
heart
could
be taken
orf from
all
other
things
and
envoy
him
alone
to
be
my
portion,
and be
acting
to him,
-and working-to
him,
and
to
make his will
to
b.e
the rule of
toy
life,
then
happy
fl.ould
I
be
O that
it
were thus
in
nay
foul;
For the
fecond thing,
Know
that
this hungring and thirflin
proceeds
fiat
from this
ground, that the
foul comes
to
under=
iiand the
great
good
that there
is
in
this
righteoufnefle,it
looks
upon
it felt
as
one that fhouid
be
a
moil
happy-
creature
if
it
were
inabled to-do
fo, to
work
Co
towards
God
; I were made
if
I
could
feele
the
holy
Ghoft thus
in my
heart,
working
my
heart
thus
after the Lord.
Secondly,
It
doth
;hirít
after this righteoufneffe
in
a
Ipiritu-
maanaer,
for
it
fell;
nor
onlybecaufe
I
am convinced
in
my
confcience,I
cannot
go to Heaven,or
I
nrufigo
ro
Hell if
I
have
ir
not,but
I
fee this rigüteoufiaefle
lowly
and
excellent
in
it
felf,
and
therefore
I
long
after
it,
becauCe
of the
excellency
there
is
in
ir
felf:
An
hypocrite
may.
defire
to
overcome
his fins, and
tobe
inabled-tododuties,
but
mark
it,
it is
in
order to
his or
her peace,
becau
Ce
I
cannot
have
quiet
and
peace
in
confcience
therefore
I
would be glad
if
fuch
a
corruption were overcome,
or I could have ability-to do
Inch
and
fuch
duties that
God
re
-
quires ;
It's
not
becaufe
of
any
excellency
that the
foul
doth
fee
in this
righteoufneffe, but
meetly
becaufe
it
cannot
have
pace
houtit
but this
bieft'ed
hunger and
thirflthat's
here
fpoken
of
it's
that
iii
it
makes
the
foul
hunger
after
righteouf-
nelfe
as
for
it
felf, my righteoufnefle
conf
fis in
it,
what
can be
better
to
my
foul
then that
I should live to
God
as
the
Iaft
end,
that
I
iliould have my heart working
to
God,'
and
make
his
will
to
be
my
will,
what
can
be
better
-
to
nay
r«
ule then
this:
Thirdly,
This
hungring
and
rhirlting
it
is
illirriced,
by
that
I
meane this,
the
foul
never
flints
it felt
what
meaìure
of
hoti-
n
efle
it
would
have,butwould
have
it
in
the higheft degree that
at
is
poffible
for
-any
creature
to
have
ir,
and
ítí11
if
the Lord
loth
enable
fuch
'a
foul
to overcome
fotne
corruptions and
to
walk