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What
true
hanging
and
thirfting of
the
foule
is.
v79
had grace
before
to
dire&
him,
but
he
would
have
more,
p
that
my wayes
were
diretled
to keep
thy
fratutes:
David
that
was
a King, and had
great contentment
in the
world, and yet the
thing that
makes him
with
fuch
a
figh
fend
up
his delires
to
Heaven
:
It
was
for the
want
of
grace in
his
liearr,and
therefore
h:
cryés
out, O that
my
wayes
were
directed
to keep
thy
fla-
tutes,
as
if
he fhould
lay,
Lord,
thou that knoweil
all
things
knowefl
there
is
nothing
in
the world that
would
be
a
greater
contentment
to
my foule,
then
if
I could
finde my
heart
direc-
ted
to keepe
thy
flatutes,
and
then
in
the
io.
ver:
With
my
whole
heart have
I
fought thee, faith
David
;
Why
what's
the
matter
?
O let
me
not
wander
from
thy
Commandements
As
if
he fhould
fay,
Lord,
I
acéount this
to
be
the
greatefl:
evil!
that-
can befall
me
in
this
world,
for me
to
wander from
thy Com-
mandements,
if
thou leavefl me
to
my
lelfe,
I
fhall
wander
from thy
Commandemens :
But Lord
let
me feele the
worke
of
thy grace powerfully
inmy heart,
that I may
not wandet
from
thyCommandemens,
and in
the 20, ver: My
faule
6reaketh,for
what
?
.for
the
longing
that
it
háth
unto
thy
judgements
at
all
times :
there
was
a
breaking
of Davids
foule,
there
was
never
any
man
that defired
any
thing
in
this world with more earnefl
nefle
;
what exprefrions
can
be
more then there
?
and in
the
t
3
t.verf:
I
opened
my mouth
and panted, for
I
longed for
thy
Commandements.
Nowput
all
thefe
together,
0
that
my wayes
were drreEted to
keepe
thy
flatutes
:
--
With
my
whole
heart have
I
fought
thee
;
Olet
me'
not
wander from
thy
Commandements
:
My
foule
brew
eth
for
the
tonging
it bath
unto
thy
5udgements,
at
all
times ,
And
my
faule_
panteth again. Thefe are
the ear-
delires of
a
gracious
heart
after righteoufnelle.
Seventhly,
Thefe delires
are
verytnduflrious
deliires,
they
are notidle delires,
as
the delires of moll people in the
world
after
grace
are,
meere
iidle,
the
Lord
give me
grace,
and
when
God
gives
me
grace
I
(hall
doe.
better,
and fo
go
no fur-
ther,
then
I
pray
God
give me grace;
but
I
arlpeale
to thee,
what labouring, what
flriving.xs in
thy
fpirit,
what
pains
taking,
what working
of
thy
foule
after
race, and
therefore
obferv¢
tl&at
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in
the
63
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the
t,
and
the
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