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What
true
hung-ring
and
thirting- of
the foal is.
water,
and
it
n,ever
clofes againe
till there
be
tome ihowsrs,
and io faith
David, O
Lord
it
is
with me
as
the
thirfty land,
I
am
as
it were
chopt,
and
I
Linde a
gapeing
in my
heart after
fome
fbòwers of thy grace,
and
Lord till they come
I
Ball
never
have my-heart
doled,
but
as
the thirfty
land
:
----
Thus
you
have feene what
kind of delires there are
that the
foule hath
to
this Righteoufneffe
,
as
well
as
to
the
other.
I
should
come
now
to
the
opening of
the great defireable-
neife that
there
is
in this Righteoufnefs
:
But
all
that
I
shall
doe
now, is,
to delire
you
to
take
a
review
of
this that
barb
been
delivered to
you
in
the defcription of this
hungring and
thirfting
foule
after this
righteoufnefle
of
fanaification.
I
fuppofe
that there
is
not
any one
of
you
but
have
had fome
kind
of
delires after grace, thoagh
you
have
little underltood
what
it
meant, but
now,
can
you
fay
as
in
the
prefence
of God,
O
Lord
thou
haft
wrought fach kind of
delires
in my
foule,
in
force
meafure
I
can
fay
it,
Lord
it
bath
been, not
from igno-
ignorance, but
from force enlightning
of Chrifts Spirit,
I
was
an ignorant
fottith
foul,not long
fince,but
the light of
thy
Spirit
came into
nie,
and Chewed
me
the
excellency
of
thy
righteous
nef
e,
what
a
bleifed thing it
was
for
the creature
to
live
to
God:
And
Lord
thou knoweft
that
my
delires
for
righteouf-
neffe, are
for
it
fell:
--
And
there
is
no
degree
can fatisfie
me
till
I
come
to
heaven,
I
would have
more and
more;
Lord
thou knoweftthat
all my
delires are
rul'd
and
ordered
by
this
great delire
of
my foule
after this
righteoufiieffe,
next to
the
delires of
my foule
after the
righreoui'neffe
of
thy
Son
:
Yea Lord
thou knowe
l
how
painful
it
is
tome to
want
it,there
is nothing in
the world more
grievous
in
me then
the
body
of
death that
I
carry about with
me,
fo tha_
if
thou
ihould'ft
ask
me from Heaven, and
fay,
foule what
wouldell
thou
that
I
fhould doe for
thee,
the
Lord
knowes
I
would make
this
anfwer,
Lord
let
me
have
the Righteoufneffe
of
thy
Son
for
my
juftification, and
let
me have the Righteoufneffe
of
thy
Spirit
for
my Sanctification
to
overcome my
corruptions,
and
to
ena-
ble me
to
live
to
thy
praile
:
And
Lord
thou
knowelk
that
O
o
there