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-Comforts
to thofe
that
hunger
after
SanEfification.
ofithy grace
;
know
that thy
bungring's
are
better
then the
4V0í
-Ids
fillings.
Secondly,
Thefe
deliires
of thine,
they
are
better then
all
commongifts,
the greateli
parts
and
naturali endowments
that
thi.
mol}
glorious hypocrite
in
the world bath,
=many
can
pray
excellently,
repeate
largely,and thou
thinkeft,had'ft
thou
their
gifts
and
park,
how happy
ihouldefi
thou
be,
thy hungrings
are
better
then
Chafe
enlargements, for they are but common
workings,and
no diftinguifhing
characters,
butthefe
hungrings
and
thirflings after
this
righteoufnefs, they are
the
breathings
of
the Spirit
of God,
the
fpeciall workings
of
the
Spirit.
Thirdly, This
is
the
thing
that hath
been
the comfort of the
moft precious
Saints
in
all
theworld; Thofe
who
_
are now at
relt
in
the
bofome of
the
lather,
they
have
comforted them
-
felves
in there
hungrings and
thirflings; perhaps
thou cana not
fee the full manifeliation
of
this
in
the
affurance
of
it;
neither
could they; but
they hunger'd and
thirfted after
this,that God
would
lift,
up
the light
of
his
countenance upon
them;
look
that
choife
Scripture,
and
meditate
upon
it
as
thy portion
;
Mark,
how Nehemiah exprellès
himfelfe,.0 Lord
let thy
ears
be
atten-
tive
to
the prayer of
thyfervant, and
thy
fervants
who
defire
to
feare
thy name
.
as
if
he should fay,
Lord
thou
knowefi
though
there
be
many weakneffes in
us,
yet the
defires
of
our
fouls
are
to
feare
thee,
comfort thy felfe with this Scripture
when thou
canfi_not find
that
righteoufneife
thou-
wouldefi have
:
when
thou
haft fad
dejected
:thoughts
within
thee
that
God
perhaps
wil
rejett'thee,make
ufe
of this Scripture:Lord
thou
knowefl
the
defires
of
our[ogles
are
to
feare
thy name,
Lord, Let
me
have this
and
l
am
happy,
though
corruption
prevailes
over
me, yet
this
fpark
is
alive in me for
-which
I blelle
thy.
name,
I
defire to
feare
thee;
And
Chrift
faith
in
the
Text,
Bleffed
areihey
that
hunger and thsrft
after
righteoufnefs.
Its
very
obfervable, he
dot
a
not
fay,
Bleffed is he
that doth
thus and
thus,
No,
But
blefJ'ed
is he
that
hungers and
thirfls after right
eoufneffe,
though
they
are bleffed
that do this, yet
for
the comfort
of weak ones
this
is
Paid,
Bleffed are
they
that
doe defire
to
hunger
and,
third
after righteoufneffe,bleffed
are they
who
find
thewant
of
it,
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