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They
that
hunger
are
bleffed
for
the
prefe<t.
z
96
comfort
my
felf
in
this, the bleiling
of
the Covenant
of
grace
belongs
to me,it
is
accep.ed
as
ifl
had
that very
righteouines
that
I
fo
much hunger
and
thirfl for. And
that's
the
fourth
bleffednefs.
Fifthly, Which
is a main thing
to
be
confidered of,
Blef
e
are
they
that
hunger
and
thirft after
righteoufneffe,
becaufe this
hunger and
thirit oftheirs it
do:h quench
finfuli
and bafe
de-
fires
in the foule, it helps
to
mortifie them.
There
is
no fuch
way
to mortifie
finfull
delires
as
by
gracious
delires,
as
thus.;
(
it
is fo
in all
other
affeóions)
The
way
to get
bafe
fordid
love
in
the
foul
to
be
mortified,
it
is by
love
to God
and love
to
Jefus
Chriti
The
way
to
ov ercome
finfull
joy,
it
is
by
the
joy
of the
Holy Ghofc
: Eo
the
way
for
to
mortifie
bafe
finfull
delires
in
the foul, wandringafter this
and
the
other thing,
af-
ter
a
thoufand vanities and follies
in
the world,that doth
undoe
the
fouls
of
fo
many
thoufands,
(
for certainly
the wandring
of
the delires after
vanity and folly
is
the
dellru&ion of
thou,
fand of
thoufands
offoules.)
is
to
have
their delires right
fet,
to
be
taken
o4
from
vain
and bafe
things,
and
to
be
fer
upon
:ighteoufnef
e,
upon
the image of
God,
and
the life
of
God,
and
upon
the principles
of
union
and communion with
God,
they
are
blef
ed,
for
here
are
delires
that
do quench
unlaw-
full
delires,
finfull
wicked
delres,
and
fo:doth regulate the
foul, fo
that
blefl'ed are
they
in
that
refpea:;
ï
61y
Bletfed
are they,for
this hungring
&
thirfling
after righ-
teoufneffe
makes
the
ordinances
of
God,
and
any
beginnings
of
the
influences
ofgrace to be very fweete unto the foul:
How
fweet
is
the word to that
foul
that
hungers and
thirty: after
righreoufneffe,
how
fweet
is
any
ordinance
of God,
becatffe all
ordinances are
the
conveyances of g
ráce,appointed
fo
by
Tod,
and
any
influence
of grace
to
fuch
a
foul, how fweet
is
it
!
when
the
Lord doth
come
into the foul
in
a
prayer,
or
in
the
words
and
doth quicken it
a
little,
or
help
it
-with forne
refolutions a-
gainfl fin, and
gives
it
any
power
againfl
temptation,
how
fweet
is
this
to
the
foul
;
Bleffed
is
the
foul that
bath
this hun-
ger,
for
it fweetens
all
ordinances,
all beginnings
of
influence
.
of
grace.
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Bleffed