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They

that

hunJcn

are

bleared

for

the pnefoat,

29

and

thou

wilt

cauce

thine

ear

to

hear

;

and

then

in

Pfd.

22.26.

The

meek

(hall eat, and

he

fatis

fled :

they

fhall

praife the

Lord

that

feekhitn,

your

heart fhall

live

for

ever.

They

hhall

praile

the Lord

that

feek

him,

who are

they but

thole that

hunger and

thin

(I

after

him

?

here's

a

promife, they

fhall

praire

God

;

you

are now

altogether

in

way

of reeking,

'in

hungring and

thirfling,

here's

a

promife that you fhall

praife,

and

that

your

heart

fhall live

for

ever. There

is

a

principle

of

life begun,

and your

heart

(hall live for

ever,

you

think

that

becaufe

of

fo,

much

corruption that

there

is

in your

hearts

that

you

fha

II

at

length

fall

off,

dye,

vanilla

and come

to

nothing, but they

¡hall

praile the Lord that

feek him, and your

hearts

shall

live for

e-

ver

:

You (hall praife

God

one day for

there delires,

for

this

hungring and

thirlling, that's another

promife

:

and

then

in

41

Ifa.

x7.

when the

poor

and the

needy

feekwater,

and there is

none,

and

their

tongue

faileth

for

thir

I

the

Lord will

heY

them,I

the

god

of

frael

will

not

forfake

them, But,

I

will

open

rivers

in

high

places,

and

fountains in the

midfh

of

the Valleyes,

I

willmake

the

wilderneffe

a

pool

of

water,and the

dry land, fprangs

of

water,

&c.

Arad

I

will

let

in

the

defert

the Farr

-tree,

the Pine,

and the

Box together

:

Mark, how

Gods heart

is

in

this promife

to

thofe

that thirfi

:

And

we are

to

know

that

by

there

exprer

lions

of

outvaard

things, fpirituall

things

are,

couched under

them;

for

that

was

the

way

in

the times

of

the

Old Tellament

epeciallÿ, that the

Lord promifed the

graces

of the Golpel

moll

under

outward

things,

in

an

external( way,

but

fpirituall

blediings

were couched under

them.

--

And

there's

two things

that

I

would obferve in this

promife, the 6rfl is,

how many

times God

expreife.h himfelfand faith,

l'le

do

this for

thee,

1,

I,I'le

do

it,

in

the

17

verfe, there

you have

I,

I,

twice,/

the

Lord

will

hear

them,

I

the

God

of

/frael

will not

forfake

them,

then

in

verle

18.

I

will

open

rivers

in

high

places,

and

I

will

snake

the

wilderneffe

a

poele

of water,

&c. then

there's

a filch

and

faxth

I

in

verf

x

9.

I

will

plant'in the wildernefe

the

Ccd

ar,and

I

will

fet

in

the defart

the Firr

tree,

&c,

l'(e'do

there

thins

for

fuch

as

hunger,

as

thirll af:er

;

they

(hall have

water

:

Six

tmaes in

a

very few

w">rds

of Scripturre,God

fai

h, I, I, I,

T,I

Qq

x

will