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303

Incottragement

to

thole

that

hunger.

ged

with

the

tufts

of the

fiefh,

and

the

def res

of the

world,

the preferments,

honours,

riches,

pleasures

ofir, they

could

be

without the word

if

it

were for

a

whole

twelve month-

toge-

ther,

but

only

through

come

they

come

and

heare,

whereas

the

poor hungry

foul when

is

hathbeen at the

word but

one

day,it

longs

for

the time to

have

another meales meate,andfor

anoher

meales

meat,

and cannot

tell

how to-fpare one meales

meat,

now

that's

a fighe

that

fuck

a

foule

is

in

a

thriving,con-

dition,

be then encouraged

from

this.

Thirdly, There

is

an

infinite fountains

of

grace

that

is

let

open

for

poore

foules. Thou

that

hungreft and

thirítefl

after

righteoulnefs,

there

is

an

infinite fountaine

of grace,

and

there

is

bread

enough

in

thy

Fathers houle. Thou needeft not

feeke

to

fatisfie thy fouls with husks,

there's bread

enough;

My

flefh

-is

meat

indeed, and my

blood

is

drink,indeed:

Jefus Christ

is an

inn

ire

fountaine

of

aL

grace, he

is

filled

withal! the

fulnefs

of

God,& to

that end,

that

from

him

hungring

and-

thirfiing

foules

might be

fatisfied,

therefore

Christ

is

thus filled

;

t

Sohn

16.

Of

his fnlnejje

haze

¡all

roe

rece:zed

grace

for

grace,

There

is

grace anfwerable unto

the grace of Christ,

to

be received

from

his fulnefs,

and though

it's true,

there's

emptinefí'e

in

thy own

heart,

and

emptinefle in

all ordinances any

further

then

Christ

is

in

them, yet there

is a

fountains

ofgrace

fo:

thy

fatisfying,

an

in'nire

fountaine

that

hath been

the

fountaine

fromwhence

all

hungring foules lince the world began

have

been fatisfied, and

it's

open for

thee,

and

thou mayefl come

as

freely

for

it

as

ever

any

foule

did, to

take that

that

may fatis;ïs

thy

foule.

Fourthly, These

hungring

delires of thine, are

raifed

by no

&her

then the Hely Ghost

htmfelfe

:

In

the

8

Romans

it's

the

Holy

Choft that

reaches

us

how

to

pray and

fend tip

groanas

and

fghs

unutterable, it's the Spirit

of

Cod

that

helps

our

in-

firmities

:

Now

in

thefe

hungrtngs and

thirftings

-of

thine,

haft

not

thou

been

in

the pretence

of God

fending

upzrroansand

fighs

unutterable.

Surely

thy petitions,

are like

to

be heard,

that

are

indieled

by

the

Holy Ghost

himfelle

;

when thou art

crying for this bread

of life, to

overcome

thy

f

n,to

enable thee

to