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Confderations toqùicken
our
appetites
after
righteoufneffe.
gracious and
godly,and
ô
how
much
of hrift, of God,
of hea-
venlinefs,
of
favourinefte, of wifdome, of holinefíe,
have they
got within
a
few years,
more then thou
haft
got
for this twenty
or
thirty
years,
thenhadit
not thou
need to
be hungringand
thirfling after more
?
Thirdly,
By
this meanes
the
more grace
thou haft,the more
good thou
!halt do
to
others,
'cis
not
enough
to
have grace
meetly
to
carry
thee
to heaven,
but that
thou
mayelc
be uìefull
in
the place where
God
bath
let
thee
:
weak
Chrifliaw
May
make
(hift
to
uphold themfelvs here
in
this
world,
&
to get
to
Heaven withmuch
adoe, but
ftrong chriftians
are
ufefull
to
o-
thers,
and
do
abundance
of
good
to others
:
ô that
I might
have grace
then
to do good
to
others.
Fourthly, Confider
what ftrong hungrings and
thirilings
you
have had
heretofore after the
things
of the world
;
Lord
I
re-
member that
in
former times
tiny
heart
was
carnali,
and what
firong delires I had after the world, how
did
my
thoughts
run
about
my liufinefle, in my
calling,
that
fo
I
might thrive
and
profper,
and have
good
comings in
;
Lord
thou
knoweft that
many
times after bate
linfull
lufts my
foul
hath
been
ftrong
in
the
delires of
them,and
(ball not
now
my foul
be
firong in the
delires afrer thy righteoufneffe.
Fifthly,
know,
It
is
imporfible for
thee to
have
a
heaven up-
on
earth
;
all chriftians may come
to
have
a
Heaven upon
earth,
here
in
this
world,
there
is
fuch
a
conditionwherein
our hearts
may be
fill'd
with
joy unfpeakable and glorious in
beleeving in
the *ayes
of godlineffe,
but
now
this cannot be byweak grace,
there
mull be
ftrength of
grace
:
whereby
the
foul
of
a
chriftian
maybe
in
Heaven while they are
capon
the
earth,
and
converte
with
God,
his
Angels and
Saints
here
in
this
world,
as
if
they
were
in Heaven,
this
may be had
and
therefore
hunger
í1i11,
and thirty
after further degrees
of righteoufneffe.
Sixthly,
It's
the
only way
to
help
thee
againft
temptations
to
grow ftrong in
grace,
thou
that
haft
but
a
little
grace,
thou
art
lyable
to
temptations
on
every hand,and
the
Devil'
is
ready
to
foyle
thee,
in
this and
the other thing, but
by
ftrength
of
grace thou mayeft
be
able
to
refill temptations;
and
it's
a
great
mercy