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Rules
to
helpfouls
in
therm),
Of
hungring,
priety
ofthe word,a
longing
foul
is
a
foul
that
runs
up &
down
from one
means-
to
another,
if
one
thing
will
not do ir,anorher
it
muff
have,it's delires mull
be fatisfied
or
it
cannot
tell
how
tó
live
but
runs
up and down from one means
to
another,So in
the
7
Mark,24,
2
5
.You
have
a
notable Scripture
to
thew
that
where
the heart
is
fet
upon
a
thing,
it
will leave no means un-
attempted
;
It's
laid of
Chriíf, that he
arofe and
went into
the
borders
of
Tyre
and
Sidon,
and
went into
a
houfe,
and
would
have
no
man
know
it,
but
he
could not be
hid,
for
a
certain
woman
whofe
young
daughter
had
an
tine
lean
fp
irit,
&c. The
meaning
is
this, that the poore
woman
being
af£eed
with the mifery
of
her
daughter
having
an
uncleane
fpirit,
and
beleeving
Chriíf
was
able
to
helpe
her,
though
Chriíf
was
hid,
the
poor woman:
refolves if
he be
above
the ground
to
find
him,and
to
have him
one way
or
other. And therefore the Scripture obferves,
that
though
Chriíf would
have none
to
know
where he
was,
yet
he
could
not behid
becaufe of
the poor
woman,fo
'tis here,
ifthe
Lord
!hall
be
pleafed
to
with drawhimfelfe from
the
foule
in
one
means,
yet the
foule
that
is
fenfible
of
want
of,
righteouf-
neffe,
it
will
follow
after
God
in one means
after another, and
will
never be at
quiet
and
ref+
until
it meet
with
God,
until
it
come
to enjoy
God
in
the
wayes
of
righteoufnelíe according
to
his
defire,that's
the fift rule,
Let
thy hungring and thirfiing
work
in
the
ufe
of
all
meanes.
Sixthly,
In
thy hunger and
thirff, take
heed that
thou
dolt
-
not
ref+
in thy
delires, do not
reff in
this,
and think
it
enough,
I
have
delires, God
hath wrought
delires
in
me,
and
that's
fùfhcient,
what
need
I
any
more: though
it's true, there are
many
encouragements
to
thofe
that
have
true
delres,
but this
is
as
true,
that
when
delires are right,
the
foule
will not reff in
thofe
defres
,
I
have
delres
,
but
it's the
thing
itifelfe
that
I
look
after
,
for
the
obtaining
of
my
delire,
we read in
the
i
3
Prop; i
2.
That
hope
deferred' makes
the
heart
/'cke,
but
when
the
defire cometh,
it
is
a tree of
fife
:
hope
deferred,
that
is,
when
the
foule would have
a
thing and
it
comes
not,
but
when
the
de/ire cometh,
that's
the tree of
life,
therefore the
foul
that
is
rightly wrought upon, will
not
reff
in
delires,
will not
think
S
f
2
God
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