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Rules to help fouls
in
the
way
of
hungring.
thole
that
1lan
be
lived,
and this
is
the
way
to
have
the de-
fires
of
thy
foule
fatisfied. Thou'
fiyeít
thou
haft
been tugging
and
labouring,
and
nothing comes.
this
means, try this
way,
to
aet thy faith upon
jeats
Chri
t
r
righteoufneffe, thon
ftyeff,
I fear-
I (hall prefume,
but never
feare
preftming
a3dng upon
Chriít
for
righteoufnelfe;
there's
feare
of
pre-
turning
when thou doff
act upon
Chriff
meerly
to
fave
thy
foule,
and
to deliver thee
from Hell,
but
when
thou
d.ot+
aft
upon him for
righteoufuel
e,
there's
no
feare
there
;
when thy
foule
is
after Righteoufheíle,
and
thou findeft that Chriff
is
appointed
by
the Father to be the
Conduit
of conveyance
of
all
grace
from the
Father,
and thou
art
can!
to
cal+
thy foul
upon him
that thou
mighteí+ have force work
of
his
Spirit con-
veyed
to thee,
for
the fubduing of
thy
corruptions,and for
the
etu'abling
thee
to
live righreoufly
before
Cod
in this world
;
Fear
not
orefuming
in
this
cafe, for
prefumptuous hypocrites
would
Meese
in
Chrit
onely
to be fav'd
from
hell,
but they
do
not prize the righteoufneífe of Chriff much,
they
would
feek the Kingdome of
Heaven for
deliverance
from
pain:
and
torment, but to feek the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
and
the
righte-
oufneífe
thereof, they
do
not
fo
much
look
at
that,
it
is
not
that that will feede
their
foules, but
now
when thou haft
'a
hungry foule
after righteoufneffe,
and comet+
to
Chriff,
to
clofe with
him, know
that
his flefh is meat
indeed,
and his
blood is
drink
indeed,
both for -Juflification
and
Sanf
ií
cation
likewife.
Eight,
If
thou
flndet+ in
thy
hungring and thirffin;;
after
righteoufnefs, that thou
haft
not
yet thy delire,
refolve
this
with
day
felfe,:tf
my
delire
cannot
be
fatisfed
in
this, I will
never
fú(fer
my
delires to
wander
after other things
any
more,
till
can
be
fatisfied
here,
keep thy
h
a;
t in
this
rerolution,
and
this will
keep
thy hear in
fuch
a
frame
as
righteoulneffe
will
come.
Many men and
women they have
good delires
red
in
them for
a
time, but
they vanish
away," becaufee
nor
ha
ving,their delires fulfilled, they come to
let
out
their delires
to ether
things. But
when
the heart
comes
to
this,
O
Lord,
my:
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