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Confsderations
to
fispprrt
the
hearts of
thofe
that
hanger &c.
323
may have
grace
:
As we read
of
the Poore people in Egypt,
they wanted
corn,
and
were
hunger
bitten,
they
carne
and
brought their'motsey
tolofrph
to buy corn,
then
they brought
their
cattel,
and they :old
their
Lands and
Po
leflïons
that they might
have
corne,
and
then they
came and
told
themfelves
to be
as
bond
-
(laves
unto
Pharoah,that they might
have
corne
to
fatisfie
their
hunger.
Nothing
flood
in
their
way
that
fo
they might
have
their
hunger
fatisfìed:
thus
it
is,
the
foule
will
trample
dome
any
thing
that's
in
it's
way,
and
will be contented
to
parr with
any
thing for
the
furtherance
of the grace
ofGod
in
it
And thus much for
the
rules to
be
obferved in our hungring and
thiriling after
righteoufnefs.
The next' thing
is
to
Phew
what may
fupport
the
hearts
of
them that hunger
and
thiríl after
righteoufneffe,
but find
not that they do
grow righteous.
The
fiat
is
this,
Confider that
if
there
be
but
the
legit
de-
gree
of grace,
it
is
as
true,
and
as
Pure
an
earnett of eternal(
"life,
as
the greatefl degree
is
:
it
may
be
force
that
are carnali
may abufe
what is
faid
out
of
the
word
;
but
let
not
chi!
-
ïlrenloofe their
portion
for
that
:
the
foule
that
finds
filch
a
working
as
this
is
after
righteoufnefl,
though
.thou`
haft
not
righteoufneffe
as
thou
doff
defire, yet
this
may
fupport
thee,
that
the
leaít
degree of true Grace, the
lea(}
feed of it
(
and
force
feede
there
mull needs be
in
that
foul
that
=bath
this
de-
fire)
i>
as
true,
and
as Pure an
earneft
of
eternal(
life,
as
the
greatefi of
all is
:
--
I
do not
foeak this
that
you
Mould
reft
in
any
degree of Grace,for that's abate
fpirit
CO
fly,
what
need
have
I
then
of more,but I
fpeak ro
thote
whole hearts are
up-
right,
that will not
fo
abufe
it.
It's
called
the
earnefi
of
the
fßa-
rit,
and
a
'man
in
abargaine,
when
he
gives carnet+, though
the
materbenot
great,
he
can
bind
a
bargaine
if
he give
but
twelve pence,
as
well
as
if
he
give
tweny
Millings,
fo
'tis
here,
though its
true,
where
there
is
a
little
grace
there
can-
nor:
be`fo much honour
to God
as
where
there
is a
great
deal,
yet
the
leaf}
degree
of
Grace binds thehargain with
God
for
eternal! life, andmakes it
as
lure
'td diceas
if
thou
had'il
as
much
Grace
"as
Rbrcíhárií;
Ifaïfc,and 3aco6;'it
may
be
becaufe
Tt2
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