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Reproof
of
thofe
that
doe
net
hunger.
3
3
I
things
of the flesh,
but
now
the
Lord
he bath begun
to
worke,
and
if
the work be
but yet
in
humiliation,
if
it
be but
in woe
king
downwards-in
the root,
blefl'e
God
for
this,and
know
it
is
a
mercy which thou
canffneverbe
thankfull enough for, for
when
the
worke of grace
works downward
s,ir's
as
frire an
argu-
ment
of
the
truth of
righteoufneife
in
thee,as if
thou
hag(
the
greateft
elevations and raptures of joy
:
And
thus
I
have done
with the
fecond
thing, propounded in
the
firft ufe.
There
remaines
but
one
thing
more,
and
that
is
for rebuke,
and
reproving
of
thofe
that do not
thus hunger and
thirft
after
righteoufiefle.
There
are
many who will fay, this is
a
very
choifc
point,
and
Meted
be
God
we do hunger and
thirft
after
righteoufnef'fe, and though wè
areable
to doe but
little,
yet
this we
can
fay
for
our
felves,
our
delires are good, but rake
heed
you
do not deceive
your felves
in
your
delires, for
there
are
many who do
deflre, but
their
delires
will
never
cone to
any
good
:
I
did
in
part
difcover
to
you
what thole delires
were before,
which
did
demonstrate
a
foule
that did;
truly
hunger and
thirft
after this righteoufnefle, but here
I
shall
add
fomething
of
reprehenfion,
by way
of
falfe
delires.
pirf},
Such as.fee
no
excellency in
grace,thefe
are
to
be
re-
proved,
as
thofe
that do not
deflre after grace: how
cant
thou
fay
thou
defirefi after
that
which
thou
feet} no
excellency in,
are
there not
many among you
that
fay
as
thofe
in
job,
Chap:
14.
s.
i
,
They
fay
unto
God
depart
fromur, for
we
de
/ire not
th
knowledge
ofthy Law.
Thefe are
a
wicked
Ge
ration,
bur
you will
fay,
it
i
ne
not
our
cafe, furely
there
are none among
that
are fo vile and
wicked, that (hall dare
rabid
the Allmigh-
tÿ
depart
from
them,
though few men
dare
be
fo
wicked
as
to
fay
it
in
their
words,yet
how
many
are
there
that are
fo
wicked
as
to
fay
it
in
their
praaices,
many
fecretly
in
their hearts
fay
this
:
what are
the
meaning of thofe fpeeches
of
yours
elfe,
to
this
erfeCt,
whatneed
we
have
fo
much meanes,fo much
prea
-'
ching,
fuch
reformation,
cm
we
not have our old
wages,
can
we
not
goe.
to
Heaven
in
the
wages
that
we were formerly
taught
in,
thefe
are
new wayes, we
never
heard
of.
fuch
talk
e
about government
and
worship, and the
tftaigl tneffe
of
the
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2
wages