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CharaE"ters'if falfe defres
after
righteoureffe.
ofmore worth
then
the Gold of
Ophir, hath
God
difcovered'
to
you
the
need of
grace,
and your
undone
condition without
righteoufneffe,
if
it
come
not
from thefe grounds they are
but
falfe
delires
Many have
a
falfe
appetite,
as
lick men think
they could
eate food, but
when
it
is
brought
to them they can-
not
eat
it,their
lion-lacks
faile
them,
fo
thefe men,t
hey
defire
righteoufneffe, they fee worth
Mir,
and
nothing
is
dearer to
them then
righteoufneffe, but when
God
in
the Miniflry
ofhis
word
tenders
grace to
them, holds
forth this righteoúfneffe in
the
Miniflry
of the Gofpel,they
have no
hearts,
no
mind
to it:
How often bath
God
moved
thee
by his
Spirir,
and
then
thou
hall refuted
to hearken;
though thou fayeft thou defirefi with
all
thy
foule,
yet
when
God
comes
to
make
a
proffer
thou hall
no
defire, were thy delires right at
any
time,
they
would
be
right at all
times, but this
fhews thy delires
a!
e not
true,
but
that
it
is
a
falfe
appetite
which
thou haft, becaufe
it
is
not
confiant.
Secondly,
Such
delires are
falfe who
fatisfie themfelves
with foolifh delires, when men defire
the
end,
and
not the
meanes, when men would be happy,but
will
not
ufe
the
means
that
leads
to
happineffe, will we not account
that
man
a
foolifh
man
that
(hall
defire food,
O
that
I
had fomething
to eat, O
that
I
had
bread,
or
meat,
but
will
not
Peek
for
it,will
not
take
pains-to
get
it,
fo a
man would
beat
fuch
a
place,
and
he
ear
-
nefily delires
to
be
there, but
he
will
not flep
one foot in
the
way
that leads to
it,
he
lyes
full
and
firs
nor,
fo
when
men
de-
fire grace, and not
make ufe
of
all meanes, nor
beg ofGod
to
Welk the
means
to them
;
Can
you
fay
thus,
are you able
to
appeale
as
in
the pretence of
God,
Lord,
whatfoever
means
I
know thou haft appointed in
thyword to attaine
fuch
a
thing,
I
have
made
ufe
of
it,
and
I
have
negle
&ed
no
opportunity
wherein
I
could enjoy
the
meanes
for
the furthering
of
me
to
fuch an
end, art
thou
able
to
fay
thus, then thou
mayefi have,
comfort
that thy
defires
are
right, but when thy delires
are
large,
and
thy endeavourscold,
and doff
not
make ufe of all
means, never
flatter
thy felfe, thy delires are
not right.
Thirdly,
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