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of
thofe
that
dó
not
hunger.
3 3
5
and
to
carry
onfuch
and
fuch
defgtaes
of their
owne
As
to
keep their
eftates,
and
their liberty, their
eafe_and
credit
in
the world,
fo
farre
as
Religion
will
ride
with
their defignes,fo
farre
they will
bare
it
company,
fo farce
they like the
wayes
of
holinefs as
they
!land & fuit with
their
ends
butif
their delires
.
were
right,
they would be refolute,
Let
me have grace
upon
any
termes,grace
is able alone
b
make me happy,and
therfora
whatfoever becomes
of me
let
me
have
grace,though
I
perish,
though
I
endure never
fo
much
hardfhip,
fo
I
may have
grace,
it
will make amends
for
all
:
I
am
willing
to
let
go
any
thing
fo
I
may have
grace, for
in
it
I
shall be happy.
Sixthly,
mens delires are fleeting
and
unconflant
delires, they
have
d
efires
-in
fome
good moods,
and in fome
pangs
of
confcience, when
the terrors
of
God
are upon
their
fpirits, but
fuch
delires
as
thefe they
are
hypocriticall, they
defire
grace
meetly to
ferve
their
own
turn, to
flop
the mouth
of
confcience,
and
not
for grace
fake,
they do not
fee
an
ex-
cellency
in
grace
which caufes
them
to
defire
it,
but
for the
eafe
of their tormenting
consciences, and
the
flopping
the
trouts;
of their difquieted
fpirits.
Seventhly,
When their
delires
are lazié
delires,
fuch
are
falle
delires,
they arenot willing
to
take paines for what
they
do defire, the Scripture
is
very remarkable, and
a
terrible
Scripture, for this we
have in
the
2
t
Prov:
21.
The
de
fire
of
the
floathfnllJ llethhim
for his hands
refufeto
labour
:
I
much
feare that this
text
may
prove
a mot+
dreadfulltext
to
many,
the
delires
of many
they
kill
them, they defire
after
that
which
is
good, but
they
real in
them,
and
trufl
to them,
and
think they
have
a
work of grace upon
their
hearts,
when
as in
truth
tis nothing
fo
S
fo
that they
deceive themfelves
in
this
great
bufinelfe.
In
the
i
3
Prov:
4.
ver. The foul
of
the
flw-
gard
de/ireth,and
bath
nothing.
You
are defiring
that
whichs
good,
but
you
have
nothing,like
thole
women
that
the
Apofl-le
(peaks
of in
Trm,thy,that are
ever learning
but
they
never
come
to
the
knowledge
ofthe
truth
:
You
have
lazie
delires that
rake
no
paines
tó
get
what
you
do defire, people they
do
not ex-
amine
what
becomes
of
their
defires,have
we
got
thofe
things
that