How the flute puts forth it felfe in huxgrinn. 247 lath been ;'but here is righteoufnefs enough to fwallow up all unrighteoufnefs whatfoever; that all thine unrighteoufneis in corpatilon Of this it is but as a drop to the infinite ocean that can foon be fwallowed'up -; upon this the foule doth as it were ranch forth into this infinite ocean of righteoufneffe, and God the Father doth by an aca of his make it over tothe foul' impu Ting the righteoufneffe of Jefus Chrill as really to this ,foule as. ever the fin of Adam was imputed to the Sons, of Adam: ---- Now here you fee the rife of this,hungring and thirfling after this righteoufneffe, now upon fuck a "worke of God as this: is. Then' marke how the foule puts forth it felfe in the hungring and thirfling after this righteoufneife. the-firfl place, it doth felfe it, it gets an affurance of it feeles a mighty paine for the want of it, as you know in hun- ger and chirf }there is -a very great pain in the body till nature be fupplyed, there are not very Many of you that have under- flood what the paine of hunger and thirf} means. Yet it may be there are Tome here that may underfland ir, and fome more' then others,but few of you as fome have done in former times; the paine of hunger and thirfl it is one of the greateft paines that our bodyes are capable of here , and a man that were ready to flarve.would rather venter, though it were through the fire, to get meat, then he would not have it. Now that foule that underflands with what a God it bath to de-ale, and the infinite neceffity of this kind of righteoufneffe to appeare before this God,if it bath not theaffuranceof it, it cannot butbe faint, 'cis that that lyes even throbbing at the heart,& till this conies the foule is, in great extremity, in molt lamentable extremity if it doth come to underfland thefe things, and yet bath not got affuranceof it. Secondly, All other things whatfoever that you can tender unto aman that wants bread, or drinke, that is ready to Aerial for want of thefe things, tender what you will they are all no- thing to him, he regards them as nothing, there's no favour in any thing, come and bring him bags of Gold or Silver,ir'sbreadt that he muff have,còme and b: ing hint brave Suits of Sattin and Velvety,
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