,How t ie f silt putt` fo 'th t fs` é:iia htloigì`t k; - -. why to attend upon him in the ufe of Ordinances , never. fo long,here, Tam content, thefoule puts forth.it's power, iíadeaä yours, mightily crying to Cod, -and ftudying what it ihòuld do to know the way of the Gofpei, more hen ever it did. Fifthly, One that hungers and thirfts, his defires are refo- lute, there's power, and indeavours, and they are refolute, he cloth not hand upon conditions, to indent this or that way, but let the indeavours be what they will be, and indeed this is the work of grate 'in the heart where an hypocrite failes : when the foule comes to reuigne it felfe up to God, it döth give up it's felfe to-trod, it fubfcribes to a blank as it were,that'is,Let God let down what he will, here I am willing to yeeld up my,felfei as Paulin hisconverfion with trembling and affòiáìthmentfai4d; Lord what wilt thou have me to;doe ? here, I am contte+t>x b yeeld up niy felfe to doe whatfoever thorreiluirefa r'(f4 that this is a condition fill) I only fpeak this in a Way of meta - phor tó flew the fubmillion of the fault tö God,for indeed this is not a thing upon which God will give faith, but this is the mannerof the working of God upon the foule in bringing of it to this righteoufnefs, when it's in this condition That 'Chrif here fpeaks of, Hun ring and thirling after this.righteoufneffe It's- true God deales with a great deale more indulgence to fore foules, but if you have had it fooner then others, doe -not you be wanton and fay what need fo muchadoe in hungring arid: thirfling and the like ; We doe not 'impofe this as a legal qualification, but we fay this is the way that God loth worke upon force, to keepe them a great while before they core to' know that they have part in this righteoufneffe, to keep them hungring and thirflir g after it, and fobreak their hearts, Sirlíly, Whichis very obferveable, The foute is unfatisfiy ed in this hunger and thirf, till this righteoufnefs doh come, a child that doth but play with -his meare, or whole bellÿ is -ful, may be crying after- fomethingg that he fees; but you may put of a child with a Rattle when his belly is full, but if he be droughty a hungry, then 'offer him What rattles you will, yet he mull have his hunger fatisñed if he be'hungry indeed, and fo it is with the foule, many aman or woman hath force begin - K k nings
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