264 Reproore or thofe that doe net gunge.. thou canft hold, when thou fhalt come to enjoy all the bene- fits and fruits that will be the confequents of fuch a righte- oufneife as this is. Bletfed are they that hunger and thirft after this righteouTnefle for. they shall be tilled . ----- Thus we have opened this Second b:anch viz,. The hunt Bring and thirfling after the Righteoufneile of the Lord Jefus Chrift. --- By way of Application. plication. In the Firfl place, The opening of what we have will pre - fently rebuke thole that never minded or regarded this righ- teoufneffe that we are now fpeaking of, that never felt any want at all of it, and therefore never had any hungring and thirfling after it : I am afraid I fpeak this day but riddles rd moil people. .I appeale to your confcier s as in the name of God, when path God difcovered the g : y of this righreou- neffe in the realliry of it to your foules, when have your hearts been taken with it, and can any clofet of thine., any Roome of thine teflifie thofe mighty cryes to God for thy tart in this righteoufneffe? when hash there been fuch ftirrings in thy foule after this righteoufneffe? Lord,I am undone, I perish for ever, better I had never been born, but that I had been a Toad, a Dogg, then not to have this righteoufnefle''of thy Son I ap- peale ro you, when was there ever any fuch kind of working in your hearts ? certainly,i you be altogether unacquainted with thefe hungrings and thirftings after this, you are not one of thofe that Chrifl pronounces blefled ; you have hungrings and' thirflings after other things that can doe you no good ; here's an objeca to raife up rie defi'res of a -rational' creature, here indeed is that that fhoald whet .your. appetite. In the fecond place, Let what bath beenfaid quicken and {harpen your appetites after this righteoufinef 'e, and snake you fay, O Lord thou haft thisday fer before me out of thy word a glorious myftery bf Religion, a righteoufneffe of thy Son, that heither knew not;, oz little minded heretofore, Lord, I fee my bappine& to confift in that, I am for ever" made if I have that, 110
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