276 ghat true hungring and thirffing of the f ul is. his creatures, I was made for him that I might live unto him, and stow happy should I be if I could make ,him to be my high - eft end, and my heart could he taken oif from all other things and envoy him alone to be my portion, and be acting to him; 'and working-to him, and to make his will to be the rule of my life, then happy tl-.ot:ld I be ; O that is were thus in my foul; For the fecond thing, Know that this hungring and thirffing ,proceeds fira from this ground, that the foul comes rounder- f and the great good that there is in this righreoufnefie,ic looks upon it felf as one that thould be a r ofk happy creature if it were inabled to-do fo, to work Co towards God ; I were made if I could feele the holy Ghoft thus in my heart, working my "heart thus after the Lord. Secondly, It loth _hirl} after this righteoufne!fe in a fpiritu- manner, for it fe if ; nor onlybecaufe I ana convinced am my confcience,I cannot go to Heaven,or I muff go to Hell if I have it not,but I fee this righteoufneffe lovly And excellent in it felf, and therefore I long after it,becaufe of the excellency there is in it felf : An hypocrite rnay-defire to overcome his fins, and to be inabled to do duties, but mark it, it is in order to his or her peace, becauIe I cannot have quiet and peace in confcience therefore) would be glad if Inch a corruption were overcome, or I could have ability to do filch and fuch duties that God re - quires; It's not becaufe of any excellency that the foul cloth `fee in this righteoufneffe, but meetly becaufe it cannot have 'peace withoutit ; brit this bleffed hunger and thirfi that's here fpokenof, it's that that makes the foul hunger after righteouf- neffe as for it feif, my righteoufnefle conf ffs in ir, what can be better to my foul then that I lhould live to God as the lift end, that:I should have my`heart working to God, and make his will to be my will, what can be better to nay foule then this. Thirdly, This hungring and thirfting it is illitnited, by that I mean this, the foul never flints it Pelf what meaiure of hole nelf it would have,but would have it in the highest degree that it is poffible for any creature to have ir, and. Rill if the Lord sloth enable Cuch`a foUl to overcome force córruptious and to walk
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