2;113 am t %d at true t engriig a_d th,rfiirg of the find it. oppor'e it,and ile bleffe God if God will cro.ffe me in that de- fire. This is the right desire after this righteou;tietfe, when its a ruling delire lc rules in the foul, it is the chief desire and no def ire can be cheri[ht in the foul but such a delire as maybe force way ferviceable to this great delire of the foul in the bun - gring and thirf ing after righteou;neife. Fifthly, The delires ofthe foul in hungring and thir(ling af- ter this righteoufneife, it's a delire that pain goes with ; As was (hewed in the other hungring and thirfting after the righ- teouf neffe of Chia., there was a pain : As in naturali hunger there is pain, fo in that ; the guilt of fin was painful' to the foul ; and fo here, the unruly corruptions of the heart how grievous are they to it. When did you ever hear of 'pawl crying out for any of his fufferings, O wretched man that I am : When he was buffited, when he was imprifoned, he did nor wring his hands and cry,I am undone becaufe of imprifonment; when he was scourged he did not cry out ; he could fing when he was in the flocks, but when he found his corruptions to be ilirring in him, and the want of force degree of this righteous nefle, he gives a dreadful' fchreek, and cryes out, O wretched man that I am, who 'hall deliver me from this body of death, flow (ball I come to get power over these corruptions, and be inabled to walk after God, O that I could have but this, then I were a happy man ; and therefore you find that this hungering and thirsting after r ighteoufneffe followes upon mourning, Bleffed are they that mourn,and then BlefJed are they that hunger and thirfl after right eoufne f fe ; that is, thofe that firft are affec- ted with mourning for the corruptions of their hearts,and then upon this mourning there followes this hungring and chirfling after righteoufnefle. Sixthly, This delire likewife muff be very earnef, it's not a wifhing and a woulding, but a mighty earneft deft re; A Di- vine of ours faith,Tlie defires ofa hypocrite,they are faint defrer; but the fincere defires of the foul are fuch as make the foot faint, that is, they are fo earns' s s makes the foul even pant a- gain ; we have fuck expreilions, in the 119 Pfal. 5. O that my gray, fait=h David, Were dire' ed to keep thy f atutes. David hd
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