a S z Hzhett true bowing and thirfting of the foule is. thefe delires have been earnef , and not at a moode. or flafh, but in a confiant and fetled way : And they have been induflrious, Lord thou knowell the paines that my foule bath and Hill am willing to take,if I might but overcome Each corruptions, and be enabled to walke with thee in holi, neffe and righteoufnefle, I care not what paines I tooke . Ánd Lord, this bath been from year to yeare, and I am refol- ved that this (hall continue, and through thy grace I hope it. will continue to my dying day, fo as if I lhoufd perifh I would perifh crying to thee for the Righteoufneífe of thy Son, and for theRighteoufnefe of Sanaitication of my heart; Lord this it is that thou haft wrought in my foule, now if thou can{ be able thus to appeale to God, Bleffed art thou, Blcffed are thofe that doe hunger and thiri after righteoufnege, in this manner But now though in the very nameing of thee things, perhaps. the Lord may be pleafed fo farce to worke upon fome hearts as to quicken force defres after the wayes of God, and Righte- oufneffe, yet the maine thing that is to be prefented to you for the quickning of your hearts, is the fetting the beauty and the . excellency of it before you ; And fo the comforting and en- couraging of the fottle in feeking after it. SERMON
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