2;9,4 it, and in the mieft of that, th e.defire of : h eir.fould-is to fear, God, thi s Scrip. ure belongs to hee, Comfort thyleleewi rh it- as thy portion,' but beturi: that thy c1;;17res are l'1ghC.- :SERMON XIX.- o They that Unger erre hlefféd fer the pre fent. M A T H. S. 6. Bleed are they which doe hunger and thirif after righteot2 fne f fe r for they (hall be filled. HERE are two things yet to be . opened about bleffednefs.and than we [hall come fully to the Applicati- on of it. . They #reblefJèd that do hanger and thirf after rrghteoaafr.cffe; They are bleffed for theprefent. . Finii; filefJid, because they are fo enlightned to fee wherein true excellency;doth confif rxbletied. are they in comparifon of others, that fee no higher excell:n cy then to eate and drinke and to have contentment to the flefh ; Blehed ere they whole eyes God hash opened to fee into the excellency of this righteoufncfs to underhand what it. means. Thofe.whofe eyes God hash opened, and minds the Lord bath inlightned but to fee the excellency of this righre-, oufnef fe above all things that can be defired,'they bled God' for this, and account it the greateftbielling under Heaven, next the fight of the righteoufnefl-e' of Jefus Chrifi-, that .God hath fhowne unto them the beauty the excellency,, and the glory of this righteoufnefs. Secondly, BIeffed are they, They have a magnatnitous Spi rrt,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=