They that hunger are 6.'effe í for the prefent. 300 ground, I will pour inySpirit Upon thy feed, and my bleffing upon thy -of fpring. So that the feed even of the hungerers and thirft- ers after righteouneffe, they are bleffed ; And it clay be, thou that art now hungting and thi fling, and perhaps all thy life time continuefl fo, it may be the Lord will grant thafe things un.o thy feed after thee, that thou hail been raying for thine own foul. Thou fhalr have as much as may fave thee, and as much as (hall fatisfie thee,but for the particular of thafe things that thou haft been praying for, it may be God will grant it to thy feed after thee. But here's a promife that God will pour water Upon- him that is thirf}y, and floods upon the dry ground. And how lightly foever a cernalt heart may think of the promi- fes of the Gofpel,yetluch as are gracious would not give their portion in them for a thoufand worlds ; fuch a promife as this they would embrace, and make account that their riches con- flits more in it, then the riches -Of a covetous man in many bonds and bills that he bath of many hundreds and thou - fands. But the main thing wherein they Are bleffed is in that which Chrift faith, They fhall be fatisfied ; And we have many pro- mifes for this betides this ofChrift, in Prov: io. 24.. The de- fire of the righteous fhall be granted, In the T45 Pfal:19. There's another promife: that God willfullfill the delire of them thatfear him, and in l'fal: 10 3.9. He fatisfieth the long ng fossl, and leth the hungry foul with goodneffe. They Chan t e ittisfied, how is that ? Thus, Firft , So farre all hungring foules in this world (hall be fatisfied, as they (hall find fetch con :enrm_nt in the wayes of righteoufnefs, as their hearts (hall never turn quite out of thofe wayes what ever temrrations they metre with, certainly this is Tome fatisfa9 ion.; certainly there is foie fàtis- fadion in a foul when it is in fuc a way as no temptation can polaly draw it out of that way, if there be a Bet that fatten upon a flower, and is fucking of honey, if it cannot be got of that flower, certainly the Bee finds fweetneffe and honey there,fo all thofe that have but the left beginnings of true grace though they be hungring after more, they would faire have more-
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