Incouragement to thoje that hunger, to walke before God in holy duties, thefe Iighs and groans un- utterable are from the Holy Ghol{, it may be thou canll not ex- preffe thefe delires of thine, as a man that is hunger-llarv'd he is not able to expreife the fulneffe of his delires after bread or drink; but though this be thy cafe, yet know, the Lord having fürr'd up thofe unutterable delires by his Spirit, he knows the meaning of his Spirit. Fifthly, Your delires and Gods meete; There's nothing in the world that God loth more freely bellow then righteouf- nefs, the Lord is more free and willing to bellow the righte- oufneffe of hisSon(that was fpoke to before)and the righteouf nefs of his Spirit,then he is willing to bellow a peice of bread, Thou mayeft as foóne have one from God as the other, for his heart is in one more then in the other: thou defiretl that thou mighteft overcome fin, that thou mighteft ferve the Lord in holinefle and righteoufneffe, and God defires the fame thing, Gods heart and thy heart meete together in one. Sixthly, If God will fill vacuities in nature, and will hear the Ravens when they cry unto him, will he not fill theemp- tinefs of thy foul,; God hath fo order'd things in nature, that there "hall be no vacuity, Philofophers fay, That the world will fooner fall to nothing then there fhossld be the leaff emptinefe in the world, but it mull be filled with fomething or other. Nóv bath the Lord fo appointed that there mull not be the leaf{ va- cuity in- nature,- but theremutibe fomething to fill it, furely the Lord will not fuffer a vacuity in an immortal( foule, but he bath fomething to fill that foule of thine that is empty for the prefent,and the Scripture tels us that the Lord fils every living thing with his blearing, and lhall not a foule that hungers after righteoufnef e, and the Image of God, and the grace of the Spirit of God, Ihanl it not be fatisfied, (hai( God regard to fa- tisfie the hunger of a Raven, and give water to a Raven. that ayes, and (hall he not fatisfie an immortali foule that hungers after that that is his owne Image, that he might overcome fin, and ferve him in hohnefs and righteoufnefs, certainly the Lord will fatisfie thee. Sevenrhly, Yet further the Lord bids us," that if our enemy R r hunger) 3)1
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