Confiderations to quicken our appetites after righteotsfnefffe. thee hereafter: Now as I have laboured to encourage thofe that are hungry and thirfty. Secondly, I delire to propound Tome confiderations to quic- ken our appetites after, there deÇires of righteoufnefle. You that have hungred and thirfted, take heed that you lode not your appetite and ftomacke There was a time that you had a prong ftomack after righteoufnefs, have you fo 1h11, take heede of loofing it : When you come hòme and find not your felfe well, and have no ftomack to your meat,your wife and children about you begin to be affraid, and you are troubled, faying, I have loft my flomack to my meat, it is many times a fore -run- ner of death, and fo it may be of the death of the foule, loofe not your appetites, but labour to quicken them : Now thefe confiderations will ferve to quicken your appetites after this righteoufneffe that we arefpeaking of : -- I fpeak to thofe I fuppofe have grace : Do not think thus, I hope God bath wrought Tome beginnings of grace , and that may ferve my turn : No, but hunger and thirft after much ; Lord more, more grace, thou haft begun fomewhat, O that I might have more. Firft Confider, Thou dolt not know what work God may call thee to before thou dyer, and therefore it is not for Chri- ítians to have a little grace, but they íh'ould delire after much, yoù may be called to a great deal of work ; A little grace will help thee to do a little work, a great deal of grace will but help to do much work : There are times that God calls all his people to do much worke; And it may be thou mayel live to fuch times as thou mayell be called to doe more work then ever thou wert called to, and therefore be hungring af- ter more; Lord llrengthen nie with more grace, that I may be enabled to do all the fervice that thou (halt canine to. Secondly, Others who have began fine. you in the profetii- on'of Religion, they have our -gon you, they have got a great deale more then you: Perhaps thou haft been a kind of profef- for,thefe twenty or thirty years, or more, now how malty young ones that have begun fnce thou, th ?ugh aboundance of them vanilla away in difputes and errors, yet, Tome are very R r a gracious 306
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