311 Rules to help fouls in the w y of hungring. ell have, yet befure to renounce all unrighreoufiielfe ; I amyet in a hungring way, and cannot find that righteoufneffe I doe delire, but ô Lord, this I hope (hall be my care for ever,what- foever becomes of ine,I will renounceunrighreoufneí e,indeed I cannot get fuch abillity to ferve God with that inlargement of Spirit that I delire, I do not find that I do gròw as 1 would grow in grace, but Lord this through thy mercy I hope I (hall keep for ever in my heart, that whatever appears to be unrigh- teoufneife, I will not meddle with that, I will have nothing to do with that : In the i i y Pfal. z. 3: Saith the Pfalmií} there, BlefJèd are they that (keep his tefttnnontes, and that feel¿, him with the whole heart, what followes ? They alfo don() iniquity, they walkjn his wayes. They that feek the Lord with their whole heart, they do no iniquity, that is, in the meane time while they are feeking God, if it be with their whole heart, they do renounce all iniquity, there's no of fin but they do abhorre it as Hell, and will renounce it ; Though I am not able co guid my felf as I would, and to do what l ought, yet thus far, T n, t1 have nothing to do with my former unrighteous way, this is of great ufe to thofe fouls that Cod is bringing unto himfelf, in a way of feeking him, but yet do not apprehend they have found him ; They will renounce utirighteoufnedè, niany men and women, they feek for righteoufneffe, ( they think fo at leall ) but in the mean time they.give way to themfelves to fòme un- righteoufneffe, and fo they flatter themfelves in their delires, and think that God will accept of their delires for righteoufnes, though they give way to themfelves in fome wayes of unrigh- teoufnefs, take heed of that. , Secondly,In thy hungring and thiríling after righreoufuei}e, do thou often expreíte there thy defir' s before God ; often expreffe thy delires in the preferce of God,when thou art alone in fectet tel God of all thy delires that thou haft after his righ- teoufneffe, after his wayes ; appeale to God of thy delires, it's an carte matter to tell men that thy delires are rhus,but exprefs to God dayly thy delires after his righteoufneffe. , Thirdly, Look to it that it be after his righteoufneffe that thou doll hunger and thirft, do not fatisfie thy felfe in this; that
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