.kasles to help fails in the way of htingring. 313 that thou hungrea and thiraea after fomewhar, that thou hail a defir'e after fomething in the wayes of Godlinelfe, but let it be after all the wayes of righteoufnefs ;t let there be no way ofrighreoufnes,but thou findef} thy heart thus upright with God to hunger and third after it,and thou cana freely exprefs thy felfe toGod, that he that knows'all things knowes that thy heart doh make after all rightebufneife wharfoever, it is that thou longea after, all his wayes, and all his commandements that thou alighted fulfill them, that thou wilt not give liberty to thy felfe in any thing that is not according to his wayes ; Hunger after all righteoufne %. Fóurchly, When thou haft exprea thy delires to God, and that after all righteoufneffe, looke after thy delires, often confider wha: becomes of thy delires, how long have I thus hungered and thinned after righteoufneffe,when did God begin to ocn my conscience, and to air my heart after righteouC- neis : Think, bath it not been ever lince I can remember, or for long time, what then bath become of my delires all this while, what bath becomeof my many prayers that I have put úp to God that he would come in with his grace,& renew his linage in my fouli look after thy defires,fee what becomes of them ; many men and women have a kind of forme in pray- ing to God, and wishing that it were better with them, but they do not look back to their wifhes,either God grants my de- fïres,or he doth not, either I doe get more power over my orruptions,and more ability to ferve him in the wayes of righ- teoufnefle, or I do not, if I do, then I have matter to praiCe and bleffe him ; If I do not, I have matter of humiliation; but where's the man or woman that everyday examines what be- comes of their prayers after grace, to make either Gods granting their deliresmatter of praife,or Gods denying their delires matter of humiliation. Fifthly, a fure to manifea thy delires in the ufe of all meanes, obi erve that rule, and obferve this particular in it, that if fome meanes will not doe, then adde others, if ordina- S f ry
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