314 Rules to help fouls in the way of hu firing, ry will not do it, thenadd extraordinary, but efpeciallyobferye this in the ufe of meanes, let it be righteoufnefle thy foul longs after and labours for. As for inflance, it may be you will fay, as 1 have good delires, fo I do ufe meanes, I pray, I heare Gods word, l read, and confer with Gods people, but when thou art doing all tilde, is it righteoufneffe thy ioule works after and longs for, canft thou fay when thou goefl to prayer. O Lord I pray, and that I would have in prayer, is righteoufnefle, that I might I get fomewhatxnismorning, force further improve- ment of righteoifneffe and increafe of it,and art not thou fatis, fled in thy prayer except thou findeft that thou haft got force further righteoufneflè, that thou can't that day overcome thy corruptions more then before ; And fo when thou goelt to heart the word ;why I am going to hear a Sermon, and what is it that I long for, faith a gracious foule : ô righteoufneffe, ô that God would (peak to my heart, whereby I might get pow - er over my corruptions, and be more ftrengthned in his way, and find grace increafed, find more wifdome, humility, and the feare ofhis name, :and more fpirituall mindedneffe then ever I have had, O that ',might have that in the word, that's a good Sermon - wherein God fpeaks to my heart, for the furthe- rance of righteoufnek in my heart, and if I cometo the word and doìiot meete withGod there for the furtherance of the grates of his Spirit in my foul, that Sermon is not good to me whatfoever it be to others, becaufe I do not find the work Of Gods grace furthered in nay heart any thing the more:Hów ma- ny times do we coin to Sermons one after another and never think of this to-come with panting delires after righteoufneffe, Further, For the ufe of meanes, I'le give you a Scripture to few that it's not enough for you to hunger and thiril after righteoufneffe, except you exprefs it ita the ufe of means,in the 107 mfal. 9, ver: there s a gracious promife from God to fuch; glie fatiaf eth the longingfoule, and felleth the hungry foule* with laoin foule; The longing, foul are the fame, but now the word that is ta ated ppla tbha in your Books the longing foul, it is in:the Hebrew,the running foul,he fatisfieth the foul that Tuns up and down:that's the pro- priety
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