Ruler to helpfouls in theway pf hs ngrink, priety of the word,a longing foul is a foul that runs up & down from one means to another, if one thing will not do tr,anorher it muff have,it's delires muff be fatisfied or it cannot tell how tá live but runs up and down from one means to another,So in the 7 Mark24,25.You have a notable Scripture to fhew that where the heart is fet upon a thing, it will leave no means un- attempted ; It's faid of Chrilf, that he arofe and went into the borders of 'Tyre and Sidon, and went into a houfe, and would have no man know it, but he could not be hid, for certain woman whofe young daughterhad an uncleane fpirit, &c. The meaning is this, that the poore woman being of feeled with the mifery of her daughter having an unclean:. fpirk, and beleeving Chrilf was able to helpe her, though Chrilf was hid, the poorwoman refolves if he be above the ground to find him,and to nave him one way or other. And therefore the Scripture obferves, that though Chrilf would have none to know where he was, yet he could not be hid becaufe of the poor woman,fo 'tis here, if the Lord shall be pleafed to with draw himfelfe from the foule in one means, yet the foule that is fenfible of want of righteouf- nefíe, it will follow after God in one means after another, and will never be atquietand ref+ until it meet withGod, until it come to enjoy God in the wayes of righteoufneile according to his delire,that's the fift rule, Let thy hungring and shirting work in the ufe of all manes. Sixthly, In thy hunger and thiríf, take heed that thou doff nor rea in thy delires, do not rea in this, and think it enough, I have delires, God hath wrought delires in me, and that's fufficient, what need I any more: though it's true, there are many encouragements to chofe that have true delires, but this is as true, that when delires are right, the foule will not rea in thofe delires , I have delires , but it's the thing itj fel fe that I look after , for the obtaining ofmydefire, we read in the t 3 .Prow: 12.That hope deferrers makes the heart licke, but when the defire cometh, it is a tree of life : hope deferred, that is, when the foule would have a thing and it comes not, but when the de &re cometh, that s the tree of life, therefore the foul that is rightly wrought upon, will not tea in delires, will not think Sf2 Gad
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