3 20 Rules to he p fouls is the way of hungring. hungring and thidling after righteoumnefie, is , Take heed that thou feelaeit not after this righteoufh fe for thy juftification, that's a rule that is of very great ufe, you have heard before what the righteoufneffe of Chrift is, and it's that onely juflifies the foule before God, but now this righteoufnetfe of San&il cation, it's that whereby we are Ma- bled to ferve God according to his way, but that's not the rigùteou neffe whereby I can llánd jufl before his Tribunal! at the great day. Now there's a mighty .miflakehere, many poor fouls would fain have more grace, but why? becaufe they think that by their grace they (hail be enabled to Rand before .Lod for acceptation to eternal! life, thsy think thus,were I-enableçi to overcome my corruptions more, and to do my duty mo -e, bÿ that mean; fhould I be 'able to look upon Go:fs face _,vi -h comfort and joy, but thou art mïflaken'in thi> ; It's true, it's a comfortable evidence of Gods love to thy foul, even the iv::rk of hisfFirit,for it's that that God loves and rakes c'elig!t in,but nowthou muff never think to render up thy rithteouñefleto God for juffiication : Therefore hunger and thirfl after this righteoufnefie, but as in the fecund place, . and fay Lord it is the Righteoufneife of thy Son by which I expect to be juflify- ed,'13ut now that I might ferve thee in wayes of righteoufiaeffe,. -therefore I defire this grace to be in my hearr,not for my jufti fication, but for my Sancdification. Eleventhly, In thy hungring after this righteoufneßë, let thy foule be willing to go through all difcoucagéments that thou meeteft with, and trample down all difficulties, all hin- derances that lye in thy way,when thou art hungring after righ- teóufneffe, it may be thou =yell meete with . more temptati- ons then ev`èr, more furring of corruption then ever, you mull make account of this, and all thofe that have fund this work of God in their hearts, they can by experiencetell this, . that when they began to flirre and labour after righteoufnef e, they found more flrong temptations then ever, more flirrin,s ofcorruption then ever, I but this would not difcourage them, they got over this, as we read of the poor woman, about the - i ç .,Matth: 22. A woman of Canon. came out of the Time coafhr, ald
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