Reproof of thofe that do not hunger. 335 and to carry on fuch and fuch defiglaes óf their owne ; As to keep their et +ates, and their liberty, their eafe and credit in the world, fo farre as Religion will ride with their defignes,fo farre they will bare it company, fo farce they like the wayes of holinefs as they (land & fuit with their erids,butif their delires . were right, they would be refolute, Let me have grace upon any termes,arace is able alone to make me happy,and therfora- whatfoever becomes of me let me have grace,though I perish,. though I endure never fo much hardfhip, fo I may have grace, it will make amends for all : I am willing tolet go any thing fo I may have grace, for in it I fhall be happy. Sixthly, mens delires are fleeting and unconflant delires, they have d efires in force good moods, and in force pangs confcience, when the terrors of God are upon their fpirits, but fuch delires as thefe they are hypocritical!, they deli re grace meetly to ferve their own turn, to flop the mouth of confcience, and not for grace fake, they do not fee an ex- cellency in grace which caufes them to defire ir, but for the cafe of their tormenting contciences, and the flopping the mouth of their difquieted fpirits. Seventhly, When their delires are lazié delires, fuch are falle delires, they are not willing to take paines for what they do delire, the Scripture. is very remarkable, and a terrible Scripture, for this we have in the 21 Nov: ag. The de lire of the (loath full k lleth him for his hands refufe to labour : I much faare that this text may prove amoll dreadful' text to many, the delires of many they kill them, they de ire after that which is good, but they ref+ in them, and troll to them, and think they have a work of grace upon their hearts, when as in truth tis nothing fo ; fo that they deceive themfelves in this great bufineffe. In the i 3 Prov: 4. ver. The foul of the flug- gard de/ireth,and path nothing. You are defiring that which is good, but you have nothing,like chofe women that the Apoflle fpeaks of inTrmnhy,that are ever learning but they never come to the knowledge of the truth : You have lazie delires that take tao pains to get what you do delire, people they do not ex- amine what becomes of their defires,have we got thofe things that
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