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M.
na,
a
type
of
Clará
ft.
z83
whom
aloneis fall
nourifhnnent
to
eternal'
life
Nothing
is
good to
falvation,but
by
Gods revelation.If the
word
preached
doe
not
teach
thee Chrift
(the
true
inanna)thou
never
knowft him
of
thy felfe.Let
us
pitty
and
pray
for
the
lamentable
blindneffe,
not
of
Popi(h
reculants only,
but
of
wilful'
and careleffe
abfenters
of
themfelves
from
the houle
ofGod;whofe
Judgement
is
jut
if
they
never
come
to
a Paving
knowledge
of jefus
Chrift.
3.Hath
Chrift
beene made
knowne
to thee,that
thou
haft
tatted
the
fweetneffe of him
in
the Gofpell
?
As
Chrift
tàid
to
Peter,
Co
I
fay
to
thee,
Happy,
art
thou,
for
fleJh
and
blood
bath not revealed
him
to
thee,
brit the
Father
which
is
in
heaven.
sea
7.
2.
Concerning
our
duty we
learn
fhdry
inflru6 ions,
which
may be
reduced
to
fixe
heads..
I. To
get
in us an hunger
and
thirft
after
jefus
Chrift;in
whom
alone
is
full
nouri(hment,
and
without
whom we
are
farre
more
miferable
then Ifrael had been
without
manna.
For
i.
Onely
this hunger
makes
us
value
him,
and
fee
our need
of
him.
It
is
hunger
that
is
the
bell fawce
that
makes
manna
fweet
;
and
without
hunger
a
full
belly
defpifeth
an
h
sny combe.
It
is
hunger
that
makes
the
prodigal'
forme
looke
towards
home.
2.
It
is
the note
of
a ble
fled
man,to
hanger
and
thirfl
after
righteonfneJfe,
cAtat.5.6,
And
this
man
will not reft
till
he
be fatisfied.
David
was
an
happie man
in
fuch
hungry
delires,
when
bee
defired after
God,
as
the
chafed
Hart
after
the
waters.
This
thirft would
Bate
out
and
thruft
out
the thirft
after
the world
;
that
dropfy
thirft
after
gold
and
filver,which
is
never
fätisfied:
As
alto
the thirft
after
the puddlewater
ofearthlypleafures:And
this
thirft
would
devoure
and
conlume
the
thirft after
revenge,
as
Mofes
his
rod
confumed
the rods
of the
forcerers.
I
L
To
got
out
of
our tents,and take
paines
to
gather
our
Our
duties
in
refpett
of
this
Manna:
I.
Hunger
and
third
forChrif.
Motives.
2:
Take
paires
for
him.
Motives.