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The Use of the Point serves to put you to look back, and to consider, whether ever ye have in your experience known this, wherein spiritual life shows it self, Even to ⟨p. 208⟩be holily fond (or browden so to speak) on the Pap• the Regenerate Soul cannot endure to be kept back from sucking the breasts of these Consolations that are in the Covenant: Now it's very Probable that many will catch at this, as a very Comfortable Mark of Regeneration to themselves, and will be ready to say, why have we not this desire to be in Covenant with God? And if that will be a proof of a work of grace, we wan• it not; and these Jews hear spoken of, before their coming to be in this blessed Frame, were ready to boast •hat they were Abraham's Children, and that they had a desire to be in Covenant with God: but it will be another sort of desire and eagerness which they will have, When the Redeemer comes out of Zion to turn away iniquity from Jacob. But that ye may know, what this desire and impulse that we speak of is, and if indeed ye have it, consider these evidences of it; First, That it i• an ardent and vehement desire, a pressingly urgent impulse. not such as ye have had all your days; but it• an effect of the Spirits out-pouring, as that Parallel place with this, viz. Zech. 12.10. clears: I will (saith the Lord) Pour upon the house of David the Spirit of Grace, &c. Away with that Grace, with that Faith and Love which are as old as your selves. Secondly, This desire and Impulse hath such a vehemency with it as puts the man to his feet, to go and Pray and to go weeping: It stirreth him then so, as he must needs go though he be much in the Dark, and knows not so well and distinctly whither he is going: because Love to be in Covenant with God, will in a manner make a fool go right to G•d: though there is reason that he should seek after help to his infirmity: the desires of many are like the sluggards desire, who lieth still on his bed, and his ease slays him: This desire ⟨p. 209⟩maketh some Holy stir, and rouseth to diligence in the use of means. Thirdly, This desire is such, as never dies out, till the Person be thorough in the point of Covenanting with God: and therefore, though he should be put as it were to dig wells in the wilderness, and to go from strength to strength, yet he will adventure on it and hold on in his way: The Apostle,