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 unto you; for hunger and thirſt being next  motion, are the two properties that begin firſt  life. So every thing that is new-born is, and hath a ſtomach for meat and drink. O ſay ye, I am many times in my ſoul even at  door; I have neither faith nor feeling! I even at this, God loves me not, and the well  not ordained for me at theſe times. Would ye be at the well? now in my mind ye cannot in away. The children of God, when at the ebb, even when faith, comfort, joy, love,  a diſpoſition to pray is away, is there not a  for preſence. I ſpeak to the conſcience God's child, lie not. No, David (Pſalm vi.) he thought God ſtrake him in his wrath,  at, "How long Lord?" a cutted word; I think he looked like a poor hungry beaſt, looking  the dyke, who would ſain have had a ; He was even going about to ſeek a ſlap to  o'er the dyke of his doubtings. And ſo it with God's bairns under their thirſt for the well  life. See Cant. iii. when the kirk can get no of Chriſt, and has no ſmell of him, and find the print of his foot; yet ſhe is at this, "Saw ye him whom my ſoul loveth?" and chap. ii.I charge you tell him, that I am ſick of love." let me now ſpeak to weak ones, and I will you who are Chriſt's companions that drink  him, and ſhall get their heads and hearts full  the water of life; even the tender Chriſtian  is ay ſpeaking: the bairn in Chriſt's houſe  is moſt cumberſome, and makes moſt din for  meat, is the beſt bairn that Chriſt has; the  that is greeting ilk hour of the day for a piece  a drink: we ſay of ſuch a ſilly thing he fain  love. Ay the cumberſomer that Chriſt's bairns