light of his reconciled countenance, Psal. iv.
6. If ye ask him, what seek ye, what want ye in all the world? He
answers, "And now. Lord, what wait I for?" My heart and "my hope is in
thee," Psal. xxxix. 7. None needed ask at Mary, "Whom seekest thou?" Any
body that knows her, knows her want. It is he, the Christ Jesus, and she
thinks all the world should want him, and seek him with her, and thinks no
body should be ignorant of him; for she speaks to the gardener, as if
there had been no other in the world, John xx. 15. But,

2dly. His wants put him to seeking, to diligence. He misses something,
and O it is a great something, infinitely more than he is worth in the
world! He wants being and well being. He thinks himself as good as lost,
and he comes at length to some point of resolution, with the lepers of
Samaria, (2 Kings vii. 3, 4.) "Why sit we here till we die? If we enter
into the city there is famine, if we sit still we perish, if we go out we
may find bread." And so the poor soul, with Mordecai and Esther, comes to
this conclusion, "If I perish, I perish;" nothing but perishing as I am, I
will go and seek salvation in Jesus Christ, and it may be I will find it.
Who knows but he may turn again? Resolution is born a man at first, a
giant. It goes out to the utmost border of want the first day. Wanting
makes desire, and desire, attended with some hope, makes up resolution and
purpose, and when the soul is thus principled, then in the third
room,(487) it comes forth to action. Desire and hope give legs to the
soul for the journey, and now the wanting Christian ye shall find with his
hand in every good turn, his feet in every ordinance. Ye shall find him
praying, reading, and hearing. It is true, resolution is born a man, and
practice is born but a child, and scarcely will come up in many years to
the stature of resolution. Always(488) diligence and violence is the
qualification of his practice, (Heb. xi. 6, Matth. xi. 12) and this is
written upon his using of means, "How love I the Lord! I am sick of
love." The Christian's diligence in the use of means proclaims his
earnest desire to obtain, whereas many a man's practice speaks but a
coldrife and indifferent spirit. That is a neutral who cares not whether
he obtain or miss. Some Christians have some missings of God, and
spiritual things, but alas! their want, and sight of want, makes them
twice miserable, because it puts not their hand to action. T