Jeremiah Burroughs writes:

Fifthly, Which is a main thing to be considered of,

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousnesse,

because this hunger and thirst of theirs it

doth quench sinfull and base desires in the soule,

it helps to mortifie them.

There is no such way to mortifie sinfull desires as by gracious desires, as thus; (it is so in all other affections)

The way to get base sordid love in the soul to be mortified,

it is by love to God and love to Jesus Christ:

The way to overcome sinfull joy,

it is by the joy of the Holy Ghost:

So the way for to mortifie base sinfull desires in the soul,

wandring after this and the other thing,

after a thousand vanities and follies in the world,

that doth undoe the souls of so many thousands, (for certainly the wandring of the desires after vanity and folly is the destruction of thousand of thousands of soules)

is to have their desires right set,

to be taken off from vain and base things,

and to be set upon righteousnesse, upon the Image of God, and the life of God,

and upon the principles of union and communion with God,

they are blessed, for here are desires that do quench unlawfull desires, sinfull wicked desires,

and so doth regulate the soul, so that blessed are they in that respect.

Jeremiah Burroughs, “Sermon XIX or They That Hunger Are Blessed for the Present,” in The Saints’ Happiness (London: William Greenhill; John Yates; William Bridge; William Aderly; Philip Nye; Mathew Mead, 1660), 297.