Chap.S' . according t,o St MA TT a a VT. matchlefle mercies and miraculous deliverances? Out upon our unthankfullntffe and unrighteous dealing 1 chat can devour Gods blcffìngs as beafts doe their prey ; (wallow. them as fwine their !will ; bury them as the barren earth the feed ; ufe them as homely as Rachel did her fathers gods ; yea abufe them to his difhonour; asif hehad hiredus to be wicked ; and fight agaìnfl himwith his own weapóns,as lebsi did againfl lehoram with his own men, as David againit Goliah with his own fword, as Renhadad againfi flhab with thatlife that in had given him. This injuriousWage at the hands of the Ions ofmen, was char, that culled God to mikea world, and unmake it again, to promife them I 20 years refpite, and to repenthim, fo that he cut themMort 20 years of the form- er number; yea to perform the promiled mercy, and to repent himof it when he hach done, as Divid did of the kinds:fle he had (hewed Unworthy Nabal. Will not God take his own from filch, , g , and be gone, Hof. 3.9 f turn. their glory into thawe,- Hoff 4.7 ? blafl their blefli.ngs, Mal.2 2 ? eieflrey them after he bath done them good, /4.24.2o ? caufe them to ferve their enen;is in the want of ah things, chat would not ,tervc to good a Mafter in the abundanceofall things, Dext. 28.47 ? Wnat ;build a Prince doe, but take alword from á rebel! ? what: fhould a mother doe, but thatch away the meat from the ch:ldr, chat marrs it? And what cari the wife and ¡tiffLord doe lcfle, then cut -off the meat frown the moathes, and takeaway his corn and his tine, his stool and his flax from fch as not only not ownhim to it, bu: go after other Tweet hearts with ir, paying their rents to a wrong Landlord? Aeratesfiler. Thus he dealt by his untruitfìill vine) ard,ip.5.5i by the unprofi- Hot L S' table fervanc, Mattb;25 28. by the fitolith Pnilofophers (toras the Chronicler fpe kethot Sr 'Thomas Moore, f know not whether Edretri Nail tò callthem, f oleo, tvifr -men, or wifefoolifh men ) that.impri_ r. 7z i74G fined the truth inunr hteoufne(re, and nude not thebell: ofthat ILuW i..d, little light they had : God not only made fools ofthcw, but dili- vered them up to a reprobateJenfe, and only for their unthank- fullnes,which is. robbing God of his duc.O therefore what will be- comeof us,that foordinarily abu e tohis dailydithonor,our health, wralth,wit, profpericy ,pleuty,peace,friends,means, marriage, day, night,all comfortsand creatures, our times,our talents, yeatheve ry Scriptures, the Gofp,l of truth, the richof rs agrac.,and o,,r golden opportunities ? Is not R_ligion cu ned by many into amí er fortnalicy,andpolicie? cut 'ancient fervour and forwardnefle, into N a gt n rail 177
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