~~~~~6~--·----------vf~~s-~-m-on __ p_n-ac~h-ed~------------ / Inter-regnaat all, not fo much as aminuteoftime, wherein it~, Nonejl!J?....exinlfrael, itagreethwith His will, ~here benotonelyi(i,/' but a ~ce ofl(ings; that fo foone as the breath Is gone from one,inlla~:~ Jy it may berelted in another; tbatfo, thegood may ever be, and theel>iB never found in Ifra~l~ rt I.' Thus have wegone through the matter ofinllru~ion j andnowcome Our duty. to the matter ofour owneThank.{gi11ing riling out ofit. As there cannot be agreater plague to a Land, than to be in that cafe ' fo is there not a higher benefit, that God belloweth{)n any people to b~ fairely blelfed from in it, than for the removing from us fo ma~y mif. chiefs andforthe prefervingtoustheoppolite blefiings. For freeing us from thatml[ery, and not onely conw{ghi1~, but intailing tous and ours . this happinelfe. For this, areWe all nowmet here, in His prefence eve~ ry m~n to put in his thanlw, i~to one common flo~k.e,_ and fo all joyndy to offer It up untoGod, that (as this day) fent us al(mgm Ifrael. We come not for this alone to thanke Him; (yet well might We come for this, if there were none but this:) But there is morebe/ides : And ~venfe1!en times arewe bound,this day to praife Gov, for fomany bene~ fits, and yetgoenot out of t\leText. · t Our firft thank.es then lllall befor thisfirfl, the ground ofall the relh, Fora I(ing. This very thing, that there is one: and that this defeCt Non Num.:;.:x. erat ~x harh not taken hold on us. Tbejhout ofa I(ing, is ajoyfuO [bout,' was,a truefaying out ofthe mouth of a falfe Prophet ('Balaain) but forced Hof.xo.3; 'thereto by G o D. That ajoyful/ fhout ; and this a l!JoejuUcry, Hof. IO.J~ "Nonne ideo nobilnuOtU ~x,quia non timemu.sDominutM? Are we not there-· fore without any I(ingat all, becaufe Wefeared not God f And, ourfeare ta God, was not fuch, but He might ju!Hy have brought us to chat miferable plight. The more caufe have we to thankcHim, that we haveone. And Ier:i~.7, when I fay one; I meane firll, haveany one. For, be heNebuchodono:J:;,er,' Ofe·•3·Il;': yet mull we pray for him: Or be it Jeroboam, him though GoD ga11e in Hu Tttrath, yet He tooke away in His Jt~ry, the worfewrath of the twaine. Or,behewhohewill, to haveone, though butfucbanone, isa matter ofthank.sgi11ing. For, better any, than an Anarchic: Better, any onea I(ing, tha:n ewry one a f\ing; andel>ery one is more than a f\ing, ifhe. doe 111hat he lifts. It calleth to minde the cry of the 'Beafls in thefoblewhen they were in confultation, to fubmit themfelves to the Liot~, as to their f\i1~. For when it was alleaged; it,was like enough he would doe they knew not well what, whaJ hdiil:ed which they had caufe to feare: they all criedPrttflatunum timere qu.im multos; Better oneLimdoe fo, .tha~aU th~ '13eares an4 J!Tolfos and 111ilde beafts ofthe (orreft, as before they d1d. FuR: then, for this; that ~here is aI(ing. Secondly, For this: ~hat, a.f\ing,no~many. For, tohave'?!any, is a - - o· plagu~
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