470 Serme a,o, \V 5 How mull we in all things give Thanks ? i Theí% 5. 18. In every thing give thanks , for this is the mill of God con:, cerning you. H E more comprehenfve any mercy or duty is, the greater they are. There are three duties here together which the Apofile exhorts co; all which have a kind of uni verfality annexed to them of which my Text con - Pfal, tains one. r26.6. I, Rejoycing : We mull rejoyce evermore, for even holy mourn- ing bath the feed of joy in ir, which the foul finds by that timet's over, if not in it. 2. Prayer : Pray without ceafing We mull be ever, at lealI, in a holy difpofition to this duty, when we do it not a&wally. "Prayer is the wall that compaffes the City, there muft be no gap in it. "It is as the Sun in the Firmament, it mull always keep its round. 3. Thanksgiving : In every thing give thank,!, &co Obferve in the words thefe two parts : i. A Duty enjoyned. 2. A Reafon annexed. I. In the Duty note four things: z. The matter of it, thanksgiving. 2. The obje& of it, implied, God. 3. The performers of it, Believers, for co them he writes, z MI; Pfa1. 97. 21. Though not in the heretical fenfe of Eachi- tes and Mef fa_ maus. Chryf. orat,2. de orand.Debm. z ia Z, 3.. 4, The
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