472 PCaI. x413. 'E rs ,ri %r vet WJ72ff 471127e29^ Toy» 7uS, ROMA .ao,<r. is 6v >,92Iv ácv sr; dnFtr Ng-Yrt- ercvi @- ti;ucs S pnováinatróv cu.tariSn&tr xj poLU(jeo ?g? H ru a r7Wç W croßc-row, &c. ]udg-r6.24. I Sam .3r,Q, Dan, g, p3, Polanus. Thankfulnefs defcribed. Fifiucisa our of Aquin We praife God f for all his per- j fe&ions, we f tkgn4,God for his benefits. c How mufl we ali things give Thanks ? Sertn, zo. creatures : David name s animate and inanimate creatures, and bids them fjng Hallelujah , as if all the world were but one confort of mu- Feat ru l.ruments tuned co Gods glory. but he looks for it principally from men and Angels. From all men. It is charged as an inexcuf1 ble fin urcapable of ary Apology, upon natural mt n,tha t when they knew God they glorified him not as God, neither were thankefr,ll. Upon which place Bea bririgs in Galen a heathen man, Arai; ng and bleffing God, not w!. h ià crifìces and fweet incenfe, but acknow- ledging and proclaiming the W ildom, Power, and goodnefs of God, &c. I write this, faith he, as a Hymn, and account it the true worfhip of that God. The law of Tharkftilnefs is written upon the hearts of very hea- thens, as may be proved at large not only from Heathen infiances, but Scripture alfo ; as the Phililims, when they had taken Sample's and. killed Saul ; Bcllbazzar, who praifed the gods of fiver and gold., bras, iron, wood and flone, &c. which although it be enough to f:iame unthankful) Chriaians,yetit Ggnified little ; for all wicked men though they have caufe, yet they hive no heart to this work, at leaf) not often, nor at all as it should be. Some are fo curious as to enquire whether reprobates in hell have not caufe to give thanks that their torments are lets than the merì, of their fins, and for that the juflice of God is glorified in the infl ing of them, but this is forrain to our cafe. The perfons engaged, and moll bound to this duty are the Theffa- Ionians that believed, and all the fairhft ll npcn the fame account. Now howbeit all the fervice we perform to God, both mediate and immediate woifhip, the duties of both Tables, yea and the whole work of our Chriflian obedience in a holy converfation, be but a re- turn of thankefulnefs unto God, yet Thankfgiving in the Text and Dodrine, is taken more flri5lly fora panic altar part of Gods'worfhip, diftinc`i from Prayer (of which he fpakc immcdiatly before) which fomc times includes praife and thanks too, By which we render dose praife to God. for all or any of his benefits promifed or bellowed, and that with ostr hear ti, lips and lives, Some affirm that much of Relig.on is feen in piety to parents, ob- ervance to our betters, and t.har,kfulneis to our benefitblors. God is ndeed all thefe to us. Yet the proper notion of our thankfulnefs re- ers to God as our benefatlor, every benefit from God makes the re- eiver a debtor: thankfulnefs is ratber the confcffing of our debt than .the
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