484 Hew muf` we in all thinv give Thanks ? Seri. 2o. The Holy Spirit breathing in a man, makes hire a living Organ tu- ned to and founding out his praife. Pfal. 33. j. Praife is comely for the upright, but as ui comely in a carnal mouth as a Jewel in a fwines fnowr. Non mufica The pompous dreffes and melodious quires of magni ficats without cordula fed cor, the Spirit of God breathing among them, is but as a founding brafsand Non clamant a tinciling cymb..1. fed an can. tat in sure des. Sp ii indeed without the it of God in men, they neither can nor 1 cor.14.I 5. will remember the Lords mercies, nor confider them, nor value them, I will flag nor be affec` cd with them, nor blaze the praife of them. The dead with thcSpirir. faith David do not praife thee; dead hearts produce dead works, it is the Spirit that quickens. III. Labour to get a continual quicJ fight and fenfe of fin : this will make thee f n6ble of every mercy, and thankful for ir. So the provo- cation, and merit of fin is nothing but turfs, death and wrath being due to it, that yet thou ihouldel} be fo tenderly fpared, and inilead of miferies fhouldell enjoy blessing;, how ftiouldeft thou be affec`c du ivi ;h Gen.32.lo. this as MephiboJheth was with D vid's kindnefs to him; an humble per Pfaltnoc. broken heart is the aloft thanklull heart, this 'etas molt eminent in the 1, Tim.l.l2,a molt eminA Saints, ' 7acob, a David,' Paul, &c. 17. Invitar ad He that knows he bath forfeited all, knows he deferves nothir g but magna, qui the reward of that forfeiture,which is wrath ; and he that deferves no- gratantèr acci- thing, thanks God for every thing, even for the leaft drop, and ci urnb. pit modica. III. Behold every mercy coming to thee in the f ream of Chrif s blood,. Catlîod. and through the Covenant o Giace this gives the mercy both an elli- Anima immer(a ' fanguini chri li mate and a relifh; this Both both fantifie it, and fweeten it, and aurea redditur, fubl imate it ; a crufi of brown bread corning thus , is better than a ut mantis inau- purfe full of gold another way; as that Kings kifs to one friend, rum liquefa. was faid to be better gold, than a cup of gold which he gave another Plum injefla . deauratur. friend. Chryfoft. He fent redemption to his people, be remembred his Covenant for ever, Pfal.l 11.9. holy and reverend is his name. The deliverance there was in David's account, and that truly the more thank - worthy, as being upon a cove - nant account, for thus every mercy is a token of the Lords favour to his favourite ; it is that which makes common mercies to become fpe- dial mercies. Non-tam bene- Carnal men, fo they enjoy mercies, they mind not which way they ficium, fed ra. come in, fo they can but have them ; but a child of God knows that trio beneficii at- every thing that comes through Cttrií s hands is the better for it, ánd rrndenda eft. talks the fweeter by far. IV. Look.
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