errrt. 20. How mutt we in ,ill things give 7h &riks ? 4 Is it the tyill of Gad in Chrifi. 7efus that in tvery thing vie give thanks ? eft,. Then this f ry s to condemn the horrid ingratitude of Chriflians, z. TL.ole that in nothing will give thanks,at no time,for no mercy ; thefe are fwit.e that devour all that drops from the Tree of Gods boutaty,and never look up whence it comet h. Thefe are worfe than the Ifa i. Oxe and Afs that know their Owners and Mager! cribs. Thefe are meer per rarë grati Heathens, who thought they profefs they know God, yet do not glurifie /moires reperi- him_a's God, nor are thankeffl.T heie are like Buckets that run greedily untie. Cicero. down into theWell when they are empty with open mouth, but when they be ful they turn their hinder part upon the Well that filled them. Thu, do unthankful men call greedily for mercies, and when God hash filled them, they turn the back, and not the face. 2. Another kind of unthankful men is that fort, who having reed,' ved mercies from God arrogate the honour of them to themfelves. Let Papits and Pclagians,old and new, who attribute more to free will than to grace, which the one makes the root of merits, the other gives the cafting of the fcale in mans converfion to it ; let thelefee, how by fuch Principles they can acquit themfelves from the crime of Sacrilegious ingratitude, for they rob God of his glory ; and then let them hear not me, but Saint Aufl;ne chundring againfl them, O Lard, Soliloqcap.t 5. he that afrumcs the glory of any good he bath to himfelf, and afcribesit not ,0.1i de bon° to thee,t hat man is a thief ,and a robber,andíike the devil,who rabbet') thee glori at" fibüne, of thy Glory. quart!, é7 non Thus ,alto they who attribure their Riches, Children, Honours, Vi= trbi, hic fur t'f dories, Health, Safety, Knowledge, 6c. CO their Wits, Labours, Me- & !atro; &.i- rits, thefe are in grateful robbers of God. mills diabolo, Thus they burnt Incenfe to their Drag, and Yarn. Scc. ' H Thus Nebssehadxezzar gloried in the great Babel of his own buil- Dab.s.i5,s6. n 4.3 ding. Thus the Áffyran alío ranted, and vaunted him felf, as if byhisown [fa.a.c.t.3,14, great Wifdom and Valour he had conquered the Nations. l's. But mark the end of thefe men :How the Lord took it and how he dealt with them for it; He turned Nebuchadnezzar out to grafs among the beafls ; He kindled a fire in the Af{yrians Forrefr, and burnt it ; He firuck Herod that he was eaten up with.worms,becaufe he gave hisnfelf, A a 2.2.i. and not God, the glory. 3.Another,fortof unthankful ones there is,that feem to be very thank- ful, but it is only complementally,and with the lip. Thefe are like Apes that eat yap the Kernel, and leave God the fhels ; they care not to go to the colt of a hcart,of a life- thankfulnefs;they arc cuffed hypocrites,, they
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