Serin. ao, Hom mafl rue in all things give Thanks ? 489 have fuck caufe of thankfulnefs as Chrillians : They have received Grefentibus more mercy than any , therefore there -is the more of them required, nit crefc int do- therefore the Lord takes ;heir unkindnefs the more unkindly. Sins ncru,nrationes. againil mercy will turn mercy inro cruelty, and patience into fury. Deur.32.6. To be unthankful-to a bountiful God, is for a froward child to beat his mothers breath that gave him fuck, and w kick his Fathers bowels. The Lord, that he might upbraid his Peoples ingratitude, compares them to a Bullock that was fatted in good paffure, and then kicked, Dent. 3 Z. 15, to Verf. 2.5. And what this toff you may read there. When the Lord would preferve in his People the memorial of his Deut.26.1,ts mercies fey how he orders them : Every man was to come with a bat- io. ket of fruits, and the Pried was to rake ir, and fec it down before the Lord, and he that brought it was to make a folemn confeffìon of his own poverty e., , wretchednefs, of Gods goodnefs and faithfulnefs to him, and of his engagements to the Lord for the fame. Hereby, the Lord let them know that they had all from trim, and held all at mer- cy, and this was their homage that they paid him. Oh, what (hall we then render to the Lord for all his benefits ? Who were Syrians ready to peri¡h, who with our gaff pall. this ?ordan, and now are two bands ; who have not only nether Iprings, but upper alfo, the Lord having opened a fountain and a treafure for us. Think of this all you Male contents and murmurers, read over your mercies, preferve a Catalogue of them, compare them with what others enjoy. It is not with you as with Heathens, you have the Go- fpel, if it totters, as if it were in a moving poflure , from you , thank . your unthankfulnefs for it. You have had it with peace and plenty, and if that hath glutted you, and the Lord is now curing your furfet by a fparer diet thank your wantonnefs for ir. Yet confider Turks and Tartars are not in your bowels, burning your houfes, ravifhing wives and daughters, killing old, fick, and in- fants, carrying away the refl Captives, drinking healths in your dead Nobles skulls digged out of their graves,yet all this is done among the poor Proteflants inTranfilvania, Sword, Famine, and Peflilence ma- king havock in that flouri(hingCountry, not to fpeak of other places, what is felt or feared ; is not this ground of thanks ? Confider yet again,what we have had long, and fä11 have, though the Land is full of fin from one end to the other. What we have deferved,and yet do,even to be ftripped naked of all life and liberty, peace and plen- ty,to have our doors (hut up,our lights put out,our Teachers all driven into,
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