490 Hew muff we in all things give Thanks ? Seem. 20, into corners, the good Land to fpue us out, and the abomination that makech defolate to enter in among us, our Land to keep her Sabbaths becaufe we prophaned the Lords Sabbaths ; the voice of the fc eech. owl to be heard inflead of the voice of the Turtle; It is the Lords mer- cies we are not confound : For what priviledge or Patent have we to be fecured and indempnified above others? How long ago had Divine Ju!lice made fhort work with us,ifDivine Patience had not been Vcretched to long fuífering : if Mercy had tilt held back the hand of GodsVengeance,as the Angel caught Abrahams Knife when it was lifted up to kill his Son ? For furely methinks Mer- cy and Juflice have been long wreflling, and the Lord hach laid long of England, as he faid of Ephraim, How fhall I give up England, how Jhall I make thee as Admah and Zehoim, as Sodom an,' ^omorrah t Now confider this all ye that forget the Lords ben( ` =_' left he come not only as a Moth to you,as he kerns to do already in ÿour Trade,in your Health, in your Food, but as a Lion to tear and go away. Where. fore,would you value your mercies confider others miferies; would mud ¢uicgwans you thank God for them, confider your abufe and unworthinefs oaf ita proprie ter- them ; would you continue and encreafe them, be thankful for them ; ris reprefenrat would you tafle fweetnefs in Them, get a fanClified ufe of them ; would cA1ef> is habits. you honour God in every condition, make a holy improvement of eve. tiicur aLcrU d: ry difpenfation ; would you be Chriflians indeed, In every thing give dull !salad- your for this is the will of God in Chrij 7efses concerning you. Turn then. Bern. hearts and tongues to it here,and you shall be chofen into the Pr.'. in Cant. QQire of Angels to pçrform it for ever jn Heaven. How
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