Poo; Mann family 15gnk4 129 z. And alto it is .part of the due (i) Homage that we owe to the great Benefactor of the world. The eyes ofall things look up to him, and all things praife hire in their kind : But man muff do it as man, Vnder- jlandingly and freely. What elfe have we Reafon for, but to know the Original and End ofall the good that we receive ? What have we tongues for, but to Glorifie our Creator and Redeemer, and to fpeak his praife ? This is the ufe of our faculties ; This is our duty and our honour and our. joy. God made all his Creatures for himfelf ; even for the Pleafure of his holy will . Therefore he made our ReafonandTongues for himfelf. And can we have a nobler or fweeter Theme, for our Thoughts, our Afeekions or our Words ? O what is there in our bleffed Saviour, our Glorious God, and the Heavenly Joys, that we fhould ever be backward to thinhorfpeak, of them I Or ever count fuck work a toil 1 Or ever be weary of it ! Would you have us think that Heaven is a place of vvearinefs ? Or have us afraid left it be a houle of correc`Iion ? As no Papift can rationally ever be willing to die, who believeth he fhail go to the pains of Purgatory, which is (harper, they fav,than their fufferings here ; So you would have none at all willing to die, if you would make them believe that long praifìng God is a weari- fome imployment to a well difpofed-foul. If you do not think that an hour is too long for dinner and fup- per at your plenteous tables ; Ifyou can feaft long, and talk long, and play long, and game long, and read Romances, and fee Playes long, I prayyou pardon us for praying long, And I would whifper this word to your Confcience ò Ask Sir Blyinas on his death-bed, P ( al i ?J. . when
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