Of Prai/e anCl Th~nkjj)ving. : 241 fcrior creatures be below our notice; yet fure we muff be .infinite;ly dull if we do 1~ot oSfetve his dealings with ourfelves and thofe of our kind. As our interefl: maketh us n1ore fenG.bie of this, fo gratitude cloth oblige us to a n1ore particul~r acknow– legd~nent of it. Thus you have the n1eaning and in1portance of the text. I know not howwe can better en1ploy the refl: of the tin1e, than by fuggefting to your n1editations particular infl:ances of this goodnefs, and if his wonderful ·works to the .children of men. Let us then reflect on the works both ofcreation and providence. Let us confider in whq.t a goodly <Jnd well-furniihed world he hath placed us, how he hath flretcbed out the heavens as a curtain over our heads, ' . and therein hath fit a tabernacle fir the jun; .·which, as an univerfal lamp, enlight~neth all the inhabitants of the earth. I-Iis go– ing forth is from the end of the heaven, his circuit to the ends thereof; and there .is no– thing hid from his heat. In the tnorning l1e arifeth, and makes the darknefs flee be– fore him, and difcovereth all the beauty and luilre Df things, And truly the light isfweet, and a p!eaj{If1t thing it is fir the eyes to behold the Jim. Nor is it lcfs ufeful and X advantageous
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