Epijle ofS. Part! to Titttr. CHAP.I. ï: . that they are lignes6f3 featefull future wrath, beçaufebythem they bane aP`7 thrufl and heapedvp the meafute oftheir condemnation. He mull fan. Secondly, therrearxre not fandìiñed. by the word atid.prayer,tgi tp 2. _, ethecrca- purelyvied: and thcrforegeneral,' is the finne ofthe moil, who prófane the 'y andbruitienly recelue themwithout prayer & thanklgiuing,by which ward &.pta;ca both the creator and the creature is bleflcd.The former obtainechabicf- fing, which is the applyingof the goodneffeof thecreature to our com Ì fort,wïthout whichwe may hauebread, and want the (laffeofir,puton !, .civathes andnot be warmer get riches but want the fruition, earne wa- ges, and incomes, but put them in a broken begge : be diligent in our callings, burnot thrice by them : for this bleffing and comfort of the creature, commethmeerely and more immediately fró the handofQ, o,d:. how is it not then molt meere,that we fhould begge it at his. hands?,Tlfis would the Lord teach,when he commaudeth his people to-fanElify their L`rntao.r. very boufes and dwellings : fo in Abrahams fcruant, andPaul wha,pray- cd for profperous iourneys, A61.25.5. The like ought we to doe in all our recreations:andhauing receiued our comfort from anything;;wee mull tùrn'e vs to the other part ofour prayer, which is thankfgiuing?not 'onely for enjoying the creature,but that we haueitbyvertue,of the pro- mife : neither onely for the vfe,but for the right and holy vieofit;which is the portion but ofa fewe. The two precepts of the Apoflle are worthy our continual' meditation and prat wife; Pray continualty, In allthing.E ice :.71tcllr.t.t& thankes. Howmany are fo (arre fromthis,as that they eithercannot or are afhamed to pray and praifeGod, for their liberali prouifion ofmeate and drinke? aman cannot imagine thebruitilbn tieof numbers of men, and perhaps reputed Chri(lians in this behalfe, who nomore lift vp their hearts or hands vnto the Lord, then thebruit beans themfelttes, which deuoure the food,but cannot confider that they are feddeby force other thingwithou,t.the food it felfe: fuch perlons little conceiue,th4c in fta'dm all the creatures and theright in themwas loll: fo as there is no right left in them, but by leaue fromGod through Iefus Chriíl : as little doe they depend uponGod for his bleflîng, which is the naf}e oftheir lines ; but rather in the midl of Gods mercie, theygrow vp it.to fecuritie and for- getfulnes of him, yea lift vp their heeler againfi him,and corrupt them- felues in the things theyvfe,giuing vp themfelues villa intemperance, i- dlenes,ttilthylulls,(peaches, and a&fions, and all becaufe God is not at Reafo,proo. their tables, but is driven thence. How that I may conuince this gene- ag o«eefe tall finne to be an highkind ofimpietie , and not fo indirierent as many anyof Goa,: re, account it:I veil vie force reafons toPhew that no man ought to prc fume outcrcattcuaneanwith - d s without turning to Godtovie any ofhis creatures. rhanktgiuiog. For firfl, whofeare theheauens and earth, and the furniture ofchern.? 1 T 4 the
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