A
PEACE-OFFRING
TO
GOD
:
OR
,
A
Thankesgiuing
for
the
Princes
safe
returne
.
1.
THESS.
5.
18.
In
all
things
giue
thankes
,
for
this
is
the
will
of
God
in
Christ
Iesus
our
Lord
towards
you
.
MAy
an
Herauld
find
out
a
rich
Coat
of
Armes
vngiuen
,
then
may
a
Diuine
meet
with
a
profitable
subiect
vnhandled
.
All
that
I
shall
vpon
this
sudden
and
extraordinary
cause
of
publique
thankes
vndertake
,
is
to
bee
as
the
Wheele
to
the
Bird
,
which
with
its
course
noyse
setts
better
Musicke
on
worke
;
and
out
of
this
short
Text
of
Gratitude
,
indeuour
to
bring
some
light
to
the
dutie
enioyned
,
Giue
thankes
.
Secondly
,
to
shew
the
extent
of
it's
matter
,
In
all
things
.
3.
To
inforce
the
practise
from
this
motiue
of
motiues
,
For
this
is
the
will
of
God
in
Christ
Iesus
our
Lord
.
Fourthly
,
to
bring
it
home
,
and
apply
it
,
Towards
you
.
In
handling
whereof
,
if
I
shall
procure
any
whit
the
more
tribute
of
thankes
and
praise
to
God
,
I
shall
attaine
that
which
is
the
Queene
of
all
causes
,
the
end
of
my
labour
;
yea
,
that
which
is
the
Queene
of
all
ends
,
Gods
glory
.
Giue
thankes
.
The
nature
and
grace
of
thankfulnesse
consists
in
a
kindly
reflexion
of
Honour
vpon
the
Benefactor
for
the
benefit
receiued
.
Looke
what
perfection
a
solid
Body
giues
to
the
Sunne
beames
,
which
hauing
obscurely
passed
thorowe
the
translucent
Ayre
,
are
by
it
made
to
rebound
with
a
spreading
increase
of
their
lustre
and
heate
.
Looke
what
such
an
Eccho
as
the
seuen
fold
porch
of
Thebes
is
to
the
sound
of
a
Trumpet
,
such
is
Thankefulnesse
to
the
Benefactor
.
And
therefore
in
reference
to
Parents
is
the
summe
of
pietie
;
to
Equals
,
of
amitie
and
humanitie
;
to
God
,
of
Religion
:
yea
,
the
very
prime
and
summe
of
all
Vertues
and
Duties
,
because
it
most
directly
and
fully
promotes
&
atchieues
that
which
is
the
ende
and
scope
of
all
the
Creators
workes
and
gifts
,
His
glorie
:
Hee
that
praiseth
mee
,
honoureth
mee
:
and
contrariwise
,
they
glorified
not
God
,
neither
were
thankfull
.
To
discusse
here
these
Schoole
-
Quaeries
,
To
such
a
one
I
content
my selfe
to
giue
the
olde
Tripartite
rule
,
Aug.
in
Psal.
148.
discharge
their
seuerall
offices
in
glorifying
God
,
that
so
his
thankes
being
Cordiall
,
Orall
,
and
Reall
,
they
may
bee
compleat
and
accepted
of
God
.
And
first
let
them
make
sure
of
the
first
,
especially
when
hee
hath
to
doe
with
God
,
the
Maker
,
Searcher
,
and
Iudge
of
the
Spirits
,
who
in
these
kindes
of
Offerings
loues
the
fat
,
Sing
with
grace
in
your
hearts
is
the
best
tune
to
all
the
Psalmes
,
without
which
if
one
could
descant
with
the
voyce
of
an
Angell
,
hee
were
but
as
the
sound
of
a
tinckling
Cymball
.
The
very
Alpha
and
Omega
,
the
principall
and
totall
of
our
thanks
with
God
,
is
as
Bernard
ends
his
Epistles
and
Counsels
to
one
that
enquired
of
him
what
God
required
of
man
,
Giue
mee
thy
heart
,
or
keepe
all
to
thy selfe
.
If
Beniamin
come
not
,
all
the
rest
may
stay
behind
.
Vnlesse
therfore
thou
meane
to
offer
the
sacrifice
of
fooles
,
My
soule
praise
thou
the
Lord
.
Take
also
Dauids
Commentary
,
And
all
that
is
within
mee
praise
his
holy
name
.
The
first
worke
is
of
the
vnderstanding
to
iudge
of
the
worth
of
the
benefite
,
to
consider
the
vnworthinesse
of
the
receiuer
,
to
studie
a
Quid
retribuam
.
A
foole
cannot
,
and
a
proud
man
wil
not
be
thankfull
;
the
first
,
because
hee
cannot
estimate
and
weigh
in
the
ballance
of
Iudgement
,
the
value
of
the
fauour
conferred
vpon
him
,
or
through
melancholly
conceitednesse
will
not
see
what
God
hath
done
for
them
.
The
second
because
hee
conceiues
it
no
more
,
if
not
lesse
then
his
due
and
desert
,
which
is
the
reason
that
an
Heretique
ouerweening
the
strength
of
his
naturalls
,
or
the
merit
of
his
works
,
cannot
be
thankfull
;
which
taught
Prosper
wittily
and
wisely
to
entitle
his
Poems
Contra
ingratos
,
without
further
naming
the
aduersaries
of
Gods
grace
.
A
rash
man
cannot
bee
thankfull
,
who
for
a
fit
onely
and
brunt
,
sends
vp
an
extemporary
God
bee
thanked
,
whereas
he
ought
fixedly
,
and
seriously
to
studie
and
deuise
how
hee
might
cast
most
honour
vpon
his
good
God
for
his
bountie
to
him
.
The
second
care
must
be
had
of
the
Memory
,
that
a
deepe
impression
bee
made
,
frequent
refreshing
and
refrication
bee
vsed
with
Dauids
watchword
,
My
soule
,
forget
not
all
his
benefits
;
which
made
him
write
downe
his
passions
,
and
giue
his
Psalmes
the
title
of
Record
,
or
Remembrance
.
Obliuion
is
so
farre
from
excusing
,
that
it selfe
is
the
worst
kinde
of
Ingratitude
,
excluding
all
hopes
of
future
thankes
,
and
arguing
a
slight
esteeme
of
fauours
past
,
which
so
soone
haue
set
them
behind
backe
,
and
out
of
sight
,
in
some
blind
corner
of
the
mind
.
Our
Memory
is
a
naturall
mother
to
iniuries
,
a
stepmother
to
benefits
,
for
the
helpe
whereof
our
gratefull
forefathers
were
wont
to
erect
Pillars
and
Monuments
,
stampe
Coines
,
giue
names
to
Places
,
dedicate
Dayes
,
and
keepe
anniuersary
Feastes
,
that
so
they
might
preserue
a
Vestall
fire
in
their
breasts
,
and
not
serue
God
with
a
flash
of
ioy
and
blaze
of
thankes
.
A
third
worke
is
the
warmth
of
the
affections
,
which
if
dead
and
cold
,
how
can
any
fumes
of
Incense
ascend
?
Excesse
of
ioy
and
gladnesse
is
in
stead
of
thanks
,
which
the
neerer
it
comes
to
a
rapture
and
extasie
(
such
an
one
as
Peter
was
in
,
when
he
wot
not
what
hee
said
;
or
the
Iewes
comming
out
of
captiuitie
,
faring
as
one
in
a
dreame
)
the
more
pleasing
it
is
vnto
God
,
though
it
expresse
it selfe
in
abrupt
and
exorbitant
passions
and
gestures
,
such
as
Dauids
dauncing
vnseemely
in
foolish
Micholls
,
but
most
comely
and
kingly
in
Gods
eies
.
These
actes
of
the
soule
are
often
all
that
God
requires
,
but
alwaies
the
best
fountaine
and
spring
of
thankes
,
which
sets
the
price
vpon
the
Offring
;
and
makes
the
Turtle
of
the
poore
as
welcome
as
the
Oxe
of
the
rich
,
the
Cruse
and
Mite
of
the
Widdow
more
worth
then
the
Riuers
of
Oyle
and
treasures
of
the
wicked
.
All
this
is
but
intrinsicall
and
immanent
thankes
;
but
Gods
fauours
are
too
great
for
one
mans
heart
to
comprehend
or
requite
:
and
therefore
hee
will
not
haue
them
die
in
the
breast
of
one
man
,
and
lye
buried
in
silent
admiration
,
but
requires
a
transitiue
expression
and
publication
of
them
.
How
many
aydes
and
witnesses
doth
Dauid
summon
to
assist
him
in
this
worke
,
the
Mountaines
to
leape
,
the
Flouds
to
make
a
noise
,
the
Hils
to
clap
ther
hands
:
and
which
of
his
musicall
Instruments
doth
hee
not
call
vpon
?
Sundry
helpes
and
signes
of
thankefulnesse
hath
Nature
and
Art
found
out
and
vsed
;
ringing
of
bells
,
displaying
of
banners
,
pompe
and
feasting
,
lights
and
fires
,
which
while
some
condemne
,
they
come
neere
his
fault
that
asked
,
What
meaneth
this
wast
?
yet
are
all
these
but
a
poore
and
sencelesse
kinde
of
sacrifice
performed
by
reasonlesse
Deputies
,
if
the
thankes
determine
and
end
in
these
without
more
significant
expression
.
Cheere
of
the
countenance
,
gestures
of
the
body
,
leaping
and
dauncing
are
but
dumbe
shewes
,
the
best
Interpretour
of
the
minde
is
the
tongue
,
the
glory
of
man
,
and
glorifier
of
God
.
My
tongue
shall
tell
of
thy
wondrous
actes
▪
and
my
lips
shall
neuer
cease
to
publish
thy
praise
.
This
was
all
the
fee
Christ
expected
for
his
cures
,
Goe
and
tell
what
God
hath
done
for
thee
:
words
seeme
to
bee
a
poore
and
sleight
recompence
.
But
Christ
(
saith
Nazianzene
)
call'd
himselfe
the
Word
,
and
good
words
comming
from
a
good
heart
are
of
great
accompt
and
force
with
God
and
man
.
Dauid
enuied
the
Birdes
that
might
in
their
kinds
sing
Gods
praise
in
his
Courts
,
and
in
imitation
of
them
,
who
set
themselues
on
the
highest
tops
of
Trees
whence
their
notes
may
bee
furthest
heard
,
he
laboured
to
spread
Gods
prayses
in
the
greatest
Congregations
in
Sauls
Court
,
in
all
Companies
hee
came
in
,
in
the
Temple
it selfe
.
By
speech
one
mans
heart
conueies
into
another
the
cheerely
conceptions
and
passions
of
his
soule
,
and
so
multiplies
praise
,
and
sets
others
on
worke
to
blesse
God
wit
him
,
&
the
more
the
merrier
,
&
the
more
mirth
the
more
thankes
;
the
greater
the
flocke
,
the
cheerelier
noise
;
the
fuller
the
Quire
,
the
lowder
the
Musicke
,
and
one
cheerely
Bird
often
sets
all
the
flock
a
chirping
;
one
man
showts
,
and
the
whole
Hoste
followes
.
Iohn
heard
a
voyce
from
the
Throne
,
saying
,
Praise
yee
our
God
,
all
his
Seruants
small
and
great
;
and
immediatly
a
noyse
as
of
many
waters
,
and
mightie
Thunderings
,
saying
,
Hallelu-iah
,
for
the
Almightie
reigneth
.
Yet
because
speech
is
transient
,
and
of
life
for
the
present
onely
,
the
Pennes
and
writings
of
thankfull
men
haue
beene
of
singular
vse
to
transmit
and
conuey
vnto
Posteritie
the
noble
Acts
of
God
:
one
generation
teaching
another
to
keepe
like
praises
in
store
,
that
Gods
thankes
may
bee
immortall
in
Succession
,
and
Propagation
.
Such
fruite
may
our
Statute
haue
in
after
ages
,
penned
for
the
perpetuation
of
Gods
inualuable
deliuerance
from
that
Hellish-Powder-plott
,
were
it
as
duely
read
as
it
was
prouidently
enacted
.
When
we
haue
giuen
God
good
words
,
God
be
thanked
with
his
mouth
,
and
in
his
life
remaines
reprobate
to
euery
good
worke
,
hath
the
shew
of
thankes
,
but
the
power
of
ingratitude
,
and
is
neere
the
curse
of
the
Fig-tree
,
full
of
leaues
,
and
emptie
of
fruit
;
for
God
is
not
mocked
with
words
.
Wherefore
,
O
thou
vaine
man
,
iustifie
thy
wordes
by
thy
workes
,
and
thou
shalt
bee
blessed
in
thy
deedes
,
and
God
,
by
the
poore
,
blessed
for
them
,
who
hath
himselfe
no
neede
or
profit
of
our
workes
:
but
as
great
men
turnes
ouer
his
fees
and
thankes
to
his
poore
Followers
&
Seruants
,
and
els
vs
in
plaine
termes
,
he
reckons
that
done
to
himself
which
is
done
to
the
least
of
his
;
&
smels
as
sweet
a
sauor
of
Cornelius
his
almes
,
as
of
his
prayers
,
and
counts
himselfe
as
much
honoured
by
a
good
housekeekeeper
as
by
a
Church-frequenter
:
but
best
by
him
that
is
both
in
truth
,
and
from
faith
.
A
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Canticum
nou●●
&
vetus
homo
male
concordant
,
cantet
canticum
nouum
,
qui
noua
est
creatu
a
qui
nouam
praestat
obedientiam
.
Aug.
in
Psal.
149.
cui
lingua
tua
laudes
Dei
cantillat
cuius
vita
sacrilegium
exhalat
.
Idem
in
Psa.
23.
new
Song
becomes
not
the
olde
mans
mouth
,
&
let
him
sing
a
new
song
that
leads
a
new
life
,
and
that
s
the
best
harmony
and
makes
the
best
Musicke
in
Gods
eare
.
In
all
things
.
Now
I
haue
shewed
how
thou
mayest
and
must
bee
thankefull
;
if
thou
aske
me
wherein
,
or
for
what
,
I
will
aske
thee
,
what
thou
hast
of
thine
owne
,
and
what
of
right
and
desert
?
If
nothing
,
then
In
all
things
giue
thanks
.
Wee
haue
heard
that
a
thankefull
man
needes
a
good
iudgement
:
but
wee
shall
see
that
he
needs
no
inuention
,
if
his
heart
bee
in
tune
,
all
things
will
bring
matter
to
hand
.
Gratitude
,
is
as
large
as
Logicke
,
that
hath
for
his
obiect
things
that
are
,
and
that
are
not
.
There
bee
fauours
Priuatiue
,
and
fauours
Positiue
;
there
bee
good
things
bestowed
,
and
euils
kept
from
vs
;
yea
,
the
very
euils
that
doe
betide
vs
are
turned
to
our
good
,
and
therefore
we
are
bound
to
giue
thankes
in
all
,
and
for
All.
Not
with
a
Collectiue
thankes
by
lumpe
and
whole
sale
,
with
a
God
bee
thanked
for
all
his
benefits
,
but
distrioutiuely
keeping
a
Bill
of
the
particulars
,
and
duely
thanking
as
we
dayly
receiue
them
.
This
distribution
is
best
made
by
a
iust
gradation
and
Scale
of
discretion
,
ascending
in
our
thankes
according
to
the
degrees
of
his
fauours
.
First
,
hee
will
bee
praised
in
all
his
creatures
,
whereof
wee
haue
the
sight
or
the
vse
,
euen
as
if
we
had
a
proprietie
in
them
:
for
euery
one
of
vs
haue
no
lesse
benefit
by
the
Sunne
and
Ayre
,
then
if
we
sawe
and
breathed
alone
.
The
Hebrewes
haue
a
Canon
,
that
God
would
be
praised
in
the
least
Emmet
or
Gnat
,
but
magnified
in
the
Elephant
and
Leuiathan
;
admired
in
the
Sunne
,
Moone
,
Starres
,
Comets
,
Earthquakes
,
Thunders
,
and
such
extraordinary
workes
:
the
praise
of
his
wisedome
and
power
lyes
asleepe
,
In
all
the
workes
of
his
prouident
administration
:
and
here
let
publique
blessings
haue
the
precedency
in
thy
thankes
.
It
's
not
onely
selfe-loue
,
but
want
of
Iudgement
that
makes
fooles
prize
a
domesticall
and
priuate
welfare
before
the
Commonwealth
,
and
the
good
of
the
Kingdome
,
which
is
in
it selfe
the
greater
,
and
would
in
the
long
runne
be
greater
to
the
particular
man
.
Is
any
cost
bestowed
on
the
priuate
cabbin
,
comparable
to
the
sauing
of
the
whole
Ship
?
The
very
Heathens
reioyced
more
in
their
countries
good
,
then
in
their
owne
.
Let
Christians
much
more
praise
God
for
their
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
Rulers
,
by
whose
wise
gouernment
they
may
liue
a
quiet
life
vnder
their
Vines
and
Figtrees
,
and
in
all
honesty
and
godlinesse
worship
God
in
their
Chappels
and
Churches
.
In
all
thy
personall
fauours
:
among
which
the
priuatiue
challenge
a
place
;
that
is
,
such
euils
as
passe
by
ouer
thee
.
Famous
is
the
Story
of
the
good
Bishop
,
that
seeing
a
Toad
by
the
way
,
lift
vp
his
heart
vnto
God
,
that
made
him
not
such
a
creature
.
And
Chrysostome
wills
vs
to
walke
into
Hospitalls
and
Lazar-houses
,
In
all
the
crosses
that
doe
befall
vs
;
yea
,
happily
more
then
in
them
we
count
and
call
blessings
;
to
call
for
afflictions
wee
haue
no
President
,
or
Precept
in
Scripture
;
but
to
praise
God
for
them
,
store
of
both
:
To
count
it
exceeding
ioy
,
because
of
the
exceeding
gaine
;
to
count
it
an
honour
that
wee
are
counted
worthy
to
suffer
,
as
the
Disciples
that
leaped
and
sung
after
their
scourgings
;
and
in
this
theme
Basil
spends
all
his
Sermon
,
which
he
entitles
giuing
of
thanks
in
all
things
.
In
all
the
gifts
of
God
,
whether
for
necessitie
or
pleasure
,
of
Nature
or
of
Grace
,
temporall
or
eternall
,
more
for
necessities
,
then
for
delicacies
,
more
for
thy
bread
and
water
then
for
thy
wine
and
oyle
,
for
thy
clothes
then
for
thy
lace
and
ornaments
▪
for
thy
health
more
then
thy
wealth
,
for
thy
good
name
aboue
thy
Iewels
,
the
goods
of
thy
soule
aboue
all
goods
.
Plato
obserued
this
order
in
this
thankes
,
that
hee
was
a
man
,
a
Grecian
,
an
Athenian
,
and
Socrates
his
Scholler
.
Alphonsus
▪
that
he
was
a
King
,
a
Philosopher
,
and
a
Christian
:
Theodosius
,
more
that
hee
was
a
member
of
Christ
in
his
Church
,
then
head
of
the
Empire
:
Paul
best
of
all
,
Blessed
be
God
that
hath
blessed
vs
with
spirituall
blessings
in
heauenly
things
.
One
spiritual
is
better
then
all
corporall
,
and
one
eternall
then
all
temporall
.
In
all
thy
spirituall
blessings
,
preparations
,
preuentions
,
excitations
,
motions
,
actes
,
confirmations
,
consummations
,
giue
all
to
the
praise
of
his
grace
by
which
thou
art
that
thou
art
;
chiefly
in
those
thou
hast
most
wanted
,
and
earnestly
begged
,
in
these
let
thy
praises
answere
thy
prayers
.
Samuel
and
Augustine
,
children
of
many
prayers
and
feares
,
were
also
children
of
many
praises
and
thanks
.
In
all
and
aboue
all
,
for
him
that
is
All
in
all
,
thankes
and
praises
.
For
he
is
worthy
who
hath
redeemed
vs
,
and
made
vs
Kings
and
Priestes
vnto
himselfe
:
and
if
thanks
be
the
will
of
God
in
Iesus
Christ
towards
vs
,
then
sure
I
am
it
is
his
will
,
that
all
thankes
bee
giuen
him
for
Iesus
Christ
,
in
whom
all
the
promises
are
Yea
,
and
Amen
.
In
all
things
,
in
all
times
,
and
in
all
places
;
so
the
very
Context
implies
;
pray
alwaies
,
in
all
things
giue
thanks
.
Wish
with
Epictetus
,
thou
wert
of
the
Nightingales
vnwearied
spirit
,
euer
to
bee
singing
day
and
night
,
at
least
with
Bernard
imitate
the
other
Birds
,
which
morning
and
euening
,
at
the
rise
and
setting
of
the
Sunne
omit
not
to
praise
their
Creator
.
These
must
bee
constant
,
set
,
and
inuiolable
times
.
Occasionall
times
are
when
benefits
are
newly
receiued
,
which
otherwise
soone
waxe
stale
,
and
putrifie
as
Fish
:
no
part
of
the
Thankes-offering
might
bee
kept
vnspent
till
the
third
day
.
Hezekiah
wrote
his
Song
the
third
day
after
his
recouery
:
The
liuing
shall
praise
thee
as
I
doe
this
day
.
And
if
hee
had
been
as
speedy
in
his
thankes
after
his
deliuerance
from
Ashur
,
It
may
bee
(
sayeth
Lauater
)
his
Plate
had
neuer
been
carryed
into
Babylon
.
All
dayes
of
prosperitie
&
mirth
are
seasonable
for
thanks
,
as
Birds
sing
more
in
cleare
dayes
then
in
gloomy
.
Let
him
that
is
sad
,
pray
;
and
hee
that
is
merrie
,
I
will
take
the
cup
of
Saluation
,
&c.
Our
ioy
which
otherwise
is
a
slippery
passion
,
is
then
safe
and
fanctified
,
when
it
brings
forth
thanksgiuing
.
Were
it
hot
now
superfluous
to
say
,
to
whom
this
thankes
ought
to
bee
giuen
?
To
whom
but
to
him
of
whom
we
haue
all
things
?
Yet
wee
had
rather
change
the
name
,
and
shift
the
debt
to
any
saue
the
right
Creditor
,
ascribing
euents
to
Nature
,
Destiny
,
and
Fortune
,
Lucius
Annius
,
which
are
but
blinde
names
of
the
same
man
.
What
is
more
common
than
to
rob
God
to
pay
the
Instrument
?
The
Fisher
sacrificeth
to
his
Net
,
the
Husbandman
will
thank
his
dunghill
for
his
crop
,
rather
then
him
that
giues
the
increase
.
God
allowes
some
praise
to
the
Instrument
.
The
sword
of
God
,
and
the
sword
of
Gideon
:
but
when
hee
heares
vs
giue
more
to
the
meanes
then
to
the
Author
,
hee
is
iealous
,
and
offended
more
iustly
then
Saul
with
the
people
for
singing
of
Dauids
ten
thousand
,
and
Sauls
thousand
.
Lord
of
Hostes.
Let
vs
learne
of
Paul
in
right
downe
termes
in
all
things
to
blesse
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
Thus
all
things
inuite
vs
to
thanks
;
and
yet
Paul
foreseeing
our
backwardnesse
and
excuses
,
opposeth
to
them
all
the
will
of
God
in
Iesus
Christ
:
For
this
is
the
will
of
God
.
The
vngratefull
like
vnto
the
sluggard
,
is
wittie
in
finding
out
pretexts
and
pretences
,
making
a
clogge
to
hinder
,
of
that
which
should
bee
his
goad
to
quicken
him
.
Gods
name
he
will
tell
you
,
excels
all
thankesgiuing
,
his
blessings
are
innumerable
,
and
why
should
he
attempt
impossibilities
?
and
yet
the
same
man
in
seeking
of
wealth
and
honour
,
will
shoot
at
the
fayrest
mark
,
though
he
take
vp
his
arrow
short
.
Heere
vnlesse
hee
may
doe
all
,
hee
will
doe
nothing
at
all
:
but
Gods
will
is
thou
shouldest
doe
thy
good
will
,
and
hee
will
accept
thy
will
for
the
deed
.
It
is
his
will
.
But
we
haue
need
of
his
benefits
;
if
hee
will
allow
vs
the
profit
,
we
may
well
allow
him
the
praise
;
our
emptinesse
cals
for
the
one
,
and
to
his
fulnesse
belongs
the
other
.
Bradwardine
as
thankfull
an
English
heart
as
euer
wrote
,
knits
and
vntyes
the
knot
thus
,
Why
should
I
goe
about
to
pay
that
debt
which
is
vnpayable
,
and
by
paying
whereof
I
runne
further
in
debt
;
for
the
grace
and
heart
,
the
will
and
abilitie
to
bee
thankfull
is
his
gift
,
and
for
that
I
must
bee
further
obliged
,
as
Dauid
when
hee
built
the
Temple
.
But
GOD
forbid
,
sayeth
hee
,
that
I
should
intangle
mine
heart
in
this
chaine
of
Ingratitude
,
and
breake
asunder
this
my
bond
of
thankes
,
because
I
cannot
vnloose
it
:
let
mee
rather
knowe
this
to
bee
my
happinesse
,
to
whom
I
owe
much
,
to
owe
more
;
to
bee
as
deepe
in
his
Bookes
as
I
can
,
For
this
is
Gods
will
in
Iesus
Christ
.
Gods
will
hath
binding
authoritie
enough
,
but
hee
addes
a
winning
word
,
his
will
in
Christ
,
commending
the
dutie
to
vs
from
God
by
that
louely
Name
.
The
force
of
the
perswasion
is
,
as
if
God
should
say
to
vs
,
Behold
,
I
haue
so
loued
you
,
as
to
giue
you
my
Sonne
,
and
with
him
all
things
;
and
what
returne
doe
I
expect
?
what
is
my
will
,
but
that
in
all
things
you
giue
mee
thankes
in
his
Name
.
Thanks
is
my
will
,
and
pleaseth
my
will
,
as
sweet
odours
doe
mans
nostrills
.
Gratitude
needes
not
,
as
other
Vertues
,
Letters
testimoniall
,
or
commendatory
.
Dauid
often
telles
vs
,
it
's
comely
and
louely
enough
of
it
selfe
.
Ionathans
,
Abimelechs
,
and
Barzilla's
posteritie
;
in
Ioseph
to
his
parents
;
in
Hannah
(
more
honoured
for
being
the
Authour
of
a
Song
,
then
the
mother
of
a
sonne
)
in
Cromwels
to
Frescobald
,
Agrippa
to
Thaumastus
seruant
for
a
cup
of
cold
water
in
his
troubles
,
[
a
](A14755-e2190-b)
a
Agell
.
li.
10.
c.
5.
in
Lyons
,
[
b
](A14755-e2200-b)
b
Pierius
lib.
19.
Strabo
lib
5.
Dragons
,
Iudas
,
Achitophel
,
Pharaohs
Butler
,
&c.
not
actionable
,
or
finable
by
any
legall
or
set
mulct
,
as
sufficiently
censurable
,
but
deseruing
,
and
left
to
excesse
of
hatred
by
Gods
Iudgement
,
and
so
generally
reputed
of
al
,
the
summe
of
all
disgrace
;
the
worst
,
yea
all
that
can
bee
said
of
a
man
;
say
this
and
say
all
;
the
maine
sinne
of
the
apostate
Angels
,
and
damned
Spirits
.
Thanks
the
chiefe
,
Aug.
Psa.
148.
if
not
the
whole
worke
of
the
glorified
Seraphims
,
who
vent
and
spend
all
their
burning
fire
in
the
flames
of
GODS
praise
.
How
cheerefully
should
wee
redeeme
time
to
this
blessed
worke
?
which
because
it
is
too
large
to
be
done
in
this
span-long
life
,
it
shall
euer
bee
doing
in
that
eternitie
.
What
like
euidence
hath
a
Saint
of
GODS
free
and
princely
Spirit
residing
in
his
heart
and
tongue
to
this
Frankincense
,
and
free
worke
,
wherein
our
ingenuitie
is
best
tryed
,
not
extorted
from
vs
by
our
owne
necessities
,
as
prayer
,
nor
exacted
by
Lawe
,
or
drawne
by
shame
or
penaltie
from
vs
,
but
voluntary
,
and
therefore
best
testifying
vs
to
bee
of
Gods
willing
people
:
which
grace
,
where
he
giues
,
surely
he
will
confer
more
of
all
kindes
.
For
where
doe
men
delight
to
sowe
,
but
in
fertile
soyles
,
where
they
reape
most
?
Where
doe
Musitions
delight
to
sound
their
Instruments
,
but
where
the
Eccho
multiplies
then
most
in
their
returne
?
But
our
profit
is
too
sordid
a
motiue
for
this
liberall
vertue
.
Thanks
is
not
thanks
,
if
bribing
and
eying
future
fauour
,
if
any
thing
more
then
the
praise
of
past
bountie
,
though
there
should
neuer
bee
need
or
receipt
of
any
more
afterwards
.
But
our
dulnesse
hath
need
of
all
spurres
.
Dauid
the
Nightingale
of
Israel
sets
many
a
thorne
to
his
breast
,
that
vigilant
cocke
clappeth
oft
his
owne
wings
.
An
ingenuous
childe
desires
no
more
but
to
know
what
his
father
loues
.
Isaak
,
if
his
dyet
bee
knowen
,
shall
bee
sure
of
Venison
enough
:
and
if
Saul
take
delight
in
Dauids
Harpe
,
he
shall
not
want
Musicke
.
A
grateful
Courtier
desires
but
to
know
what
the
will
and
pleasure
of
his
Soueraigne
is
:
and
this
is
enough
,
and
aboue
all
other
bonds
to
a
man
sensible
of
the
benefits
of
Creation
and
Redemption
.
What
else
is
the
difference
and
preheminence
of
the
Gospell
aboue
the
Lawe
,
but
Thankes
the
one
,
and
Debt
the
other
?
Which
made
Vrsinus
iudiciously
giue
his
Booke
of
Obedience
and
Good
workes
the
title
of
Gratitude
:
which
who
so
sleights
or
neglects
,
vndoes
and
dissolues
the
whole
bond
of
perfection
,
not
of
Humanitie
alone
,
but
of
all
Christianitie
.
God
abhorring
all
that
wee
can
doe
with
other
respect
or
end
,
bidding
the
proud
man
and
his
merits
perish
,
done
in
way
of
desert
or
pay
,
onely
accepting
that
which
is
done
in
the
name
of
Christ
,
in
way
of
thankfulnesse
for
him
and
his
merit
,
who
is
the
Altar
which
sanctifies
and
graceth
the
gold
and
the
gift
to
the
hornes
whereof
it
is
best
binding
with
the
cordes
of
thankes
all
our
offerings
:
who
is
the
great
Master
of
Requests
,
hauing
a
golden
Viall
ready
to
offer
vp
,
and
commend
to
his
Father
all
the
Incense
of
his
Saints
,
and
to
giue
a
sweete
odour
and
perfume
vnto
them
,
making
the
least
Cup
of
water
tendered
in
his
name
of
precious
account
,
without
which
all
is
abominable
:
And
therefore
hee
that
would
set
a
speciall
glosse
vpon
his
sacrifice
of
thankes
,
let
him
with
the
acknowledgement
of
his
vilenesse
(
as
Dauid
,
Who
am
I
and
my
people
?
)
craue
acceptance
in
his
name
,
in
whom
God
is
well
pleased
:
for
this
is
his
will
in
Christ
Iesus
our
Lord
,
&c.
That
Thankes
in
Thesi
and
generall
is
Gods
will
,
it
is
now
out
of
question
:
but
there
is
yet
another
clause
in
my
Text
,
Towards
you
,
which
bidds
vs
search
,
what
is
Gods
will
in
Hypothesi
,
in
particular
.
Towards
vs
:
euen
to
vswards
of
this
Nation
,
this
Assembly
,
towards
thee
and
mee
,
all
and
euery
one
of
vs
ioyntly
and
seuerally
.
First
,
it
is
requisite
that
wee
take
good
notice
of
our
Receipts
,
and
then
balance
them
well
with
our
Returnes
;
and
so
shall
wee
see
our
Arrerages
best
,
and
what
remaines
for
vs
to
doe
.
Marke
we
aduisedly
what
our
owne
Writers
,
Historians
,
Poets
vsually
applaud
in
our
Nation
;
how
they
extoll
our
Climate
,
our
Soyle
,
our
natiue
Commodities
,
our
Policies
,
Lawes
,
Orders
,
Peace
,
Plentie
,
Prosperitie
,
terming
vs
Albion
,
quasi
Olbion
;
Angli
,
quasi
Angeli
.
Can
too
much
in
truth
bee
spoken
to
the
praise
of
Gods
bountie
,
and
blot
of
our
Ingratitude
?
How
hath
he
lifted
vs
vp
to
Heauen
,
seuered
this
Iland
with
the
seas
of
his
mercies
from
all
the
world
besides
,
and
bordering
kingdomes
round
about
,
setting
it
as
a
Queene
in
the
middest
of
them
,
to
heare
newes
of
warres
,
pestilence
,
bloodshed
,
and
desolations
,
not
to
feele
the
least
disturbance
from
within
or
without
,
scarce
to
heare
a
dog
barke
against
it's
long
continued
peace
,
vnmatchable
in
present
or
past
examples
.
Aboue
all
,
what
a
golden
Candlestick
hath
he
placed
in
it
,
furnished
with
oyle
and
lampes
,
I
would
I
could
say
in
euery
shaft
and
pipe
of
it
;
but
so
as
I
may
well
resemble
it
to
a
bright
skie
in
a
cleare
euening
sparkling
with
Starres
,
though
not
in
euery
part
,
yet
in
euery
Zone
and
quarter
of
it
.
What
times
can
tell
of
the
like
light
,
learning
,
preaching
,
knowledge
?
Oh
that
I
could
say
practise
and
thankfulnesse
answerable
.
What
an
hedge
or
wall
of
fire
and
protection
hath
God
made
about
vs
?
what
glorious
saluations
from
forreigne
inuasions
,
Giue
vnto
the
Lord
,
you
Potentates
,
glory
and
strength
:
giue
vnto
the
Lord
ye
sonns
of
the
mighty
,
worship
and
praise
due
to
his
Name
!
You
house
of
Aaron
,
and
you
that
serue
him
in
his
Courts
,
praise
yee
the
Lord
,
and
stirre
vp
others
to
praise
him
.
Let
Israel
and
all
that
feare
him
say
,
his
mercies
endureth
for
euer
.
What
euer
others
shall
doe
,
My
soule
,
praise
thou
the
Lord
.