A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

And this thankfulness in all things we must show at all times, that is, daily and continually, privately and publicly, secretly in our hearts, and outwardly in our words and works, so often as we have any occasion and opportunity offered unto us, either ordinary or extraordinary: by consideration, either of positive or privative benefits; both at set times of prayer, and throughout the whole day, by lifting up our hearts with thanksgiving unto God, for the continual benefits, which in every part of the day he ⟨p. 214⟩conferreth upon us: As our deliverance from evils, with which we see others overtaken, our preservation from many dangers, to which we are daily subject: for the assistance of his grace and holy Spirit, against the tentations of our spiritual enemies; for keeping our hearts in his fear, and from wandering with the world, in the by-ways of sin and wickedness. For giving us hearts to seek and serve him, and for accepting of us and our imperfect actions, in the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ. For multiplying and continual renewing of all his blessings and benefits upon us, and those that are near and dear unto us, both in temporal and spiritual things, and for those assured hopes which he hath given us of heavenly and everlasting happiness in the world to come. For those which he bestoweth publicly upon the Church and Common wealth, and privately upon our families and our own persons. And this daily and continual thankfulness and thanksgiving unto God, is required of us in the Scriptures. The Apostle exhorteth us, to speak to our selves in