The difficulty of and the encouragements to a reformation a sermon preached before the…

10. The unthankfulness of people, that they should no more esteem or prise those instruments which God sends to deliver them by. Thus they were unthankful to Moses and Aaron: and the Roman Worthies have drank of this cup. Therefore one Heathen, when his son was desirous of public service, he carrieth him ⟨p. 23⟩to the boards and planks of old weather-beaten Ships that lay upon the shore; Lo (saith he) thus the people will do to thee after they have used thy service. And so another Heathen complained, who had done much public service, but neglected, that he was like the Trees, which the beasts run to in time of a storm, and when that was over they fell on cropping and browsing of it. Now as this unthankfulness is a gross sin, so it ought not to be any discouragement for those who are employed in the public good: Luther was much offended at this, and therefore he tells us his temptation, Cum hac itavideo, non nunquam impatientia frangor, & serio cogio, nisi illa doctrina in mundū jam sparsa esset, me quidvis potius facturum quam ut ingrato mundo ostenderem; Sed hae cogitationes sunt carnis; When I see this (ingratitude) I am sometimes broken with impatience, and seriously resolve unless this doctrine had been already dispersed, I would rather have done any thing then declared it to this unthankful world; but these are the thoughts of the flesh.

10. The unthankfulnesse of people, that they should no more esteem or prise those instruments which God sends to deliver them by. Thus they were unthankfull to Moses and Aaron: and the Roman Worthies have drank of this cup. Therefore one Heathen, when his sonne was desirous of publike service, he carrieth him ⟨p. 23⟩to the boards and planks of old weather-beaten Ships that lay upon the shoare; Loe (saith he) thus the people will doe to thee after they have used thy service. And so another Heathen complained, who had done much publike service, but neglected, that he was like the Trees, which the beasts run to in time of a storme, and when that was over they fell on cropping and browzing of it. Now as this unthankfulnesse is a grosse sinne, so it ought not to be any discouragement for those who are employed in the publike good: Luther was much offended at this, and therefore he tells us his temptation, Cum hac itavideo, non nunquam impatientia frangor, & serio cogio, nisi illa doctrina in mundū jam sparsa esset, me quidvis potius facturum quam ut ingrato mundo ostenderem; Sed hae cogitationes sunt carnis; When I see this (ingratitude) I am sometimes broken with impatience, and seriously resolve unlesse this doctrine had been already disperst, I would rather have done any thing then declared it to this unthankfull world; but these are the thoughts of the flesh.