An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

But to finish at last this Subject, take notice of the encouragements to this duty of a thankful, blessing and praising soul, that so if thy heart at last be throughly raised up to this duty, thou mayest praise God, for this truth that provoketh thee to praise him. And

First, The more thou blessest God, the more wilt thou have cause to bless him. ¹For to the thankful heart, God multiplieth his mercies, as many times, because thou doest not take notice of his goodness to thee, or lookest upon his mercies as a debt to thee, or thou takest the mercies God hath given thee; and usest them as weapons against him, therefore he taketh away thy mercies from thee, to make thee prize them the more; whereas to the soul that taketh every mercy, as the hen, every drop of water, and immediately looks up to Heaven, that will take up every fragment, that nothing be lost: As thou blessest God declaratively, God will bless thee really: Christ will bless thee, as he did those few loaves by multiplying of them.

First, The more thou blessest God, the more wilt thou have cause to blesse him. ¹For to the thankfull heart, God multiplieth his mercies, as many times, because thou doest not take notice of his goodness to thee, or lookest upon his mercies as a debt to thee, or thou takest the mercies God hath given thee; and usest them as weapons against him, therefore he taketh away thy mercies from thee, to make thee prize them the more; whereas to the soul that taketh every mercy, as the hen, every drop of water, and immediately looks up to Heaven, that will take up every fragment, that nothing be lost: As thou blessest God declaratively, God will bless thee really: Christ will bless thee, as he did those few loaves by multiplying of them.

1. 1Motives to bless God for all his mercies