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…

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

Secondly, Consider this is all thou canst do to God, for all his several mercies. What doth God require of thee, after all that he hath done for thy soul and body? Is it any thing else, but to magnify his name, to give him the glory of it? And this doth not at all add unto the greatness of God, he is not made the more perfect and blessed in himself by all the glory thou givest to him. So that indeed it is the greatest glory that thou art capable of, that God will accept of blessing from thee, that he will own praises out of thy mouth, that he doth not rebuke thee, as Christ did the Devils, when they confessed, He was the Son of the living God.