Proud men forget God, Psal. 10. 4. the wicked 1through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God, They have forgotten what need they had once of 2of me, They have forgotten what cries they sent up to me, what moans they made before me, They have forgotten 3how gloriously I wrought for the helping of them, They have forgotten all their Engagements to me, They 4have forgotten to acknowledge me, or sanctify my Name in all the good they do enjoy, Oh this is a sore and a great evil, and yet an ordinary evil, as soon as we have our turns served, God is minded no more, Psal. 78. 42. They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the Enemy; they remembered it not: Oh! it ⟨p. 495⟩should have been in their memory, to have Sanctified the Name of God in their great deliverance; but when they were delivered they remembered it not. Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will hear you, and you shall glorify me saith God. We call upon God in the time of trouble, and God hears us, and delivers us, but the latter part is forgotten; And they do it soon too, in Psal. 106. 13. They soon forgot his works, saith the text, sometimes before the work is quite accomplished, Oh! the Lord deliver us from this great evil, shall I say, Deliver us? I may say, Not deliver us from this evil only, but out of it, for it is upon us already; Oh! the great things that God hath don for this Land wth in this six years, never since Joshua's time, or Moses's time was there a story of Gods wonderful 5working for a people, so as the story of this last six years will be if it be faithfully recorded, and yet though the Lord be going on in his ways and hath not yet finished it, we have forgotten, Oh doth it not appear so? what do men look after? every man his own advantage, and own ends, and seeks to fill themselves, minding nothing else. And what mighty haughtiness of spirit there is in many men within this six years, Oh how have we forgotten the Lord, and forgotten those Instruments that God hath made use of for good unto us! God had more honour from us when there was not the hundredth part done for us as now there is, now we (as it were) shake our ears, and let God do as he will, we hope we can do pretty well to shift for our selves; Oh! the Lord deliver this City out of this, and from this evil of forgetting the Lord when we are filled:
Proud men forget God, Psal. 10. 4. the wicked 1through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God, They have forgotten what need they had once of 2of me, They have forgotten what cries they sent up to me, what moans they made before me, They have forgotten 3how gloriously I wrought for the helping of them, They have forgotten all their Engagements to me, They 4have forgotten to acknowledg me, or sanctifie my Name in all the good they do enjoy, Oh this is a sore and a great evil, and yet an ordinary evil, assoon as we have our turns served, God is minded no more, Psal. 78. 42. They remembred not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the Enemy; they remembred it not: Oh! it ⟨p. 495⟩should have been in their memory, to have Sanctified the Name of God in their great deliverance; but when they were delivered they remembred it not. Call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will hear you, and you shall glorifie me saith God. We call upon God in the time of trouble, and God hears us, and delivers us, but the latter part is forgotten; And they do it soon too, in Psal. 106. 13. They soon forgot his works, saith the text, somtimes before the work is quite accomplish'd, Oh! the Lord deliver us from this great evil, shall I say, Deliver us? I may say, Not deliver us from this evil only, but out of it, for it is upon us alreadie; Oh! the great things that God hath don for this Land wth in this six years, never since Joshua's time, or Moses's time was there a story of Gods wonderful 5working for a people, so as the story of this last six yeers will be if it be faithfully recorded, and yet though the Lord be going on in his waies and hath not yet finish'd it, we have forgotten, Oh doth it not appear so? what do men look after? everie man his own advantage, and own ends, and seeks to fill themselves, minding nothing else. And what mighty haughtiness of spirit there is in many men within this six yeers, Oh how have we forgotten the Lord, and forgotten those Instruments that God hath made use of for good unto us! God had more honor from us when there was not the hundredth part done for us as now there is, now we (as it were) shake our ears, and let God do as he will, we hope we can do prettie well to shift for our selves; Oh! the Lord deliver this Citie out of this, and from this evil of forgetting the Lord when we are fill'd:
- 1Expos.
- 21.
- 32.
- 43. 4. 5.
- 5Applied to England.
