Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliationGods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation

This Doctrine is a black bill of indictment against all those that ¹are not ashamed to sin against God, notwithstanding the mercies they have received from God. God hath done mighty things for this Nation, he hath heaped deliverance upon deliverance; We have had more deliverances than there are Commandments. And yet notwithstanding are there not many of us that sin in the midst of mercies? That are like the Horse and Mule that have no understanding? Psalm 32. As a Horse, the more it is pampered, the more it kicks against the rider; so there are many, the more they are fed to the full with mercy, the more they rebel against the God that feeds them; Like unto the thick vapours, which are first exhaled by the Sun, and afterwards when they come into the Air, stop the light of the Sun from shining upon us. There are many such vapours whom God hath exalted, and lifted up in nor above others, that make no other use of their honour, but to darken the glory of God, and to hinder the light of God from shining upon us. Let conscience speak; Are we not as proud, as covetous, as blasphemous, as adulterous, as ungodly as ever, notwithstanding all that God hath done for us? ⟨p. 28⟩May I not say to you as Moses to the Israelites; Do ye thus requite the Lord, O ye foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father ²that bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and established thee? Is not he the God that hath multiplied mercies upon us? The Lord humble us this day for this sin.

This Doctrine is a blacke bill of indictment against all those that ¹are not ashamed to sinne against God, notwithstanding the mercies they have received from God. God hath done mighty things for this Nation, he hath heaped deliverance upon deliverance; We have had more deliverances than there are Commandements. And yet notwithstanding are there not many of us that sinne in the midst of mercies? That are like the Horse and Mule that have no understanding? Psalme 32. As a Horse, the more it is pampered, the more it kickes against the rider; so there are many, the more they are fed to the full with mercy, the more they rebell against the God that feeds them; Like unto the thicke vapours, which are first exhaled by the Sunne, and afterwards when they come into the Aire, stop the light of the Sunne from shining upon us. There are many such vapours whom God hath exalted, and lifted up in nour above others, that make no other use of their honour, but to darken the glory of God, and to hinder the light of God from shining upon us. Let conscience speake; Are we not as proud, as covetous, as blasphemous, as adulterous, as ungodly as ever, notwithstanding all that God hath done for us?