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3. Be ashamed to distrust God and his power in time of great difficulty, having received so many and so great deliverances. We are for the most part like the children of Israel, who although they were by a mighty hand brought out of Egypt, and through the red Sea, &c. yet upon every strait they began presently to ⟨p. 47⟩murmur, and to think of making a Captain to return to Egypt, never considering the iron bondage they endured in Egypt. God hath brought us out of the Egyptian bondage, and carried us through a red sea of dangers, and yet when we meet, though but with the news, of any Giants or Anakins, we begin presently to distrust, and to say: Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? can God make a way through the hosts of the Philistines? And some of us begin to wish that things had remained as at first. This is a horrible sin after so many mercies. As Austin saith of Jesus Christ, He that will not believe in Christ after so many miracles, without a new miracle, he himself is a great miracle. So he that will distrust God, after so many miraculous mercies, is himself a miracle of unbelief. How often hath God appeared in the mount these two last years, as if he had resolved to take up his dwelling there? How many mountains of opposition have melted before you, as mountains of snow before the Sun? Be ashamed, be ashamed O house of England, to distrust God after so many mercies.

3. Be ashamed to distrust God and his power in time of great difficulty, having received so many and so great deliverances. We are for the most part like the children of Israel, who although they were by a mighty hand brought out of Egypt, and through the red Sea, &c. yet upon every strait they began presently to ⟨p. 47⟩murmure, and to thinke of making a Captaine to returne to Egypt, never considering the iron bondage they endured in Egypt. God hath brought us out of the Egyptian bondage, and carried us through a red sea of dangers, and yet when wee meete, though but with the news, of any Giants or Anakins, we begin presently to distrust, and to say: Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse? can God make a way through the hoasts of the Phi•istines? And some of us begin to wish that things had remained as at first. This is a horrible sinne after so many mercies. As Austin saith of Jesus Christ, He that will not beleeve in Christ after so many miracles, without a new miracle, he himselfe is a great miracle. So he that will distrust God, after so many miraculous mercies, is himselfe a miracle of unbeliefe. How often hath God appeared in the mount these two last yeares, as if he had resolved to take up his dwelling there? How many mountaines of opposition have melted before you, as mountaines of snow before the Sun? Be ashamed, be ashamed O house of England, to distrust God after so many mercies.