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

Because every new mercy we receive from God is a new talent, (for mercies are talents, betrusted with us by God as stewards, ¹for which we must give a severe and strict account at the day of Judgement) and the more talents we sin against, the greater is our sin, and the more shame to commit it. To whom much is given, of him much shall be required. If the man that had but one talent, when he came to give up his account, was confounded & made speechless, and bound hand and foot, and cast into hell fire for not improving it; What shame and confusion of face, and how many hells do they deserve that have received not only one, five, or ten, but many hundred talents of mercies, and do not only not improve them, but mis-improve them to the service of sin and Satan?

Because every new mercy we receive from God is a new talent, (for mercies are talents, betrusted with us by God as stewards, ¹for which we must give a severe and strict account at the day of Judgement) and the more talents we sin against, the greater is our sin, and the more shame to commit it. To whom much is given, of him much shall be required. If the man that had but one talent, when he came to give up his account, was confounded & made speechlesse, and bound hand and foot, and cast into hell fire for not improving it; What shame and confusion of face, and how many hels do they deserve that have received not onely one, five, or ten, but many hundred talents of mercies, and do not onely not improve them, but mis-improve them to the service of sin and Satan?

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Because to sin after mercy, is a sin of formal unthankfulness; ¹There is material unthankfulness in all sin, because every sin is committed against God that is our Creator, Preserver, and Rede mer; but to sin against mercy, is to be formally unthankful. Now unthankfulness is a sin that will make any ingenuous man ashamed to be guilty of it. Indeed it is the Epito of all sin. Ingratum si dixeris, omnia dixeris. The whole duty of man saith Augustine, consists in this, Ut anim non sit ingrata Deo, to take care that our souls be not unthankful to God and therefore an unthankful man neglects the whole duty of man. Unthankfulness is a sin that mak th times perilous. It is a sin for which God gave over the