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 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 ²Heathen to a reprobate mind: Because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, but became unthankful, &c. theref•e God gave t•em up to their own hearts lusts, &c. And if God dealt thus with the Gentiles for sinning against the mercies only of creation, how severely will he punish us that sin against creating mercies, redeeming mercies, and against mercies of all kinds? For it is a certain rule, The more mer•y we receive from God, the greater is the unthankfulness to sin against such a God. The Romans made a Law, that if a Master did free a servant from bondage, & afterwards that servant proved unthankful, the master had power to re-enslave •im. The great God hath freed this Nation from Egypt, and Babylon, ⟨p. 25⟩from the Gun-powder treason, and from many slaveries. Now if we prove unthankful after all these mercies, we may justly expect to be re-enslaved.

Because to sin after mercy, is a sin of formall unthankefulnesse;