God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances

and our cisterns, now filled from the boundless ocean of unmerited benignity, may soon be filled from the vials of wrath, with the waters of Marah. Our destruction adjourned a while, may return with unexemplified terror. The Lord threatened the backsliding Jews, Deut. 4.25, 26. That if after his kindness in conducting them from ⟨p. 68⟩Egyptian slavery, with infinite mercies through a tiresome wilderness, to the blessed land of Canaan; (I say) if then they should sin against him, although they had remained a long time there, they should not prolong their days upon it, but utterly be destroyed from off it. Thus notwithstanding our sinful Nation hath many years been like an Eden, a Palace of Royal glory, a Canaan flowing with milk and honey, a Theatre of mercies, an unparalleled monument of many deliverances; yet continuing in sin, will deface its envied glory, and render it a stage for destroying judgments, and lay it waste with storms of successive plagues; and then it shall be said, This is the Nation that would never leave sinning, till it forced the Almighty to make it a ruinous heap, a Land desolate and not inhabited. What high time is it then to depart from sin, left an Ichabod be wrote upon us! which signifies, Their glory is departed.

and our cisterns, now fill'd from the boundless ocean of unmerited benignity, may soon be filled from the vials of wrath, with the waters of Marah. Our destruction adjourned a while, may return with unexemplify'd terrour. The Lord threatned the backsliding Iews, Deut. 4.25, 26. That if after his kindness in conducting them from ⟨p. 68⟩Egyptian slavery, with infinite mercies through a tiresome wilderness, to the blessed land of Canaan; (I say) if then they should sin against him, although they had remained a long time there, they should not prolong their days upon it, but utterly be destroyed from off it. Thus notwithstanding our sinful Nation hath many years been like an Eden, a Palace of Royal glory, a Canaan flowing with milk and honey, a Theatre of mercies, an unparalleld monument of many deliverances; yet continuing in sin, will deface its envyed glory, and render it a stage for destroying judgments, and lay it waste with storms of successive plagues; and then it shall be said, This is the Nation that would never leave sinning, till it forced the Almighty to make it a ruinous heap, a Land desolate and not inhabited. What high time is it then to depart from sin, left an Ichabod be wrote upon us! which signifies, Their glory is departed.