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

I have delivered you, rescued you from miseries, and these now coming on you, you pull down upon your selves. This is thy wickedness; lay it not to enemies power, think not me unrighteous; this is all thy own. How miserable a condition is this, to have no other comfort in calamities than this, to have God tell us this is our own? How sad when distressed to think, this is my slighting of mercy, my abusing patience, my persistence in drunkenness, Sabbath-breaking, when I was delivered! Oh that I should be such an enemy to God and my self! Oh that I should bring such miseries on my self, by despising mercies! Nothing makes the condition of a people more hopeless, than their bringing themselves into a helpless condition. Hos. 13.9. Oh Israel, thou hast ⟨p. 75⟩destroyed thy self: Thou wonderest at thy destruction, when it is from thy self. But in me is thy help. Learned Drusius translates the Hebr. • alioquin; that is, otherwise thou hadst bad help from me. Had enemies ruined thee, I would have relieved thee; but since thou hast involved thy self in misery, thou mayst expect no mercy from me. I will not be the author of deliverance to them, that are so wilfully authors of destruction to themselves: you shall perish in the evils of your own procuring.

I have delivered you, rescued you from miseries, and these now coming on you, you pull down upon your selves. This is thy wickedness; lay it not to enemies power, think not me unrighteous; this is all thy own. How miserable a condition is this, to have no other comfort in calamities than this, to have God tell us this is our own? How sad when distressed to think, this is my slighting of mercy, my abusing patience, my persistence in drunke•ness, Sabbath-breaking, when I was delivered! Oh that I should be such an enemy to God and my self! Oh that I should bring such miseries on my self, by despising mercies! Nothing makes the condition of a people more hopeless, than their bringing themselves into a helpless condition. Hos. 13.9. Oh Israel, thou hast ⟨p. 75⟩destroyed thy self: Thou wondrest at thy destruction, when it is from thy self. But in me is thy help. Learned Drusius translates the Hebr. alioquin; that is, otherwise thou hadst bad help from me. Had enemies ruined thee, I would have relieved thee; but since thou hast involv'd thy self in misery, thou mayst expect no mercy from me. I will not be the author of deliverance to them, that are so wilfully authors of destruction to themselves: you shall perish in the evils of your own procuring.