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

3. Deliverances are no more influentia to reclaim from sin, because of our unreasonable oblivion of them. Our greatest mercies are but nine days wonders present impressions made by deliverance are soon worn off by neglect of future consideration. ⟨p. 27⟩The sense of our Engagements to Obedience wearing off, our inclinations to sin make head. When mercies are new, how frequent is our remembrance of them? Whilst employed in our daily labours, our minds are admiring delivering love: When waking in the night, these are the objects of Meditation; when conversing with friends, these are the Themes we discourse of. Now somewhat must be done to requite this kindness; but too sudden a forgetfulness anticipates and prevents the performance of our acknowledged obedience. Deut. 32.17, 18. they are charged with abominable sins; and it stands as a reason, because they forgot the God that formed them, and the rock that begat them. Did we not forget our mercies, our Consciences would force us to forsake our sins. Were our hearts more but Repositories for Gods favours, so much Iniquity would not be lodged in them. Forgetting Gods mercies, is not only a base unworthy sin, but a breeding sin: many desperate sins arise from despising the kindness of our God. And oh, how unspeakably strange is it, that we can forget him, who doth so much to be remembered? That we can suffer his ⟨p. 28⟩mercies to pass out of our mind, whose mercies are new every moment? How impossible would it be to live in unlamented sin, did we live in the sense of undeserved mercies! Hence it is we are so prone to sin after deliverances, because we are so apt to suffer them to slip out of our labile memories.

3. Deliverances are no more influentia to reclaim from sin, because of our unreasonable oblivion of them. Our greatest mercies are but nine days wonders present impressions made by deliverance are soon worn off by neglect of future consideration. ⟨p. 27⟩The sense of our Engagements to Obedience wearing off, our inclinations to sin make head. When mercies are new, how frequent is our remembrance of them? Whilst employed in our daily labours, our minds are admiring delivering love: When waking in the night, these are the objects of Meditation; when conversing with friends, these are the Theams we discourse of. Now somewhat must be done to requite this kindness; but too sudden a forgetfulness anticipates and prevents the performance of our acknowledged obedience.