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

4. These sins are so heinous, as by them the delivering mercy of God is horribly undervalued. What is our Rebellion after the reception of such mercies, but to declare we account not our selves obliged to God for them? What is this but to disown the greatness of the favours God bestows upon us? What greater dis-ingenuity can be expressed, than to diminish the greatest favours of God, in love to our devilish lusts? Every mercy that comes from so great a God, must needs be great: but to undervalue the choicest blessings and highest mercies, must needs be a point of the highest wickedness. Was it a small mercy, that by our late deliverance so many thousand lives have been continued, such multitudes of Souls have been kept out of Hell? Is it nothing in ⟨p. 40⟩your eyes to be delivered from Popish slavery? to have the glorious Gospel continued amongst us? Is the security of Church and State, the miraculous preservation of Privileges and Liberties a contemptible kindness? shall all these things have no notice taken of them? shall they all be dis-regarded? will you say 'tis not worth while to leave sinning for these? dare you declare they deserve no obedience? let your Conscience speak, would not this be horrid Blasphemy? could you bear such undervaluing of kindness from fellow-Creatures? how then can God from you?

4. These sins are so hainous, as by them the delivering mercy of God is horribly undervalued. What is our Rebellion after the reception of such mercies, but to declare we account not our selves obliged to God for them? What is this but to disown the greatness of the favours God bestows upon us? What greater dis-ingenuity can be exprest, than to diminish the greatest favours of God, in love to our devillish lusts? Every mercy that comes from so great a God, must needs be great: but to undervalue the choicest blessings and highest mercies, must needs be a point of the highest wickedness. VVas it a small mercy, that by our late deliverance so many thousand lives have been continued, such multitudes of Souls have been kept out of Hell? Is it nothing in ⟨p. 40⟩your eyes to be delivered from Popish slavery? to have the glorious Gospel continued amongst us? Is the security of Church and State, the miraculous preservation of Priviledges and Liberties a contemptible kindness? shall all these things have no notice taken of them? shall they all be dis-regarded? will you say 'tis not worth while to leave sinning for these? dare you declare they deserve no obedience? let your Conscience speak, would not this be horrid Blasphemy? could you bear such undervaluing of kindness from fellow-Creatures? how then can God from you?