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It is an excellent thing indeed, that we may have a Day of Thanksgiving, while the World is in so much Confusion and Combustion, and every where Mens hearts are failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are doing upon the Earth. Let us be at some pains, that this Day be not lost, or that it may not evaporate in a few sensual satisfactions. The Excellent things done by God, are now to be the Repast of our Souls.

Days of Thanksgiving as they are among the most Heavenly, so they will be among the most prosperous of all our Devotions. There are Pious Men that will now and then in secret places, keep their Days of Thanksgiving before the Lord; laying out whole Days in praising of the Great God for what He is, and what He does, and in pondering on What they shall do for God. And I'll assure you, such ⟨p. 21⟩persons ripen for Heaven a pace; yea they live in Heaven upon Earth.

Days of Thanksgiving as they are among the most Heavenly, so they will be among the most prosperous of all our Devotions. There are Pious Men that will now and then in secret places, keep their Dayes of Thanksgiving before the Lord; laying out whole Dayes in praising of the Great God for what He is, and what He does, and in pondering on What they shall do for God. And I'll assure you, such ⟨p. 21⟩persons ripen for Heaven a pace; yea they live in Heaven upon Earth.

But as for Days of Thanksgiving observed in the Assemblies of good men, all men have seen the wonderful successes of them. New Englands Prosperity has more visibly followed upon its Thanksgivings than upon its Humiliations, as in times both of War and of Sickness, has been more than once perceived. We have seen the fulfilment of that Word in