The Godly Man's Picture

6 Then we are rightly thankful, when we can have our hearts more enlarged for spiritual mercies, than for temporal: Eph. 1. 3. Blessed be God, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings: A godly man blesseth God more for a fruitful heart, than a full crop; he is more thankful for Christ, than for a Kingdom: Socrates was wont to say, he loved the Kings smile more than his gold: a pious heart is more thankful for a smile of Gods face, than he would be for the gold of the Indies.

6 Then wee are rightly thankful, when we can have our hearts more enlarged for spiritual mercies, than for temporal: Eph. 1. 3. Blessed be God, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings: A godly man blesseth God more for a fruitful heart, than a full crop; hee is more thankful for Christ, than for a Kingdome: Socrates was wont to say, hee loved the Kings smile more than his gold: a pious heart is more thankful for a smile of Gods face, than hee would bee for the gold of the Indies.

7 Then we are rightly thankful, when mercy is a whe• to duty, it causeth a spirit of activity for God; Mercy is not as the Sun to the fire, to dull it, but as oil to the wheel, to make it run faster. David wisely argues from mercy to duty, Psal. 116. 8, 9. Thou hast delivered my Soul from death, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. It was a saying of Bernard, Lord I have two Mites, a soul and a body, and I give them both to^* thee.

7 Then wee are rightly thankful, when mercy is a whe• to duty, it causeth a spirit of activity for God; Mercy is not as the Sun to the fire, to dull it, but as oyl to the wheele, to make it run faster. David wisely argues from mercy to duty,