A model of true spiritual thankfulness. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House…A model of true spiritual thankfulnesse. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House…

Second Right, and that is a Right of Promise or Covenant; and therefore Believers are called The children of promise, ¹because they be both^a begotten and^b m•int•in'd by promise: whatever they have, they have by promise: Godliness is profitable for all ⟨p. 8⟩things, having the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come. Others are fed out of the Common basket of Providence; they are fed out of the Ark of the Covenant, which is the great List of the promises. Every child of God, be he never so poor, is served in Plate: The words of the Lord are pure words, as Silver tried in a furnace of earth. He speaks of the word of promise. ⁴So that if it be but bread and water, yet it is served in to a child of God in the silver and golden vessels of the Promises: And this affects them more then all the bulk and heap of mercies and comforts which they do possess, or that worldlings do possess.

Seco•d Right, and that is a Right of Promise or Covenant; and therefore Believers are call'd The children of promise, ¹because they be both^a begotten and^b m•int•in'd by promise: whatever they have, they have by promise: Godlinesse is profitable for all ⟨p. 8⟩things, having the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come. Others are fed out of the Common basket of Providence; they are fed out of the Ark of the Covenant, which is the great List of the promises. Every childe of God, be he never so poor, is served in Plate: The words of the Lord are pure words, as Silver tried in a furnace of earth. He speaks of the word of promise.