Inference 4.
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Inference 4.
How much do nice and wanton Appetites deserve to be reproved! 1The Son of God wanted a draught of cold water to relieve him, and could not have it; God hath given us variety of refreshing creatures to relieve us, and we despise them. We have better things than a cup of water to refresh and delight us when we are thirsty, and yet are not pleased. O that this complaint of Christ on the Cross, I thirst, were but believingly considered, it would make you bless God, for what you now despise. And beget contentment in you, for the meanest mercies, and most common favours in this world. Did the Lord of all things cry, I thirst, and had nothing in his extremity to comfort him, and dost thou who hast a thousand times over forfeited all temporal, as well as spiritual mercies contemn and slight the good creatures of God! What, despise a cup of water, who deservest nothing but a cup of wrath, from the hand of the Lord! O lay it to heart and hence learn contentment with any thing.
- 1Infer. 4.