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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02702	Hezekiahs recovery. Or, A sermon, shevving what use Hezekiah did, and all should make of their deliverance from sicknesse. First preached, and now published by Robert Harris, pastor of Hanwell	Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.	1626 (1626)	STC 12836; ESTC S120679	31,744	59

with the taste of crosses that we can taste no mercies at least wee cannot taste the sweetnesse of the giver in the gift and thence it is that our affections lye dead within us whilst his mercies swarme about us Hee shewes his power in the greatnesse his wisedome in the seasonablenesse his truth in the constancie his grace in the freenesse the riches of his mercies in the fulnesse of his blessings but nor one nor other affect us Our hearts are so farre from Davids zeale hereupon as that like Nabals they are cyther as cold or heavie as a stone Miserable hearts and miserably dead when so manic warming and reviving comforts cannot raise them upwards but in the meane what hope of quicke actions when we labour with so dead affections ● For deeds true thankefulnesse improves the gift to the givers honour A friend gives me a Ring I le weare it for his sake a Booke I le use it for his sake a Iewell I le keepe it for his sake that is so as may best expresse my love and report his goodnesse Were wee truely thankefull to our God wee would use all his tokens for his sake cate our meate to him weare our clothes to him spend our strength for him live to him sleepe to him dye for him but out upon our unthankefulnesse we use his blessings as Ich● did Icherams messengers David Goliab's sword we turne them against their Master fight against heaven with that health wit wealth those friends meanes mercies that wee received thence If this be thankfulnes to be so much the more proude idle secure wanton scornefull impenitent by how much the more wee are enriched advanced and blessed I cannot tell who may be called unthankfull Brethren understand your selves there is not this day a Nation under heaven more bound to God than we be if now we shal wast that time in spying out flawes in the State and matter of complaint at home that should be taken up in recounting mercies t is just with God to lay us even with other distressed Churches and to make us know what we had by what we want If any place be yet left for admonition be wee all advised to call to minde with Pharaoh's Butler this day our fault even that fault which is our nationall sinne the sinne of unthankefulnesse and be it granted by you and me and by us all that never people have had more cause but taken lesse occasion of blessing God 2 And now to speake forward let us take forth Hezekiah's lesson after sighes le ts send forth songs as he did nay he in the midst of sorrowes can finde some matter of praise nay the Church when she only liv'd could yet say It is his mercy that we have so much If the best people can sing in troubles should not wee in peace If they can when distressed should not we when delivered If they bee so sensible of one blessing should not we of a hundred of a thousand It may be their undertakings in the day of affliction were more No in feares and sorrowes wee are as ready to vow and promise thankes as any and if to promise should we not to pay It may be our deserts are greater No nor wee nor they can challenge any thing but by ve●me of the promise and that was theirs as much as ours It may be their engagements were more than ours No whether we looke to the freenesse of the giver or greatnesse of the gifts we owe as much as who doth most For the first the Lord hath cast upon us blessings not only undeserved but undesired unexpected he hath beene better to us than his promise than our prayers than our hopes hee hath prevented us with some which wee never fore-thought yea done more for us than we are aware of and he hath given us others which wee never durst once hope for I thinke the man lives not that ever durst promise to himselfe so many daies of happinesse so long a peace so sudden cure of the land so flourishing a Church so happie a time as wee have enjoyed and what gifts more free than such as prevent all prayers exceed all hopes and are not only above but against all deserts For the second thing which greate us a kindnesse to wit greatnesse and multitude of kindnesses who is able to recount particulars shall I say nay the severall kindes of them First we have blessings privato as many as soule body house and field field and towne to wee and country can hold Secondly we have blessings publicke and nationall beyond number other nations bleed we sleepe other begge wee abound others starve we surfet others grope in the darke our Sunne still shines others are quite disjoyned and dismembred they are members without heads beads without bodies for lorne men without Law without Gospell without Churches or Teachers or Livings or Bookes or all wee have all Magistrates Ministers Lawes Trades Schooles Churches Townes all and all of the best of Kings the best of Courts the best of Law the best of Bookes the best of Sermons the best of ayre of fare of water of all the best and can we not yet see matter of thankfulnesse O but these be blessings sarre off they touch not thy particular No doe have wee not all our private interests in the publique weale But speake in good earnest hast thou no particular favours no blessings privative none positive for shame yeeld both Yea but where be they Nay where be they not thou hast eyes aske the blinde whether that be not a blessing thou hast cares aske the deafe whether that bee not a blessing thou hast a tongue what thanks the dumb of that thou hast hands feet wits limbs life bones sinewes reins mercies ●now betwixt head foot to sill a volume is all this nothing Nay tel me wch way canst thou look but thou sect mercies what canst thou touch but thou feelest mercies where canst thoutread but thou standest on mercies But of what art thou compounded of but of blessings every sense every joint everie splint everie naile a blessing nay what is thy house made of but blessings what is it filled with but blessings of blessings of the Barne blessings of the Field blessings of the Wombe all blessings nay what 's the World made of but blessings Heavens Starres Fire Ayre Water Earth with all in the one with all in the other blessings all things blessings all persons blessings all estates blessings all times blessings as S. Paul discourseth 1. Cor. 3. ult Now when the Lord doth so lade us with benefites and that daily shall not wee be thankefull Blesse saith our Saviour when you are cursed and shall wee not blesse being thus blessed All this while I speake nothing of spirituall blessings indeed no tongue can reach them we can close them all within one word one syllable God hath given us