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A11458	Two sermons preached at Paules-Crosse London The one November 21. the other Aprill 15. 1627. By Robert Saunderson, Bachelour in Divinitie, and sometimes Fellow of Lincolne Colledge in Oxford.	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1628 (1628)	STC 21709; ESTC S112209	107,028	135

there be Prophesies they shall faile or whether there be tongues they shall cease or whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away There shall bee no vse of taming the flesh by Fasting or of supplying the want either of others by Almes or of our selues by Prayer Nay euen Faith and Hope themselues shall haue an end for wee shall not then need to belieue when we shall see nor to expect when we shall enioy But giuing of thankes and praise and honour and glory vnto God shall remaine in the kingdome of heauen and of glory It is now the continuall blessed q Reuel 4.8.11 7.11 12. exercise of the glorious Angels and Saints in heauen and it shall be ours when we shall be translated thither O that we would learne often to practice heere what we hope shall be our eternall exercise there O that we would accustome our selues being r Epes 5.18.20 filled in the spirit to speake to our selues in Psalmes and himnes and spirituall songes singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord giuing thankes alwayes for all thinges vnto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ as speaketh our Apostle Ephes. 5. Consider secondly the multitude and varietie and continuance of Gods blessings §. 54.2 The continuance of Gods blessings and let that prouoke thy thankfulnes If thou hadst receiued but one or a few benefits yet thankes were due euen for those few or for that one more then thou art able to returne But what canst thou alledge or how excuse thy vnthankefulnesse when his mercies are renewed euery morning nay euery s Omni momento me tibi obligas dum omni momento mihi tua magna beneficia praestas August Solil cap. 18. Tot numera quae sine intermission● diebus de noctibus Dij fundunt Senec. 4. de benef 3. moment when he is euer t Psal. 145.16 opening his hand and powring out his blessings and u Psal. 68.29 loading and euen ouerwhelming thee with his benefits as if he did vye with thee and would haue thee see how easily he can overcome thy evill with his goodnesse and infinitely out-strip thine infinite ingratitude with his more infinite munificence His Angels are about thee though thou knowest it not from a thousand vnknowne dangers hee deliuereth thee which thou suspectedst not hee still continueth his goodnesse vnto thee and repriueth thy destruction though thou deseruedst it not What should I say more thy very life and being thou owest to him x Act. 17.28 in whom wee all liue and moue and haue our beeing thence resolue with holy Dauid to sing vnto the Lord y Psal 104.33 as long as thou liuest and to sing praise vnto thy God whilest thou hast thy beeing Many and continuall receipts should prouoke many and continuall thankes Consider thirdly thy future necessities §. 55.3 Our future Necessities If thou wert sure of that thou hast that thou and it should continue together for euer and neuer part and that thou couldest make prety shift to liue vpon the olde stocke hereafter and neuer stand need to him for more there might bee so much lesse neede to take care for giuing thankes for what is past But it is not so with any of vs of what wee haue we are but tenants at courtesie and we stand continually vpon our good behauiour whether wee shall hold of him any longer or no and much of our future hapinesse standeth vpon our present thankefulnesse And with what face can wee craue to haue more and yet more wee must haue or we cannot subsist if we bee not thankfull for what wee haue a Bern. Serm. 77 Peremptoria res est ingratitudo saith Saint Barnard it cutteth it of all kindnesse b August Soliloq e. 18. Ventus vreus exiccans like that c Exod. 14.21 strong East-winde which in a night dryed vp the Red sea it holdeth of the streames of Gods bounty from flowing Gratiarum cessat decursus vbi recursus non futri● Bern. serm ●0 and dryeth vp those channels whereby his mercies were wont to be conueyed vnto vs. Certainly this is one especiall cause why God so often sayeth vs Nay and sendeth vs away empty when we aske euen because we are so little thankefull to him for former receipts The d Ecel 1.7 sua reddentur origine fluentae gvatiae vt vberius ●luant Bern. serm 89. Rivers returne all their waters to the Sea from whence they had them and they gaine this by the returne that the sea feedeth them againe and so by a continuall fresh supply preserueth them in perpetuall being and motion If they should e Alloquin nisi ad fontem redeant exictantur Bern. ibid. withhold that tribute the Sea would not long suffice them nourishment So wee by giuing receiue and by true paying the old debt get credit to runne vpon a new score and provoke future blessings by our thankfulnesse for former as the Earth by sending vp vapours backe to Heauen from the dew shee hath receiued thence filleth the bottles of heauen with new moysture to bee powred downe vpon her againe in due season in kindly and plentifull showers By our Prayers and Thankesgiuings wee erect a Ladder like that which f Gen. 28.12 Iacob saw whereon the Angels ascended and descended wee preserue a mutuall entercourse betwixt heauen and earth and wee maintaine a kinde of continuall trading as it were betwixt God and vs. The Commodities are brought vs in they are Gods blessings for these wee traffique by our Prayers and Thankesgiuings Let vs therefore deale squarely as wise and honest marchants should doe Let vs keepe touch and pay it is as much as our credit is worth Let vs not thinke to haue Commodities still brought vs in and wee send none out g Horat. 1. Epist 1. Omnia te adversum spectantia this dealing cannot hold long Rather let vs thinke that the quicker and speedier and more returnes we make our gaines will be the greater and that h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys. in Gen Hom. 26 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. Hom. 25. the oftner wee pray and praise God for his blessings the more we secure vnto our selues both the continuance and the increase of them Consider fourthly thy misery §. 56.4 Our misery in wanting if thou shouldest want those things which God hath giuen thee a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tum denique homines nostra intelligimus bona Quū quae in potestate habuimus ca●misimus Plau. in Captiu 1.2 Carendo magis quàm fruendo Fooles will not know that true worth of things but by wanting which wisermen had rather learne by hauing them Yet this is the common folly of vs all Wee will not prise Gods blessings as we should till he for our vnthankfulnesse take them from vs and teach vs to value them better before we haue them againe We repine at Gods great blessings we grudge