Inference 4.
How much do nice and wanton Appetites deserve to be reproved!* 1.1 The 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 con∣tentment in you, for the meanest mercies, and most common fa∣vours 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 spiri∣tual 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 con∣tentment with any thing.