Ingratitude reproved. [ 1004]
AN empty bucket that is let down into a well,* 1.1 doth, as it were, open its mouth, to receive the water; but being drawn up full, sheweth his bottom onely to the well that gave it: The sea receives her moisture from Heaven, sweet and plea∣sant, but returns it salt and brackish: The clouds by the power of the Sun-beams, are exhaled from the earth;* 1.2 but being once mounted, they darken that aire, and obscure that Sun that raised them: The frozen Snake in the Fable, stingeth him that refreshed it. Thus it is with all unthankfull men, men ingratefull to God; he ladeth them daily with benefits and blessings,* 1.3 and they lade him with sins and trespasses. God would have them to be righteous,* 1.4 but they will not part with their inventi∣ons: So ingratefull, so swinish are they, that having acorns to feed on, mercies to en∣courage them, promises to support them, they will not so much as look up to the Tree, not be thankfull to God, that hath so richly provided for them.