[ 1263] How to be truly thankfull unto God.
PEr brachium ••it judicium de corde,* 1.1 is the Physitian's Aphorism; And therefore when they passe their judgments of Mens hearts, they do it by the pulse beating in their arms, and not by the words that proceed from their mouthes;* 1.2 So wise Me•• will look more to doing, then to saying, (though both are good, and both must be done) remembring, that Iesus did and said. And then it is that men are truly thankfull unto God,* 1.3 when they act what they say; as Noah is no sooner out of the Ark, but he builds an Altar for the Lord, before he provides an house for himself; he talks not of it, but does it: For to thank God with our tongues, and not to live answerably thereunto, is no better then to say, All hail, King of the Iews, and to spit upon him; Hosanna with one breath, and Crucifie him with another; to have Iacobs smooth tongue, and Esau's rough hands; a great deal of formal hypocrisie hanged out at the sign of the lips, and no reality at all in the heart and hand where it should be.