surely you would not act as you do.
Beside, What vile ingratitude is in this? What! are all your remaining mer∣cies worth nothing? You have buried a child, a friend: Well, but still, you have a husband, a wife, other children; or if not, you have comfortable accommoda∣tions for your selves, with health to en∣joy them; or if not, yet you have the Or∣dinances of God, it may be an interest in Christ, and in the Covenant, pardon of sin, and hopes of glory. What! and yet sink at this rate, as if all your mer∣cies, comforts, and hopes, even in both worlds, were buried in one grave. Must Ichabod be written upon your best mer∣cies, because mortality is written upon one? Fye, fye, What shameful ingrati∣tude is here?
And really friend, Such a carriage as this under the rod, is no small provoca∣tion to the Lord to go on in Judgment, and make a full end of all that remains, so that affliction shall not rise up the se∣cond time.
What if God taking notice how little thou regardest the many undeserved fa∣vours thou yet possessest, should say, Well, if thou think'st them not worth the owning,