Thankfulness for Mercies received a necellary Duty.

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Farewel SERMON

Preached on board the

WHITAKER,

At Anchor near

SAVANNAH in GEORGIA,

PSAL. CVII. 30, 31.

Then are they glad because they are at Reft, and fo he bringeth them unto the Haven where they would be.

O that Men would therefore praife the Lord for his Goodness, and declare the Wonders that he doeth for the Children of Men!

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UMBERLESS Marks does Man bear in his Soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but no one gives a greater Proof of it, than that Backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the Duty of Praife and Thanksgiving.

When God placed the firft Man in Paradife, his Soul no doubt was fo filled with a Senfe of the Riches of the divine Love, that he was continually employing that Breath of Life the Almighty had not long before breathed into him, in bleffing and magnifying that all-boun

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tiful, all-gracious God, in whom he lived, moved, and had his Being.

And the brightest Idea we can form of the Angelical Hierarchy above, and the Spirits of just Men made perfect, is, that they are continually ftanding round the Throne of God, and cease not Day and Night, faying, Worthy art thou, O Lamb, that waft flain, to receive Power, and Riches, and Wisdom, and Strength, and Honour, and Glory, and Bleffing, Revel.

V. 12.

That then which was Man's Perfection when Time firft began, and will be his Employment when Death is fwallowed up in Victory, and Time shall be no more, without Controversy, is part of our Perfection, and ought to be our frequent Exercife on Earth: And I doubt not but thofe bleffed Spirits, who are fent forth to minifter to them who fhall be Heirs of Salvation, often stand astonished when they encamp around us, to find our Hearts fo rarely enlarged, and our Mouths fo feldom opened, to fhew forth the loving Kindness of the Lord, or to speak of all his Praife.

Matter for Praise and Adoration can never be wanting to Creatures redeemed by the Blood of the Son of God; and who have fuch continual Scenes of his infinite Goodness prefented to their View, that were their Souls duly affected with a Senfe of his univerfal Love, they could not but be continually calling on Heaven and Earth, Men and Angels to join with them in praifing and bleffing that high and lofty one, who inkabiteth Eternity, who maketh his Sun to