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confessing of his sins and unworthiness, and such 

 thankfulness for God's pardon and mercies, as did 

 make him to be accounted, even by God himself, to 

 be a man after his own heart : and let us, in that, 

 labour to be as like him as we can ; let not the 

 blessings we receive daily from God make us not to 

 value, or not praise Him, because they be common ; 

 let us not forget to praise Him for the innocent 

 mirth and pleasure we have met with since we met 

 together. What would a blind man give to see the 

 pleasant rivers, and meadows, and flowers, and 

 fountains, that we have met with since we met 

 together? I have been told, that if a man that was 

 born blind could obtain to have his sight for but 

 only one hour during his whole life, and should, 

 at the first opening of }.'Js eyes, fix his sight upon the 

 sun when it was in its lull glory, either at the rising 

 or setting of it, he wo,uld be so transported and 

 amazed, and so admire'^ie glory of it, that he would 

 not willingly turn his eyes from that first ravishing 

 object, to behold all the other various beauties this 

 world could present to' him. And this, and many 

 other like blessings, we enjoy daily. And for the 

 most of them, because they be so common, most 

 men forget to pay their praises : but let not us ; 

 because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made 

 that sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us 

 flowers, and showers, and stomachs, and meat, and 

 content, and leisure to go a-fishing. 



Well, Scholar, I have almost tired myself, and, I 

 fear, more than almost tired you. But I now see 

 Tottenham High-Cross; and our short walk thither 

 shall put a period to my too long discourse; in 

 which my meaning was, and is, to plant that in your 

 mind with which I labour to possess my own soul ; 

 that is, a meek and thankful heart. And to that 

 end I have shewed you, that riches without them, do 

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