d OR, David's Thankfulness UNTO GOD FOR All His Benefits. Expressed in a Sermon on the 29th of May, 1664. CHARLS the Second. By John Kerfiel, B. D. and Rector of Goddington Pfal. 103. 1, 2 Praife thou the Lord, O my Soul, and all that is within me praife his holy Name. Praife thou the Lord, O my Soul, and forget not all his Benefus. Seek for an apt and convenient time to be at leifure to thy felf, and meditate often on God's Benefi's and Blethings. Tho, a Kempis, of the Imitation of Chrift, 1. 1. c. 20. London, Printed for the Author, 166 5. (11) の ᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣ TO THE Noble and Learned Gentleman JAMES HYDE, Doctor in Phyfick, and Principal of Magdaler-Hall in OXON. Honoured Sir, He learned Stoick wifely perpending the right way of receiving Good-turns, with the juft reddition and return of them in futable Gratitude, refembles it to a Game at Tennys; where, though it be a confiderable part of the Play to receive the Ball with agility and skill, nevertheless faith Seneca) Non dicitur bonus lufor, nifi qui apte & expedite De bepilam remiferit quam exceperat; Ep. 32. None deferves the commendation A 2 of nefic. 1.2. of a good Gamefter, unless he fend it back again with equal vigour and dexterity. Whereupon out of an unfeigned fenfibleness of your reSpective kindness,and ever obliging courtefies, Ibegan to confider,how I might ferram reciprocare,and give Some reciprocal teftimony of those manifold refpects I on you; the which in my weak, judgment I conceived I could not more seasonably perform, than in a Subject or Argument of Gratitude, to which I have at prefent taken the boldness to give my felf the Honour to prefix your Name; which if you defign favourably to accept, I have all I aimed at, and fhall ever acknowledg my felf Your most obliged Friend and Servant 7. K. |