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David's Thankfulness

UNTO

GOD

FOR

All His Benefits.

Expressed in a Sermon on the 29th of May, 1664.
being whitfunday, and the Day of the happy Birth
and Return of our Gracious KING,

CHARLS the Second.

By John Kerfiel, B. D. and Rector of Goddington
in Oxford-fhire,

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.

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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

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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.

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