Thanking God for blessings bestowed on others (Robert Rollock)

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There is no member in the Church of Christ but he has cause to thank God for every blessing he bestows on another. I am bound to thank God for the blessing he bestows on thee, thou art bound to thank God for the blessing he shows on me. And every one should thank God for other’s blessings.

Robert Rollock, Lectures upon the first and second Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians (Edinburgh: Robert Charteris, 1606), Part II, pp 3-4.
 
Another quote on a similar subject:

Thanks-giving to God is a debt we should ever be paying but never put an end to paying of it, for it can have no end: in earth ever thanking: in Heaven when we are with him ever thanking, and our glory shall be in an everlasting thanking of him …

Robert Rollock, Lectures upon the first and second Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians (Edinburgh: Robert Charteris, 1606), Part II, p. 4.
 
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