122 life r . To fee mercy, fee mifcry Revel. ;.t. Pfal. t {44. Lam.3. ri. cite 2. lam,t.17. Ifs. 49, 13. Rom. S. Dort. Mercy fits us forfurther mcroy. Job./ ç. r. ObjeEt. Aafrc. Epbefana,Chap, z., ÿ a R, S1 There arc3. things that doe efpecially lead us into thefe trcafures of richmercy : r. The one our eáate wherein God findeth us. 2. The (latewherein God fetteth us beforehe leave us. 3. The way,or meanes,whereby he compaffeth our deliverance from death, and our glorious falvation. The firft is fet dowse in this S. verfe. The fecond in the 6. verfe. The third,left tobe gathered from there words,togcther with Chrifí, Thefe might be particularly amplified. This teacheth what we muff doe, if we would fee the love of God tous; geta true knowledge and fenfe ofnaturals condition;Dead men, inwhom there is not by nature the leak fparke of fpirituall and hea- venly life: our naturali life being but a shadowoflife : it is but a goodly vizour drawen over a dead and rotten corps. Thou haft a name that thou liveft, but thenart dead, faith our Saviour to theAngel ofSardi, Revel. 3. r. The confideratiö ofthis will worke true humility, and a thankful acknowledgment ofGodsunfpeakable love and mercy.What was it but the due ponderingof-there things, that did carry David to fuels an admirationofGods bounty toward himfelfe and all men,cry- ing out: Lord, whatiir,v in that thou regardeft him? And forceth the Prophet to this confeiïion , it is the Lords mercy that we are not confir- med, becaufe his compaf:ions fayle not. This allo is a ground ofHope,that Godwill never leaffie us; for tálat mercy ofGod, whichwhen we were dead., did put lift into us and 1 quicken us, will now much more heiQe us, and comfort us snail our miferies, for with him is no change ; h mercies tuère for ever. As a mother, when the bath borne, and brought forth,°and endured the hardeft hand'of Labour andpain, will thinks nothing to much the doeth for the finite of her wombe the ¢çarely love h. Can another forget her child, and not haveconipafion on the fat ofher wombe ±though theyfhouldforget, yet will not I forget thee, faith the Lord, Ifwhen wee were enemies, we were reconciled to Gedb, thedeath ofhis fan, machmore now being reconciled, ¡hallwe be fá ed Ws life. Obferve further, that matt hafhnopower to f ve.bimflfe ; no difpofi- tion to the falvation which is entred throughfaith in Chrifi : He bath made usfit : that which weare, we are through the grace of God. Look what difpofition there is ina Carrion to life, there is that in our ¡tin. king foules to the life of grace : out of me can yee doe nothing. But if wecannot further our felves towards falvation, then thepro- phaneft beaft is as neere God as the belt and jufteft Churchmen un- converted. I anfwer : noneererfor kind, but neerer in regard that he is not fo farre removed in this kind. A man having new Pent out his fpirit, and one (linking in the grave, the one may be Paid neerer to life then the other , in regard he is not entred fo far into thedegreesofcorruption in which the other lyeth, and
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