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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
for
further
mcroy.
Job./
ç.
r.
ObjeEt.
Aafrc.
Epbefana,Chap,
z.,
ÿ
a
R,
S1
There
arc
3.
things that
doe
efpecially lead
us
into thefe trcafures of
richmercy
:
r.
The
one our
eáate
wherein
God
findeth us.
2.
The
(late
wherein God fetteth
us
before
he 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 to
be gathered from there words,togct
her
with
Chrifí,
The
fe
might
be
particularly
amplified.
This teacheth what we
muff
doe,
if
we would
fee
the love
of
God
to
us;
get
a
true knowledge
and fenfe
of
naturals
condition;Dead
men,
in
whom
there
is
not by nature the leak
fparke
of
fpirituall
and
hea-
venly
life:
our naturali life being but
a
shadow
of
life
:
it is
but
a goodly
vizour drawen over
a
dead and rotten corps.
Thou haft a
name that
thou
liveft,
but then
art
dead, faith
our Saviour
to the
Angel
of
Sardi,
Revel.
3.
r.
The
confideratiö
of
this will worke true
humility,
and
a
thankful acknowledgment
ofGods
unfpeakable love
and
mercy.W
hat
was it
but the
due
pondering
of-there
things, that
did
carry David
to
fuels
an
admiration
of
Gods 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,
becau
fe
his compaf:ions
fayle not.
This allo
is a
ground
of
Hope,that God
will never
leaffie
us;
for
tálat
mercy
of
God, which
when 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
and
pain,
will thinks nothing
to
much
the
doeth
for
the finite
of
her wombe
the
¢çarely love h.
Can
another
forget her child,
and
not
have
conipaf
ion
on
the
fat
of
her
wombe ±though
they
fhould
forget,
yet will
not
I
forget
thee,
faith the Lord,
If
when
wee
were
enemies,
we
were
reconciled
to
Ged
b, thedeath
of
his
fan,
mach
more
now
being reconciled, ¡hall
we be
fá ed
Ws
life.
Obferve further, that
matt hafh
no
power to
f
ve.bimf
lfe ;
no difpofi-
tion
to
the
falvation
which
is entred through
faith
in Chrifi
: He
bath
made us
fit
:
that
which
we
are,
we
are
through the grace
of
God.
Look
what
difpofition
there
is
in
a
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
we
cannot further
our
felves
towards falvation,
then the
pro
-
phaneft beaft
is
as
neere
God
as
the belt
and jufteft
Churchmen
un-
converted.
I anfwer
:
no
neerer
for 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 thedegrees
of
corruption
in
which the other
lyeth,
and