r7o / The Spirituall-atiings ofFaith, Shall we not then waite upon him ? keep filence in the day of trouble. Ile give you two or three incouragements hereunto , and fo I will windeupall. r. Beloved The fentence of death ( you fay) is upon the Mercy , or the bleffing that you do much defire. If ever the Mercy rife, and the grave-cloathesbe taken off; it !hall be the choifeft Mercy that ever you had in all your lives. A- &aham had divers fons, but the jewell was Ifaac, the dead Mercy : Hannah had divers children but who like Samuel ? the found Mercy ? Mercy once /oft , and then. found, is a choife Mercy , it is the greateft Mercy. Firft I fay , If ever you come to find the Mercy you have loft ; if ever that rife which the fentence of death is put upon , it (hall be the greateft Mercy. yob had a good Eftate : but when all was plunder'd, a fentenceof death came upon all : when he came to his comforts, and his Eflate againe , then it was done. Some have obferved concerning jofeph , that according to the feverall links of his Afiliaion, were the pearles in the crown of his Mercy : Then obferved fome eight or nine.. I fhallnot have time to inlarge my felf in them ; onely thus t ?aleph he is foldby his Brethren into Egypt ; Anfwerable unto that , yolephs Brethren come down to Egypt, and wor- fhip before him. Yofeph is accufed for wronging his Millriffe, fad reproaches. call upon him ; Anfwerable to that , a He- rauld proclaimes before I im : This is the manwhom the King honours, yofeph is throwne into prifon , the irons enter in- tohis foule ; Anfwerable to that, a chaine of gold is hung about his necke. yofeph a poor ftranger, , brought as low, as ever man was Anfwerable to that , he is made next in the Kingdome to Pharaoh. Beloved , if the dead Mercy rife : as your bodies when they rife, they rife in glory : So when the Mercy rites , it will rife a glorious Mercy. 2i And as it fhall be the greateft Mercy that ever you had : fo it (hall be the foreft. That is molt certain , that is certain after.uncertainty. Whole afirance was like to Thomds? Qh I fayes Thom& , My Lord , and My God ; two il/ffs. ML,
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