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The
feverall
work'ns-s-
of
mercy in the
heart.
341
Secondly,
From there
there
is
a
working
defire
in his
foule
to relieve them
;
p
that
I
could
tell
how
to relieve
and
help
fouls
as
I
fee
to
be
any way
in mifer,y,
bodi
ly
mifery,
or
f
firitu-
all
níifery.
Thirdly, The heart
is
folicitoufly
careful'
about
wayes
of
heípe,
not onely
wires
and
delires
to
help, but
the thoughts
of
the mind are very folicitous,
what
way I may
Cot-gaffe
co
be
helpful' to thofe that
are
in mifery,
you have
an
excellent
Scripture
for
that,
in
the
54.
Pray:
z
z.
Mercy aad
truth f
"hall
be
to
them
that
dew' egood :
Here's the merciful'
man
delcri
bed,.
nd
the
promife
ofmercy to him,
he is one
that
devil
th
good,
a
merciful( man lookes upon
others in mifery,
calls
a-
bout him in
his
thoughts when
he
lies
upon
his
bed,
and
is
de-
viling how
he may doe good
:
I am
here
lying
quiet
Sy
in
my
beç?,I
am
warm,
others
are
in
mifery;
how
mayl
be
any
wayes
ufefull
to
them, to do them
any
good
?
he
Both
device
good,
and in
the
3
z
ffa:
8.
v:
The liberall devi feth
libtràll
things.
A
merciful'
mat
is not
only
liberall
and
helpfull, when
you
put
him upon
occafion,
when
you
come
to-
him, when
he
cannot for
fhame but
hé
mua
give
you
fomething
;
no,
but
he
himfelfe
devifethliberal
&thinggs,.
he plots with himfelfe what he
may
do
to-be
inflrumentall
for
the
good of
thofe that are
in
a fad
con-
dition,
a
covetous
man
doth not more devife
how he
might
Caine
to
himfelfe to-get
a
good bargaine,
then
a
merciful!
man
devifes
how h2 may
diilribute,
how
he
may
do good;
titat's the
third
4&
of mercy, it's
folicitoufly
careful"..
,
Fourthly,
A timelOmprovement, he
doh
not keepe his
mercy
in
his
own
thoughts,
but he
doth
improve what
he
hash
for the good
of
others that
are
-in
mifery
:
if
he
bath
an
effate,
parts,
friends, flrength
of
body,
or if he be
poore
and
mane,
and
hach-nothing
die,
then
his
prayers,
all-
that
he
bath thall
be.fonte
way
or_
other
improved for the help of
filch
as are
in
mifery,
a
merciful'
man
doth not
thinke
tßiat
God
hash
given
hem any
good thing meerly
for
himfelfe,
but
for
improvement,
I
was
not borne for
my felce,
I
have
not
an efface
formy felce,
neither
have
I
t
arts
of
nature,
or
grace for
my
felfe,
but
I
ia.ve
them
for
to be
ofpublick
good
as
much
.as
may
be:That'g
the: