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Objet' of
Mercy.
345
Sixthly,
Further , The
confideration of the
relation that
thefe
have
to
God
that
are
inmifery,
let
it
be
any-
creature,
yet
it
hash
tome relation
to God,
any
bruit creature, 'tis the
creature of
God,
and to
it
bath
relation
to
him,
it's
thework
of Gods hands, but if
he
be
a
man,
much.
more,
if
he
be a
Ghrif'tián,mt:ch
more,
if
a
Saint,much
more, the relation
that
a
thing bath
to God,
and being in
mifery,
that
moves
a
graci-
dus man,
it
Both
not move
one
that
is
mov'd
in
a
way
oí
na-
tural(
pitty,
but thole thatare mercifull
in
a
gracious way,
the
relation
that
any
thing
bath,
to
God,
that's
a
mighty motive
to
mercy.
Seventhly,
The
confiderarion
that
I
shall
honour
God
in
this
way
ofmercy, not
meetly that
I
would
help o:hers
in
mifery
,
or be well
fpoken
of (or the
like)
but
I
ihall ho-
nour
God
in
this
way of
mercy,
and
it
is
this
that moves
my
heart.
Eíghtly, And the
very love
to the
exercife
of
mercy
it
felf,
and love
to
fuch as
are in
mifery, though they
be
(+rangers,
whosoever
they
be,
this
works
in
a
mercifull
heart,
and
that's
the
fecond
thing, the motives
or
what
it
is
that
Pets a
merciful
man on work in the
wayes
ofmercy.
For the
Objet:
But
a
word,
(
for
it
was
intimated
in
The0bjee.
the relation that a thing
a
thing bath
to
God)
we are
to be
mercifull.
First,
To
all
that
are in
mifery,
a
good
man is
mercifull
to
his
beafl,
took upon your
beat+
and
confider,
there
is
not
fuch
a
diftance
between
you
and
that,
you
are
all
of
one
lump,God
might
have
made
you
a
toade, the
vileft
creature that
is, and
therefore
God
expe&s
that
you
lhould
ufe his
creatures
that:
he
math
an
intereft in,that
you
lhould
ufe
them mercifully and
nor cruelly.
Secondly;
We
are
to
be
mercifull to
all
mankind,
if
you
do
not
give to
fuch and
fuch an
one
as
a
man,give
it
tö
humane
nature,
fo
farce
as
not to
futer
them
to perish except
it be in
fotne cafes`that:the
Scripture
mould have
e
hers to peri
h
if
they continueobflinately
inwickedneffe,
as
he
that
will
not
worke,
let
him
not eat
faith
the Scripture,
or
if
they
fin, in
the
Y
y
way