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The
graclots manner
of
Jérving
mercy.
-not
be
let
to
peril,
but
if
it be
meetly the
hand
of God
upon
them and
not
their
own
wickedneil'e
that
hath
brought
it upon
them,
much
mercy
lhould
be
shown
to them,
filch as
by
the
providence of
God
either by
fire,
or
by
wicked
men that
!Iwo.
broken
in upon
them,
and
not through
their
own
fault,
they
have
liv'd
c
onfcienciouíly,
and
yet
Lod
by force hand
ofpro-
vidence
hath
fwept
away
all
their eílate,
abundance 'of mercy
thould be fhowntot'hem.
But above
all,
though we are to
do good unto all, yet
efpe-
cially'unto the houièhold of faith,
to
the
Saints
eipecially our
mercy.fhould be ihewn unto, for
God
thews
moll mercy
to
them
But
it
fhaÍl
be fufficient
to
name
the objects
of
mercy.
For
the
gracious mariner
of
(hewing mercy to thofe
that ate
kual
iotts
in
mifery Mercy mull
have
thefe qualifications,
in Mercy.
Fíríl, I
muff
never
be fomercifull
as
to go
againfany
rule
Of'Juílicé,
but
there mull
be
a
fweet concord
between both,
mark how
they are
knit
together,
Blejfed
are
they
that
hunger
and
th:rft after
righteaufneffe, which
is
not
only
the
righteouf-
neífe
of Chriíl, but between
man and man, and
bleffed
are
the
merciful!, we
mull be
fb
merciful!,
as
yet to
be
righteous,
grace
bath
a
bleffed mixture
in
ir,
and
though one vice be
con-
trary to another,
yet
one
grace
is
never contrary
to
another,
juílice
and
mercy
are
never
oppofite one
to
another, but
they
may
have
a
gracious
mixture, I
may
be
a
mercifuil man, and
yet
hunger after righteoufne{le
that
righteoufneife
may
prevail
in
the
world
;
That mull be conridered
in
the
firíl
place, for
the
gracious manner
ofthe
work
of
mercy.
Secondly,
I
mull be
fo
merciful;
as
not
to
doe hurt
to
thofe
that I
think
to thew
mercy
to,or to do hurt to
others
by
them,
as
thus,
when
men
are in
mifery, for me
to fhew
mercy
fo
as
to
harden them
in
their
evil! way, this
is
no
gracious act, this
is a
fooliíh
pittp,
or
to
(hew mercy
to
one fo
as
to
hurt others:
many
times
mercy
may-be
lhownto
one,that
is
cruelty to ma-
ny
others,
now
in
the ITS
Pfal.
5.
v:
there the
holy Ghoul
fpeak;ng
of
a
merciful! man,he faith,
That
be?uidei his affairs
with dijcretion,
he
guides them
in
à
difcreet
way,
he
doth
not
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