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the
mercifull
mare
a
Pled
man.
349
cf
his
bread
to
the
poore
:
To
open unto
you
the
bleflèdneife of
this
merciful! man, take
it
in
there particulars.
Firft,
When God
would defcribe
a
man
wily
godly, he
calls
him out by
this very çharaéler, that
he
is
a
merciful!
man
Pfal
:.
32.6.
For
this
(hall
every
one
that
is Godly
pray
unto
thee, in
the
Original!
it
is
the kindman, Godly
mcnr
are
calla
by
this denomination
of
kind
ones, and
fo
where ever
we have
the word Godly
and Saints in
the
old
Tefiament, it
is
the
fume
with that
we
have
in the
New Tefiament,
where they
are called Godly
Saints,
and
Godly
ones,
it
is
the
fame with
merciful! men
to note
thus much,
that
mercy
it
is
the
f,
n
re
with Godline{le,now take
righteoufnefl_e
as'
opened it
in
the
former
verfefor the
grace
of Santhii cation,
and
fo this
merci-
fulne(fe
is
a
part of that
Saneldfication,
°tí,
a
part
of
that
righ
--
teoufnef
e,
which
I
chewed
you
was
of
inch
excellency;
in
the
31
!fat:
6. ver:
Cod
doth
not
infiance
in any
pa ticular
grace
but
in
this
of
mercy: The merciful
man (ball
feekhira
in
i..;/
a
rime
where
may
be
found
:
and in
the
Ira,
Pf..
ASod
man
herveth
favour
and
lendeth,
he will
guide
his
affaires with
eL
fct-e-
tion,
and
then
in
the y. ver:
He
bath
difperfed, he
bath given
io
the
p oor,
his righteousrefseendureth
for
ever:
Mercy,
it
is
a
fpeciáll pa
at
of righteoúfneíiè,
in
the
3
of
James 17.Tha
Ap.o-
file there defcribing the
wvifdome
that
is
from
above,
he faith
thus;
? he
xwi
fdome
that
is
from
above,is
firflpare,then
peaceable,
gentle,
and
ea
fieto
be
entreated,
fall
of
mercy
and
good
fruits.;
Mark
the words,
it
s
full
of mercy
and
gentleneffe:
Therefore
bleffed
are there merciful( ones
for they are
fuch as
God do:h
call
out
to
give
a
character
of that
they are
Godly
men:
.
Secondly; Bleffed becaufe they
have
fo
much
of
that which
is fo nigh
toGod,
and makes
God
fo
excellent
and
glorious,
there
is
nothing
in
a
Saint
is
neerer
unto
God
then
this
very
difpofftiorr
ofmercifulneffe,
now
God glories
in nothing more
then
in his
mercy, .thi,
is-
that
which
God
loth
exalt hiinf
he
with
all
and
that
he
doth
glory
in,that
he
is
the
merciful
God,
in
the
25
of E
leodus,
themercy
'feat
it
was
raised up on high
above all,
that it
might be
Peen.
And
in
Scripture
God,
is
Said
to
delight
in
mercy.
Micha: 7.
18. who
is
a
God
Eh,
'
unto
thee
i'
Vrr