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`The
merciful! mau
a
6leffed
man.
thee
?
that
pardoneth intquit
y,and
pa.
fjèth
by
the
trapffre
ion
of
the
remr.
ant
of his
heritage,
d.
e
retained)
riot
his anger
for
ever,
becaufe
hedelighteth
in mercy.
It's
a
very plealing
thing
for
God
to
delight: in
his
mercy,and he
is
call'd the
Father
of
mer-
cy, and,
a
God
rich inmercy,
a
mati'accounts
his
glory
to
con-
hfis in his
riches,
if in
any
thing
a
man
doth
ef}eem himfelfe
'for,
it
is
in
his
riches, in
his
wealrh,io
Gods
riches
are
his mer-
cies, and
God
glories
in his
mercies,
and
when
God
would
flew
unto
Mojes
hisglory, it
is
in this
:
Moles
he defires
t
fee
the
face
of
God,
and
that God
would
let
him fee
his glo-
ry,
Excel:
34.
6.
how
doth the Lord
give
a
demortf
}!ationof
his glory
?
Thus,
The Lord
God
gracious andmerci
full,and
the
chief
defigne that
God
bath in
the world,
it
is
to
glorifie
his
mercy,
in
the
t
Ephef 6.
v:
The
Lord he
delights
to
glorifie
Ms
power,
his
wifdome,
and
his
juffice, but
he
delights to
glorifie
his
mercy
above all.
When
the
power of
God
is
ex-
alted,when the
%vifdome
ofGod
is
declared, God
is
glorified,
bittwhen
mercy.
is
glorified, then
God
is
exalted
:
If
mercy
Make
God foexcellent,
Purely
that
man muff
needs
be
very
happy
that
bath much
ofthis
difpofition
in
him: and you
have
feen
that the
mercifull
man he path much
of
this difpofition
in
him,
which
is
by
God
accounted
robe
his own
glory.
Thirdly,
You are bleffed,becaufe
you
are
under
many
pre
ciouspromifes,
it
were-endle{le
to
mention
all
thepromtfes
wherein
your
bleffedneife
is
fet forth, In
the
11
Pro:
25.
Ver:
7he
liberall
foule
¡hall
be
made
fat,
and
he
tfat
watereth
fhall
be
waved
alfo
himfelfe
:
Pfal:
r
i
z.
9.
He
bath
difperfed,
he
loath
.given
to
the
podre,
hisrighteoufneffe endureth
for
ever,
his
horn
A4
be
exalted with
honour
;
z C'or: _9.8.
which
is
very
rem.trk-
able' And
God is
able
to
make
all
race-abound towards
you,
that
ye alwayes,having allfufficiency
in
41
things,
may
abound,
to
every
good Home.
See how words are
heaped
up
here,
to make
grace,
and
allg- rarça.nd allgrace
to
abound,
and who
ì it
to
?
unto
the
liberal, the merciful!
man;
In the 6
Luke 38.
Give,
and
it
fhall
begiven.
to
you :
The
way
for
to
receive more,
it
is
to
give-
out of
what we have,
ànd God
will
fo
order
it,
That
Jost
¡hall
hive
gòod
meafure, prof
ed ekon, and
fhaken together,
and