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The Merci
full
mana
ble¡fed
man.
mil
I
forgive
tillfeaventy
times
feaven times in
a
day
if
my
brother
offend
me,
canil nor
th
Al
forgive much
more,
this
is a
mighty help to faith,
and
a
mighty help
to
praÿer,thac
the Lord
would
fhleW
mercy
to
us
in
our
!-traits
and
help
in
the
time
of
our
troubles;
Pfal:
I,1
z.
6,
7.
Surely be
fhall
not
be
raved
Forever.
The
way
to
be
etiablithed, it
is
to
be of
a
men
cifull
ipirit,
and he
falll
not be
afrazd
of
evill
-; ydìrrs; Let
what
times
come that will
come,
he
{hall
not
fear them,
the
dayes
m
y
be
clouded,
and xrdubles may grow
bigger,
but
he
(hall
not
be aflraid
of them,
the.fe
evil tydings
shall
not
affright
the
merciful man,
and
that's
a
famous
text that
we have in
the
58
of
Ifa:
7,8.
When he
defcribes the manner`
of
the
Fat}
boh
in
the negative
and
the
affirmative
part:
he
ihewes
What
they did
in
their
falfe
humiliations,
and
then
he comes
to thew
that
if
they
did
thus and
thus,
When
¡hall
"thy
light
breakforth
ds
the
morn.
ing,and then
¡halt
thou
call and the Lord ¡hall'anfirer;
thou
/halt
cry, and
he
faall
fay,
here
aria
1.
God
will
fay,
;hear-
ken,
there's
a
merciful
man
cryes, there's
one
that
is
now in
dißreffe
and cryes
tome,
I
múfl goe downe and hearken unto
this
mans
requeft,
I
muff
goe
and
hear what's
the matter, 'tis
a-
merciful
man
cryes, come
God
will
f
;y,here
am
I,
call upon
me,
what wouldefhthou
have
?
it's
a
merciful!
man
that
:ryes,
I
muff go and
relieve
him,
God
will
fay
to this
foul
here I,am,
and
In
io.
The light
of
fuch
a.man¡hall
rifein obfcurity;and his
darloef
è
be
as the
noon
day, and
ver:
i
i
.
The Lord!hall
guide
thee
continually, and
fatisbe
thy
foul
in
drought, and
male fat-
thy
banes,
and
thou (halt
be like
a
warred
sorden,
and
bke
a
fpring
of
water
ïvbofe
waters
falle
not
:
Thou coml.lainefi
of
.
>
deadnefs
and barrennefs of
fpirit,
this
is
the reafon
it
may
be
thou
profitefi
no
more under the
means, becaufe
rho' art
of
a
wretched,
harfh, cruel difpofition
:
But for
the merciful!
they
may
go unto
God
and
plead
their
caufe, and
fay,
Lord
I
was
merciful!
unto
my
brethren
in
their
{traits, and
my.
mercy
it
was
in obedience
to
thycommand,
and
therefore
Lord
hear
me.