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vnne
rcrful
hearts are
I+ild
hearts,
and
they cannot be
parted
one from
another
;
Eleflèd are
fuch as
hunger and
thirlf
after righteoufneffe,
BL
AU,
are
the.
merciful,
unmerciful' men do
not
truly defire after grace
:
--
And
this makes way
to
fpeake
unto the
ieconfi Branch in
the.
Application
:
Whatfoever
might be 'further
fpoke'byway`
of
encouragement, we
ihall
bring
it
into the
ufe
of
Exhota-
don.
.
Wherefore
in
the
fecond
place, here
is a
ufe
of
re
prehenfi-
onto
unmerciful'
men, to
fuch
as
have
not
their
hearts affec-
ted
with the miferies of
others,
nor mind
not
what
becomes
of
others,
fo
be
it
they
may have
contentment
to
themfelves;
Perhaps force
of
you may
think this point
that I.
am
about
is
an
ordinary
thing to
fpeak for
mercy,and
bit
a
morral point:-
-
1know
not
what
you lay
upon
it,
but
I find, and
you may
find
it to
if
yoù
will
examine
Scripture, not
only
in the old Teffa-
ment
but
in
the
New,
Chriff
layes
not more
wait
upon
any
one
thing excepting. faith
it
felfe, then
upon mercy
:
Take
but thefe three particulars,Faith:
-=
Mercy towards others:-
-
and union one with another;
thefe be
the three great
things-
that the
Gofpel doth moll
infiff
upon, and
I
know
no point
that
isfo
full
of
Scripture
as
this
is,the point ofmercy
and
that
out
of the Gofpel
:
--
Many
profeflors of Religion
lay
too
little
weight
upon
this point,
but
look upon
it
as an
ordinary
point,
and fo
they
make
not that
confcience
of the
exercife
of
this grace
as
they ought, but
how
little,
you
think
of
ir,
Chriff
puts
much in
it,
Bleffed
are
the
merciful', therefore
know.
Firff, That
an
unmerciful' heart'
is
a
wretched
and
a
vild
heart,
you
that mind nothing
elfe but
your
felves,
if
you can
have your tables
fáread,
your
backs
cloathed,
your höufes fur"
nifhr,
your
children provided for,
let
others
fink
or
fw'im
and
pe'rifh, no
matter
what becomes
of them
:.O
wretched
vild
-heart
of
thine,
what art thou more
then
others?tvhat's'thy
flefla
mote then others, that
thou
ihozldeff
have
fo
little
regard
to
others fhould
there
be
any
regard to thee,
fonte
there
ate that
if
they
geta
little
more then others are
fo
farre from
letting
out
dam
foules
to the
relief
and
helpof
others,
that they'lork
upon
them with defpicable
eyes,
defpifing
the
pore,
as in the
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