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Vnmercifull hearts are
'odd
hearts,
j4
NOV
a
I.
They
defile
look
contemptibly
upon
fuch as
are
under them,
or
in
a
meaner
condi
:.ion
then
they :
He
that
,lef
ifeth
his
neigó,bosr
fnneth,
bout
he
that
bath
mercy
the
pore,
happy
is
he:
Take heed
you
do
nor
look upon poo peo-
pleas
delvit.ng them,for
fo
'cis meant of hoot nughbours,6o:h
by
the
oppofitron, and
the verfe.before,
:1
he
pr
ti
ba,c,1
e
vet,
of
his
oxen
ne-`ghbour,
but the rich
hath
many
fr,
e:
d.,
he
t,:
oa
d
f
pi
fctb
his
neighbour
fsnneth, Gnnethwith
a
gre1t..:n, but
Le
that
bath
mercy
on
the
poor, happy
is he, fuch an
one
i;
mean
and
poor,
and
thou thinkeft him
a
mean poor
fJlow,and
:o
lookeft
delpicably upon him
:
Take
heed
_ofiuch
a
diipofition, (rod
will not take
it
well at thy hands
:
---. And
others
there
are
that
are
fo
farre
from (hewing mercy
to
thofe that are
in
mil-c-
ry,
as
theyrather
fpend
their
effaces
that they
haveiapon
their
lulls,
they
have
more then others,
and
that
which
may
ferve
to
relieve
the neceffitiesofmany
poor creatures that
would
.bleffe
God
for
their
fuperfluities,
but
their
fuperfluities
are
laid
out and fpent
u
on
their
duffs,
meerly
to
fatisfie
their
-
bellyes,
to
fatisfie
their
uncleanneffe
is
may
be,
when
as
they
will
nor
freely
give twelve pence for good ufes,
and for
relie-
ving
others, there
are pounds fpent
upon
their
filthy
unclean-
neffe,
or upon
their
backs,
and
upon
vanity
infporting,playing,
drinking, where
is confcience
in
the
mean
time,
when
there
are
fo many charges
of
God
upon yon
ma'am
mercy,and there
is
fo
much fpoken
of
the excellency
of
mercy, what 'a
blefled
man
the
mercifull
Man
is,
and thou
that
hall
a
a
elfate
above
others
improvefi
it,
and
layea it
out
only
to
fatisfie thy
lulls,
thou cana
fin
more freely foffibly then others
can,
becaufe
thou
has
an
eaate
more
fully.
then they,
O
thou
unwife
foul,
:how
foolifhly
doff
thou trrprove thy
dire,
when
as thou
mightea
lay
it
out
fo as
hundreds might
be bleffìn
God
for
thee,
thou imployetf
it
only in
iiicreafng guiltinefle
upon
thy
foul
:
And others;
hough
perhaps fo.newhat
it
is
that
they
will
give, yet grudgingly,
and only
that that
is
forced
from them,.
what
tilt}
cannot but forfiaame
give,
but
there's
ofreedom,
no
cheerfuln ,fte-at
all
in
their
difiribution
unto
.others, and
if
any
thing be given,
they think
it's
meetly
loll,
its