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Things for unmerciful men
to
.
confider of.
ft?ife
and
debate,
then-if-1411e g.
v.
Is
it
fuch
a:
raft.
that
I
have
chofen, a day
for a man
to
afflict
his
foul,-.is
it
to
bow
do,b
.;
this
head
Ikea
but
-rufh and
to
fpread
fack.-cloath
and
ayes under
hltn, wilt
thou
call
this
a
fait
and.an
acceptable
day
to
the Lord,
_
as
ii
they
thould
fay,
Lord
what
is
the fait that
thou hail
cho-
frta
?
:
vc
6.
Is
not
this
the
fall'
that
I
have
choler:, to
loop
this
bá`,ds
of
wickednefs, to
undo
the
heavie burdens, and
to
let the
of-
preff
edgo free,
and.that
yebreakeverj
yoak,
is
it
not
to
deal
ti
y
bread
to
the hungry, and
that
thou
bring the
poor
that
are
raft
out
to
thy
houfe, when
thou
feeft the naked
that
thou cover
hrm,
and
that
thou
hide
not
thy
fe
f
fromthine
own
fiefh,
for
fo
we
are to
account all,
even°ftran,rs
as
our
own
fiefh,.
Then
fta
I
thy
tight
break
forth
us
themorning,
fo
that
in
thefe times
of,
fail;
lets
look
ro this,
this
is
the
fait
that God requires, felting
and
alms
are
to
go
together,
the more
we fall
the more
merciful
we
are
to be
to
others,
or
otherwife our fatting
is
nohing.
More Scriptures
may
be
named
but
thefe two are
p.
inae
euues,
to
thew
where,
there
is
not
mercifulñefsr
all
is
re
jeetec,
ev.
to
our
.prayers are
rejecled,.7
Zech:
6:
y:
when
ye
fated
and
mourned in
the
fi
fth andfeaventh
month,evcn tho
fe
feaventyyears
did
ye
at
all
faft
unto me, even
tome,
and
when
ye del eat,
and
when
ye did
drinke,,d.'d
ye
not
eat
for
yourfelves
and
dra
kforyour
felves,
fkould ye not
hear the
works
which
the,
Lord bath
cry eo
by
the
former prophets,
when
jerufalem
was
inhabited
and
in
profperity; and the
Cstyes
thereof
round about
her,
when
men
in-
habstedrhe
South
and
the
Plain,
v:
9.
7
h
fceaketh the
Lord
of
Profit,
Paying, execute
the
true
iudgment and
thew
mercy
and
compaffion
every
man
so
his
brother.
You
only
minded
your
felves,
and
regarded
your felves
when you
were failing
and
praying,
and
fo
we
find in
the
i
o.
of
the
e
d-s,
of
Corr,
efus,
when
his
prayers
were accepted of
God,
the
text
faith,
that-
his
Alms
and his
prayers
came
up
to
God
both,
together.
Lightly,
if
thou haft an
unmerciful
heart,thy
prayers
are
fo
farre
from
being accepted
and
regarded
of
God,
as
they cry
aoàinft
Thee,
and are
witn`ifes
againft
thee,
for when
thou,
comeft ro
pra
to
od for
mercy,
and
art
unmerciful
thy
felf,
the
Lord
will b ing
thy prayers
to
be witnefles
againft
thee,
and
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