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xhortati
on to
Mercy.
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Eleventhly,
The Lord
snakes
it
to
be
the
fin
of
Sodom
and
ftcmorrah, one
great
charge
that
God
gives
again--
Sodom
and
gomorrah,
why
they were
def
}toyed with
h
re from Heaven,
.
was
their
unmercifulnefs,
Ezek;.
i 6.
49.
there the Lord is
charging
of
Sodom
for
their vild
and
great
fins, and
faith, Be-
hold,
this
was
the iniquity ofthy After
Sodom,
pride; fulnef%of,
bread, and aboundance
ofidlenefe
was in
her,
and;
;her
dauóh,
ter.,
neither
did
Jhe
ftaengthen the hand ofthe
poor
and
needy;
Here's
a
fin
which
was
one
of the
fins
for
which
Sodom
was
de-
f
-Toyed
with fire
and
brimífone from Heaven, and
therefore
certainly this
is
a
greater evil then
we
are aware
oft
The evil
of
unmercifulnefs
is
worfe
then
we
can
imagine,
and
therefore
look
to
it
I
befeech
you,
if
I
fhould
be.eaking
of
force
other
fin,
it
may
be
your confciences would
fly
in
your faces,but
you
have
a
great
deal
of
cause to
have
your
con"ictences
Sound
you,
and
to
go
and
be humbled before the
Lo:d
for this fin.of
n-
mercifulnefs,
and
who
is
there that
bath
any
competent eflate,
but
upon examination his confcience will charge
-him
with
this,
O
Lord
thou knoweil
that
much
of
my
eftate
huh
been fpent
upon
vanity,
and my
lulls,
or upon my
will,
and
yet
this
man
for
a
good
tire
will
grudge
togiye
five
íhillins,
though hun-
dreds
ofpoundi
hall
go
meerly to
have
his
will
and
ltas,=
Be
humbled for this
fn,the
Lord
looks
upon
it
with another
man
-
ner.of
eye
then
you
do,
and this
may
be the
fin
that
may
caufe
God in
the time of
your
difErefs
utterly
to
leave you.
But the
main thing
in
the
Point, it's
an ufe of
Exhortation
if
Chia
pronounces him
blefled that
is
mgrciful,
let
us
be
in
lovewith this grace
Of
mercy
;
O that
we had more
me,çifult
men, this is
a
time of
crying for
mercy,
yet it
is
the
worn
-
time
for hardneffe of
heart,
and
cruelty
as
ever
was:
Certain
-
ly whofoever
(hall
get
an
eflate
inthefe
times with
bife
fera-
ping
together,
may
expe&&
a
curfe upon
that eflate more then
ever
was
upon
any
mans
enlarge
that.was gotten at another
ringf,
and
thercfo:
:e
this Scripture
is
a
feafonabie
Scripture,the Lord
fallen
it
upon your
hearts, that
you may go away
with this
written
upon
thent,l
lejfed
are
the
merciful
for they
-hall
-
obtain
mercy.
There-were
never
fuck
obje
&s
of
mercy;
woful
extre
pity