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.The excellency
óf
thisgruce_gfinerci
fullnefj'c.
Again,
Set
before
you
the beauty
and
excellency
of
mercy,
-end
confider
of
i::
Chr.
f
florae
bath
an
exprelien
about
mer-
cy,
that it
is
more excellent
theft
to
have
the
gi-t ;o
raife from
the
dead,
if God
fhould give
one ability
to
raise
from
the
dead,
it
were not
a
greater
good then to
have
a
heart to
be
merciful'
to thofe
that
are
in
mifery, we
need not
go to him
but to the
Scripture.,there are
the
molt excellent
things fpoken
of it
in
Scripture, that
would make
a
man
admire
that
any
man
profefíing
Godlinefs,thould not havebowels
of
Mercy
towards
thofe that
are in
mifery,
there befix
notable
Scripture expref-
fions
concerning
the
excellency
of
thisgrace.
The
firff is
this,
.It's call'd
the
adminifiration of
fervice,
the fervice
of
God
;
2
Cor:
9. 12. The Miniftry of
this
Le-
mute,
there-are
many
hand for
your
old
,
Leturgie,
and
think
it
a
hard
cafe
that that
is
taken from
them, here
you have
a
Le-
turgie that
you may
keep,
and
that
with the good will of
God
nd men
to,
and be
in
love with this
Leturgte , that is, `the
works
of mercy,
it's call'd Gods Leturgie,
whereas
you
ufe
to
call
the Leturgte Divine
fervcce:
Here
s a
Divine fervice
that
you may
tender
up to
God.;
All of
you
that
have effares, you
may have
this Divine
fervice
:
You
complain thus one
to
ano-
ther,
would we had our
Divine
fervice
again, you may
have
this every day,
and
be
as
acceptable
ro
God
as
ever
that
was
Certainly
and aboundantly..mòre,
and
therefore
feeing
that
is
.gon,make
it
up
in
this
Miniftry,
in
this
Leturgie,
for
fo is
the
word
in
the
original.
The
fecond
commendation
of
this
grog,
is
this, that it's
a
grace
Both
manifeP
the profeifed
fr.b,eciion
of
men to
the
Golpel,
and
till men
come
to
have mercifull
hearts towards
others, they do
nor
come
to
have
a
profeffed fubjedioía
to the
(orpel,
you
are not brought
under the it:bjeclion to
the Co-
fpel in
a
profeifive
-way,
till.your
hearts
be
brought to be
mer-
ciful
towards
your
Brethren,
and
that
you
have
in
the"ftnte
Scripture,
2
Cor:
9,
t
3. (peaking
of
the
relief of
others, and
mercy towards others, he
calls
irthere;7he
profeled
fib
etCon
to
the
Gqf el,
fo
it inyour
Books
:
--
The
ft:
:b
e
&ion
of the
profeflìontothe Gofpelffo that
would you come and
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