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The
excellency
of
this grace ef*ercifullneffe.
391
works
of
mercy
;
when
you
do
works
of
mercy towards
others,
you have
perfum'd your
houfes,you
have
perfum'd
your bodies
and fouls, now
there
is
a
fwveet
finell unto
God.
The firth
expreirion
is,it's
a
facraf
ee acceptable and pleafing
toGod,
here
be
three
in
one
;
would
you
oifer
a
facrifice
to
God,the
work
of
mercy
it's
a
facrifee,
and
a
facrifice
accepta-
ble,
and
a
facrifice
well pleafing
to God
:
in
Philip.
4.
18.
4
facrifice acceptable, or
received, and
well-
p.
/eafin
to
God, Would
you do
a
well
pleafing thing
to God
?
do
works
ofinercy,they
are well
pleating,
to
God,
and
they
are facrifices
:
So
rhat
thole
that
are
ir;
mifery
are
as
it
were the Altar
upon which
you
do
offer
this
facrifice
to
God,
fo
in
1
3
Heb. 16. You
have
an
ex-
prelfion
to the
fame
purpofe, that it
is a
facrifice well pleafing
to
God
;
Confider therefore,
what comfort
it
will be
to
you
when you
aye
;
whether do
you
think
it
will
be
more comfort
when you dye
to
think thus,
I
have filent
fo
much in
a
Tavern,
er, I
have
reliev'd the
neceflities
of io many
poor
people
;
I
have spent
f®
much upon my
luf}s,
or
upon
a
whore,
or,
I
have
been
a
meanes
that
fo
many
poor
diflrefled people
will
blare
God
for
me
:
or
thus,
It
may
be
when
you
dye
it
fhall be
fhid
that
fuch
a
man
dyed
worth
fo
much,but
is
it
not
a
greater glo-
ry
for
fo
many families
to
come
and blefre
the Lord
for
thee,
I
have found fuch
a
one
a
good Matter,
I
might
have
flatbed
had
it
not been
for
fuch
a
one,
I
have caufe
to
biefre
God
for
him
;
would
not
this he
a
greater
good
to
you
when
you
dye,
then to
think
that
you leave
fo
much,
what
if
you
reckon lefle
;
certainly
a
fveet
memoriall of the
work
of mercy
were
a
great
deale better then
any
thing
you
could leave behind
you
:
You
know
that
the
works
of mercy
will
be
a
good
tef
}imony
un
:o
you
in
the
day
of Jefus
Chrifl:
to
wirnefie for
you
;
Lint
16.
9.
It
is
a
Scripture that
hath force difficulty in
it
:
faith Chrill',
I
fay
unto you, make unto
your
felves
friends of the Mammon
of
ieurighteoufne
f
fe,
that
when
ye
falle,
they
may receive'
you
into
e-
verlaflrng habitations. He calls riches
Mammon, becaufe men
do
ordinarily make
it theirGod
;
Ofam
ghteouf
effe,
though
all riches are
not
unrighteodneire, but
becaufe for
the moll
part they
are
gotand"nfed unrighreoufly
;
therefo:e.they
have
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