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'The excellency

Gf

thin

glace of mercifslnef

this

title

from

God

:

make

you

friends,

that is, by

the

works

of,

mercy,

--'

ïi

hat

4

en

ye

f

ail,

they may rece;ve

fora

into

ererlafiz

inç habitations

;

uy

this we are

to

underí'tand thus much

;

that

look

what tvörks of

mercy

any

one

cloth by

faith,when

he diall

cçme

faile,

as

ere löng

all

rich'men

Inuit

Elite,.

that

is,. they

mull

leave

their

eftates,

or they muff leave

them,. then

their

göód

works

may

be

as

tef}imoni,

s

unto

God,

whereby

they

*Tay

come

to

be

received into

tho

e.

everlafling

maniiions

that

Chriit

is

gone

before.toprepare.

for them

:

nor

through

the

merit of

thefe,

as

Papifls

teach, butthefe

will be

a

teltimony

to

thee

;;

Learned

Chemnitiasr

upon

the place

faith

thus,

It

may

be

when rich men

faile, thole

that

have

been

merciful

and

come

to

be lick and

dye,

it

may

be here

comes fume

miniaer

.

of,God,

that when he

was

a

poor

Schollar

was

reliev'd

by

him,

and

he comes

to witnefíe

for him,

and

faith,

Lord,I

was

a

poor;

youth,

and had not

this

man been

pleaf'd

in

mercy

to

look up-

on

me,

I

might

have

fpent

all

my dayes

in

raking

in

kennels,.

but

he

was

pleafed to

bring me up in learning, and through

thy mercy

thou

haft

made

me

an

uhflrument

of

good

in

thy

Church

;

and

Lard he

was a

great

mean-es

of

it,

through

his

bounty

and

mercy,

here's

a

wienefie,

and this comes

to witnefs

well

for

fuch

à

man

at the great day,

-

And

there

comes ano-

ther

poor

family, and

they

come and witnelfe,

Lord

had

it

not

been

fa,

fuch a

man

the

had like

to

have

pedaled,

and

ílarv'd;

Lord

have mercy upon this

man who thus Chewed

mercy to

us,.

Thus

make

friends

by

your unrighteous Mammon,

by

thole

riches

that

are

ordinarily

ufed

in

the

wo:ld

as

weapons of

un-

righteoufnefffe,

as

means to

maintaine mens

lulls,

the

more

you

come

to

make

you fuch

f

iends, the Lord

will

accept

of

you, and

)

ou fhall

be

receiver

into

ever-Lifting

habitations

:

And what

an

improvmer.:

will

chi

.

be

of

your

eflate

when

you

mall have

fuch

a ref-tit-For,

b fo-e

C

od,

and

come

to

be

re-

warded with

there eyed

ai.ing

i

abiLa..it,ns

:

youthink

you

mull

provide

for your houi:.,

and

n

ake

it

all

b

ave and handforne,.

but here

are

everlafarL

habitations

that

are

pofi;ble,to,be

obm

tain'd,

and

thole

that

'are

merciful'

in

a

gracious manner they

havë

loch

a

promife

as

this is,

To