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Motives
to
fhero
mercy.
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--
.dçeadfull
fears.
Now
when
you fee
others
that
are
Under
dreadful'
and
grievous
temptations,
know,
the
way
that God
requires is, that
you
should
be
mercifull to them,
and he
ha:
a
therefore Comforted
you,
delivered
you from your
ft;ir
itualt
äffli&ions,
that
you
might
help
to
deliver them
:
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And
fo
in
bodily difireffe,
foi
ie of
you
have
been poore
heretofore,
the
Lord bath helped you,and
given
you
estates
;
whether. you
have been
poor or
not, God
bath
given
you
estates
1
}l
ntifully,
certainly,
it's
not
for your felves onely
,
but that
you
might
Comfort
thofe
that
want
Comfort
:Its
one
part of Gods
end
in
this,
in
making
a
difference between
one man and ano-
ther.
A fecond
motive that
I
would
add,
It's
a
mighty
cafe,
to
thofe that
are in ailliclion
to Confider,
Though
I
be in
aftlic
i
ons, in
ftraights,
ánd
in the
depth of
poverty
,
yet the Lord
bath
taken care
for
me, the
Lord
bath
given
the Grace of
his
in
Alai-
Spirit to
his Saints
to be mercifull to
thofe
that are
ives
great
on,
and
the
Lord
layes
weight upon
them,
and b
b
e
charge
to them
to
exercife
the Grace
of
yet
ercy
;
f
rd
l
the
Lord
bath
a
care of
me,
though
I
want
,
therefore
indue
his Saints
with
the Grace of
mercy,
that they
might help me in
my
mifery
;
And
I
befeech you,doe not
dif-
courage
the hearts
of
thofe
that are
in mifery
,
haft
thou made
that
they
may
not
make
their iraoan to
God,
faying,
O
Lord
:
fuch a
difference
between
me and
others,
and is
there
no
care
of me at all
; haft
thou given
charge to
none
to
look upon
me,
to pitty
me,
to
help me
;
when thou
{halt look upon
the
for
-
rows
and miferies
of
thy
Brethren,
and
art mercifull towards
them,
then they will acknowledge,
if'
they
be Gracious,
Gods
oodneffe,
that the Lord
bath been pleafed
to take
care
over
them,
and
secretly
to
give
thee
a
Charge
and
a
Command
to
pitty
and
help
them
;1
Therefore be mercifull.
Againe
,
Hereby thou
{halt
honour
God
exceeding much,
God
accounts
it
his
honour
when his fervants
doe Communi-
cate
of his goodnefhe
;
It
is
a
fpecialt
part of
the
honour
of
God
to
be
Communicative
;
fo
it's
the
honour
of his
Saints.
In
the
14
Pro:
31,
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op
rreffTetI
the
poore,reproaca