'Unmerciful hearts are t ld hearts. 3 59 and they cannot be parted one from another ; Rletlèd are fuch as hunger and thin(} after righteoufneffe, Bkifed are the mercitul, unmerciful! men do not truly defire after grace.: -- And this makes way to fpeake unto the second Branch in the. Application : -- Whatfoever might be 'further fpokeby way of encouragement, we hall bring it it to the ufe of Exho: ca- tion. Wherefore in the fecond place, here is a ufe of r prehenfi- on to unmerciful!men, to fuch as have not their hearts affec- ted with the miferies of others, nor mind not what becomes of others, fo be it they may have contenment to themfelves; Perhaps fome of you may think this point that I. am about is an ordinary thing to fpeak for mercy,and but a morral point: -- I know not what you lay upon it, but I find, and you may find it to if you will examine Scripture, not onely in the old Teaa- ment but in the New, Chrift layes not more wait upon any one thing excepting - faith it felfe, then upon mercy : Take but thefe three particulars,Faith: Mercy towards others:- - and union one with another, thefe be the three great things that the Gofpel doth infif{ upon, and I know no point that is fo full of Scripture as this is,the point of mercy and that out of the Gape!: Many profeffors of Religion lay too little weight upon this point, but look upon it as an ordinary point, and fo they make not that confciençe of the exercife of this grace as they ought, but how little, you think of ir;`Chrift , puts much in it, Blelj"ed are the merciful!, therefore know. Firf}, That an unmerciful! heart' is a wretched and a vild heart, you that mind nothing elfe but your felves, if you can have your tables fpread, your backs cloathed, your hoúfes fur- nifht, your children provided for, let others fink or fw'im and peçifh, no matter what becomes of them : O wretched vild heart of thine, what art thou more then others ?what's thy flesh more then others, that thou ihouldeft have fo little regard to others should there be any regard to thee, fame there ate that if they get a little more then others are lb £irre from letting (nit Chet fouls to the relief and help.of others., that they'lo7k upon them with defpicable eyes, defpifing the powre, as in the 14 Pro:
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