7hivgs for unmerciful mets to confider of. 365 fitife and debate, then in the g. T. Is it fuch a . fall that I have chofes, a day fora man to a, ffiie his foul,,:. it .to bow do, lrrs heed Of a bul -rufh and to f pleadlack.- cloath and afl''es under him, wilt thou call this a fall and an acceptable- day to the. Lord, _ as if they Should fay, Lord what is the fait that thou haft cho- fay ? v: 6. Is not this the fall that I have chofen, to loft tie bd,ds of wickednefs, to undo the heavie burdens, and to let the ep -. pié f f ed'go free, árd. that yebreak every yoak. is it not to deal ti y bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cal' one to thy konfe,when thou feefi the naked that thou cover km, and that thou hide not thy fe. f from-thine own flefh, for fo we are to account all, even°ftrangers as our own iiefh,. Then fha I thy likht break(orth ass the morning, fo that in thefe times of faft,- lets look ro this, this is the faitthat God requires, fatting and alms are to go together, the more we fail the more merciful we -are to be to others, or otherwife our fatting is no-hing. More Scriptures may be named but thefetwo are p: irate t-oes, to.fhew where there is not mercifulnefs, all is rejected, ev.ti our prayer are rejeeted,,7 Zech: 6: v: When ye .fajied and mourned in the fifth and feaventh month,even thole feae'entyyears did ye at all fall unto me, even tome, and when ye dol eat, and when ye did drin%e,d!d ye not eat for your (elves and árirkfor your fedves, f could ye not hear the words which the Lord bath cry ec by the former prophets, when jerufalem was inhabited and in profperity, and the Cityes thereof round about her, when men in- habited the South and the Plain, v: 9. 7 hae; fpeaeth the Lord of Hoof, Paying, execute the true iudgment and (heap mercy ani compaffion every man to his brother. You only minded your felvec, and regarded your (elves when you were falling and praying, and fo we find in the i o of the eA 1S, of Cornelus, when his prayers were accepted öf God, the text faith, that- his Alms and his prayers came up to -- 1od both together. Lightly, If thou hall an unmerciful heart,thy prayers are fo farre from being accepted and - egarded of God, as they cry agàinft thee, and are wttneifes againft thee, for when thew cornett ro pra to od for mercy, and art unmerciful thy fell; the Lord Will b : ing thy prayers to be witneffes againit thee, and-
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