É rhortation to Mercy. r------- 367 Eleventhly, The Lord makes. it to be the fin of Sodom and Comorrah, one great charge that God gives againll Sodom and Çomorrah,why they Were defttoyed with hre from Heaven,. was their unmercifuinefs, Ezek;. 16. 49. there the Lord is- charging of Sodom for their vild and great fins, anti faith, Bç- hold, this was the iniquity of thy fifter Sodom,. pride, fulnefJ'eof bread, and aboundance ofidlenefe was in her, ki d in her dauah, ters, neither did fheftrengthen the hand ofthe poor and needy; Here's a fin which was one of the fins for which Sodom was de- flroyed with fire and brimflone from Heaven, and therefore certainly this is a greater evil then we are aware of The evil of utmrercifulnefs is wor fe then we can imagine, and therefore look to it I beseech you, if I (hoild be caking of fome ocher fin, it may be your confciences would fly in your faces,but you have a great deal of caule to have your consciences Wound you, and to go and be humbled before the Lord for this liin,of an- mercifulnefs, and who is there that bath any competent eí}ate, but upon examination his confcience will charge him with this:,. OLord thou knowefl that much of my of }ate hash been fpent upon vanity, and my lufls, or upon my will, and yet this man fora good use will grudge togiÿefive shillings, though hun- dreds ofpounds-rhall gomeetly' to have his will and lufts.= ISe humbled for this fin rile Lord looks upon it with another man- ner of eye then you do, and this maybe the finthat may caufe God in the time of your direfs utterly to leave you. But the main thing in the Point, it's an life of Exhortation if Chrifl pronounces him bleffed that is mgrciful, let us be in lovewith this grace of mercy ; O that we had more merçifulf men, this is a time of crying for mercy, yet it is the wor(I time for hardneffe of heart, and cruelty. as ever was: Certain - ly whofoever (hall get an etlate inthefe times wish bife fcra- ping together, may exile& a curfe upon that eflate more then ever was upon any mans efla9e that was gotten at another time,. and therefore this Scripture is a feafonabie Scripture,the Lo:d fallen it upon your'hearts, that- yoti may go away wich this written upon thern,Rleffd are the merciful for they /hall-obtain mercy. There w re never fuch obteas of mercy; wofulextre mity
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