368 Exhortatiox to Mercy. mity have many endured and that in the caufe of God, and o- thers of the Saints of God cry for mercy, ve :have received mercy our,felves, it is a time of Gods mercy tous,what y do we hear of every day almof },every week, fiitl one,Ifiercy comes upon the heels of another, this Town furrendred, and -this Army wholly routed and f oyled,whereas we were affraid We fhould have lain at the mercy of cruel bloody Souloiers, the Lord bath delivered us from them,and hash magnifyed his mercy in keeping England alive, in,keeping this City alivei in preferving your familyes, in preserving your efates fo mach as they have been preserved, us a cime of mercy, the bowels of Gods mercies are fo inlarged, fo yearning towards us, as calls for mercy to our brethren , let's look round about us, we fee no:hing but mercy : there are places that where ever they look they fee nothing but.foot -t}eps ofGods difpleafure, of juflice wrath and mitery. But where ever we look we fee mercy, when we are here now, we can every one of us Took upon one another as objeeis ofGods mercy,that we have thefe liberties thus to exercife our (elves, and to joyo thus publickly to call upon God, to pray to God, what mercy is here, and fine thefe times hat h not God been merciful to your fouls in revealing his Gofpel and the glorious things of erernall life ro you, when thou god} home, what cant} thou fee but mercy ? Look upon thy yoak- fellow, there's mercy, look upon thy.chil- dren, there's mercy ;look upon thy table, there's mercy ; look .upon thy fervants, there's mercy look into thy bed, there's Mercy; look upon every thing in thy houfe,there's mercy writ- ten thereon, look upc n thy own body, there's mercy; Take the Bible and read the eternal counfels of God concerning thy eternal! et}ate, there's mercy,that a family can+fall down upon their knees and there be hieing God for preferving and bringing in all outward comforts that they !land in need of, Hill there's nothing but mercy round about us, and what fhall we in the midt} of mercies be unmerciful! ? How do all , thefe mercies call to thee for mercies towards others. Aain,
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