The excellenéy of thisgrace efsprercifaallnejfe, 371 works of mercy ; when you do works of towards others, you have perfum'd your h©ufes,you have perfum'd your bodies and fouls, now there is a Tweet finell unto God. The fixth expreilion is,it's a facraf<ce acceptable and pleatng to God, here be three in one ; would you offer a facrifice to God, the work of mercy it's a facrifice, and a f acriiice accepta- ble, and a facrifice well- pleafng to God : in Philip. 4. i 8. eft facrifice acceptable, or received, and well-plleafng to God, would you do a well pleating thing to God ? do works ofinercy,they are well pleating to God, and they are facrifices : So rhat thole that are in mifery are as it were the Altar's upon which you do offer this facri :ce to God, fo in i 3 Heb. i 6. You have an ex- prelíìon to the fame purpofe, that it is a facrifice well pleating to God ; Confider therefore, what comfort it will be to you When you dye ; whether do you think it will be more comfort when you dye to think thus, I have filent fo much in a Tavern, er, I have reliev'd the neceffitiesof to many peer people ; I have ispent fo much upon my lulls, or upon a whore, or, I have been a means that fo many poor difirefïed people will blefre God for me : or thus, It may be when you dye it (hall be (hid that fuch a man dyed worth fo much,but is it not a greater glo- ryfor fo many families to come and bleffe the Lord for thee, I have found fuch a one a good Mailer, I might have fharved had it notbeen for fuch a one, I have caufe to bleffe God for him ; would not this be a greater good to you when you dye, then to think that you leave fo much, what if you reckon leffe ; certainly a fweet memorial' of the work of mercy were a great deale better then any thing you could leave behind you : You know that the works of mercy will be a good teflimony un:o 'you in the day of Jefus Chrift to witnefle for you ; Lsik. 16. g. It is a Scripture that hath fume difficulty in it : faith Chriii, I fay unto you, male unto your felves .friends of the Mammon of torighteoufneffe, that when ye fails, they may receive you into e- verlafling hnhitations. He calls riches Mammon, becaufe men do ordinarily make it their God ; Of am ghteouf.effe, though all riches are not vnrighreoufneife, but becaufe for the moil part they are got axxtufed unrighreoufly ; therefore they have Bbbz this
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