'57z The excellency of thio grace' of.mer-crf'rslnefs. this title from God : make you friends, that is, by the works of. mercy, 6:at ivken ye f a 1, they may receiveyou into eserlafl ir. - habitations: vy this we are to underfìaud thus much ; that look what tvorks of mercy any one doth by faith,when he shall ccn.e to fail; as ere Idng all rtch'men mutt faile,. that is,, they muff leave their eflates, or they muff leave then,. then- th.éit <göd works may be as teftimocnies taro mod whereby they slay cone to be received into tho e everlatfing ntanfions that Chri;t is gone before to prepare . for them : nor through the merit of thefe, as Papitfs teach, but thefe will be a testimony to thee; Learned Chemmtiau upon the place faith thus, It may. b. when rich men file, thofe that have been mercifull and come to be tick and dye, it may be here comes fome miniaer. ofGod, that when he was a poor Schollar was reliev'd by him, and he conies to witneffe for him, and faith, Lord,I was a poor,: youth, and had not this man been pleaf'd in mercy to look up on me, I might have fpent all my dayes in raking in kennels,. but he was pleated to bring me up in learning, and through thy mercy thou haft made me an mflrumene of good in thy: Church ; and Lord he was a great means of it, through his bounty and mercy, here's a witnefie, and this comes to wirnefs %ell for fuch à man at the great day, -- And there comes ano- ther poor family, and they come and 1,vitnefie, Lord had it not been fo: fuch a man we had like to hive perished, and flarv'd; Lord have mercy upon this man who thus fhewed mercy to us,. Thus make friends by your unrighteous Mammon, by thole riches that are ordinarily tied in the world as weapons of un- righteoutheffe, as meanes to mainiaine mens lulls, the more you can come to make you fuch f iends, the Lord will accept of you, and ) ou fha11 be receives. into everlafling habitations And what an improv_merr will this be of your effate when you (hall havç fuch a rftitror', b. fore Cod, and come to be re- warded with t he' e everiai ing i abiia:.icns : you think you mull provide for your houfL, and n aise it ï.11 brave and handforne,. but here are cverlati rh habitations that are pof;bleao, be ob- tain'd, and thofe that are merciful( in a gracious manner they have fuch a pronnife as this is, To
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