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God
is
merciful, true,
or
elfe
thou hadft not
been
alive
at
this
prefent
:
that thou fhouldft hear
and fee,
and
have
all
thy members
whole,
and the ufe
of
all
thy
fenfes, and
that
thou
fhouldft
Rand
here
this day
under
the
means
of
grace,
and
that thou fhouldft hear
God
call
on
thee to
repent
,
and
believe
in
his
Son,
while thou
walk'ft
on
in
thy
fin,and
art dead
in
fins
and
trefpaffes
:
he
fends
his
fon and
fpirit
to
thee,
to
tell
thee
that
he
would refcue thee,
and give life
unto
thee;
again,
is
not
here rich
mercy,
perhaps
thou haft
had
thy
portion
of
mercy
already; that
God
intends
for
thee,
yea
fo
much
mercy, that
all
the Angels and
Saints
will
give accla-
mations
to
God,
for
that
mercy thou haft had
,
though thou
perifh
;
God
bath
many ways
íhew'd
mercy to thee,in
fo
much
as
that the very Devils
themfelves will
acknowledge that
God
was
very good
to
his
poor creatures.
Further,
Thou
f
eakeft
of
mercy
;
haft not thou abufed
and
turn'
el
mercy
into wantonnefs
?
perhaps the mercy
thou fpeakeit
of, now
is
at
this
very
prefent pleading
to
God
againft
the
;
faying,
How
have
I
been abufed by
this
wretched
man
?
the
more my beauty
and
excellency bath
been
difplayed, the more
wicked he bath
grown
;
what
if
mercy
be
now pleading
a-
gainft thee
?
even
thofe
mercies
that thou
haft
abufed
;
and
therefore thou
hadft
need
to
look for fomewhat
elfe
to fettle
thy
foul upon than
this,
to
fay
that
God
is
merciful
;
this
is
the
fcrftt
fort,
thofe
that
are
grofly
Ignorant.
Secondly, There are
others
that
mourn, pray
and
reform ,
and
then have
fome
kind
of
reliance
on
God
to
pardon
them
,
for
his
mercies
fake;
and
therefore to
them
I
(hall fay
thus
much
:
Know, the
mercy
of
God
mutt
be
received
after
Gods
own way
;
he hash
appointed the communications
of
it,
and
fo
it
muff
be
received
;
otht,rwife
it
can
never
attain to
fuck
an
effeft
as
the
pardon of
thy
fin
.,
note
this, that
all
the
mercy
in
God
confidered
,
as
he
is
Creator of
Heaven
and
Earth,
and not
let out
through
the
Mediator
Chrift
jefus
God-man,
it
never
wrought
to the pardon of
any
one
fin, and
therefore
if
you
look upon
the
mercy
.
of
God
,
and
do
not
look to
the
right
way
of the conveyance
of
it, you
may molt
dangerou(ly
miftake
:
The ground
and bottom
of
f
áith,
that
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