ThesouleieffeEtuaß calling to Chriff. felfe?Bucnow this is the fulneffe and fufficiencyof mercy, it loth not onely eaCe a man in regardof prefencneceflity,but layesprovifïon for all future wantsandcalamitiesthatcan befall the foule.Pfd. 130. 7. The text faith, Let ifrael hope in theLords there is mercy, and with him isplenteous redemption. Theword in the originali is, there ismultipÿing redemption, or redemption ercreafing : ifmiferye forrow, atndanguifh 1e mulìiplyed, there is mu!. tiplyed redemptionalto. Then know ir, if you know your owne foules; you fee ir, if you fee your owne live ,that it is new fnnes,newcorrup- tions prevailingwith you. But here is checona- fort ofthe fóuie, as finne irereaferh, fo mercy in creafeth ; ascorruption multif lyes,fo redemption mulriplyes : therefore he is called the Father of mercy ; aswho fhouldfay, he begets mercy, even a generation ofmercies, from day reday ; and t is a large generation of new mercies framed and made to incourage poore foules : therefore ir is Lid, with the Lord there ti afossierai4eof life. etost i t Looke as it is with a fountain, there is not onely water in it fortheprefent, but it feeds fevcrall'cocksand conduits; and though it twines our da`ly.irerlar- geth it felfe daily: ° So with the Lord there is a fountaineoflife. 'f there be a fountaineofde iris in thy foule,iit tegardpfshy fìnnes, to kill thee,, fo a fountaine- in God ro .quicken thee. < l-+Fnce it comes to paffe that the I ord fpeakingofhismer- cy, oh-it theexceedinn riches ofbumercv,, Ephef s+: 7. I faY, the Lord hathnot onlyfulneffeofmer-e sy,but he 'isfkch inall hisfut ffe,nay,he oaceedi 37
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