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The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious.

והיה יהוה אל רחום וחנון

Erciful.

Queft. 1. What is the Mercy of God?

It is that Perfection whereby he is always ready to affift his Creatures in Mifery, Lamentations iii. 22.

Diftinguitur Mifericordia ab Amore; quia Amor fertur in Bonum quatenus Bonum, Mifericordia in Bohum quatenus miferum, five cum Miferid conjunctum. This his Mercy is like his other Perfections, exceeding great and infinite, Pfal. ciii. 8, 9, 10. Numb. xiv. 18. Pfal. cxlv. 8. Pfal. Ivii. 10. Ephefians ii. 4.

He is the Fountain and Father of Mercy, 2 Cor. i. 3.

Queft. 2. To whom is God merciful?

i. To Mankind in general, Pfal. cxlv. 9.
1. In granting them Life and Continuance
upon Earth, notwithstanding their Sins,
Lam. iii. 39: Pfal. Ixxxvi. 13.

2. In delivering them out of their Troubles
in Diftreffes, Pfal. cvii. 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14.
3. In eafing them of their Pains, curing
their Diftempers, and granting them
Health and Strength of Body, Pfal. ciii. 1,
2, 3, 4,

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4. In giving us all Things neceffary for Life
and Godliness, Matt v. 45. Pfal. cxlvii. 8.
Pfal. cxlvi. 7, 8, 9. Pfal. cxxxvi. 23, 24,
25, 26.
5. In fending his Son to be our Saviour,
John iii. 16. Tit. iii. 4, 5. Ezek. xxxiii. 11.

2. He is in a special Manner merciful to those that love and fear him, Pfal. ciii. 11, 12, 13. Neb. i. 5. Luke i. 50.

1. In pardoning their Sins, Pfal. lxxxvi. 5.
Heb. viii. 12. Luke i. 77, 78.

2. In mortifying their Lufts, and quickening
them to Newnefs of Life, Eph. H. 43 F.
3. In affifting them in the Performance of
all their Duties, and the Exercise of all
true Grace and Virtue, 1 Cor. vii. 25.
2 Cor. iv. I.

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In fupporting them under all their Troubles, Pfal. xciv. 17, 18, 19. And bleffing and fanctifying them to them, Heb. xii. 10, II. Pfal. cxix. 67, 71.

5. In bringing them at laft to Heaven, Tit.iii. · Say 6,7%

Quest. 3. What Uses are we to make of God's Mercy?

1. We must not abufe it to Licentioufnefs.

2. We should imitate him, in being merciful to one another, Luke vi. 36.

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1. Pardoning others Injuries.

2. Pitying their Miferies.

3. Relieving their Neceffities.

We must attribute all the good Things we have to the Mercy of God.

It fhould teach us to love, fear, and praise him.

1. To love him, Pfal. cxvi. i. Luke vii. 47. 2. To fear him, Pfal. cxxx..4..

3. To praise him, Pfal. lxxxvi. 12. Pfal. ciii. 2, 3, 4. Pfal. cxxxvi. 1, 2, 3, &c.

5. We must truft and hope on his Mercy, Pfal. xxxiii. 18. Pfal. lii. 8. Pfal. cxlvii. 11. And that prefently.

Confider,

1. God's Mercies are much greater than our Miferies.

2. They are fealed to us by the Blood of Chrift

3. Hoping and trufting in his Mercy, is the principal Way whereby to obtain it.

4. His Mercy is only for this Life, John ix. 4. Heb. ix. 27. 2 Cor. V. 10.

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EXO D. xxxiv. 6.

Gracious, long-suffering.

רחום וחנון ארך אפים

Quest, 1. IN what Senfe is God said to be gra

1. Because he is lovely and amiable in himfelf, John i. 14. Luke iv. 22. Col. ii. 9. All rational Creatures do therefore defire him. 2. Because he is favourable to his Creatures beyond their Deferts, Rom. xi. 6.

Queft. 2. Wherein doth God fhew himself thus gratious to Mankind?

In our Salvation, which wholly and folely proceeds from, and is grounded upon, his Grace, as the fole Beginner, Carrier on, and Perfecter of it; Tit. ii. 11. Epb. ii. 5, 8.

It is of his Grace only,

1. That he fent his Son to be our Saviour, John iii. 16. Rom. v. 8.

2. That he fent his Apoftles to preach the Gofpel, Gal. i. 15, 16. Eph. iii. 8, 9.

That he hath called us to the Knowledge of his Gofpel, 2 Tim. i. 9.

4: That he enables us to do any Thing that is truly good, Phil. ii. 13. Rom. xii, 6. Alts xyiii. 27. Epb. ii. 8.

5. That we are kept from Sin, and from being overcome by Temptations, 2 Cor.

xii. 9:

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6. That our Sins are pardoned, and our Perfons juftified and accepted before God, Rom. iii. 24. Rom. v. 18, 19, 20. Tit. iii. 5, 6, 7. 7. That we perfevere to the End, and fo at length get to Heaven, Jeremiah xxxii. 49. Hence Heaven it felf is called Grace, 1 Pet. i. 13.

Queft. 3. What Ufe are we to make of this?

1. Turn not this Grace to Wantonnefs, Jude,

v. 4.

2. Whatfoever Good you do, afcribe it to the Grace of God, I Cor. iv. 7,

3. Depend on the Grace of God for all Things referring to your everlasting Welfare, 2 Thef. ii. 16.

4. Carry your felves as thofe who are Partakers of the Grace of God, 2 Tim. ii. 1.

II. Long-fuffering.

DEN TN, flow to Anger, Pfal. ciii. 8. Pfal. cxlv. 8. Long-fuffering, Numb. xiv. 18. Jer, xv. 15. TEN TINY μakedon 70.

Queft. 1. Wherefore is God faid to be long-fuffering?

1. Because he defers his Wrath, and doth not punish us fo foon as we deserve, as in the old World, Gen. vi. 7. 1 Pet. iii. 20. And all Mankind, born in Sin, Pfal. li. 5.

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