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_ And yet fecondary caufes there be (I know :(_ And even in this, man may feeme to have a part.
"fr" was che detrer that was fent y it was the Kings divination , which I reckon the higheft caufe upon
“earth. This it wasjand that it was:But,God it was (Iam fure ) above both. He, that did infatuace him ,
‘that fent the /etter ? that made them falfe'among themfelves ; falfeto their Oath; falfe to their gho/tly
_ ‘Father ; falfe to their ALaker. And God itavas , that infpired that divination into His CAZaje/ty’s }
Lagick, , ot, Grammar could not reveal it, God,only-could; could and did direétro that mogt
“* ‘erte, buc ( withall ) moft ftrange interpretation, Let God then have that is His: Now xobis Domaine,
Phalm'rrg.1!. 79% “nobis, fed Nomini tuo da gloriam , Not ante us, Lordaot unto us, but t9 thy Name be the glory
: “of it given, © is : week
it was Go ls ee. Go p it was: but, what in God ? For( we fee’) it is not, enough toafcribe it to Him 3) but
- Dery. '( for fome reafon )- we muft go yet further, Ged. may.do it, and be bound to do it, and did us roa
: ‘ “wrong, if He-do it not. What thenin God ?.'1,. His power may feem to claime the chiefe place ts
“Fina deliverance. “But power , and'wifdome, and other! fix (that is ) all the reftof the Divine “Ar
ee * = tribatesjbe but Communiter ad duo (as the Schoolemen terme them ) No prime caufes themfelves ; but
: attendants only , and feton work by the wo CMafter- Attributes: 1 Auffice,-or > Mercy. So that
2 Iaftice icwas; ot Mercy it was.. Afercy it was (faith Ieremy. ) and fo may weall in and by his i
* mouth that {traight upon it pronounced 5 Mifericordia Domini fuper ommia opera Ejus, For, if ic {
chad not been .thac CMercy., nay ‘if ( as St.:Iames faith ) ichad-not been ALifericordia (u-
‘ perexaltat.judicinm, Mercy had not ‘been above all:His workes,, even justice and all, -ithad
Deen evill with us, Adfercy it was, Iwstice it was not. . For then our own good deferts might pro-
“cireit’, as due cothem and fo we come about again, to find the firft caufe in our felves, becaufe we
~ were this or that.’ All cometh to one : ific were our own fore-fight , it was not Go p ; and if irwere
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‘our own merit; itWas not Heneithers
. 5, Bur’. for this, Tapeale ro our felves. For (I verily .thinke ) if we would but call co mind (and J
~ heté now,I would,that every man would call to mind) in what cafe he was for his foule to God-watd
, >... atthat very time: 5° whether in ftace of five or of grace’; Sure , if'we did but returne ro our hearts,
1 Reo8:28, °. andthere (as Saloman {peaketh cognofcere quifque plagan cordis [ui every man feel how his heart
° Léates ;.thac heart of ours would foone tellus. Beft claime not by ju/Pice : Brit, even confefle ( with
Teremy ) It was God and Gods mercy, without more ado.’ .... os Phe
“We: were in coafumpti, if it were but our confuming fins: 1. If but of what chen was and (ma
I nor fay ) {till is confumed and wafted ? What huge fummes in fuperfluity , riot, of belly and back ,
and worfe matters !.2.Ourzime: if buc the confuming of it , in eafe and idleneffe , and roo well-
- known fruits ofthem both, 3. Of the Service of God, thatis quite confumed by moft of us , ‘now :
- fallen too, but a fervor, if that, and how little like aSetmon , we hear it, and leffe (I fear ) after ree
gard it 2.4. OF Gods Name that runnes wafte 3.and our Blefled’ SAVIOUR, that is even
piccemeale confumed in our mouthes y by all manner oathes and execrations , and that without. any
.. oe peed aval.” Thefe , with other fins , that. free like a moth, and crepe Like a- Carker 5 to the
“" - éanfaming’ of our foules , we fhould find: thac, as it yas our enemies purpofe we fhould have been
Pt! - eonfumed 5 fo it was out ‘defart to have been confumed yand that, it wasiHis mercy only, wewere not
confumed.This isthe trie caufe, God’s mecry. | "Meee oor,
2 In which, note thefe two:how fitly it anfwereth and meets both with } our coafuming,and » withus!
(4. Asthecraeley of man’ was the caufe, we fliould have been; fo ( full againf’ ir) che mercy
of God,the caufe we were not. The ttue caufe of out fafety,Geds mzrcy;as of out deffration mans cruelty,
“ "2: Again, to provide, that. being out of out confumption , we fall not into prefumprion, and
_¢. fo plucke a worfe judgement upon us.. The merey of God, againft our defert. Our defert it was, to
me" have been 3° His mercy it was y we were not,’ His juftice for our deferts , would have.come
upon us : Te was His mercy tnrned His juffice from us, upon them, His jx/tice would have
* fubleribed the famus : His mercy it was that gave the Nom, and ftayed it's Glory be to God , and to
His mercy for it... - . boccaghery celegbeg opel ate y ola -
_. >. Which mercy. yields, us three things to bz obferved:'t The zamber x the nature,and 3 the] property.
is mercies ‘) ty The aumber ¢ chat itis not mifericordia but mifericordie ; not one , bur many , even a plu-
I Theit pane. ality of chem : A multitude of them,becaufe a multitude of ussThey many, becaufe we many: We
fez es, Many; and our finnes many more , and Where finnes are multiplied , there a multiplicity of mercies is
heedfull,Ne forté non fufficiant nobis & vobis, left there be not enough for both honfes, and for all
three Effaresin them: For fo ‘is it to be wifhed , there may be a reprefenration of all His
mercies’, as that Affembly is the réprefentation’ of all che Realme: that fo there may ‘be
| enough for all. “hey here "4 Fhe ee FP ras
- 2 Theirmeyre, _. 2 Buethen of mercy, the cafe here fet down 3 (another caufes ) becanfe his compaffions faile not +
mene How hangs this together ? Thus :’ the word , which here is turned ston in teed properly
fignifiech thé dowels, Ir isto thei, chat nor mercies, nor a number, of them at large ; from any
oe place or any kinde, would ferve for’ this work:but,a certain {peciall kind of choice :mercies was re-
. guid 3 and thofe aré they that iflue from the bowels: mifcericordia vifcerum, ot vifcera mifericordie
which youwill.) ‘You :fhall find them cogethér,in fome: fpeciall.workes of Go p > fuch as 5
-.; Thefe are the choice : fot y ofall parts, the dowels mele, relent, yeild » yern Sfooneft. Confe-
quently , che merci¢£ trom them 4 ‘ofall other, the moft tender , and (as T may fay ) the mercies
. : moft mercifull, The beft, x both becaufe they are not drie, but full of affe@ion, and come cheerfully:
Can eafi¢ matter to difeetne betveérra dry mercy’ anda mercy from the bowels, )- ». And becaufe to.
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