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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 33
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WE are further to explicate, what is comprehended in this sweet and comfortable Attribute, The Father of mercies. We have already declared, what is in the word Father, and gave one instance, what is in the word mercies.
VVE are further to explicate, what is comprehended in this sweet and comfortable Attribute, The Father of mercies. We have already declared, what is in the word Father, and gave one instance, what is in the word mercies.
The second thing comprised in it, is the multitude of them; he doth not say, The Father of mercy, but of mercies; it is not one or two, but mercies, many 1mercies, innumerable mercies, that he is Father of. Even as David doth sometimes call God, The God of his salvations, in the plural number, because of the frequent and many deliverances God vouchsafed to him. The Lord therefore is not straitened in mercy, no more than in power; but as nothing is impossible to him, so every kind of mercy is easily producible by him. The multitude of Gods mercies, is that which David doth often mention, Psal. 106. 7, 45. Psal. 51. 1. And indeed were not these mercies many, our sins would be more than they, and exceed them in number. David complaineth, That his iniquities were more than the hairs of his head; and yet at another time acknowledgeth, that such were the benefits of God towards him, that he is never able to reckon them up. We cannot then come and say to God about mercies, as Esau did to his father about blessings, Hast thou but one blessing, O my father? Hast thou but one mercy? Woe would be to us, if God had not multitude of mercies, for we have multitude of sins and miseries. Oh then, let the broken, humble heart, who groaneth under this, that he hath many sins, they are not one or two, but many, yea the multitudes of them, are like so many locusts and caterpillars in Egypt, he cannot look this way, or that way, but sin doth compass him about! Let such remember, that there are more mercies for them, then sins against them. If thou hast multitude of sins, God hath multitude of mercies to cover them, so as thou doest not cover them, but confess and bewail them.