We are to know therefore, that by our sins the conduit Pipe of all the Mercy in God is stopped, so as not one drop of saving mercy for eternity can be let into the Soul, and though we should cry for mercy never so much, and shriek out, yet we are to know, that the Pipe is stopped by sin, and there is no other way to open this pipe, but only by Jesus Christ, he is the opener of the pipe of Gods infinite Grace, let out to the Children of men. Now if we look upon the Grace of God, we are first to consider, that by our sins we have stopped the current of all the Grace of God, and it is only Christ that lets out this current, and now Christ saith, come to me, all you that would have mercy. Would you have Mercy? O yes, it is true, we would have mercy, but we find this Mercy ⟨p. 165⟩of God is stopped by our sins. Now saith Christ, come to me, and by me, all the sluices of the Grace and mercy of God are opened to poor Souls, we know God is a God of mercy, the God of all consolation, in himself the Father of mercies, he is infinitely merciful, so that when we come to God, we come to the God of mercy, the God of all consolation, we come to the Father of mercies, we come to him who is infinite in mercy, whose Nature is mercy, to him that is infinitely above all creatures in mercy. All the merciful creatures in Heaven and Earth in comparison of him are nothing, Yea, take all the merciful Saints in the world, the most merciful dispositions that were in all the creatures in the world, and put them into one man, you would say, this were a merciful man. If all the mercies, in all the bowels, of all the Saints, that ever were from the beginning of the world, were put into one man, would not you think him to be a merciful man? if he called you to come to him for mercy, would you not come? Such a man that hath all mercies, of all the Saints that ever were in the world put into him; yet this man would be a most cruel man in comparison of the infinite mercy that is in God. If we were in cruel straits and had to deal with such a man that had the bowels of the mercy of all the men in the world; those that are in misery, they go to their friends, and say, Oh! it is well I did fall into such a merciful mans hand.
We are to know therefore, that by our sins the conduit Pipe of all the Mercy in God is stopt, so as not one drop of saving mercy for eternity can be let into the Soul, and though we should cry for mercy never so much, and shreeke out, yet we are to know, that the Pipe is stopt by sin, and there is no other way to open this pipe, but only by Jesus Christ, he is the opener of the pipe of Gods infinite Grace, let out to the Children of men. Now if we look upon the Grace of God, we are first to consider, that by our sins we have stopt the current of al the Grace of God, and it is only Christ that lets out this current, and now Christ saith, come to me, all you that would have mercy. Would you have Mercy? O yes, it is true, we would have mercy, but we find this Mercy ⟨p. 165⟩of God is stopt by our sins. Now saith Christ, come to me, and by me, all the sluces of the Grace and mercy of God are opened to poor Souls, we know God is a God of mercy, the God of all consolation, in himself the Father of mercies, he is infinitly merciful, so that when we come to God, we come to the God of mercy, the God of all consolation, we come to the Father of mercies, we come to him who is infinite in mercy, whose Nature is mercy, to him that is imfinitely above all creatures in mercy. All the merciful creatures in Heaven and Earth in comparison of him are nothing, Yea, take all the merciful Saints in the world, the most merciful dispositions that were in all the creatures in the world, and put them into one man, you would say, this were a merciful man. If all the mercies, in all the bowels, of all the Saints, that ever were from the beginning of the world, were put into one man, would not you think him to be a merciful man? if he called you to come to him for mercy, would you not come? Such a man that hath all mercies, of all the Saints that ever were in the world put into him; yet this man would be a most cruel man in comparison of the infinite mercy that is in God. If we were in cruel straites and had to deal with such a man that had the bowels of the mercy of all the men in the world; those that are in misery, they go to their friends, and say, Oh! it is wel I did fal into such a merciful mans hand.
