Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

If this be so when God is in a way of mercy, one mercy will let out another, hence all the Saints of God are taught and admonished to observe, and take diligent notice of the connection of Gods mercies towards them, for certainly ⟨p. 397⟩this is Gods way to them, one mercy maketh way for another, and if thou belongest to God, that hath been his way to thee, all thy life time even from his Electing thee; only now it is thy duty to be observant, how God hath made one mercy a door of hope to another mercy, and it is a special work to observe Gods ways towards a Christian, a special work of the Sabbath, many of you (especially you that are not book-learned) you say you know not how to spend the Sabbath after the public exercise is done, but must walk up and down the streets &c. here is a work for them that are not book-learned to spend the Sabbath in; If thou beest godly, then sometimes every Sabbath recollect all the ways of Gods merciful providence towards thee, ever since thy Youth and Childhood, and how one hath had a connection to another, how one mercy hath let in another mercy, and that lets in a third, and that third a fourth, and you shall see how the track of Gods goodness hath been towards you all your days, and that will be a most sweet meditation for you, wherein God shall have a great deal of Glory; the 92. Psalm is a Psalm appointed for the Sabbath, and you shall find that it is a Psalm of contemplation of the works of God, and the ways of Gods mercies towards his people; it is a special way to understand the connection of things, and the connection of causes, how one cause hath dependence upon another cause, and that upon another, and that upon another, and this is the difference between Sense and Reason, the brute Beasts that have only sense, they taste the sweetness of a thing, but they never enquire after the cause, but now the more rational any man is, the more desires kindle in him to find out the connection of causes. If this be a sweet thing to a soul in a natural way, to find out the connection of causes. O! how sweet is it to a gracious soul, to find out the connection and concatenation of all the mercies, and goodnesses of the Lord towards him, in all the passages of his life;