Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

so let us do, though we see not the reason of all his ways, yet let us justify him, and say he is glorious, and give him the praise of his mercy, that is, let us be persuaded of it our selves, that he is merciful, that he is not hard to the wicked, that he is an indulgent father to his children, and when we have don, let us be ready to speak of it to others, and indeed when we our selves have the sense of his mercies, then we will be ready to speak of them to others, then speeches will come from us easily, naturally and plentifully, but contrariwise when we are not inwardly persuaded of the mercies of God our selves, our speeches, of them come forcibly, and sparingly, and truly (my brethren) this is the reason ⟨p. 32⟩we are so little in praising the Lord, because our selves are not touched with a sense of his mercies, we are not persuaded he is so exceeding merciful as he is, we think better of men then we do of him, therefore if any thing grieve us, we are readier to complain unto men, then unto God: and for matter of mercy, we are exceeding in praising of those men that are merciful to us, but we are not persuaded of the exceeding mercifulness of God, for if we were, we would be speaking of his praise, we would be exhorting others to serve the same master; but we are short in this, and the reason is because we are not persuaded of the riches of his mercy our selves.

so let us do, though we see not the reason of all his wayes, yet let us justifie him, and say he is glorious, and give him the praise of his mercy, that is, let us be perswaded of it our selves, that he is merciful, that he is not hard to the wicked, that he is an indulgent father to his children, and when we have don, let us be ready to speak of it to others, and indeed when we our selves have the sence of his mercies, then we will be ready to speak of them to others, then speeches will come from us easily, naturally and plentifully, but contrariwise when we are not inwardly perswaded of the mercies of God our selves, our speeches, of them come forcibly, and sparingly, and truly (my brethren) this is the reason ⟨p. 32⟩we are so little in praising the Lord, because our selves are not touched with a sence of his mercies, we are not perswaded he is so exceeding merciful as he is, we think better of men then we do of him, therefore if any thing greive us, we are readier to complain unto men, then unto God: and for matter of mercy, we are exceeding in praising of those men that are merciful to us, but we are not perswaded of the exceeding mercifulness of God, for if we were, we would be speaking of his praise, we would be exhorting others to serve the same master; but we are short in this, and the reason is because we are not perswaded of the riches of his mercy our selves.