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

A 2d. way to be made partakers of the riches of Gods ¹mercy, is to believe them. Add to your desires a belief, for believing is that which openeth the hand of God to give, and openeth your hearts & your hands to receive, put but these two together, to desire the mercies of God, and to believe that God will give them, and then open your mouths wide, & God will fill them; This I shall manifestly show, from these following places of scripture, as we find them often; Go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole, when Christ bestowed any mercy upon men, that is added in the Gospel, thy faith hath done it, thy faith hath made thee whole, if they were forgiven, they might thank their faith for it, as it is the instrumental means to obtain the mercies of God, the more faith the more mercies, for we shall always find that by faith men obtained mercies, and the want of faith missed them. It is certain God is a merciful God, you should find him so if you could believe him to be so, for the believing that he is merciful makes you partakers of the riches of his mercy, because it is his pleasure to put it upon that condition, he might have put it upon other conditions, but this is his pleasure to say if you believe you shall have these and these mercies, for faith knitteth us to him, faith makes ⟨p. 10⟩us to know him, and makes us give him the glory of the mercies we have, faith ascribes it wholly unto him, it makes it every way to be his work, faith makes us righteous, now the righteous obtain mercy, this faith is imputed for righteousness, God reckoneth every man the more righteous, as he aboundeth in faith, therefore the way to fill your selves with the riches of Gods mercy is to believe much, and as you grow in faith, so you shall grow from mercy to mercy, if Christ could say to us as he did to the woman, O woman great is thy faith, we should be sure to have great mercies, my meaning is this, that believing is nothing else but this,

A 2d. way to be made partakers of the riches of Gods ¹mercy, is to believe them. Adde to your desires a belief, for believing is that which openeth the hand of God to give, and openeth your hearts & your hands to receive, put but these two together, to desire the mercies of God, and to believe that God will give them, and then open your mouthes wide, & God will fill them; This I shal manifestly shew, from these folowing places of scripture, as we finde them often; Go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole, when Christ bestowed any mercy upon men, that is added in the Gospel, thy faith hath done it, thy faith hath made thee whole, if they were forgivē, they might thank their faith for it, as it is the instrumental means to obtain the mercies of God, the more faith the more mercies, for we shal alwais find that by faith men obtained mercies, and the want of faith missed them. It is certain God is a merciful God, you should finde him so if you could believe him to be so, for the believing that he is merciful makes you partakers of the riches of his mercy, because it is his pleasure to put it upon that condition, he might have put it upon other conditions, but this is his pleasure to say if you believe you shall have these and these mercies, for faith knitteth us to him, faith makes