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Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all…
Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all her despondencies and discouragements in a sermon / preached by Thomas Watson.
London: printed for Hen. Bettenham, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Especially when we consider, Christ is our Advocate; He prays over our Prayers again, sprinkles them with his Blood, and perfumes them with his blessed Odours: and so they go up to Heaven as sweet Incense. In Rev. 8. 4. The smoke of the Incense which came with the Prayers of the Saints, ascended up before God, out of the Angels hand.
3. And lastly, Another spark of Light arising in our Dark Hemisphere, it is this, God's Compassions, his Bowel-Mercies. Mercy, it is God's Darling Attribute, that he loves most of all to magnify: Mercy pleaseth him, Micah 7. 18. Though We don't please God, yet Mercy pleases him.
3. And lastly, Another spark of Light arising in our Dark Hemisphere, it is this, God's Compassions, his Bowel-Mercies. Mercy, it is God's Darling Attribute, that he loves most of all to magnifie: Mercy pleaseth him, Micah 7. 18. Though We don't please God, yet Mercy pleases him.
Justice is God's strange Work, Isa. 28. 21. He is not so much used to that: But Mercy it is his proper Work, it flows naturally from him, as the Honey from the Bee, or as the Myrrh ⟨p. 22⟩drops from the Myrrh-tree. While God so delights in this Darling Attribute of Mercy, why should we despair? Why may not Mercy give the casting Voice for this Nation? In