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Show The Mercy-Seat. Thou must not look so much at the evil that is nigh, but rather at that which stands ready to pity and help and which hath pitied and helped thy distressed soul, and will pity and help it again. Why is there a mercy-seat, but for the sinner to look toward ir. time of need? Be patient till the Lord's tender mercy and love visit thee again; and then, look up to him against this and such like snares, which would come between thee and the appearance of the Lord's love; that thou mayest feel more of his abid-ings abid-ings with thee, and of the sweet effects ef-fects thereof. For these things are not to destroy thee, but to teach thee wisdom; wis-dom; which the Lord is able, through many exercises and sore trials, to bestow be-stow upon thee; that thy heart may be rid of all that burdeneth, and filled with all it rightly desires after, in the proper season and goodness of the Lord; to whose wise ordering and tender ten-der mercy I commit thee. Isaac Pen-ington. |