James v. 11. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

1 Pet. ii. 3. If ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

CI. Mercy promised. Ps. v. 7. I will come unto thy house in the multitude of thy mercy.

lvii. 3. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

lix. 10. The God of mercy shall pre

vent me.

Ps. lxxxix. 2. Mercy shall be built for ever; thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the heavens.-Ver. 14. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Ver. 28. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore.

cii. 13. Thou shalt have mercy on Zion.

Isa. xiv. 1. The Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will choose Israel. Xxx. 18. Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you.

liv. 7, 8. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little 'wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy

Redeemer.-Ver. 10. For the moun

me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.

Mic. vii. 20. Thou wilt perform the truth unto Jacob, and the mercy unto Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers.

Zech. i. 16. Thus saith the Lord, I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies. x. 6. I will bring them again to this place, for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though had not cast them off.

Rom. ix. 15. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. (Exod. xxxix. 19.) Ver. 16. It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

CII. Persons to whom mercy is promised. See the following texts on promises to the Mercy is promised to the obedient. obedient: Exod. xx. 6. Deut. v. 10.xiii. 17, 18. Ps. xxv. 10.

To the penitent. See in promises to conversion, or turning to God, the following texts: 2 Chron. xxx. 9. Prov. XXviii. 13. Isa. lv. 7. Jer. iii. 12.—xxxi.

19, 20.

mises to them that fear God, the followTo them that fear God. See in prong texts: Ps. ciii. 11. 13. 17. Luke

i. 50.

xlii. 21. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify

the law, and make it honourable.

lv. 3. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

xlix. 10. He that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

lx. 10. In my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. Jer. xxx. 18. I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and will have mercy on his dwelling-places. Ch. xxxiii. 26. Ezek. xxxix. 25. Hos. i. 7.-xii. 23. xlii. 21. I will shew mercies unto you, that the king of Babylon may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Lam. iii. 32. Though the Lord cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.

Hos. ii. 19. I will betroth thee unto

Exod. xx. 6. Deut. v. 10. Ps. cxix. 132. Jude 21.

To them that trust in God. See in

promises to them that trust in God, the following texts: Ps. xxxii. 10.—xxxiii.

22.

for I am weak: O Lord, heal me.-Ver. 4. O save me for thy mercies sake. Ps. xxx. 10.—lxix. 13, 14. 16, 17.-lvii. 1. -xliv. 26.-lvi. 1.-cxxiii. 3.

Ps. ix. 13. Have mercy upon me, Lord; consider my trouble.

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xxv. 6, 7. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old. -Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me. Ps. lxxxvi. 6. Ver. 16. For thy goodness sake, O Lord, turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. Ps. lxxxvi. 16.

xxvi. 11. I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto

me.

xl. 11. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth, continually pre

serve me.

xli. 4. Lord, be merciful unto me; and heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

li. 1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Ixi. 7. O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve the king.

lxxix. 8. O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us.-Ver. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and purge away our sins for thy name's sake.

lxxxv. 7. Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

lxxxvi. 3. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I cry unto thee daily.-Ver. 5. For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee. Ps. xxvii. 7.

xc. 14. O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

cix. 21. Because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me, for I am poor and needy.-Ver. 26. Help me, O Lord my God, and save me according to thy

mercy.

cxix. 41. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word.-Ver. 58. Be merciful unto me, according to thy word. Ver. 77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live.-Ver. 124. Deal with thy servant according

unto thy mercy; and teach me thy statutes.-Ver. 132. Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

Hos. xiv. 2. Take away all our iniquity, and receive us graciously.

Hab. iii. 2. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years; in wrath remember mercy.

Mal. i. 9. Beseech God that he will be gracious unto us.

Luke xviii. 13. God me merciful to me a sinner.

Gal. vi. 16. As many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

1 Tim. i. 2. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. i. 2. Tit. i. 4. 2 John 3.

2 Tim. i. 16. The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus.-Ver. 18. The Lord grant that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day.

Heb. iv. 16. Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Jude 2. Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.

CIV. Mercy acknowledged in various instances. Gen. xix. 16. The Lord being merciful unto Lot, brought him forth, and set him without the city.--Ver. 19. Lot said, Thou hast magnified thy mercy in saving my life.

Exod. xv. 13. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed.

2 Sam. xxii. 51. He sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. Ps. xviii. 50. 1 Kings iii. 6. 2 Chron. vi. 42.

Ezra vii. 28. Blessed be the Lord, who hath extended mercy unto me, before the king and his counsellors. Ch. ix. 9.

Ps. xciv. 18. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, Lord, held me up.

xcviii. 3. The Lord hath remembered his mercy, and his truth, toward the house of Israel. Luke i. 54. 72. 77.

cvi. 45. He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

cxix. 64. The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy..

Rom. ix. 23. That God might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, that he had afore prepared unto glory.

1 Cor. vii. 25. Paul said, I obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

1 Tim. i. 13. Paul said, I who was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, obtained mercy.

Tit. iii. 5. According to his mercy he saved us.

1 Pet. i. 3. His abundant mercy. ii. 10. Ye have obtained mercy.

xliv. 22. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins.

Iv. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him: and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. See promises to repentance and turning to God.

truth.

1 Chron. xvi. 34. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Chron. v. 13.—

vii. 36.-xx. 21. Ezra iii. 11. Ps. cvi. 1. -cvii. 1.-cxviii. 1.-cxxxvi. 1. Jer. iii. 11.

Ps. lix. 16. I will sing aloud of thy mercy. Ps. lxxxix. 1.

lxvi. 20. Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

xxxiii. 8. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their and whereby they have transgressed iniquities, whereby they have sinned, against me.

kindness and tender mercies.

cxv. 1. Not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and thy

truth's sake.

CVI. Mercy in the pardon of sin. See in Sect. 1. texts, Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7. Numb. xiv. 18. Neh. ix. 17. Ps. lxxxv. 5. Dan. ix. 9.

Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity.

lxv. 3. As for our transgressions, thou wilt purge them away.

lxxxv. 2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin.

ciii. 3. The Lord forgiveth all thine iniquities; he healeth all thy diseases. -Ver. 10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins.

cxxx. 4. There is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

Isa. i. 18. Though your sins be as scarlet or crimson, they shall be as snow, or as wool.

xxxiii. 24. The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwell there shall be forgiven their iniquity.

xliii. 25. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

them.

Ezek. xxxiii. 15, 16. If the wicked

restore the pledge, give again that he hath robbed, walk in the statutes of life, none of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him; he shall surely live.

Hos. xi. 8. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? &c.-Ver. 9. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not man.

xiv. 4. I will heal their backslidings, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away.

Matt. xii. 31. All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.-Ver. 32. Whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him.

Heb. x. 17. Their sins and their iniquity will I remember no more. Ch. viii. 12. Jer. xxxi. 54.

CVII. Pardon and forgiveness prayed for. Exod. xxxii. 31, 32. Moses said, This people have sinned a great sin. Yet now, if thou wilt, forgive their sin; if not, blot me out of thy book which thou hast written.

xxxiv. 9. O Lord, pardon our iniquity

and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

Numb. xiv. 19. Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy. Ver. 20.

1 Kings viii. 30. Solomon prays for forgiveness to the people.

2 Chron. xxx. 18. Good Lord, pardon every one, &c.

Job vii. 20. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Ver. 21: Why dost thou not pardon my transgression?

Ps. xxv. 18. Look upon mine affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.

Ver. 11. Ps. xxxi. 3.

Dan. ix. 19. O Lord hear, O Lord forgive; hearken and do, defer not for thine own sake, O my God.

Amos vii. 2. O Lord God, forgive

beseech thee.

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Luke xxiii. 34. Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

Acts viii. 22. Peter said to Simon Magus, Repent, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. See Naaman's prayer, 2 Kings v. 18. Hezekiah's prayer, 2 Chron. xxx. 18, 19.

GOD IS COMPASSIONATE.

thee, who pardoneth iniquity? &c.—Ver. 19. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Rom. ix. 15. I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. Ex. xxxiii. 19.

CX. Instances of divine compassion. 2 Kings xiii. 23. The Lord was gracious unto Israel, and had compassion' on them, when they were oppressed by enemies.

2 Chron. xxxvi. 15. The Lord God of

their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place.

Ps. lxxviii. 38. He being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not; yea, many times, turned he his anger away, and did not

stir up

his wrath.

Mark v. 19. Jesus said to the man out of whom he had cast a devil, Go tell how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

truth.

cxlv. 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion; slow to anger and of great mercy. Ps. cxi. 4.-cxii. 4.

God excited compassion toward his people in the hearts of their enemies. Ps. cvi. 46. 1 Kings viii. 50. 2 Chron. Xxx. 9. CIX. Compassion, to whom promised. Deut. xxx. 2, 3. When thou shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice; then the Lord will return thy captivity, and have compassion on thee. Ch. xiii. 17.

Jer. xii. 15. After I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again every man to his heritage, and to his land.

Lam. iii. 32. Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.

Mic. vii. 18. Who is a God like unto

kissed him.

God excited compassion towards his people in the hearts of their enemies. Ps. cvi. 46. 1 Kings viii. 50. 2 Chron. XXX. 9.

Instances in which it was excited. Matt. CXI. Compassion ascribed to Christ. ix. 36. At seeing the multitude scattered as sheep without a shepherd. Mark vi. 34.

xiv. 14. At seeing a multitude of sick persons, whom he healed.

xv. 32. At seeing a multitude without bread, whom he fed. Mark viii. 2.

xx. 34. At seeing blind men whose eyes he opened.

Mark i. 41. At seeing a leper, whom he healed.

ix. 22.25. At seeing a child possessed of a dumb spirit, whom he cast out.

Luke cii. 13. At seeing a mother's grief, whose son he restored to life.

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Ezek. xxxvi. 21. I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen.

Joel ii. 18. The Lord will be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

James v. 11. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

CXIII. God will not pity the wicked. Ezek. v. 6. She hath changed my judgments into wickedness: they have refused my judgments and statutes, and have not walked in them.-Ver. 11. I will not spare, neither will mine eyes pity. (Ch. vii. 49.-viii. 18.-ix. 10.) Ver. 13. I will cause my fury to rest upon them.

Jer. xiii. 10. This evil people refuse to hear my words, and I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy upon them, but destroy them, saith the Lord. Zech. xiv.

LONG-SUFFERING OF GOD, AND FORBEARANCE.

Jer. xliv. 22. The Lord would no their doings. longer forbear, because of the evil of

Luke xviii. 7. The Lord will avenge his own elect, though he bear long.

KINDNESS OF GOD.

CXVI. Kindness ascribed to God, and promised and exercised towards his people. Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.

Ps. xxxvi. 7. How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the sons of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

xlii. 8. The Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my salvation.

lxxxix. 33. My loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

cvii. 43. The wise, they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. cxvii. 2. His marvellous kindness is great toward us.

ix. 22, 23. God endured, with much long-suffering, the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: That he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory.

1 Pet. iii. 20. The long-suffering of

God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing.

2 Pet. iii. 9. The Lord is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.-Ver. 15. The long-suffering of our Lord is salvation.

1 Tim. i. 16. I obtained mercy, that in me Christ might shew all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. See Numb. xiv. 18. Ps. lxxxvi. 15.

CXV. Forbearance ascribed to God. Numb. xiv. 27. The Lord said, How

my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee.

Jer. ix. 24. I am the Lord, which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

xxxi. 3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

xxxii. 18. Thou shewest loving-kindness unto thousands.

Hos. ii. 19. I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies.

Joel ii. 13. The Lord your God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Luke vi. 35. God is kind unto the unthankful, and to the evil.

Eph. ii. 6, 7. God hath raised us up,