in the compassions of such a God! O amazing; O astonishing
consideration! And yet, "this God is our God for ever and ever, and
he will be our guide even unto death."

MERCY OF GOD.

As God has mercies to bestow, and as he has designed to bestow them,
so those mercies are no fragments or the leavings of others, but
mercies that are full and complete to do for thee what thou wantest,
wouldst have, or canst desire. As I may so say, God has his bags
that were never yet untied, never yet broken up, but laid by him
through a thousand generations for those that he commands to hope in
his mercy.

I tell you, sirs, you must not trust your own apprehensions nor
judgments of the mercy of God; you do not know how he can cause it
to abound: that which seems to be short and shrunk up to you, he can
draw out and cause to abound exceedingly. There is a breadth and
length and depth and height therein, when God will please to open
it, that for its infiniteness can swallow up not only all thy sins,
but all thy thoughts and imaginations, and that also can drown thee
at last. "Now unto him that is able," as to mercy, "to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."

This therefore is a wonderful thing, and shall be wondered at to all
eternity, that the river of mercy, that at first did seem to be but
ancle deep, should so rise and rise that at last it became "waters
to swim in, a river that could not be passed over." Ezck. 47:5.