We are here supposed every Day to do enough to provoke the consuming Anger of our God and this gives the Glory to His Mercies, in all their Constancy and Multitude, notwithstanding our daily Forfeitures of them all, and Desert of con∣suming Wrath. under the Wing of the Covenant of God's Grace, and it speaks of the Mercies and Compassions of God, to his sinful provoking Peo∣ple, as new every Morning. in our Sins, and speaks of God in his Justice as a consuming Fire: It con∣siders us also, 2. But there are the Days & Nights of our more sensible and singular Preservations, like this present Day to the Families in this Neigh∣bourhood, whose Dwellings in the Night past were in the greatest Danger of being consumed when such a Flame broke out in the midst of such a Thicket of combustible Matter, as is scarce to be found again in the whole Town. WELL may every One of us, every Day we live, awake from our Sleep, and rise from our Beds with these high and holy Words of humble Confes∣sion and Acknowledg∣ment, and of thankful joyful Praises to the GOD of our Lives, the Num∣bers of whose daily and mighty Salvations we know not.ĭay unto Day utters these Words to us, and Night unto Night shews them, " That it is of the LORD's Mercies we are not consumed, because His Com∣passions fail not.
It is of the LORD's Mercies that we are not consumed, because His Compassions fail not they are new every Morning.
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