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 mercy and bounty of God; they proclaim God a hard Maſter and not ſo free, and noble and generous a Spirit as the ſcripture and many thouſands ſpeak him to be.

I have read of a Duke of Milan, that married his daughter to a ſon of England; he made a dinner of thirty courſes, and at every courſe he gave as many gifts to every gueſt at the table as there were dishes in the courſe. Here was a rich and royal entertainment, here was noble bounty indeed! but this bounty is nothing to the bounty of God to his people. Princes' treaſure have been drawn dry, but God’s bounty and liberality can never. Oh! ſirs, you can as ſoon tell the ſtars in the ſky, or the ſands on the ſea ſhore, as the mercies of God one day ſhewn to his people, yea, one hour, or one minute of an hour, ſuch is the bounty and liberality of God, that he never takes away one mercy, but he is ready to ſend another in the room of it, Joſhua’s candle began to ſhine before Moſes’s went out. Eli was not gathered to his fathers before Samuel appeared hopeful; nor Sarah