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HE bowels of the Lord’s sympathy towards his people, are always bursting out, and he dow not see them forsaking their own mercy, and straying from him; but is much taken up in lamenting over their folly, and with giving them many a moving and sweet invitation to come to him, where their happiness lyes, and lays himself open to them, and the riches that are with him, with his arms spread abroad, inviting them by his precious and hearty promises, seeking nothing of folk, but only, That they would “come and receive freely, Ifa. Iv, I. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat, yea come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price.” He opens up precious and rich ware, and says to his buyer and merchants, the commodity is good, come a way, we shall not cast out about the price; if you have hearts to receive, I have a heart to give. Come away then, hearty good fellows, we will never stand upon it; for ’tis not with him as with the men of the world, for they count them the best good-fellows, who give most and freeliest; but has