American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-07-23


the causeless, disinteresed, boundless compassion
of God to our fallen race; the vocabularies OF men
fail on this subject, have angels yet given it
names they desire TO look in these things Hence,
in The sacred Scriptures, it is generally found con-
Dected with adjuDcts to heighten its Specification
He is said to be 'r7ch in mercy henteous in mercy,
,ftH of mercy Again are directed 10 his great
mercy abundant mercy, slender mercy Again,
the word assumes plural form. and we read OF the
multitude Of his mereies;' and his manifold mercies;
mercy folded within mercy. In word, he is the
t{ather of niercies' 'Your Father!-Oh! this bot.
tomless abyss-this ocean without a shore! We
pause, IN wandering mazes lost u
God only knows the love of Cod"
Had we an angels line, and eternity its plummet
still shall not sound this ulness the depth"
-" i, is past finding out"
IT'S chiefly IN The gift Of Christ we speak of our
Father as merc.ful as fallen creatures, we can
know him through no other medium; and, in this
especially, manifested the love of God to US ;"
But before we enlarge we would be well understood
in this ,hatter We mean not to say, that mercy
ecipses the glory ofaA her projections Of the Deity
mot even in that transaction which exhibits its
most us,rious display " for US men and our saliva
ton We mean not to say that any pf those per-
fectops cast into the shade, and served but as
the back ground exhibit the glories Of his mercy:
--No-al his attributes stand out equally, and
while we magnify the glories Of the one, we mag
nily tt glories OF the whole The harps of heaven
are not tuned to greater unison! Although the
string Of mercy may strike hig her. tbs not loud
er noe-it produces immediate vibration. and har-
monies with the chord of justice. The colours of
the rainbow are not more intimately blended than
are all heavens attributes displayed in the halo of
glory which surrounds the cross Of Christ
"Here the whole Deity IS known,
Nor dares creature guess
Which of the two the brighter shone,
The Justice or the "Gracew
Mercy and truth met together; righteousness
and peace kissed each other" God ais just while |
he just6es the ungody;' and though grace now
regns " 1t reigns through righteousness unto eter.
nal life" When we speak of our Father as merci /
full, in the gift of Christ, we mean that in conse-
quence OF that mysterious transaction mercifuI
fr2Dision has been made for mans recovery, and a
mercif4 day has been afforded him to render that
provision ef'ecual To his salvation.
Is there soul in this assembly. trembling upon
the very threshold Of salvation, doubling the mercy
OF God inthe redemption by Christ Jesus our Lord J?
"Comfort we, comfort ye my people, saith your
God" The Lords arm is not now shortened thatl
he cannot save, and thee too, consistently With
the PROJECTIONS OF his throne:
"Though thy sins like mountains rise,
And swell and reach TO heaven;
His mercy is above the skies ~
And thou may st be forgven" 10
For, as the heaven is high above the EARTH so are
his thoughts Of mercy higher than thy thoughts II
and his ways than thy ways" He is able to do i
exceeding abundanty above all thou canst ask or
think" His mercy is far above thy need there is 3
no paralleI-thy line falls infinitely short:
"a thousand 'Oorls bought, were bought too dear
Poor trembling publican let me tell thee il il
easier to fsthom his omnpo,ence than his mercv:l
there IS no act OF his power 70 which thou canst moi
conceive greater, but thou canst conceive no mer-
cy greater than the gilt Of Christ Imagination falls
and thou art lost Why then despair Oh cou,d y
out break the unbeie. which holds thee speboundl =
why, man, It the sins OF all the world were centeredI
on thy guilty head thou hast not got beyond "the now
en-, the mercupower of him who bare them all in his
own body on The tree. Look unto him, and live
The circumstances OF fifty or FIVE hundred pence
debtor are the same hen the Saviour is pleaded in
sincerity and truth. There is but one word between
chaos and creation: let that word be spoken, aDdl
thou art become "a member Of Christ, child oil
Coo and an heir Of the kingdom of heaven" =
" Your Father is merciful" One would have
thought tina, after the amazing apparatus of re-
dem ion had been once brought forward after this
stupendous scheme had been disclosed to man. anal
gust so murh time allowed as necessary TO of. ~
Ter It Tor his acceptance, deberation or postpone IN
ment on the part OF him for whose benefit it was de
signed, would have been his eternal ruin--mercv "'
would have been clear gone for But, hear it, ~
U heavens; be astonshed, o earth the very hro u
vision which was made procured this very re8t,te nj
The very wounds received Calvary like so MANY m
open mouths speaking better things than the blood n
OF Abel" plead the sinners cause; and redemption Oil
Itself has found thousand tongues to plead for
mercy on its despisers. Believe me- man needs ito M
thousand tongues for so far has the turptude oil II,
crime increased in SHINING against the remedy that ~
nothing less could keep him in existence. ne
y man whosoeyer thou art, whose motto has ma
ons been, "let US sin that grace may abound {" gu
how shalt thou escape if thou neglect this great I'M
salvation " While would fain break the spell Of oO
louot which straens the bowels of this mercy to al
eturnins slnner-l speak not soft words to theeIto