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The Nature and Excellence of it.

A fort of Instinct Difpofition.

We are not left, in this Refpect, to the flow Re-
folves of Reafon.

Mercy confider'd in its Social Relation.

The Want of it moft provoking to God.

The Behaviour of the Jews in this Respect.

The Delight of fhewing Mercy.

The Cafe of the Stranger confidered.

The most proper Object of Mercy is he who

wants it moft.

The Motive here affign'd to the Jews.

Nothing like Experience to raise Compaffion for

the diftreffed.

This mention'd as a Motive in St. Paul's Beha
viour.

--- in our bleffed Lord's himself.

Some Obfervations on the whole.

DISCOURSE VII.

The Grounds and Regulation of Self-Esteem.

Rom. xii. 3.

For I fay, through the Grace given unto me, to every

Man that is among you, not to think of himself

more bigbly than he ought to think; but to think
foberly, according as God bath dealt to every Man
the Meafure of Faith.

Self-Esteem interwoven in our Compofition.
of great and excellent Ufe in itself.

very dangerous, if we mistake in the Object
of Degree of this Esteem.

What the proper Object of it is.

Self-Conceit, whence.

An Account of the Sadducees.

wherein they differed from the Herodians. the latter wholly addicted to Ambition. --- the former to Voluptuousness and Infidelity. --- both very oppofite to Jefus Chrift, and his Doctrine.

--- no Account that any Sadducee was ever converted.

DISCOURSE

DISCOURSE I

The Infufficiency of Human Reason.

2 COR. iii. 5.

Not that we are fufficient of ourselves to think any thing, as of ourselves: but our Sufficiency is of God.

T

HE Apostle having begun to commend himself, explains and confirms what he had faid, in the Words

of the Text; and disclaiming all Sufficiency in himself, all Matter of boasting, he afcribes his Sufficiency to

God.

VOL. I.

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