They shall obtain mercy
So the merciful shall obtain mercy, not only by the blessing of God on all their ways, by his now repaying the love they bear to their brothers and sisters a thousandfold into their own bosom, but also by an exceeding and eternal weight of glory (2 Corinthians 4:17), in the kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of the world (Matthew 25:34).
1771 text
So shall the merciful obtain mercy: not only by the blessing of God, upon all their ways, by his now repaying the love they bear to their brethren, a thousand fold into their own bosom: but likewise by an exceeding and eternal weight of glory, in the kingdom prepared for them from the beginning of the world.
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Sermon 22 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:5-7.
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