The greatest thing that mercy ever did!
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"He saved us—not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy!" Titus 3:5
God's mercy is the fountain of every blessing. We may trace every good thing that we receive or enjoy, to this. But the greatest thing that mercy ever did—was to save sinners. Salvation is wholly of the Lord. It is a work of such magnitude, that no creature could ever have conceived it—nor could all the creatures combined have executed it!
Jehovah, to display His wisdom, mercy, and power—determined to save—and to save according to mercy, which always . . .
pities the poor,
sympathizes with the miserable, and
confers its blessings on the unworthy.
If salvation was . . .
by our desert,
or on the ground of some excellency we possessed,
or for the sake of something we were to do—
then we must sit down in despair! For . . .
what do we DESERVE—but hell!
what do we POSSESS—but sin!
what can we DO—which is not polluted and worthless!
But because salvation is according to divine mercy—then the vilest may hope; and the most unworthy may enjoy the blessing!
Mercy can give—what we never could expect or deserve.
By grace are you saved!
Tis not by works of righteousness
Which our own hands have done!
But we are saved by sovereign grace,
Abounding through his Son!
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