Beg mercy only for mercy’s sake

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Robert Traill (The Throne of Grace), Works 1:140-141:

Plead mercy. When you beg it, use no other plea for mercy, but mercy. When you beg mercy, you must beg mercy only for mercy’s sake. That, that moves God to show mercy, must be our argument in pleading for mercy. Wherefore doth God show mercy? Because he will show mercy, and delights in it, Micah 7:18. And therefore should we plead it. Mercy in his heart, is the only spring of mercy from his hand. David, who knew God’s mercy well, had tasted of it often, and needed it greatly, when fallen into a foul pit, thus pleads for mercy: Ps. 51:1, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Have a care of making any other plea for mercy from the Lord, but that of mercy with him. And stick to this plea, and it will prevail.
 
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