God’s mercy is well worth the seeking

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Robert Traill (The Throne of Grace), Works 1:120-121:

Obtained mercy, is not only bestowed and applied mercy, but it is possessed mercy. Such things as cannot be possessed and kept, are worth little pains in seeking. But God’s mercy is well worth the seeking; because it may be both had by seeking, and kept when obtained, and is unspeakably beneficial when enjoyed: Ps. 103:17, The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. As if the Psalmist had said, “Man is but a flower; his life is a wind and vapour that quickly and surely passeth away. But it is not so with God’s mercy, it eternally abides on all it falls upon.” O that men would think on this! As God lives, and is true in his word, God’s everlasting mercy, or God’s everlasting wrath, will eternally lie upon every one of you. And what an amazing difference is there betwixt these two! And yet how many behave, as if indifferent which of these two shall be upon them?
 
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