Ever bestowed, never exhausted. The vessel that contains it is one that can never be emptied. God himself is a vessel of mercy to communicate mercy to me; and I am a vessel of mercy to receive that mercy. To say that God will keep mercy is to say that God will keep himself. There is mercy in him and I am its object. Mercy first makes me an appropriate object for itself, and ever after keeps me so. I can say to my soul, " Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years: laid up too in a...
Ever bestowed, never exhausted. The vessel that contains it is one that can never be emptied. God himself is a vessel of mercy to communicate mercy to me; and I am a vessel of mercy to receive that mercy. To say that God will keep mercy is to say that God will keep himself. There is mercy in him and I am its object. Mercy first makes me an appropriate object for itself, and ever after keeps me so. I can say to my soul, " Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years: laid up too in a...