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Excerpt from The Works of George Bull, D. D, Vol. 1: Lord Bishop of St. David's
To reap in mercy is to receive the reward of righteousness from the free and abundant goodness and mercy of God. Indeed some think, the mercy here spoken of may be understood of human mercy, or the exercise of mercy by men to men; and so that to reap in mercy is to receive our reward ao cording to the mercy we have shewn to others. This interpretation (it is confessed) contains a sound truth, and is safe enough but I choose rather to go with the stream of the most learned interpreters, who expound the mercy here mentioned, of the divine mercy, the mercy of God, the fountain from whence the reward of all our righteousness ?ows. And certainly the virtue of human mercy is com prehended under that universal righteousness men tioned in the former clause, Sow to yourselves in righteousness, and is part of the duty of man there enjoined but the mercy here mentioned belongs to the promise of reward, or the reaping of the fruit of that righteousness from God, and so is most fitly understood of the divine mercy.
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