A Multitude of Mercies
Goodwin:
God hath a multitude of all kinds of mercies.--Thomas Goodwin, Works, 2:187-88
As our hearts and the devil are the father of variety of sins, so God is the father of variety of mercies. There is no sin or misery but God hath a mercy for it. He hath a multitude of mercies of every kind.
As there are variety of miseries which the creature is subject unto, so he hath in himself a shop, a treasury of all sorts of mercies, divided into several promises in the Scripture, which are but as so many boxes of this treasure, the caskets of variety of mercies.
If thy heart be hard, his mercies are tender.
If thy heart be dead, he hath mercy to liven it.
If thou be sick, he hath mercy to heal thee.
If thou be sinful, he hath mercies to sanctify and cleanse thee.
As large and as various as are our wants, so large and various are his mercies. So we may come boldly to find grace and mercy to help us in time of need, a mercy for every need.
All the mercies that are in his own heart he hath transplanted into several beds in the garden of the promises, where they grow, and he hath abundance of variety of them, suited to all the variety of the diseases of the soul.