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"Think not that because God is merciful,
you may go on in sin; this is to make
mercy your enemy. None might touch the
ark but the priests, who by their office
were more holy; so none may touch the
ark of God's mercy but such as are
resolved to be holy. To sin because
mercy abounds is the devil's logic. He
that sins because of mercy, is like one
that wounds his head because he has a
plaster. He that sins because of God's
mercy, shall have judgement without
mercy. Mercy abused turns to fury. ‘If
he bless himself, saying, I shall have
peace though I walk after the
imaginations of my heart, to add
drunkenness to thirst, the Lord will not
spare him, but the anger of the Lord,
and his jealousy, shall smoke against
that man' (Deuteronomy 29:19, 20).
Nothing is sweeter than mercy, when it
is improved [i.e., made use
of]; nothing fiercer, when it is abused
. . ."
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