Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 5:7

7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

The Men of the World bless themselves, if they can take Care of themselves, let others do what they will, and as well as they can: But I tell you, that those alone are the Blessed Men, who are touched with a true Sense and feeling of the Wants and Miseries of others, and that not out of a meer Goodness, and Tenderness of Nature, but out of a true Obedience to the Will of God, and a Sense of his Love to them, and Faith in his Promises, and moved from these Principles, do not only Pity, and Compassionate them, and wish them well, but extend their helping hand to them, sutably to their Miseries: For these Men shall obtain mercy, and that not only from Men, if they come into Straits and Distress, but from the hand of God. Psal. 37.26. Psal. 112.5. he doth not say they shall merit Mercy at Gods hand, but they shall be Mercified, they shall obtain Mercy.