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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	holy_a	son_n	spirit_n	92,207	5	6.2343	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03351	The penitent sinners entertainement. Set foorth by Mr. Iohn Hill, Student in Diuinitie, and now Preacher of Gods Word at Dublin in Ireland	Hill, John, preacher of Gods word at Dublin.	1614 (1614)	STC 13471; ESTC S114518	31,323	88

or trespasse and resolue to become an honest man I will pardon your fault and not onely so but you shall bee made a Iustice of peace or some great man hee would vpon this promise bee moued quickly to confesse his felony and forgoe his theft now the Iudge of all the world offers vs this large promise of mercie that if a sinner will truely and from his heart confesse his sinnes and resolue to leaue them hee shall haue pardon and not onely so but hee shall bee made a King and priest vnto God the Father and this preferment wee shall come vnto if wee come vnto God in a right manner Oh but how might I doe to come to bee perswaded of mercy if I come to God First pray vnto God that hee would giue vs his holy spirit which feales vnto our hearts this perswasion of mercy as the Apostle saith Gal. 4.6 Because wee are sonnes God hath sent forth the spirit of his Sonne into our hearts which cryeth Abba Father The spirit of Christ doth worke this assurance that God is our Father and vppon this assurance wee shall bee forced to cry Abba Father and going to our best Father wee may bee sure to finde mercie Secondly wee must offer vp our soules and bodies desire in all things to serue him to keepe all his commandements then we shall receiue mercy from God as that holy man Nehemiah saith O Lord I beseech thee let thine eare hearken to the praiers of thy seruant and to the prayers of thy seruants that desire to feare thy name So that if wee can but truely desire to repent and desire to keepe all Gods commaundements and desire to bewaile all our sinnes and to striue against all corruptions and it is certaine wee shall obtaine mercy at the hand of God For if a christian parent commaund his childe to doe a thing and if hee doe it willingly and cherefully and though hee doe it not so perfectly as the parent himselfe yet hee will take it in good parte because his child endeuoured to performe it as well as hee could how much more will God our heauenly Father accept of the poore desires and endeauours of his children when hee sees in them a willing desire to doe well But if our desires bee good and true then there is a vsing of all good meanes and ordinances to accomplish the thing desired or else it is but a slouthfull desire and it may not bee called truely a desire else but a lust but if wee desire to repent and to beleeue and also vse all good meanes to repent and beleeue and be humbled because we cannot repent and beleeue as wee should the Lord will haue mercy vpon such holy desires and accept the will for the deede And so much for the second doctrine And when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had compassion and ran c. In all these words is set downe the affection and loue of the father vpon the resolution of his sonne the sonne was but comming but the father is running hee comes slowly for mercie but the father is ready and forward to shew mercy which shews the wonderfull readinesse of God to shew mercy to a penitent sinner that comes to God for mercy From hence wee learne this doctrine Doct. 3 That God is very ready to shew mercy vnto euery penitent sinner that comes to him with a broken and humble heart That a penitent sinner can noe sooner looke for mercy from God but hee is ready to shew mercy to them That God is more ready to shew mercy then penitent sinners can bee to seeke for mercy This wee see in a naturall father to his penitent childe here now a naturall parent hath made no such promise to shew mercy to his childe but our heauenly Father hath made a promise to euery penitent sinner to shew him mercy againe a naturall parent cannot shew mercy and kindnesse to his childe without great costs and labour but our heauenly Father hee can shew mercy without any trouble or charges for it is his name to bee mercifull Now if this bee in a naturall parent that he will shew mercy though hee haue not promised yea though it bee to his great cost and paines how much more will our heauenly Father shew mercy to his children sith hee hath promised and is both able and willing with ease to doe it If this bee in man which hath but a droppe of mercy in comparison of God what may a penitent soule expect at the hands of God who is infinite in mercy and pitty to his This doctrine may very fitly bee proued by the example of Gods dealing with Dauid that when he had committed two greeuous sinnes of adultery and murder and had almost slept a twelue moneth in them in so much that the Lord is faine to send a Herald of armes to him to awaken him out of his spirituall sleepe and to helpe him out of his sinnes and to bring him to repentance but the Prophet could no sooner remember his sinnes to him but hee doth imediatly confesse his sinne and hee no sooner acknowledge and confesse his sinnes 2. Sa. 12.13 but the Prophet Nathan by the mouth of the Lord doth pronounce his pardon yea before hee did aske it the Prophet tels him the Lord hath put away thy sinne thou shalt not die This also we may see proued in that Psalme which is intituled Dauids learning wherin the Prophet confesseth when I held my tongue my bones consumed and when I roared all the day That is as long as I did dissemble and seemed to cloake and hide my faults I was plagued and tormented so that roared like an vnreasonable beast through paine then I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee neither hid I mine iniquities for I thought I will confesse against my selfe Psal 32.45 my wickednesse vnto the Lord and thou forgaue the punishment of my sinne Thus wee see hee could no sooner confesse but hee had pardon both from the guilt and punishment of his sinne and hee could no sooner seeke for mercy but hee obtained mercy at Gods hands Also the Prophet Isay shewes the mcreie of God vnto true repentant sinners where hee saith Isay 64.5 Thou diddest meete him that reioyced in thee and did iustly they remembred thee in thy waies behold thou art angry for wee haue sinned yet in them is continuance and wee shall be saued where the Prophet speakes of the Lord after the manner of men that he is ready to meete them halfe way as it were that set themselues in truth and vprightnesse to confesse their sinnes and meete him by repentance hee will meete them swiftly though they come but softly and though they come heauily yet they shall depart ioyfully And the same Prophet saith in the next chapter of the Lord before they call I will answere Isay 65.24 and whiles they speake I will heare This wee may see in