Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	afflict_a	poor_a	zion_n	19	3	8.5723	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

his words and acknowledged his thankfullness to God for it and the unworthy instrument that reached it to him and to all that any way assisted him in it and even after his speech failed him he signified with his hand his assent to what was spoken to him or prayed for him and I doubt not but his Devotion as well as his Understanding continued as long as his breath though neither his tongue nor hand could at last express it I need not insist any longer upon these passages at his death though they be very excellent and remarkable because many here present were eye-witnesses of them I have been thus particular for their sakes who had not the happiness to be then with him that they may learn by so good an example what it is to have a soul within them and a God above them and with what care and courage they ought both to fight and to run and with what constancy to continue in both till they also obtain that Crown of righteousness which henceforth is laid up for him in the Kingdome of Heaven 3. And that we may all of us be followers of him in these duties as he was of St. Paul and both of Christ I beseech you suffer one word of Exhortation by way of Application to our selves which was the third and last way wherein I proposed to handle my Text and then I shall dismiss you And in this I shall keep my self so close to my undertakings as not to use any other motives to you then what St. Paul useth to his Disciple Timothy for the imbracing of this doctrine in the words immediately before my Text I am ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand For 1. if this was so powerful an argument to perswade Timothy to be watchful in all things to endure afflictions and to fulfil his Ministrie and again 2. if it was so strong a motive wherewith to forewarn the people to walk warily in those approaching evil times wherein men will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts heap to themselves teachers having itching ears Then surely it cannot but have some influence upon every one of us whether Lay or Clergie that hath any care or sense of his soul and eternal salvation so as to work in us a sincere endeavour to perform those duties which are here required of us respectively by this great Apostle when we seriously lay to heart that not only St. Paul but this Reverend Bishop also are not only ready to be offered but are offered already and that the time of their departure is not only at hand but actually past now when we are already fallen into those perillous times which the Apostle in this place did only foresee at a distance Give me leave I beseech you yet a little more distinctly to apply my motives severally to the Lay and Clergie here present And first for you my Reverend Brethren of the Clergie let me desire you to mark well the force of the Apostles argument to his Desciple Timothy I am ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand so that hereafter thou canst not have either my counsel direction or assistance and therefore do thou watch in all things c. which is as if he should have said the duty which hitherto hath been required from us both will hereafter lye wholly upon thee alone to perform and therefore be thou the more careful to use double diligence in the performance of it Let us of the Clergie I say but take the Apostles argument in this sense and seriously lay it to heart and then without all doubt it will pinch us to the quick when we consider how great a blow it was to a tottering Church to have so great a pillar removed from it as this learned and laborious Bishop was Certainly now is the time and this the occasion if ever when we must watch in all things and pray unto Almighty God for his grace to enable us to fulfil our Ministerie and his strength to fit us for enduring afflictions And more particularly to lift up our prayers for the remnant that is left And to be instant with God that he would call to remembrance his tender mercies and still continue to this poor afflicted Church his loving kindness which hath been ever of old and that he would be favourable and gracious unto Sion and build up the walls of Jerusalem that it may be no longer an habitation for Ziim and Iim Owles and Satyrs birds of darkness and beasts of filthiness and other monstrous creatures of prey and rapine but that men may dwell there and have it in possession even the men that he hath chosen to come near unto him that peace may once again be restored and setled within her walls and plenteousness within her places and that his Priests may be clothed with righteousness and his Saints sing with joyfulness And I hope there is none here present either so negligent of his own Soul or so careless of the salvation of others that will not heartily say Amen to this prayer 2. And then again Right honourable and the rest my dearly beloved brethren of the Layty let me apply my discourse in one word unto you and beseech you also to mark well the force of St. Pauls argument to Timothy in these words I am ready to be offered my self and yet the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine c. And therefore as it is necessary I should give thee a solemn charge before God and the Lord Jesus Christ to preach the word and to be instant in season and out of season so is it seasonable I should give it thee now when the time of my departure is at hand that as the weight of the charge presseth thee so the seasonableness of it may have the better influence upon the people to whom thou art sent As if he should have said though the duty be great which the people are to learn from thee yet it will be the more willingly listened unto if thou doest tell them I left it in charge with thee at this very instant when the time of my departure is at hand seeing the words of a dying man are so strong and powerful Let them therefore know that this is my last exhortation to them and then they will the more easily suppose me as present with them whensoever this doctrine is preached unto them And if we look upon the Apostles argument under this consideration I have still one parallel behind between him and this Reverend Bishop which is fetcht not only from the words of a Dying man but even of a dead man and if the Rich mans Logick was good when he desired Father Abraham to send Lazarus to his Fathers house to preach to his five brethren because if one should come unto them from the dead they would repent