Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	call_v	lord_n	sinner_n	2,337	5	7.5568	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97021	None but Christ, or A plain and familiar treatise of the knowledge of Christ, exciting all men to study to know Jesus Christ and him crucified, with a particular, applicatory, and saving knowledge, in diverse sermons upon I Cor. 2. 2. / By John Wall B.D. preacher of the word of God at Mich. Cornhill London.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W469; Thomason E1139_1; ESTC R210079	152,329	343

Return into thy countrey and I will do thee good David also stuck close to the word Remember thy word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope Psal 119. 49. And the Prophet Esaiah saith Es 66. 11. They shall suck and be satisfied with the breasts of consolation so let us suck the bloud of the promises as a dog that hath got the blood of the Bear he hangs on and will hardly be beaten off 5. Though it is true that any one saving grace whatever is a signe Christ is thine yea though thou hast a 1000. temptations and doubts that thou canst not answer Yet it is good to gather an abbreviate of some few signes that thy soule may feed upon in time of trouble These I acknowledge are so plainly laid The more experienced Reader that finds lesse need of them may be pleased patiently to passe them over down in Scripture and so familiarly taught almost in every book that treats of faith that it would seem almost lost labour therefore I will be the briefer yet I dare not altogether neglect them for the benefit of some weak ones The generall sign is If any be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5. 17. Col. 3. 9. 10. which is called regeneration wherby the law is written in his heart God having Though the strings bee the same yet the tune is changed planted in him a love and liking to every good and a hatred to all that is evill Thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest wickednesse Psal 45. 7. A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes Ezek. 36 26. 27. More particularly I shall lay down eleven markes or signes whereby a man may know that Christ is his in particular which is nothing else but a strong act of justifying faith Signe 1 1. The first sign of assurance that Christ is thine is If it were wrought by hearing the Word preached ordinarily and is confirmed by it for faith commeth by hearing ordinarily a Rom. 10. 17. 1 Cor. 1. 21 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth Iam. 1. 18. every child hath a father So the 3000 were converted by hearing Peter b Acts 2. 37 Acts 8. 26. I deny not but that afflictions losses death of children or friends c. may prepare for Christ as Paul was by being unhorsed by Christ Act. 9. 3 4. Yet they do not work faith but usually that is wrought by the word preached therefore Ananias was afterwards sent to Paul Act. 9. 10. so likewise good councell reading good bookes c. may stir us up to seek after Christ as perhaps it did the Eunuch Act. 8. 28. but do not set us into Christ and hence Philip was sent to the Eunuch readding to work faith in his heart as appears verse 30. to verse 38. And as the word begets it so it feeds confirmeth and Ex iisdem nu●uimur à quibus constamus cherisheth faith as the ashes cherish the fire whereof they were bred 1 Pet. 2. 2. Eph. 4. 12 13. Now then inquire how came you by your particular knowledge of Christ to be your Saviour did the word preached convince humble and excite you to seek Christ and doth it confirme and stablish your faith then it is good But on the contrary if you know not how you came by your faith never by hearing of sermons but are like the Israelitish women quick of delivery before ever the midwife the Minister can come at you you may suspect your faith as we suspect those to be stollen goods when they know not how they came by them and that a base born child when it is not known who is the father although I say not that every one converted knowes the Minister that cōverted him yet ordinarily he knowes he was converted by the word preached except God instilled grace into his heart when he was a young child as he did unto Samuel Timothy c. But especially they have cause to suspect their faith when the preaching of the word shakes and winnowes their faith and fils them full of doubtings and tormenting feares the preachers of the word being like the two witnesses their tormentors who say of them as Job did of his friends Rev. 11. 10. miserable comforters are you all Certainly she is but an ill mother that will not give such to the child she bare if she be able but rather hunch it beat it and deal unkindly with it Signe 2 2. The second signe is if thy heart were ever prepared for the receiving of Christ as the stones were prepared for the Temple or as a man prepares his house to entertain a king Luk. 3. 5. Every valley shall be filled or levelled In some sense a Christian sometimes may be said to be too low when he despairs of mercy then he is said to be too low for despair layes his soul as low as hell as it did Judas And every hill shall be brought low that is the mountanous and high thoughts thou hadst of thy self like the Pharisee that thought himselfe not like other men shall now be changed and now thou shalt have low thoughts of thy selfe saying as Jacob I am not worthy of the least of thy mercies as the Prodigall I am not worthy to be called thy sonne as the Publican Lord be mercifull to me a sinner as Paul of sinners I am chief or as David I am a worme and no man for Christ dwels only in the humble heart Esaiah 57. 15. with him will I dwell that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble It followeth And crooked things shall be made straight that is even the crooked paths of the serpent thy crooked wayes shall now be made straight and even now levelling at the rule of the word of God his glory And the rough wayes shall be made smooth that is even Bears and Lions rough Esaus shall now become Babes and Lambs for meeknesse and gentlenesse as it was prophesied Es 11. 6 7 8. Now all this is done by a spirit of bondage and feare of hell and damnation which God usually smites the heart with before he gives Christ as the plow goes before corn is sowen as it was with Paul a Acts 9. 45. with the Jailor b Acts 16. 29 30. with the 3000 Jewes at their conversion c Acts 2. 36 37. c. No woman brings forth a child without sorrow and pain nor is any born again usually without their spirituall pangs of sorrow though some feel more some lesse as some children come forth with more some with lesse pain of the mother yet all have so much as to make them willing to let go their sins to receive Christ Act. 9. 6. You know the stony ground wanted depth or softnesse of earth and so quickly withered Matth. 13. saith dwels not