Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	commit_v	great_a	sin_n	5,813	5	5.3912	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87004	A discovery of the latitude of the loss of the earthly paradise by original sin. Occasioned by a disputation betwixt Mr. Matthias Rutton, min: of Boughton Munchalse in Kent, and the author hereof; branched out in these particulars, as followeth: I. First, an examination of his apologetical letter, with a full answer thereunto. II. Secondly, six arguments to prove that original sin exposed Adam and his posterity but to the first death. III. Thirdly, a discovery of the false and corrupted ministers by ten characters. IV. Fourthly, a discovery of the true ministers by ten characters. / By George Hammon, pastor to the Church of Christ meeting in Biddenden in Kent.	Hammon, George.	1655 (1655)	Wing H502; Thomason E1680_1; ESTC R209154	79,445	216

you say that David there confessed any sin or guilt of any sin as he stood in the loyns of his Parents unless that first sinne which as I have shewed you brought but the first Death neithe have they any less perfection in quality of nature by the which they are put into a worse capacity to stand or fall as to the losse of the injoyment of that eternal inheritance although I grant the first thing they do when they are capable of a Law and temptations do approach they like their first Father Adam break the Law of God as he did and these words have I spoken as in order to the making way for the opening of the words before mentioned for in the first verse David is a Petitioning to God for Mercy and Pardon for that sin wch he had committed in killing Uriah and taking Bathsheba his Wife unto himself in the which Petition he uses three Arguments as we may so say The First is from the multitude of Gods Mercies in these words According to thy loving kindness according to the multitude of thy mercies verse the first The Second is from his acknowledging of his Sin saying My sins are ever before me vers. 3. as if he should say They are the greatest trouble that I have in the World they are always in my way so that we see the second Motive that he uses to attain Mercy is by confession of his sin with great zeal and ardency of spirit he well knowing that God had promised That he that confesseth and forsaketh his sin should finde mercy And the Third and last Argument which he used in this Psalm to move God to have mercy upon him in blotting out his transgressions was from the brittleness of his Nature and the weakness of that Lump that he was made out of As if hee should have said Father thou knowest I am of the Earth earthly which is subject to much weakness and frailty and therefore he beyond all other reasons in this last reason vers. 5 saith Behold as if he should have said Lord take notice as well consider how defective the Mould was in the which I was formed which to me appears to be his Mother Eva in whose loyns was David and all other shapen for God made all Mankind at once and not his Mother that bare him that thereby thou considering my frame maist in pity blot out my transgressions This expression of David is not used alone but hath the like import Psal. 103. v. 12 13 14 in these words ver. 12. As far as the East is from the West so far hath he removed our transgressions from us And in the fourteenth verse he giveth the reason why the Lord is so gracious in these words For hee knoweth our frame that we are but dust so that I conceive in this fifth vers of the one and fiftieth Psalm which you cited to me in these words Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me is no more but the proneness of Davids Nature by reason of the weakness of the matter that he was made of and that is the same that he desires God to take notice of or behold whereby hee might graciously remit that sinful Act that he had committed unless you meant that Sin which beleeving men and women suffer for which is the sin against the first Covenant which did consist of an earthly Paradisical glory which I did to you and do still affirm That both Adam and all his Posterity consideredly as they were in his loyns did not only commit it but also suffer for it which I did then and do still affirm to bee the first Death by which Pollution and Corruption run thorow all the parts of the outward man But as I have said no pollution or disability in the least hath it brought to the Spiritual part of man whereby the Conscience or spirit of man should be defiled neither actively nor imputatively not actively for this reason because the Spiritual part of man is not involved in the loyns of Adam whereby he doth be get it but it is formed in man by God Zach. 12.1 so according to the Word of the Lord when he speaketh concerning the dissolution of that Mortal lump that man begetteth saith then Dust shall return to dust and the Spirit to him that gave it so that as man begetteth only the Natural part of man and not the Spiritual and thereby the Spiritual part being not in form and matter in the loyns of Adam therefore the Spiritual part could not be polluted but the Natural part being in matter involved in the loyns of Adam was polluted corrupted and deformed from whence ariseth all the corruption of Nature as Blindness Deafness and Lameness and all such like Corruptions which shall remain until this corruptible body shall put on incorruption so it is clear that the Spiritual part of the Sons of Adam did not sin in Adam by action because it was not in being The second Reason why the guilt of Adams sin cannot lye upon the Spiritual part of any so as to make them stand guilty before God of a second Death is from the reproof the Lord gave to a Generation of men of your judgement that thought the Childe must dye for the Fathers sins that when the Lord did threaten the punishment of the sins of the Fathers upon the Children that you blindly with those whom the Lord reproveth Ezek. 18.2 3. do conclude that it must needs be the punishment of the second Death therefore the Lord saith he would have that Proverb used no more The fathers have eaten soure Grapes and the Childrens teeth are set on edge but the soul that sinneth shall dye So much briefly as for the second reason But whereas you said that there was no thought of time betwixt the Natural being of David and the sinful being if you mean his sinful being by that matter that he received from Adam it is granted but if it be of the Soul or inward part which had its being from God it is denied from the two Reasons already rendred Further one Reason more Any Creature that is defiled in the inward man is not fit for the Kingdom of God but Children are fit for the Kingdom of God at the very birth of them therefore Children are not defiled or corrupted in the inward man Further You affirmed in your writing that I said that you could never read in Scripture that any Children were damned and therefore no such Sin Original to Damn to which say you you instanced that of Esau who was reprobated from all Eternity to the which I answer I do indeed confess you said so but I have learned that your say so is no sufficient proof for the ninth of the Romans the eleventh twelfth and thirteenth verses which you cited to prove the matter prove no such thing for let any Soul seriously read that place and see whether that place say