Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	death_n	lord_n	sinner_n	2,648	5	7.4070	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91744	The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls Church, London, Octob. 28. / By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to the Kings Majesty. Printed by the order of the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1263; Thomason E1048_2; ESTC R203481	17,874	45

both have unto him And indeed where is the Lord glorious if not in his works Bless the Lord all ye his works in all places of his Dominion Psalm 103. 22. We are his By Creation the work of his hands Where glorious if not in his Members which are animated by that Spirit of glory and of God which rested upon Christ the Lord of Glory 1 Pet. 44. 1. And we are his by Union Members that ought to be conformed to a glorious head Where glorious if not in His Temple For in his Temple doth every one speak of his glory Psalm 29. 9. And we are his by Dedication built up a spiritual Temple unto him 1 Pet. 2. 5. Where glorious if not in his Own anointed people his peculiar Treasure Psalm 135. 4. His Jewels Mal. 3. 17. In whom he intendeth to be admired 2 Thes. 1. 10. Where can he expect Service if not from those whom he hath redeemed The civil Law saith Redemptus est Redimentis per modum pignoris and Demosthenes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} That he who is delivered from enemies is a servant unto him that delivered him till he can pay the Ransome which was given for him Quod emitur transit in potestatem ementis Where Christ is Redemption he is Sanctification too for we are redeemed from our former vain Conversation 1 Pet. 1. 19. And from all Iniquity Tit. 2. 14. Christ loved his Church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it Ephes. 5. 26. Rom. 14. 9. Being therefore not our Own but bought with a price Let us Glorifie him that bought us 1. In Adoring this great Mystery brought about by the Exinanition of the Sonne of God and the humbling of him to our Curse for though the Omnipotent Lord wanted not other means to have wrought this deliverance yet herein hath he magnified his Power Wisdome Justice Mercy and Love in doing it by the Incarnation and Suffering of his Eternal Sonne That as the first Adam made us sinners in semine so the Second make us Righteous in sanguine To Adore the freeness of it in that he came unsought to seek as well as to save Luke 19. 10. And the Discrimination which is therein made between us and Angels for he took not the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham Heb. 2. 16. Though the Devil in Coelo in tumuit ego in sterquilinio 2. To admire the Severity of divine Justice which would not suffer sin to go unpunished or the sentence of death against it unexecuted though it were in his own Son The unsearchableness of divine Mercy in accepting a Commutation a son for a servant a sacrifice for a sinner The infinite depth of divine Wisdome in finding out a way to punish the sinne and to save the sinner to punish it throughly and as throughly to pardon it to cause him that was eternal to be made Him that was impassible to suffer Him that was Lord of life to die to make our nature in that person pay a debt which all the Angels in Heaven could never have discharged 3. To believe and apply the comfort of so precious a Doctrine to our selves and to put in for a share in it and so to glorifie God as Abraham did Rom. 4. 20. Without it I am a captive to sinne and Satan cursed in body cursed in soul my conscience sayes Amen to the Curses Deut. 27. 15 26. The Law holds me under the Scripture shuts me out I have no shelter nor refuge from the thunder of divine wrath But now by the Redemption which Christ hath wrought God is placable sinne pardonable the soul curable the curse removeable And shall God offer Mercy and I refuse it Am I bought with a price and shall I not glorifie God by accepting of it Do I not stand in need of Christ Is he not provided for me Is he not revealed to me Doth he not invite intreat command me to come unto him Did he ever cast away any that did so May I not venture to believe May I not reach forth an arm to embrace the sure Mercies of David Are there not examples of great sinners who have been welcome unto great Mercy 1 Tim. 1. 13 16 Lord I am a great sinner I confess it I bemoan it I hate it I forsake it I will throw away every thing which keeps me and Christ assunder thou dost freely give Christ I greatly want him I earnestly desire him I thankfully accept him I willingly follow him I am his ransomed servant to be ruled by him and to live to his grace I am bought with a price therefore I will not be a servant of men 1 Cor. 7. 23. To captivate either my Reason my Conscience or my Conversation to their Will I am bought with a price therefore I will be servant to him that bought me that as he hath by his blood purchased Glory for me so I may by my obedience bring Glory unto him For herein is he glorified when we bring forth much fruit John 15. 8. I will glorifie him in my body by external purity and exemplary sanctity I will possess my vessel i my Body in Holiness and in Honour 1 Thess. 4. 3. I will cleanse my self from all filthiness as well of flesh as spirit 2 Cor. 7. 1. I will yield my Members servants of righteousness unto Holiness Rom. 6. 19. I will let my good works shine before men that they may glorifie God Mat. 5. 16. I will glorifie him in my Spirit by internal purity of heart I will sanctifie the Lord God himself and make him my fear and dread Isa. 8. 13. I will labor for truth and chastity in the inward parts Psalm 51. 6. I will take heed of Jezabel and her fornication because the Lord searcheth the reins and the heart Revel. 2. 20 23. Thus if we glorifie him in body and spirit in a way of obedience He will at last fashion our vile bodies like unto his glorious body Phil. 3. 21. And raise it up in honour and power 1 Cor. 15. 42 43. And he will make our spirits the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12. 23. and shed abroad his Image fully upon us when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired in all them that believe 2 Thes. 1. 10. Which that we may do let us call upon God FINIS a Homer Iliad lib. 2. Strabo lib. 8. Cicero Orat. pro L. Manil L. Florus lib. 2. c. 16 b Eustath●us in Homer Iliad p. 290. c Athen. lib. 13. d Ambros. de Abra l. b. 2. c. 11. Grot. in Act. 15 20. Lo●in ibid. Duorum unius rei in solidum Dominium esse non potest Dig. lib. 13 Tit. 6. leg. 5. Sect. 15. Vid. Greg. T●ol Syntagma juris lib. 1. cap. 12 13 Exod. 3 14. Rom 11. 36. Aquin. 22. ar. 12 qu 2. Opus de Regimine principis l. 1. c. 10. Bellarm de Pont. Rom. l. 5. c. 6 7 8 Baron Anno 496 Sect. 26 27. An. 593 Sect 90. Anno 598 Sect 9 Anno 603 Sect 23 Anno 730 Sect 5 Suarez Advers Anglic Sectae errores lib 3 de Primat Pontif cap 23 2 Sam 16 20 17 1 Acts 24 1 2 1 Reg 13 4 Vid. Aug. Confes l 5. c. 10. de Civ. Dei l. 14. c. 14. a Eruptiones animae doctrina naturae congen●tae ing●nitae conscientiae tacita commissa c. Tertul de Testim. Aiae c 5 Primordialis l●x matrix omnium praeceptorum Dei Idem advers. Judaeos cap 2 b Ang. de Gen. ad lit l 1. c. 19 Mat. 11 27 Rom 16 25 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Justin Mart. de recta Confes. Vid. Camero de verbo Dei c. 18 Quid magis contra fidelem quam credere nolle quicquid non possit ratione attingere Laudatur Maria quod rationem ●ide praevenit pu●●tur Zacharias quod fidem ratione tentavit Bernar. Epist. 190. Bernar. de Resurrect Dom. Ser. 3. Jam 4 6 Psalm 51 4 Psal. 31. 15. Phil. 120. 1 Cor. 12. 11 Rom. 12. 13. Luke 11 22 Psalm 19 11 Prov. 11 18 Sam. P●t. var. litet l. c. 11. D●abolus jure hominem possidebat quia hemo spon●e diabolo cons●atit Bernd Epist. 190 Nequiter usurpatum sed juste permissum ibid. Rom 7 6 Mat 5 25 Mat 3 20 Mat. 18. 34. Rom. 11. 32. Acts 26. 18. Jer. 23. 6. 1 Thes 1. 10. Rmo. 8. 32. Isa. 53. 6. 1 Pet. 2. 24. Gal. 3. 13. 4. 4. Anselm Cur Deus homo lib. 1. cap. 11. Just l. 3. T. 24. Mat. 3. 17 Mat. 17. 5 Cod de postilimin reversis l 8 17 Petit de leg Attic l 2 Tit 6 Aug. de Trin l 13 c 10 Ber Epist 190