Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	denial_n	great_a	reservation_n	191	4	15.7961	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33343	The saints nosegay, or, A posie of 741 spirituall flowers both fragrant and fruitfull, pleasant and profitable / collected and composed by Samuel Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4555; ESTC R23711	51,972	277

bee the key that opens Gods treasures yet faith is the hand that turnes the key without which it will doe no good 331 There is a two-fold faith required in prayer 1. Faith in the providence of God whereby wee beleeve that he is such a God as is able to bring the things to passe 2. Faith in the promise of God wherby we beleeve he is willing to bring it to passe 332 Earnestnesse in prayer is a fruit of faith and not a meere expression of naturall desires when there is not only a sense of the thing we want but also an hope of mercy a ground to beleeve that we shall have the thing granted and out of this ground an earnest and importunate begging of it 333 The person must be righteous and the prayer fervent as indited by the helpe of Gods spirit or else it s no sacrifice fit for the Lord 334 When there is no other way to escape a danger a Christian can goe by heaven as Daedalus Restatiter coelo coelo tentabimus ire 335 Let Papists number their beads that give their prayers to God by number not by zeale but let Saints tell their teares till they be without number 336 Tertullian saith that wee should make prayers fat with fastings which ordinarily are starved with formalities 337 Gods children have the Altar of Christ to receive the incense of Christ to perfume the name intercession of Christ to present their prayers to God by 338 Gods children should proportion the vehemency of their prayers to the violence and urgency of their lusts and temptations that trouble them as 2. Cor. 12.8 339 Gods promises to us must bee the ground of our prayers to him when God makes a promise wee must make a prayer for all promises are of mercy not of duty or debt therefore God is not bound to tender them to us till we beg them 340 As promises are the rule of what wee may pray for in faith so prayer is the ground of what wee may expect with comfort 341 A Christian hath what hee will because God gives him a will to desire nothing but that which is Gods promise and his own necessity 342 God will bee sought that he may be found of us and he will be found that hee may bee farther sought of us 343 Spirituall things as they must be sought before they can bee found in regard of their difficulty so they may well bee sought that they may be found in regard of their dignity 344 It s the usuall manner of Gods people to beginne their prayers to God with thankefull commemorations of mercies formerly received Gen. ●2 10 Psal. 90.1 71.18.19 345 These are alwayes three speciall faults in prayer Faintnesse Coldnesse Boldnesse 1. There is a faint a fearefull and distrustfull prayer 2. A cold formall and superficiall prayer 3. A bold a proud a presumptuous prayer this last is worst 346 As the wheele of the Water-mill the more violently the water drives it from it the more strongly it returnes upon the streame so the more violently that God seemeth to thrust us from him the more eagerly should wee enforce our selves to presse upon him Exod. 32.10.11 347 God seemeth to sleep to make us awake out of our sleepe and cry the louder to wake him out of his seeming sleepe Psal 44.23.24 348 God heares his children when hee seemeth not to heare them to their profit though not to their pleasure he is present when hee delayeth them yea he is present in that hee doth delay them and that is better then present with them that for the present is denied them it s a point of mercy in that hee is not so forward to shew mercy 349 Faithfull prayer is ordained of God to bee a meanes to obtaine what we desire and pray for and therefore is never put up in vaine but shall have an answer 1. Iohn 5.14.15 For where God gives an heart to speake hee hath an eare to heare 350 Not the gifts but the graces in prayer are they that move the Lord 351 As wee stick the letters of friends in our windowes or carry them in our bosomes that wee may remember to answer them so the petitions of Gods people passe not out of his sight till hee sends an answer 352 As a Sermon is not done when the Preacher hath done because it s not done till it be practised so our prayers are not heard when yet made but wee must waite for and attend an answer 353 When wee have put up a faithfull prayer God is made our debtor by his promise and wee are to take notice of his payment and give him an acknowledgement of the receit of it or else he looseth of his glory 354 When God intends not to heare hee layes the key of prayer out of the way as being loath that such precious breath as that of prayer is should be without its full and direct successe 355 It s a good signe that God will heare our prayers when himselfe shall indite our Petitions 356 Great blessings that are won with prayer are worne with thankfulnesse 375 That which is a spirit of supplication in a man when hee prayeth resteth upon him as a spirit of obedience in his life so as that dependance hee hath upon God for the mercy hee seekes for is a speciall motive and means to keep him fearefull of offending and diligent to behave himselfe as becomes a suitor as well as to come and pray as a suitor 358 As direct beames have more heat in them then collaterall oblique so when our prayers are answered directly in the thing prayed for it s more comfortable then when they are answered obliquely 359 As when sinnes are punished miseries come then in like armies in troops so when prayers are answered usually mercies come thick and tumbling in 360 Temporall things granted out of ordinary Providence only doe encrease our lusts and are snares to us but obtained by prayer they are sanctified to us 361 Prayer and thanks are like the double motion of the lungs the ayre that is sucked in by prayer is breathed forth againe by thankes 362 Things long deferred and at last obtained by prayer prove most comfortable and stable blessings 363 As a wicked mans deliverance and the granting his request laies a foundation and is a reservation of him to a worse judgement so the deniall of a godly mans prayer is for his greater good and is laid as a foundation of a greater mercy 364 As a man cannot expect a crop if hee take not paines to plow and sow no more can we expect an answer if wee doe not take paines with our hearts in prayer 365 That ship doth al wayes sayle the surest which is driven with the breath of godly mens prayers 366 Our comforts in prayer in hearing our joies our earnest penies which we have laid up may be all spent in a dearth yea our owne graces and all promises made to them our own hearts may