Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	earth_n	great_a	lord_n	5,368	5	3.8783	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71096	The verity of Christian faith written by Hierome Savanorola [sic] of Ferrara.; Triumphus crucis Liber 2. English	Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.	1651 (1651)	Wing S781; ESTC R6206	184,563	686

raised above the world valuing all terrene things as dirt they take joy onely in those Divine favours and lastly enjoy a most blessed quiet and peace of mind But these things which are the conditions of the supreme Good were never found in any but in Christ crucified and tha as he is true God and therefore he is the supreme Good But why should I insist longer in these things which are of themselves manifest For Good of its own nature desiring to communicate it self the supreme Good must needs be that which most desires to communicate its virtue but there is no communication of any other good found so great and ample as that which proceeds from Christ Jesus after whose coming into the world and the propagation of his Faith the whole world is purged of a dark and profound mist of sinnes and errours and replenished with all virtue and sanctimony of life and so many graces and favours are from thence granted and decreed unto the faithfull that they are rightly esteemed happy and blessed upon earth for if there can be any felicity or blisse upon earth it is onely found in the Christians which I have proved in the Epitome of the simplicity of a Christian life The incomparable Clemency and Mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ declares the infinite abundance of his Goodnesse because no malice of any hainous sinners and wickednesse are sufficient to make him deny or deferre his pardon to those that are truly repentant but commonly he doth not cease to heap greater graces and gifts on those who return unto him And it is a thing most experienced that as often as any shall by sinne forsake him that he is straight deprived of that sweetnesse and righteousnesse of life so that he is drowned in terrene impurities and corruptions and that he is tormented and vexed with intolerable cares but assoon as he returns to his former state of recreation and quiet he is as it were cured of the unquenchable thirst of some most malignant calenture CHAP. XVI The same proved out of the Power Wisdome and Goodnesse of Christ altogether TO the end that those things which I have formerly said of the Power Wisdom and Goodnesse of Christ may be more easily understood let us here by way of Epilogue make a recapitulation of them We affirm that if Christ be not God as he declared himself to be that he was the most arrogant and proud the most absurd and foolish of all men but if he did not make himself God but it was a fallacy of his Disciples and a humane fiction as some foolish and doting men do avouch how could so much Power Wisdome and Goodnesse proceed out of the greatest of all falsities and prestigious impostures For if he be not God I know no other who may any way seem to be so for if Almighty God do govern and conserve these inferiour things by congruous means we having proved that there is no means more perfect for a good and virtuous life then Christ I do not see how we may chuse but either we must confesse that Christ is the true means of our blisse warranted by Almighty God unto mankind or that we deny the divine Providence and Justice or that denying there is any God at all we believe that all things happen by chance or fate all which besides the first which must necessarily be granted are most absurd and foolish If there be any true Religion in the world which by Arguments we have convinced and supposed as granted who can deny considering so many and so forcible Reasons that this must needs be the Christian Religion There being no other so well grounded in Reason so that if this be not true it will force us to deny all Religion Also we know that no other Religion was ever so sharply impugn'd perpetually in all Ages as the Christian for other Religions or rather fraudulent Superstitions in a manner by the same vanity by which they were set afoot were destroyed and came to nothing but the Christian as the most pure gold hath been refined in perpetuall flames of most cruel Persecutions which could not have happened had any other been true and this false It is moreover manifest that the Christian Religion never suffered or was persecuted by virtuous and just men but was alwayes held by them in great esteem reverence and veneration having alwayes had continuall and insatiable Warre with flagitious wicked and sacrilegious Tyrants and their father the Devil and as many as have persecuted it and its Ministers have alwayes been as now-adayes also appears of a most wicked condition which never happened to any other Religion why therefore should we chuse to imitate wicked men rather then the virtuous Further there is no other Religion unto which so many have hitherto been converted and do daily come unto it upon this condition that they know themselves not to be called to riches honours or pleasures which in their Baptisme they oblige themselves to renounce but unto contempt abstinence parsimony contumelies and if occasion require it unto the greatest and last extremity of all no man therefore being in his right wits would be induced unto it by such promises and obligations as we have seen so many thousands to be unlesse the light of a most evident Verity did even pierce the hearts of mortalls The understanding therefore is constrained by these reasons and arguments to believe this admirable Faith of Christ to be true for if one two or three or a few agruments do not force an assent yet all together if they be rightly considered will not have lesse force then Mathematicall Demonstrations or then if some of the dead were raised to life for the confirmation of this Verity Wherefore if the Christian Religion be true all others are to be exploded as false seeing the Christian doth most constantly avouch that there is no salvation out of it which is no more then reason because our salvation consisting in the vision of God unto which no man can attain without Celestiall and Divine favours as I have shewed before no man can obtain it without Faith the Scripture affirming Sine Fide impossibile est placere Deo That without Faith it is impossible to please God Nor is there left any sufficient cause of a just complaint or excuse for those who are born in strange and remote Countreys which do not admit the Christian Religion because if any one led by the light of reason with a right intention and pure heart do convert himself to the universall and common Parent of all men and their Creatour who appears plainly in the order and government of his Creatures and which affords unto all the things which are necessary for them and shall beseech him to shew his Verity unto him he shall not as I have touched in the beginning of this Work according to the Christian Truth be frustrate of his desire but shall obtain the Light which is necessary to