Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	eternity_n	live_v	selfsame_a	20	3	15.8274	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59035	The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1661 (1661)	Wing S2366; ESTC R17565	1,095,711	784

with you in your distresses Isa 63. 9. 7. His yearning bowels towards you My bowels are troubled for him Jer. His yearning bowels towards you 31. 20. and longings to do you good He doth waite that he may be gracious unto you Isa 30. 18. 8. His speed to close with you and to shew his affections unto you He flies His speed to close with you upon the wings of the winde and leaps over the Mountains and hastens and runnes to shew himself reconciled unto you Luke 15. 9. His great donations he bestows no lesse on you than Christ and grace and His great donations glory 10. His quick eare to all your petitions and such a full compliance with His quick care to all your petitions you that he will deny you nothing which you ask according to his will If we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us 11. His looking after you and special charge that men speak comfortably unto you Isa 40. 1. 2. and that you never come with fears to him nor go away from His looking after you him with sadnesse Go in peace Be of good comfort Come boldly to the Throne of grace Heb. 4. 12. His gracious entertainment of you and communions with you and manifestations His gracious entertainment of you unto you so that you are as it were many times lifted up to heaven and filled with joy unspeakable and glorious Beloved This is unspeakable comfort and encouragement unto you that your God is a kinde God and will deal with you in loving kindnesses Consider that of necessity you have to deal with him and that every day and houre of your life and that he is not an hard Master nor of an harsh nature nor rough in his words or looks or deeds He will not seek not will he take advantages against you so as that you may come with boldnesse into his presence and need not to fear his intentions or dealings with you Never did father or mother deal more gently with their tender infants never did loving husband deal more kindly with his most beloved wife than your kindest God will deal with you and this affords unto you five comforts 1. You have free access to him the door is alwayes open Should the childe fear to go to his tender Father 2. You may come with full opening of your soul and wants to him he is kind and willing to hear all 3. You may have good hope if any will use you well 't is your kinde God 4. You are sure of quick dispatch kindnesse makes no unnecessary delays no vain excuses 5. When men deal unkindly with you yet you shall finde kinde dealing from your God Psal 27. 10. When my father and mother forsake me then the Lord will take ms up 14. Lastly Eternity is another Attribute of God your God is an eternal God Gods Eternity from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Psal 90. 2. The Eternal God is thy refuge Deut. 33. 27. He inhabits Eternity Isa 57. 15. Eternity is an interminable being and dutation before any time and beyond all time it is a fixed duration without beginning or ending If you should imagine as many thousand myriads of years before time was as there are sands on the Sea-shore and of ten thousand thousand times more myriads after time shall not be you could not in the one or the other make any discovery of the being or duration of God the Eternity of God is beyond all possible conception of measure or time God ever was ever is and ever shall be Though the manifestations of himself unto the creatures are in time yet his essence or being never did nor shall be bound up by time look backward or forward God from Eternity to Eternity is a most self-sufficient infinite perfect blessed being the first cause of our being and without any cause of his own being an eternal infinite fulnesse and possession to himself and of himself what God is he was from Eternity and what God is he will be so to Eternity The comfort of it is This very Attribute is that which drops myrrhe and oyle and honey it is one of the sweetest and strongest comforts unto you who are the people of God 1. It sweetens all his love and mercy and goodnesse unto you God is Eternal It sweetens all his love and mercy and goodnesse to you and his love to you is an Eternal love there never shall come the time when his love or his kindnesse or his goodnesse or his mercy shall cease towards you All the creatures slip away and come to their end and though one creature out-lives another yet every creature at last is at his journies end There is an end of this man and his power and an end of that man and his love but God never comes to an end and his power and his love never comes to an end O what is this that God is God and that he is our God for ever and ever that his love is an Eternal love and his mercy is an Eternal mercy and his fulnesse is an Eternal fulnesse and his blessednesse is an Eternal blessednesse 2. It gives you confidence in all your space of time which you are to live still It gives confidence to live upon God as long as we live to live upon your God for there is no newness nor alteration nor weariness nor weakness in Eternity no want or waste in Eternity Eternity is full to all Eternity God is full of mercy and grace and power c. The Eternal God is in all times the self-same perfection and all-sufficiency there is no variation or diminution or contigency in Eternity his power and mercy and wisdome and knowledge and love and kindnesse are still at the same height 3. The Eternal God hath time enough to make all his promises good unto you He hath time enough to make all his promises good Though life be short yet he hath promised to give eternal life you need not fear that he will dye in debt unto you Eternity never dies but hath time enough in it 4. Though your life be not Eternal but short yet your Eternal God hath promised to give unto you Eternal life 1 John 2. 25. This is the promise which he hath promised us even Eternal life Happiness were not happiness without Eternity Eternity of happiness is a full possession and a present possession and an invincible possession and endless possession of the blessed God for ever and ever and ever 5. This is comfort in all losses I dye but God will surely visit you Comfort in all losses said Joseph as if he had said I cannot live to do you good but God lives for ever what though this comfort dyes yet the God of all comfort lives Thus have you heard the singular and manifold comforts of having God to be your God from the excellency of all his glorious Attributes in respect of