Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	faith_n	grace_n	repentance_n	2,335	5	7.5639	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09841	A newe treatise of the right reckoning of yeares, and ages of the world, and mens liues, and of the estate of the last decaying age thereof this 1600. yeare of Christ, (erroniouslie called a yeare of Iubilee) which is from the Creation, the 5548. yeare. Conteining sundrie singularities, worthie of observation, concerning courses of times, and revolutions of the heauen, and reformations of kalendars, and prognistications: with a discourse of prophecies and signes, preceeding the latter daye, which by manie arguments appeareth now to approch. With a godlie admonition in the end, vpon the words of the Apostle, to redeeme the time, because the dayes are evill. By M. Robert Pont, an aged pastour in the Kirk of Scotland. The heades are set downe in certaine propositions, in the page following.	Pont, Robert, 1524-1606.	1599 (1599)	STC 20104; ESTC S114916	62,367	102

exhaust and wast their substance who vainely mak long voyages to Rome to see that Idole the Pope false hope of remission by his Indulgences albeit they never learne to mortifie the sinfull lustes of the flesh that they may liue a licenceous life without controlment And so ever to proceede from worse to worse For as the profane Poet sayeth Omnes licentia deteriores sumus Over-great libertie and licence maketh vs all to become worse and worse Now where some of his Sophistes saye that these are onely Canonicall paines inflicted by men that he remitteth by his Indulgences His owne Canons testifie the contrary which speake generally of the remission of all sinnes and temporall paines or punishments due for sinne Ex plenitudino potestatis that is fulnes of power which the Pope presumpteously arrogateth to himselfe And supposing these Indulgences were extended onely to Canonical paines or satisfactions appoynted by men what absurditie is it to graunt the same fully and indifferently to all persones by him who never knew the persones for the most part to whom they are graunted nor the qualities of their offences nor the quantitie or causes of their Injunctions les nor more to whom he pretēds alwaies falsely to giue full remission neither suffiseth it to say the Papale indulgences are given to none but to them that are truely penitent and confesse their sins For by that argument the same might bene given to Iudas the traytour of whom our Saviour sayeth It had bene good for him he had neuer bene borne For it cannot be denyed but he was truly penitent and made publick confession of his sinne Yea and more over made Papistical satisfaction therefore returning againe the money which he had wrongeouslie received And for the more sure declaration of his repen●ance he● finally hanged himselfe But because he had no grace to turne to God by true faith to seek mercie and fi●mly beleeue to obtaine it for Christ his sake His repentance availed not Like as there will be many other desperates that wil repent confesse their faultes but haue no grace to seek mercie at Gods hand who hath only power to giue it with true fayth to obtaine the same Besides all this there is a greater impietie if greater may be in these Antichristian Indulgences whereby this man of sinne pretendeth to take away all corrections for sinne not onely in the name of Christ and by his blood the which as Iohn testifieth purgeth vs from all sinne but also in the name and merites of Peter Paule and other Martyrs and Saintes For so speaketh his Canon lawe That to the heape of the Thesaurie of Christes bloud the merites of the blessed Virgine Marie and of all the elect from the first just man to the last are knowen to be valiable And what can be spoken to greater derogation of the precious bloud merites of Iesus Christ then to mingle therewith the blood and merites of creatures sinful persons For the most iust man falleth seven times a day as the Psalmist testifieth ascribing a part of our salvation to them who had no temission of their owne sinnes but by the bloud of Christ onelie Whereto should I further insist in refelling these and the like blasphemies against the croce of Christ which be knowen well ynough to all them that haue eares to heare the true preaching of his Gospell Seeing the Popes officiares themselues who make vente of his Pardones at Rome and make their gaines in sheepe-skinnes and peeces of plombe appended thereto taunt and mocke the receivers of them holding them for verie fooles as they are indeed For who is indued with natural iudgement that seeth not that these counterfaited Indulgences serue for no other thing but to mocke and deceiue the people to make marchandise of their soules to bring in money to those vagabound pyke-parles called in their law Questores indulgentiarum that is Collectours of the money of these Indulgences What madde stupidity foolishnes is it then in this cleare light of Christs Gospel to men to hazard themselues with great daungers losse of time and expenses to raike to Rome either to behold or to be participant of these vnworthy wares For if they do it of blinde zeale beleeving them to be of any availe they are miserably deceived to the great hurt of their soules health And if they do it onely of curiosity to see such things as they never saw before they therein declare the lightnesse and vaine transportation of their minds not being selted in the true knowledge and feare of God For as the common Proverbe sayeth there is neither man nor horse that vseth to be better of the passing to Rome And so is seene indeede of many of them that returne from thence THIRD PROPOSITION That the Iubilee of the Papisticall Romanistes neither doth rightly counterfaile the Iewes neither the secular yeares of the auncient Romanes And of diverse manners of reckoning the ages of the Worlde and of mens liues And that reckoning by hundreths wee are now in the fiftie sixe age AS The papall religion in manie things is patched and made vp partly of the old rites and ceremonies of the Iewes and partely of the superstition of the Gentiles so counterfaite they by imitation sometime the one and sometime the other and when they lacke the one they take the other for their ground So it is concerning their Iubilees whereof I haue bene hitherto speaking and haue proven already that their imitation in times is not according to the institution of Gods lawe promulgate by Moyses Nowe then they being put from that grounde may alleadge that they having no necessitie to obserue Moyses law in al poynts haue appoynted thē Iubilees after imitation of their ancient Romanes whose degenerate posteritie they are to wit that as they had their stages or playes which they call their seculare solemnities every hundreth yeare once in memory of the antiquitie of their cittie where in it was proclaymed by founde of Trumpet that the people of Rome should see such pompes and guises as no man that was then living ever sawe before neither should see thereafter So Pope BONIFACE the eight did institute his Iubilees to be holden every hundreth yeare with solemne Proclamation of his Pardones Now graunting this to be true as their ground is vaine and profane so whatsoever is builded thereupon And yet let vs see how happely and circumspectly these Romanistes imitate the auncient Romanes supposing that they celebrate their secular solemnities at the precise end and periode of every hundreth yeare This their ground I say is false For it was the space of an hundreth and ten yeares betweene every one of the seculare solemnities according to the old institution thereof which 110. yeares were composed of twenty two of their Lustra wherein they did lustrate and muster their people every Lustrum conteining the space of fiue years which being 22. make eleven times ten year Whereof Horace