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
A09984	Mount Ebal, or A heavenly treatise of divine love Shewing the equity and necessity of his being accursed that loves not the Lord Iesus Christ. Together with the motives meanes markes of our love towards him. By that late faithfull and worthy divine, John Preston, Doctor in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Majestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1638 (1638)	STC 20238; ESTC S115085	27,130	53

of him thy selfe so thou wilt not endure to heare others speake ill of him but thy heart will be mooved within thee at them and at any thing that might impeach and hurt his glory as to see his Church lye wast his word corrupted c. so Ely was not mooved so much with the death of his Sonnes as to heare that the Arke of God was taken* and indeede they are bastards and not sons that can heare their father reviled and railed on and never be affected nor offended at it Fiftly if thy love to the Lord Iesus Christ be sincere and sound thou wilt be loath to lose him for we will rather lose all we have then lose the favour and affection of a friend whom we love intirely and as thou wouldst be loath to lose him so thou wouldst be as loath to offend him or doe any thing whereby thou mightest be like so to doe or if so be thou hast thou wilt never be at quiet till thou hast gained his good will againe whatsoever it cost thee to get it Sixtly thou wilt linger and hang after him as we may see in the woman of Canaan she would not be said nay but let him say or doe what he would she would not leave him but she still staid by him till he had granted her suite Examine thy selfe then narrowly by these signes likewise and when thou hast done so and findest thy selfe guilty in any or all of these particulars then confesse thy sinne unto the Lord and beg the pardon of it at his hands leave him not till he hath heard thee and granted thee the request of thy lips by saying unto thy soule I am thy salvation and witnessing with thy spirit that thou art his child by adoption and grace And so as I have hitherto shewed you some reasons why he is accursed that loves not the Lord Iesus Christ ought to love him and whereby thou mayst be incited and stirred up thereunto for as David said in another case the Lord is worthy to be praised so may I say the Lord is worthy to be beloved and that in many respects as First because he hath all the glory and beauty in himselfe that ever thou sawest in any creature it is in its full perfection in him whereas it is but in part in any creature as the light is in its full lustre and strength in the Sunne whereas the Starres and Planets have but a glimpse or beame of it and tha by participation and not in it selfe as in a fountaine and therefore the Spouse in the Canticles saith that he is all glorious or that all glory is in him and this is the reason why some love him and others love him not because he hath manifested and revealed himselfe and his glory to some and not to others as unto Moses Abraham c. Secondly he is unchangeable ther 's no man but that thou shalt at some time or other see that in him which might make thee not to love him but in God we cannot finde any such matter for he is Iehovah semper idem yesterday to day c. there 's no variablenesse nor shadow c. Thirdly because he is Almighty he can doe whatsover he will there is nothing impossible to him and as he is able to doe all he will so he will doe all that he is able so farre forth as it may make for his owne glory and thy good But thou wilt say why is this such a loadstone of love Yes verily that it is for by his omnipotency are understood all the excellency and glory all the grace and vertues that are in God But thou wilt say I have often offended him will he then yet heare me or accept of my love for all that Yes that he will for he is gracious and mercifull Oh but I have nothing in me but am ready to offend him againe What if thou be yet he is long suffering so that he will not cast thee off if so be thou wilt cleave to him Oh but how shall I know that I answer thou shalt know it by his word and that is truth it selfe search the Scriptures therefore and there thou shalt heare him say asmuch in plaine termes he that commeth to me I will in no wise c. Oh but my sinnes are such strange ones as no bodies are Suppose they were yet his mercy is infinite and farre more then thy sinnes are or can be but yet that is not so as thou sayst for there have bin as great sinners as thou whatsoever thou art which yet neverthelesse upon their faith and repentance have beene received into grace and favour againe as were Mary Magdalen Peter David and diverse others besides them Oh but for all that I am not worthy of his love and it will be a disparagement for him to set his love upon such a one as I am But what is that to thee if he thinke thee worthy as so he doth for he sues unto thee what needst thou stand upon that why shouldst thou care for any more now this is all the dowry and duty he askes of thee for what doth the Lord thy God require of thee ô Israel but that thou love him* And moreover besides this consider that it is he that first gave thee this affection that thou shouldst love him and that ther 's none other on whom thou canst better bestow it or who more deserves it at thy hands then he doth And finally consider that thou hast engaged thy selfe unto him by vow in Baptisme so that as Ioshua said unto the Children of Israel yee are witnesses against your selves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him so are yee against your selves and every time that ye receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper you renew your covenant so that if you love and serve not the Lord you are so many times witnesses against your selves And here let us make some little stand to reckon up the severall circumstances that doe engage us to love him as First that he is our Lord and hath bought us at a very high rate now if a condemned person or a man taken by the Turkes should bee repleeved or ransomed by another we would all thinke it his duty that he should love him as long as hee lives for it and so stands the case with us we all sate in darkenesse and in the shadow of death and were taken Captive by Satan at his pleasure and Christ hath redeemed us from that his more then AEgyptian bondage and that not with corruptible things as silver or gold but with his precious blood as of a Lambe without c. and doth not he then deserve thy love canst thou deny him such a small thing as that is Againe consider Secondly what he hath done for thee even from thy youth up how he hath fed thee forgiven thee thine offences and paid the