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
A28172	Fellowship with God, or, XXVIII sermons on the I Epistle of John, chap. 1 and 2 wherein the true ground and foundation of attaining, the spiritual way of intertaining fellowship with the Father and the Son, and the blessed condition of such as attain to it, are most succinctly and dilucidly explained / by ... Hugh Binning.	Binning, Hugh, 1627-1653.	1671 (1671)	Wing B2930; ESTC R14103	146,932	280

mighty hand of God and before his Tribunal as guilty as not being able or willing to open his mouth in ●n excuse or extenuation of sin or to plead for compassion from any consideration in himself a soul thus plac●d between iniquities set in order and battel array on the one hand ●nd the holy Law and righteousnesse of God on the other hand the filthinesse of the one filling with shame and con●usion and the d●ead●ulnesse of the other cau●ing fear and t●embling in this pos●ure I say for ●●oul to come and fall at the Iudges feet and make supplicat●on to him in his Son Christ thus being inwardly pressed to vent and pour out our hearts before him in the confession ●f ou● sin● and to flie unto the City of refuge his mer●y and grace that i● declared in Iesus Christ this I say is indeed to confesse our sins For then confe●●ion is an exone●ation and disburdening of the hea●t it flows from the abundance of the inward cont●iti●n of it And as this must be the spring of it so the●e is another stream that will certainly flow f●om the ingenuous c●nfession of our sins that is a forsaking of them these are the two st●eams that flow from one head and spring the inward fountain of contrition and sorrow for sin there is a holy indignation kindled in the hea●t against sin and an ingagement upon such a soul as indeed flie● to mercy to ●enounce sin and here is the compleat nature of true ●epentance Solomon joyns them He th●t confesseth and forsaketh shall have mercy Prov. 28.13 And this is opposed to coverin● of sins For he that covereth his sins shall not prosper And what is that to cover hi● sin Conselling them in a general confused notion without any distinct knowledge or sense of particular guiltinesse that is a cove●ing of sins or confessing sin and not forsaking of it that is a covering of sin for to act sin over again with continual ●●esh delight and vigour is to ret●act our confessions and to bury and cover them with the mould of new transgressions Now take this unto you you shall not prosper what can be said worse For you are but in a dream of happinesse and you shall one day be shaken out of it and that fancied pardon shall evanish and then your sins that you cove●ed in this manner sh●ll be discovered before the Judge of the world and you shall not stand in judgment SERMON XVIII· 1 Joh. 1.9 If we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive our sins c. THE freedom of Gods grace and the greatness of his wisdom shine forth most brightly in the dispensation of the Gospel and both of them beautifie and illustrat one another That there is first an expiation of sin by the blood of Iesus Christ that a way is laid down of reconciling the world and that by the blood of the Cross that peace is purchased and so preached unto sinners as a thing already procured and now only to be applyed unto the soul by faith herein doth the inestimable riches of the grace of God expose it self to the view of Angels and Men. That the great work of Redemption is ended e●e it come to us and there remains nothing but to publish it to the wo●ld and invite us to come and receive it and have a part in it all i● ready the feast p●epared and set on the Table and there wants nothing but Guests to eat of it and these are daily called by the Gospel to come to this Table which the wi●dom of the Father hath prepared for us without either our knowledge or concurrence Besides the very terms of p●oposing the Gospel speak forth absolute f●eedom What can be more free and easie then this Chr●●t is sent to die for sinners and to redeem them from the ●urse only receive him ●ome to him and believe in him He hath undertaken to save only do you consent too and give up your name to him ye have nothing to do to satisfie ●ustice or pu●chase salvation only be willing that he do it for you or rather acquiesce to that he hath done already and rest on it But how shall our sin● be pardoned and Justice satisfied Only confesse your sins to him and ye are forgiven not for your confession but for Christ only acknowledge thine iniquity and wrongs and he hath taken another way to repair his Justice then by thy destruction and condemnation he i● so far from extending his Justice against thee that he is rather in●aged upon his faithfulnesse an● justice to fo●give thee because of his promise Yet ye would not conceive so of this manner of proposal o● forgiveness and salvation as if the requiring of such a thing as repentance in thee were any derogation from the absoluteness of his grace for it is not required either to the point of satisfaction to Gods Iustice and expiation of sin for that is done a●●eady upon the Crosse. Christ was not offered to save sinners he was not sent upon the previous condition of their repentance Nay while we were yet enemies Christ died for the ungodly so that to the bu●inesse of our redemption there was no concurrence upon our part nor influence upon it by our carriage for he considered us as sinners and miserable and so saved us And now to the actual application of these preventing mercies it'● true it is needful in the wise and reasonable dispensation of God that sinners be brought to the knowledge and sensible acknowledgment of their sin and misery and so be upon rational inducements of misery within and mercy without of self-indigency and Christs sufficiency be drawn in to Iesus Christ and so to a partaking of these purchased priviledges of forgiveness of sin peace with God c. I say all this is so far from diminishing a jot of that absolute freedom of grace that it rather joyntly proclaims the riches of grace and wisdome both that repentance should be given to an impenitent sinner and faith freely bestowed on an unbelieving sinner and withall that remission and salvation together with faith and repentance should be brought to us by his death while we were yet enemies this doth declare the most unparalell'd bounty and grace that the heart of man can imagine and withal that remission of sins is joyned to confession and salvation to faith herein the wisdom of God triumphs for what way is it possible to declare that freedom of grace to the sensible conviction of a sinner and so to demonstrat it to all mens consciences except by making them return within to see their own absolute unworthinesse vilenesse and incorrespondency to such mercies and so drawing an acknowledgment of his grace from the mouths and consciences of all How shall a soul know that rich superabundant grace if he know not the abundance of his sins How shall he professe the one except he withal confesse the other Let us imagine an impenitent sinner