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
A70235	The vanity of self-boasters, or, The prodigious madnesse of tyrannizing Sauls, mis-leading doegs, or any others whatsoever, which peremptorily goe on, and atheistically glory in their shame and mischief in a sermon preached at the funerall of John Hamnet, gent. late of the parish of Maldon in Surrey / by E.H. Minister ...	Hinton, Edward, 1608 or 9-1678.	1643 (1643)	Wing H2066; ESTC R7444	51,429	56

probably this benefit of dying by a long sicknesse in the bed being denyed them they may be suddenly cut off with a head full of Wine hands full of oppression eyes full of uncleannesse and a heart full of malice and thinke Oh thinke what then Object I know the jolly customary sinners ordinary objection no great decision sure I am no disprofit to answer it Though we as yet take our swing in the wayes and courses of the world and death may overtake us ere we are prepared for it yet God can make us doe much in a little time and that as much in as little time too as the thiefe on the Crosse did Sol. 'T is truth to God nothing is impossible much lesse can any thing bee hard to him yet know that the LORD is infinitely just as well as omnipotent and I know not how it can stand with his infinite justice miraculously to worke faith and repentance in a man on his death-bed distracted with sicknesse weeping friends a clamorous conscience and a misgiving heart which in time of strength and quiet wilfully did shut his eyes against light counted the preaching of the Word foolishnesse 1 Cor. 1.19 by which foolishnesse as hee and such like count it it pleaseth God to save them that beleeve he hath appointed as a meanes to worke faith in them whom he intends to save Rep. But did he not make the thiefe on the Crosse much repent and beleeve in a little time and why may he not take the same course with me too Resol This Example of the Thiefe onely proves that if thou doest as truely repent and beleeve on thy death-bed as the Thief did on the Crosse though thou hast beene formerly never so desperately wilde and carelesse and canst manifest the truth of thy faith and repentance by as lively fruits as he did thou art call'd though at the last houre and art assured of heaven but it does not prove that God chooseth the last houre to call soules in though faith and repentance be it given when it will cannot misse of heaven yet seldome or never never but once have we read or heard of God bestowes these graces on them which till then never thought them worthy the seeking The Fathers and moderne Divines afford store of answers to this carelesse Objection First that of Augustine is very good Verum quidem dicis quod Dous poenitentiae tuae indulgentiam promisit sed huic dilaetioni tuae diem crastinum non promisit Å¿ Aug. de verb. Dom. Serm. 16. That mercifull God which hath promised pardon upon repentance hath not promised to morrow to him that deferres it Whensoever therefore thou art call'd come doe not deferre thy comming till the eleventh houre because you have heard of the Thiefe then call'd 't is very likely in these bleeding dying times that thou shalt not live to the sixth Secondly t Bolton Comfort Walk from the Creation to this present houre we have read but of one so miraculously snatcht out of the fire 't was a miracle wherewith God honoured the passion of his Sonne and we may then onely looke for the like miracle when Christ is againe to suffer Thirdly and lastly u Down Warf part 1. lib. 2. c. 32. Princes now and then though very seldome as tokens of their clemency pardon some man at the blocke yet if any shall in hope hereof wilfully offend and having offended delay suing for a pardon till he be led forth to execution certainly he richly deserves to suffer not onely for his offence but for his presumption just so the Lord to manifest the riches of his mercy pardoned the thiefe when death death eternall was seizing on him now those which hereupon shall take occasion by continuing in their old and sinfull courses fearefully to displease his Majestie or having fearfully offended yet shall deferre by faith and repentance to sue for pardon utterly unworthy are they of grace and mercy and as probably as deservedly shall perish in their sinnes and be delivered up to the blacke tormentor To conclude therefore this first application the sutablenesse whereof both to our times and sad occasion hath lengthened it a great deale beyond my intention considering how hard almost impossible it is to repent in our last sicknesse and how probable it is that the last and usuall leisure of a long sicknesse will by reason of our naturall frailties the raging of infectious and violent diseases together with the thousand casualties of a bloody Civill warre be utterly denyed us Let us speedily set about working forth our salvation with feare and trembling Let 's forthwith endeavour to make our calling and election sure Now now in this breathing time of health and liberty let 's make good our title to heaven confirm our evidence our Faith which is the evidence of things not seen (u) Heb. 11.1 and have in readinesse our witnesse which is a good conscience The Scripture will not give you any incouragement or allowance for the least delay 'T is to day if you wilt heare his voyce harden not your hearts (w) Psal 95.7 8. not to morrow if you will heare it a dayes procrastination doth harden the heart T is now is not hereafter will be the acceptable time Behold now is the day of salvation (x) 2 Cor. 6.2 The glorious time of the Gospel wherein peace and reconciliation through Christ is tendered on condition of faith and repentance is exprest by the present time and this day to tell us as I conceive that there is a certain time allowed for every man to come in which nick and opportunity through a desperate carelesnesse o'reslipping he is irrecoverably lost And therefore ought we to make so thrifty a use of this day nay of this present time of this present houre of my discourse as though this glasse were now turn'd up upon you and that the time allotted for your and your comming in did expire with the falling of the last sand For therefore faith a Father (y) Austin is our last day conceald from us that we may beleeve every day to be the last Oh that the Lord would make me a blessed instrument to move melt and soften but one heart here present with the apprehension of that horrour and trembling which seizes a foule impenitent and unprovided sinner suddenly death-strucken and with the blow having his conscience awakened or into what everlasting burnings and torments he sinks being never awakened But I have already trespassed too much in the lengh of the use of the first branch I shall recompence your patience in the shortnesse of the other uses I goe forwards therefore to the second branch Branch 2 Of what dost thou boast thy selfe i. e. what hast thou which might be a just subject for boasting whatsoever thou darest own or call thine are either the good things of thy body fortune or thy mind as they are commonly distinguished we will make our