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
A79475	A plot for the good of posterity. Communicated in a sermon to the Honorable House of Commons for the sanctifying of the monthly fast. March 25. 1646. / By Francis Cheynell.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1646 (1646)	Wing C3814; Thomason E329_11; ESTC R200698	45,495	60

love and free grace by a Covenant of grace sealed with the Bloud of Jesus Christ Guilt cannot looke on Majesty and Majesty is most terrible in an Enemy and a Judge but when Christ enterposes God is a reconciled God and tender Father in Jesus Christ In Christ Gods nature is lovely to us and our persons lovely to God God doth beseech you and Christ intreates you to be reconciled God shewes mercy to them that deserve no mercy There is an Heart-breaking and yet an Encouraging Secret a Gospell Secret these Secrets are usually the first ground of faith and hope Now faith and hope doe kindle in us a love to God and love doth most sweetely breake the heart and humble the soule My froward soule is now willing to abase it selfe before so good a God a God so willing to shew mercy to such a wretch as I am who deserve no mercy I see nothing in my selfe to encourage me to goe to God but I see enough in my selfe to drive me to him and I see enough in God for to encourage me to runne unto him I see mercy enough in God merit enough in Christ holinesse enough in the Spirit of holinesse to perswade me to runne to God for grace as well as mercy for faith and repentance as well as any other graces for pardon of sinne and power against it Come then be convinced of thine owne naughtinesse in spirituall respects humbly and yet chearefully cast thy selfe upon Gods free grace for pardon depend upon Christs obedience alone for righteousnesse upon his holy Spirit the Comforter for holinesse and comfort and say as Bradford did I am Hell but God is Heaven I am sinne but Christ is righteousnesse Blesse God for providing thee a Surety a Saviour who is able to pay all thy debts and to supply all thy wants I hope by this time thou art encouraged to trust Christ stedfastly and love him heartily and if thou findest thy heart overcome by the love of God in Christ then thou mayest goe to Christ not out of pure neede but pure love and Christ will give thee such liberall entertainement and hearty welcome that thou wilt prize and love Christ for himselfe and for his holinesse and all his excellencies as well as benefits and the more thou dost prize him the faster will thy devoute soule by a lively faith cleave unto him and the more thou dost cleave to him by faith the faster wilt thou adhere to him by love and the more thou dost love Christ the more wilt thou hate sin abhorre thy self for ●inne and deny thy selfe for Christ And the more thou art convinced of thy sinfulnesse and abased for thy sinne the more wilt thou prize Christ and love him and runne to him for grace and mercy and draw new vertue and fresh supplies from him that thou mayest every way expresse thy love unto him And beleeve it there will be no love lost between thee and Christ thou shalt be delighted with his presence satisfied with his love and acquainted with those other Secrets which God imparts to men after they are made Saints and freinds Not onely the wisedome of God hid in a Mystery of faith and godlinesse but the deepe things of God the Secrets of the Spirit of Adoption those Love-Secrets which Christ imparts to us when he comes in to suppe with us even Miracles of love and Treasures of glory And when Christ doth thus feast you with his love you will the● demonstrate your Spouse-like love to Jesus Christ you will be able to say that you love Christ for 〈…〉 for what you have from him or by him but you 〈…〉 in your love to him though you lose all you have for him When God doth bestow these love●tokens and impart these Love-Secrets to his elect by a Spirit of Revelation Regeneration Adoption and hath taugh● 〈…〉 to know him love him and crie Abba Father to him the● 〈◊〉 ownes them for his sonnes and daughters and saith of them as he 〈◊〉 here of Abraham I know them I love them approve them because I chose them from all eternity Ob. But you will say the Secret imparted to Abraham seemes to be a Secular-Secret rather then a Religious-Secret Sol. I answer this Secret was imparted at least in Ordine ad Spiritualia for religious purposes and there are many edifying Secrets contained in it Abraham was not to repeate it as a story but as a Sermon to his Posterity that they might behold the Majesty of Jehovah in this great example of Divine vengeance and be perswaded to walke in the way of Jehovah as it is in my text This Secret was communicated before hand that the burning of Sodom might not be imputed to chance fortune or a violent tempest raised by the common course of nature but to the immediate hand of God That the sin-revenging Justice of God might be magnified and Posterity deterred from the sinnes of Sodom Pride fulnesse of bread abundance of Idlenesse unnaturall lust and base fornication Ezek. 16. 49. 2 Pet. 2. 6. Secondly This Secret was imparted to Abraham by way of Prolepsis for the preventing of an Objection which might have staggered his faith for God had given that Land to Abraham Lot had made choise of Sodom and Abrahams Portion bordered upon Lots and therefore Abraham would have beene exceedingly staggered at the Overthrow of Sodom if God had not acquainted him with this Secret before hand And therefore I have so freely discoursed of Encouraging Secrets that I might remove those blocks at which our faith is most apt to stumble Thirdly By the imparting of this Secret Lots policy is confuted and Abrahams selfe-denying faith commended Lot chooses the richer soyle but the fouler seate because of worldly accommodations but on a sudden the wickednesse of the place calls for a devouring fire which licks up all the wealth and buries all the glory of Sodom in dust andashes this Secret is not secular which takes off the heart from all secular accommodations and teaches men to choose their seate or dwelling not for secular advantages but for Spirituall Accommodations Fourthly It was requisite to shew you when a man is in an approved condition and how a man may be brought to lay hold upon the Covenant because when God speaking of Abraham saith I know him the meaning is I approve him as a man in Covenant with me he is a sincere upright man and will be true to me in the most declining times God takes notice of his Saints and Servants with a Knowledge of Approbation a sweete loving knowledge which implyes a deare and tender respect but God takes notice of every particular person with a Knowledge of Observation for God observes all our dispositions habits and inclinations all our thoughts plots designes all our desires intentions resolutions words and actions and will call us to an account for all in the presence of Saints and Angels before the Tribunall of Christ when Hypocrites and