Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	father_n	sin_n	sinner_n	3,110	5	7.5131	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58038	A sermon preach'd to the Society for Reformation of Manners in Nottingham, February 16, 1698/9. Publish'd at their request. By John Ryther, minsiter of the gospel.	Ryther, John, 1634?-1681.; Societies for the Reformation of Manners. aut	1699 (1699)	Wing R2444; ESTC R218580	33,810	68

his Judgment I can't stand in Judgment Then what must I do These things might be of rich use to you to stop you in your curreer of Sin yea turn you from it if follow'd close so that a slight outward Punishment may be the means of saving your Soul and will be so except it be your own fault so that there is no Injury done you for you suffer justly and you may get Good by it If I saw a Man ride full speed to a Precipice before him where he must needs perish I think I should not injure that Man if I stop him though he rage and storm never so much and abuse me never so ill That is the case here the Application is very easy 4. Consider though your Case be very dangerous yet it 's not desparate except you resolve to make it so As bad as you are as much Enmity as you have shewed against the blessed God as much as you have dishonoured and provoked his sacred Name yet he is shewing you your Sin your Danger and he is doing so to awaken you and convince you that you may inquire Is there no Help Is there no Remedy for me Must I because of my Sins unavoidably perish In this case he tells you There is a Remedy a glorious all-sufficient Remedy provided for the worst the greatest of Sinners the Sacrifice of Christ his own blessed Son and that he is willing to be reconciled to you and be at Peace with you for he tells you he sent his Son to save Sinners and that abandoning your Sins through Faith in his attoning Blood you shall be received into his Favour and be saved Hear then the blessed God calling thee from the side thou art on to his side Sinner I am willing to be reconciled to thee though I have been long and wretchedly neglected slighted provoked dishonoured by thee and though I could crush thee damn thee in a moment yet be thou reconciled Here is my Son have recourse to him accept of him to save thee in thy Sins from thy Sins and I will be thy Father thy Friend thy God thy Portion thy Heaven thy All. Then profane Sinner hear this Calling God and fly into the Embraces of tendered Mercy into the Arms of a Redeemer's Love that thou may'st be deliver'd from Sin Satan the World Law Hell that thou may'st be no longer on this dreadful side but on God's that God may be for you and you for God for ever 2dly To those that are not on God's side though not such as the former openly profane but are sober and civil and it may be Professors of Godliness and externally and to appearance religious yet unregenerate in their Impenitency and Unbelief You are on God's side I confess in a sense for you are not so on the Devil's side as those I spoke unto in the former Branch of this Use But in truth you are on the Devil's side you are only on God's in Hypocrisy and on the Devil 's in Reality for your Hearts are not right with God nothing but Union with Christ and Regenerating Grace makes it so You are in the Gall of Bitterness and Bond of Iniquity So all the unconverted are Professors as well as those that are not so Then I say see your Sin your Danger before it be too late Do not cast off Civility Sobriety Profession but add Piety to your Civility and Sobriety and Sincerity to your Profession Lay hold on God's Covenant so as to turn to God and give him your Hearts and then own him and abound in all the Duties a Profession of God requires See the Covenant be savingly established between God and you that God may be on your side and you on God's What will it avail you to be on God's side by Profession only and have your Hearts under the Power of Sin and earthly carnal Inclinations and Affections What will it signify seeing you have to do with that God who is the Searcher of Hearts and Tryer of Reins You may deceive your selves and others for a little time but at last dying thus you must perish for ever and how sad will that be You are not profane you do not swear with the Swearer you are not drunk with the Drunkard you do not pollute God's Holy Day as some do but yet you are not on God's side savingly See you be See you have all the things this imports in it 3dly To such as are not on God's side whether of the one sort or other or whatever they are if not on God's side savingly To all such I would say Come from the Tents of those wicked ones you are at present engaged with and on the side of Come off from Satan the Profane and the Unregenerate be on God's side What Moses said to Israel with a respect to Korah Dathan and Abiram I say unto all of you Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked Men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their Sins Num. 16. 26. Hear God calling you to accept of Christ that you may forgo your Sins Hear the Magistrate calling you Who is on God's side let him come to me Hear your own Consciences calling you to go over to God the Necessities and Interests of your own bleeding precious never dying Souls calling you The Souls of others though not their Lusts yet their Wants and Necessities and Interests calling you the Souls of the Good to help with them the Souls of the Bad to have compassion on them and do what you can for them Hear the Nation calling you to be on her side against the Profane her Enemies and the Society for Reformation of Manners here as all the rest elsewhere call upon you to be on God's side and I am come to call upon you to the same thing my Text calls upon you all to do so All these Calls you have to be on God's side and give up your selves to and lay out your selves for God 2. To all those that are on God's side I would exhort them to 1st Bless God Bless him with all your Souls and all their Powers that you are on his side The time was when you were on Satan's side the time was when your Hearts were against God when you were filled with a dismal Contrariety and Opposition to God When you were as others now are that are in their Sins how came you to be brought off from the other side how came you to be on God's Was it not Electing Love Redeeming Blood Calling Grace Was it not the Almighty Power of God that was exerted by the Grace of God that laid hold of you by Conviction and Conversion to bring you over to God's side O bless God with your whole Souls and if you had a thousand Souls and they had a thousand more Faculties and Powers than your Souls have all were little enough and much too little to adore God for electing redeeming calling converting Grace Had it not been