Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	forgive_v	sin_n	sinner_n	4,554	5	8.1858	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48928	A memorial of Gods judgments, spiritual and temporal, or, Sermons to call to remembrance first preached and now published for publick benefit / by Nic. Lockier ...	Lockyer, Nicholas, 1611-1685.	1671 (1671)	Wing L2797; ESTC R19409	116,705	258

or displeased We must dye said one of the Heathen so say I whether God be pleased or displeased with us to speak with reverence we must believe as the Cananitish Woman did when Christ called her Dog or else we sinck and perish Vse 4 Wherefore my last Use is to exhort you to seek this grace of faith that you may be able to believe God because of his own Word Job 4.41 And so to set your Seal to his Word and Works and by this be able to espy light in darkness which God is most ready to give Righteousness shall go before him and he shall set us in the way of his steps Psal 85. ult Truth shall spring out of the Earth and Righteousness shall look down from Heaven which words surely point at Christ and the Gospel by which God trains up sinners to believe in him to their Salvation in this World and in the World to come God preached Christ to Adam and taught him to take hold of him to his temporal and eternal Salvation Adam named his Wife Eva or Life And the promise is that we shall all i.e. Jew and Gentile be taught of God to this thing to glorifie the word of the Lord that is the essential word Christ and the written word the Scriptures God taught Noah to build the Ark concerning which one thing is most remarkable that the Door into the Ark was in the lowest story and so was under Water all the time of the Flood which surely was done on purpose to make and exercise faith purely in him which shut him in Seek faith in this height which my Text and Doctrin spake of 1 That you may be able in the greatest darkness to make light and sight The Jews in their daunces would say Blessed be thou O my Youth which hast not shamed my old Age and these were called Men of Performances Others would say Blessed be thou my old Age which hast gain-said my Youth and these were called Men of repentance Both would say Blessed is he that hath not sin'd and he that hath sinn'd and is pardoned Seek such a faith that thus you may see cause to bless God in every condition in Youth in Age in sickness in health when down and when risen again when you do not sin and when you do sin as being able to apprehend Christ and your pardon Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned blessed is he to whom the Lord will not impute sin surely his Salvation is neer them that fear him that gl●ry may dwell in our Land mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other Psal 58.9 10. What this kissing of Righteousness and Peace means you may see Vers 2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy People thou hast cover'd all their sin Selah The Psalmist by faith saw peace in Heaven towards the Lords People and that peace i e. All good should be on Earth to them also which keeps the heart in a ready chearful frame to serve God and to bless him in every state and therefore such a faith should be sought for Watch to preserve your faith who have this grace of graces How careful we are to preserve our eyes and much more to preserve our lives Faith is your best eyes by which you are able to look out of every hill into Heaven and faith is your best life by this we live spiritually and by this we have all the joy of our life that is worth any thing He that never saw the rejoyceing of drawing of Water never saw joy in all his life saith the Jewes so he that never saw the joy of faith which is called unspeakable and full of glory never saw joy in all his life and therefore you that have this faith and the great and unspeakable benefit of it preserve it all you can and make no shipwrack of faith and conscience and there you save all though you lose all beside Hence it is that David begs that God would draw out his loving kindness to them that knew him and his righteousness to the upright in heart with thee is the Fountain of Life and in thy light we shall see light Psal 36.9 10. By which he means that God would more reveal Christ to him in his word and works for the better establishing of every grace and thus let us p●nt all our days that in his light we may see light and have our faith and integrity preserved for they live and dye together He that did bring the World by the Flood in o●ics first Chaos covered all with VVater he can and is ready to bring our fa●len state by Christ the greatest piece of which is unbelief to some degree of restoration and bear up the Pillars thereof faith and every grace and all by his own hand And he that enabled Noah in Seven Days to furnish the Ark with all Creatures for a whole Year both for nourishment an● for sacr fice to weather it in all that dark time he can quickly inable us to store our Souls in this dark day with every grace to weather well this evil time and to stand compleat in all the will of God The Motives which may be used are these your own matters are or may be suddenly very dark most Mens sun claps in in this hour and every one either in point of estate or liberty or life begineth to walk in the Vally of the shadow of Death it would be well now in such times to have such a frame of spirit to keep up and to fear none ill to be able to say as David The Lord is my light and my Salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid though an Host encamp against me my heart shall not fear though War should rise against me in this will I be confident for in time of trouble he shall hide me in his Pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me and now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about Psal 27.1 2 3 Many Clouds are up and more still arising and some are already over-shadowing you Would it not be well if you were able indeed to say thus Though Wa●s be though Famine though Pestilence though Imprisonment Banishment yet in all these will I be confident over these shall I be a Conqueror for in the times of these troubles the Lord will hide me and it may be now as dark and as dismal as things look shall my head be lifted up above all mine enemies round about God promised after the Flood was over that Day and Night should no more cease Gen. 8 22. which intimateth saith one upon that place that during the Forty Days Rain which made the Flood that the Day was as it were ceased and turned into Night by the great and thick Clouds and Tempests which were all over the World and Clouds and Darkness are usually

little other than the Soul and this he groans and sighs under O wretched man that I am c. And this written for our Example Take another instance in this Apostle as soon as converted And Saul arose from the Earth and when his Eyes were opened he saw no man but they led him by the Hand and he was three Days without sight and did neither eat nor drink Act. 9.9 Why did he neither eat nor drink for three Days Doubtless he was in a deep sense of his lost condition as one in the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity both by nature and practice That his natural corruption was so great a weight upon him afterward as we here see it was by my Text it was much more heavy upon him at first view when this bottomly gulf was first opened to this self-conceited Pharisee what I say is very likely by the three Days horror and astonishment wherein he lay starving himself Doubtless he thought himself as unworthy to eat or drink so unworthy to live as the poor Publican which smote his breast and would not look up to Heaven as not judging himself worthy to go upon the Earth The eating of the Pass-over with sower Herbs might point at this for their coming out of Egypt snadowed their coming out of spiritual bondage and misery in which they were And so the miseries of natural bondage by sin and our fall and then their sower Herbs might well teach them as to keep a sense of their bodily slavery and misery so especially to keep a deep sense of their soul-slavery and misery and all the sower things and conflicts of their inward condition The poor Jaylor may be a further authority for this Doctrine which I have observed His eyes being some thing opened to see what a wretched Man he was by his nature and practice trembled and would have made away himself and came and fell at the Apostles Feet with a great out-cry What must I do to be saved Act. 16.30 And whereas I make the Proposition Universal saying That we all ought to be deeply sensible of natural corruption I ground it upon my Text and the Example that is given to follow in such an eminent Man as the Apostle Paul was That the Apostle Paul was not exempted from natural corruption nor from this duty of deep-laying it to heart neither are others But then the Question will be by what Rule the Apostle Paul did this for he himself saith that we should follow him no otherwise than as he followed Christ By what Rule then did the Apostle thus lay to heart his fallen state And was his Rule universal that is for all the fallen Sons of Adam For this see 1 King 8.38 When the House for communion between God and Man was made and consecrated this is the great Law of fellowship and communion between God and Man That even every one should know the Plague of his heart Now by the Plague of the heart is meant saith Interpreters principally our fallen and corrupt state of Soul by nature and then such particular special ebullitions thereof in act to open scandal and provocation And this one Law is for Jew and stranger And by knowing this Plague of the heart which every one was to do means that they should be well acquainted with their natural corruption and actual transgressions and deeply bewail them and truly as having to do with an All-seeing and All-searching God who searcheth the heart so it follows in the next words Vers 39. What Prayer or Supplication soever be made by any Man or by all the People of Israel which shall know every Man the Plague of his own heart and spread forth his hands towards this house then hear thou in Heaven thy dwelling-place and forgive and do and give to every one according to his ways whose heart thou knowest for thou even thou knowest all the hearts of the Children of Men. The New Testament concurreth to this in as much as John the Baptist thus began the Gospel by calling upon all to repent and so Christ himself called upon all his hearers to repent Mat. 4.17 The other of John the Baptist is Mat. 3.2 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand This is the Power of God by the Word to change your hearts and to open the everlasting Doors By repenting he means what he saith further in his Sermon Mat. 5 3 4 5. Poor in spirit mourning for sin attended with a desire of relief a hungering and thirsting for a better state That is Repentance is that sinners be throughly convinced of their lost condition by nature and of their utter inability to make their own relief and escape from the displeasure of God due unto them by it and therefore hunger and thirst that is earnestly desire relief from God in that way which he hath appointed in Christ through the Gospel for the Salvation of sinners Thus and in this Path the Publican was taught to come begging mercy for a sinner He smote his breast as that where he felt the Plague lay and said God be merciful to me a sinner I purpose to say no more to prove the truth of the Point For the Explication of this Doctrin these things may be said wherein the further confirmation of the Point will arise First We should be deeply sensible of natural corruption in its being simply considered Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me Psal 51.5 David had fallen into great actual transgressions of Murther and Whoredom and he that he might practice repentance according to the rule thereof took to heart how he came into the World Behold I am an old sinner so born shaped in iniquity in the Womb and out of this shape I cannot change my self and therefore I complain to thee O God Do thou wash me throughly and cleanse me throughly that is justifie and sanctifie me with the Blood and Spirit of thine anointed one on whom thou hast laid my help So in Psal 8. What is sorry man Enosh or wretched man as the Apostles Epithet is in my Text that thou art mindful of such a forlorne Creature which words also shew that we should be sensible of our natural state in the Being yea in the first being of it in us Our Saviour in his Sermon to the Woman of Canaan confirmeth this that I am upon that we should all Jew and Gentile be sensible of corrupt nature in the being of it But he answered I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the House of Israel by these words he names the Jews state by nature to make this Gentile reflect upon her own state as also such and lost Then came she and worshiped saying Lord help me As if she had said with much sorrow of heart if there be any lost Creature in the World surely I am one Then Christ replies again It is not