Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	full_a	lord_n	psal_n	2,435	5	7.5110	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30259	A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their pvbliqve fast, Novem. 17, 1640 by Cornelius Burges.	Burges, Cornelius, 1589?-1665.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1641 (1641)	Wing B5683; ESTC R19994	56,507	64

now in any deliverance bestowed it would be doubled if upon the deliverance received we would thus be ioyned to him Nor is this a notion or conceit onely but a reall trueth For marke what He saith to his people Hos 2. vers 19 20. I will marry thee unto me for ever I will betroath the unto me in righteousnesse and in Iudgement and in loving kindnesse and in mercies I will even marry thee unto me in faithfullnesse and thou shalt know the Lord. He that enters into Covenant with God is betroathed yea even married to him And how married even to the partaking of all his goods of all he hath yea of himselfe and of all that he is As the wife may say Gen. 31.43 Vbi tu Caius ego Caia and as Laban sometimes of Iacobs wives children and cattell These daughters are my daughters and these children are my children and these cattell are my cattell and all that thou seest are mine So a man once married to the Lord by Covenant may without arrogancy say this righteousnesse is my righteousnesse this iudgement is my judgement this loving kindnesse these mercies this faithfullnesse which I see in thee and all that thou hast is mine for my comfort supply support direction salvation and what not And take notice of that phrase Thou shalt know the Lord. Did they not know him before Yes but never in such a manner with such a Knowledge at least in such a measure They shall now know him in such neere familiar sweet and ineffable expressions of his deerest deepest choycest conjugal love as they never tasted nor could taste of before We know how it is with a wife married to a loving husband They loved one another before marriage and many expressions of a speciall love passed betweene them but they never enjoyed one another fully till the marriage was solemnized Then there is not only a more intimate manifestation of fervent intire loyall chaste love but a further enlarging and stretching out of mutuall affections to each other than they could possibly have beleeved they should ever have reached unto till now experience assure them of it And even thus it is between us and God Is he good in deliverances have we tasted of his love already Oh how great would his goodnesse be how full of grace mercy bountie and how would he communicate even whole rivers of all these to that Soule that would once come up to him and close with him in an everlasting Covenant All the wayes of the Lord are mercy and trueth unto such as make and keep Covenant with him Psal 25.19 3. Consider that what ever worke God calls You to 3. No buckling to the worke God calls us unto without a Covenant Yee will never buckle thoroughly to it till you have entered into Covenant with him An apprentise boy when he goes to a Master upon tryall onely his minde is now on then off againe sometimes he could like the trade by and by his minde hangs after his Mother at home or after some other course of life and he never sets close to his businesse till he be bound When once the Indentures be sealed and he enrolled he knowes there is now no more time to deliberate but he must fall to his businesse or else take what happens for his idlenesse and negligence So is it with a wife if she be but onely promised or betroathed to a man she may come to his house and cast an eye up and downe but it is rather to observe than to act she may perhaps cast out a word now and then somewhat freely also but she never sets her selfe to guide the house or to doe any thing to purpose till she be married then she careth for the things of the world that is with all possible diligence looking to 1 Cor. 7.34 and managing of the businesse of the family committed to her how she may please her husband all her thoughts care diligence run this way she makes it her busines that she must sticke unto and daily manage as a part of the marriage Covenant And thus also it will be with you You have much worke under your hands and are like to have more and I hope you desire to doe all in truth of heart for God and not for ends of your owne but let me tell you this will never be done througly till once you be marryed to him by solemne Covenant Then will you care indeed for the things of the Lord how you may please the Lord in every cause in every Answer to any Petition and in every Vote of any Bill or sentence You would then thinke when you come to manage debate vote any Question I am the Lords not mine own not my friends will this I doe stand with my Covenant will it please God will it be profitable for the State is it agreeable to Iustice and equitie Then on with it no man shall divert or take me off But till then one will intreate for his friend another for his one will make you one way another will draw you another way and they both are your friends and you know not how to deny either and thus are you even torne in peeces betweene them in so much as you sometimes resolve to be absent or to sit still and say nothing or to gratifie him that hath most power with You be the cause what it will But when once the Covenant is sealed all this will be at an end You will quickly stop your eares against all perswasions that may hinder Iustice and Reformation and when this is knowne men will soone forbeare also to trouble You with such solicitations 4. Wicked men Covenant with Hell Isay 28. Againe fourthly Wicked men sticke not at a Covenant with death and hell it selfe so they may but satisfie their Lusts though they know the end thereof will be damnation Oh then shall not we much more make a Covenant with our God to doe his will which will be beneficiall and comfortable both here and hereafter and procure a full torrent of his mercies bountie grace and eternall life to flow in upon us 5. Consider that the Devell himselfe will have a Covenant from all his vassals 5. The Devill himselfe will do no great matters for his vassals without a Covenant that expect any extraordinary matters from him else he will not be engaged to be at their Command There is not a Witch that hath the Devill at her beck but she must seale a Covenant to him sometimes with her bloud sometimes by other rites and devices and perhaps he must sucke her too as in those hellish bargaines you know they use and then he is for her during the time agreed upon And shall we think God will be so cheape as to be with reverence be it spoken at our Command to help direct assist deliver and save us who will not doe so much for him as Witches and Sorcerers will doe for the Devill