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
A52574	New-Englands duty and interest to be an habitation of justice and mountain of holiness containing doctrine, caution, & comfort : with something relating to the restaurations, reformations, and benedictions promised to the church and world in the latter dayes : with grounds of hope, that America in general & New-England in particular may may have a part therein : preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, at the anniversary election, May 25, 1698 / by Nicholas Noyes ...	Noyes, Nicholas, 1647-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing N1461; ESTC R16814	53,865	112

shall be saved Psal 80.18 19. And I will yet add a word or two which I would preface as John doth 1 John cap 2. v. 1. These things I write unto you that ye sin not What I am about to speak I speak that New-England sin not yet if it should so come to pass that New England should yet be more sinful more miserable than now it is which God prevent for his Mercys sake which endureth for ever yet there is Scripture ground to hope that after God had vindicated his Holiness by sore punishments on us God would again restore reform and bless New-England and have a name and a praise to himself in the Wilderness of the Posterity of his People If any should say yet What is become of the Asian African and Europaean Churches that are long since desolated I would give these two Answers 1. That is become of them that should make New-England fear and tremble and beware of Idolatry Superstition Prophaneness and Unrighteousness and Remember from whence they are fallen and do their first works We should cry mightily to God to pardon our sins past and to reform all amiss and prevent our farther declension that his Jealousie burn not like fire against us as it has done against them 2. I would also say that we ought not to entertain such desperate conclusions as if all places that have been Eminent for the Christian Religion and are now degen●rate and in most ruinous circumstances are utterly forsaken of God We ought as well to think what God will yet do for them as well as what he has done against them I shall not easily be brought to believe that God has taken his last leave of the fore-mentioned places I think I have prov'd the contrary already and that God will again restore reform and bless them And for the same Reasons I believe that God will Glorifie his Mercy in America as well as his Justice Jealousie and Severity For the Earth is full of the Lords Mercy Psal 119. v. 64. and his tender Mercies are over all his works Psal 145.10 And all his works shall praise him in all places of his dominion Psal 103.22 I pretend to nothing singular in all this I believe some monitory Expressions of men much better than my self have been wrested beyond their Intention and that hath past for their Opinion which only was intended by way of Admonition and that the same persons hope better things concerning New-England things that accompany Salvation even Restauration Reformation and Benediction and I believe that they are as good Friends to New-England as any in the Land and daily pray that this Land may be as much yea more than ever it was An Habitation of Justice and Mountain of Holiness Thus much of the Doctrines in general Suffer me a word or two more relating to the occasion of the day and I 'le not abuse your patience any longer We have felt the Rebukes of God on our Liberties and Priviledges and Government as well as on other things God has broken the Pride or Excellency of New Englands Power Our Liberties and Priviledges are not just the same that sometime they have been although it be better with us still in those respects than we deserve And if things are not just as we would have them be yet they are just as God and the King would have them be which I hope will quiet the minds of all good men and good Subjects And if we shall again find favour in the sight of God and the King it may perhaps be some time or other better with us than it is or ever was However it is our Duty and Interest to make the best and most of our present Liberties and Priviledges Thanks be to God and the King our Houses Lands are our own without every mans being at the Cost of a Charter and yet we have the liberty of our Religion and the free Exercise of it without subscribing to new articles of Faith Worship or Discipline which is a great favour of God if we have wisdom and grace to improve it rightly and men do not interpret this liberty perversely and use it for an Occasion to the flesh and think they may cast off the Publick Worship Prophane the Sabbaths neglect the Ordinances and think to do what is right in their own eyes though they confound all Religion Peace and Order If any should so think and act I hope they will find themselves mistaken for the true notion of Liberty of Conscience is liberty to lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty without restraint from the Government or popular confusion and disturbance In maxima Libertate est minima Licentia The Government also is in a good measure Elective on the peoples part and so far as it is so may be very beneficial if conscientiously and discreetly managed we may if we please and certainly ought to Choose such Representatives as fear God honour the King love the brotherhood and will be true to the best Interest of all the people both in Spirituals and Temporals And if we so do the Counsellors will be chosen by the wisest and best amongst us yea by our selves in proxy and consequently we shall be greatly to blame if we have not Counsellors as able and faithful to promote holiness and righteousness as any in the Land Election being the work of the day I will venture to say a word of it It is Essential to Election to be free free from Compulsion Nundination and Faction And such ought to be chosen as excel in Piety Probity and Prudence and so far as will consist with our Circumstances of good Extract Erudition and Estate furnisht well for the Service of God and the King and their Generation according to the will of God And although the Governour and Lieutenant Governour are not chosen by our selves yet we have the Consolation and Satisfaction that they are chosen by the best King upon Earth Who never yet gave us cause to complain in that matter but to rejoyce in his Royal Wisdom and Goodness and Paternal Care So making the Apostles direction easy to submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as sent by him for the punishment of Evil doers and the praise of them that do well And now if I should presume a little farther and offer a few things in particular to such Honorable and Worshipful Persons as are or shall be called to be the Rulers of this People I hope it would be acceptable to your Honours if it should be so it would be but according to your wonted Candor And although you need not my direction you will gladly be minded of what you already know to be your duty and of your pious disposition are willing to do Though your Honours are the Rulers of this people yet you as well as we are the Servants of our God