Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	grace_n	work_n	6,662	5	5.6625	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09529	The young man's remembrancer, and Youth's best choice: being an exhortation to conversion, in two anniversary discourses from Eccl. xii. I.	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1700 (1700)	Wing M1563A; ESTC R180504	46,254	164

of you was made in the Image of God every one though the Moral Image of God is blotted out by the Fall that Image that consisted in Righteousness and Holiness that is lost yet there is a Natural Image of God which is seated in the Intellective and Elective Powers of the Soul and this every one of you hath this Image every one brings into the World with him it cannot be lost it shall be carried to Heaven and Life and to Hell too It will be the Comfort of Saints in Heaven and the Torment of Sinners in Hell to lye there with this Image of God there their Mind Understanding Memory to Consider and Remember how they Sinned against this God in their Lives Now why has God stamped every one with his Image but to make him capable of Knowing God and Chusing God and Loving God and Closing with God and Desiring God and Serving God and Injoying Communion with God This is the End why he put his Natural Image into every Soul otherwise Man might have Served God as Brute Creatures do but he could never have known him never have had Communion with him Now shall we bear this Image of God and shall we not labour to know the Lord Secondly Remember him so as to make it the Chief Business of your Lives to seek him and to Seek him while he may be found It is the Counsel of the Holy Ghost Seek the Lord while he may be found VVhen is that He tells you Prov. 8.17 They that seek me early shall find me Now he seeks God early that makes it his first Work therefore says our Lord Seek first the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof and all these things shall be added to you Mat. 6.33 Seek the Kingdom of God as the End and his Righteousness as the Means for Grace is the way to Glory Holiness to Happiness Without Righteousness there is no Heaven to be had but with it comes both Heaven and Earth too for Godliness hath the Promise of both Lives both that which is now and that which is to come But this Kingdom must be first sought First seek the Kingdom of God first before every thing and first above any thing else Our Interest in God is lost by the Fall it may be recovered and there is nothing so useful to be sought and secured as that Is not the Life more than Meat and the Body than Raiment Says Christ So say is not Heaven more than Earth Is not God better than the VVorldi and Spiritual Blessings better than Temporal O therefore let not the Lean Kine devour the Fat nor the things of the VVorld shut God and Christ out of our Hearts and Thoughts The Spiritual Blessings are the best therefore God Promises them first He will give Grace and Glory Psal 84.11 There be Spiritual Blessings and he will withhold no good thing from them that walk uprightly there follow Temporals God suits his Mercies to our Necessity therefore he gives them first that we need most This should direct our Duties and teach us what to Beg and what to Seek Seek God in the the first place God in Christ and and if Spiritual Mercies be secured Temporal Mercies so far as is for your good shall never be denied Therefore let it be your VVork to seek God before all above all and more than all for he is all in all But be sure to seek him in Christ or I tell you you will never find him nor find acceptance with him Since the Fall God is not to be found but only by a Mediator He that finds me saith Christ findeth Life and shall obtain favour of the Lord Prov. 8.33 O get an Interest in Christ of all things Young Ones get an Interest in Christ a hearty Closing with Christ a Saving Faith in Christ this is the right way of Remembring your Creator Remember him so as to Obey him and Live to him that is the Sence of the Apostle's Counsel 1 Pet. 4.19 Commit your Souls to him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator it must be in well-doing He hath promised Eternal Life to them who seek him by Patient continuance in well-doing Rom. 2.7 And therefore let me add this as you must Remember him first so you must Remember him to the Last Pray take that and I will have done As you must remember God first so you must remember him to the last You must begin with God and you must end with him O take heed of beginning in the Spirit and ending in the Flesh You Read in the 20th of Matthew that the Labourers came to VVork in the Vineyard at very different Hours Some came Early in the Morning some at the Third Hour some at the Sixth some at the Ninth Hour and some at the Eleventh Some came in Earlier and some Later they did not all come in in the Morning Ay but they all tarried till the Evening they all Laboured till the Evening It is the VVise Man's Counsel and O that God would help you to take it In the Morning Sow thy Seed and in the Evening hold not back thine Hand Eccles 11.6 My Brethren God must have the Duty of the whole Day of your Life Christ says so I must work the Work of him that sent me while it is Day Christ never spent one Hour of his Day Idlely The Lord Pity Young Ones How do they Idle away their Time God must have the Duty of the whole Day for as we are here in the Text called to seek him Early so we are commanded to seek him continually 1 Chron. 28.7 God is Alpha and Omega the beginning and the Ending therefore as we are to begin with him first so we are to hold on with him to the last For he that indures to the end shall be saved Be thou faithful to the Death and I will give thee a Crown of Life Rev. 2.10 Now I might urge this Duty upon you which is so great by many Arguments From what God is to us our Creator From the Command laid upon thee to Remember him as such From what he deserves of us For of him and through him and to him are all things therefore Glory should be to him for ever Rom. 11.32 But I shall urge but this one Motive and I have done The Present Time is only thine thou hast a great Work to do a God to remember a Christ to seek Sin to kill Grace to get a Heaven to mind a Hell to avoid a Soul to save a strict Day of Judgment to pass through O what work have we to do And all the Time we have to do it in is but Now The Present Season is only thine thy Days are here limited and bounded in the Text to a Present now Now in the Days of thy Youth What Fools are Young Ones now to say by the Grace of God I intend to Repent hereafter and I will seek after God hereafter I am too Young now when God