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	sin_n	sinner_n	3,410	5	7.5691	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57939	A looking-glass for England wherein is shewn God's mercies and judgments on this sinful nation; with an earnest invitation to poor sinners to repentance: wherein is set forth the great folly and madness of forsaking Christ their redeemer, and neglecting the care of their immortal souls, and setting their cares upon the vanities of this world; ... with some hints of the present judgments that now hangs over our heads, which will suddenly fall on us, if we neglect to return our thanks to almighty God for our late deliverances, and the speedy reforming of our lives. To which is added, the great joy and comfort of the godly that have harkened to the voice of the Lord, and have fasted and prayed to God for his blessings, and given thanks for all mercies received. By Robert Russel, in Sussex.	Russel, Robert, fl. 1692.	1696 (1696)	Wing R2347H; ESTC R219970	10,107	25

A Looking-glass for England Wherein is shewn God's Mercies and Judgments on this sinful Nation with an earnest Invitation to poor Sinners to Repentance wherein is set forth the great folly and madness of forsaking Christ their Redeemer and neglecting the care of their immortal Souls and setting their Cares upon the Vanities of this World with some serious Perswasions for Sinners to forsake Sin and to close with Christ Jesus that they may avoid God's Wrath that will be poured forth against them at the last Day with some Hints of the present Judgments that now hangs over our Heads which will suddenly fall on us if we neglect to return our Thanks to Almighty God for our late Deliverances and the speedy reforming of our Lives To which is added The great Joy and Comfort of the Godly that have harkened to the voice of the Lord and have Fasted and Prayed to God for his Blessings and given Thanks for all Mercies received By Robert Russel in Sussex The Childred of Issachar which were men that had understanding of the times 1 Chron. 12.32 Behold now is the accepted time c. 2 Cor. 6.2 London Printed for the Author and sold by J. Blare at the Sign of the Looking-glass on London-bridge All the small Books of this Author bound together Price 1 s. A LOOKING-GLASS FOR ENGLAND c. Jeremiah V. XXV Your Iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have witholden good things from you MY last Book I made which is intitul'd A Warning to England this Book has been so well excepted of that I have been perswaded by some of my Friends to make an Addition to it which accordingly I am about to do and through the Assistance of God I will make a short Addition and add a Second Part to England's Warning considering how the Judgments of God are abroad still among us how near we have been of late to Ruine and Destruction how our Enemies of late has been plotting the Destruction of our gracious King and His Nobles and with them the whole Nation and how wonderfully God has delivered us and brought to light all their wicked Plots and Contrivances and to consider how little Reformation there is yet wrought amongst us and how few mind the hand of God's Providence herein these Considerations hath moved me to make an Addition to my former Works and that from the same Subject which my last Book run upon Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good things from you The Doctrine which I have observed from these Words has been this That it is the Sins of a People or Nation that keeps back Mercy and hinders good Things from coming upon it from whence I shewed you First What are those good Things that Sin doth withhold from a People or Nation and they are First Spiritual good Things Secondly Temporal good Things Thirdly Natural good Things Secondly I shewed you what are those Sins that withholds good Things from us and amongst the many Sins which the Inhabitance of this Nation are guilty of I named these few which are the chief as Cursing Swearing Oppression Deceit Treachery and unjust Dealing Pride Drunkenness and neglect of Family-Duties and the Unfruitfulness under the means of Grace together with a sad profaning of the Lord's Day and not regarding those days of Fasting and Humiliation which our King and Govern●rs have been pleased to set apart for us to joyn together in wrasling with God by our Prayers and Humiliations that God might remove his Judgments from us and turn away from the fierceness of his Wrath that we perish not These things I have sufficiently wrought about and made some little Application of it and exhorted us all to repent amend and reform our Ways and Doings for the Lord's and for the King and Nation 's sake that the Lord do not break forth in Wrath against us Now what I have to write more in addition to the former Book shall be by making some further Application and there are only these two particular Uses that I shall make of it First Of Reproof Secondly Of Exhortation First I shall speak by way of Reproof these may justly come under Reproof who slight or profane those Days of Humiliation and of Thanksgiving which are published by Authority our Governers have been graciously pleased to set apart Days of Humiliation that by our earnest Prayers and humbling of ourselves we might stand in the gap and stop God's Wrath from coming forth against us and indeed it is a very great Mercy that it has pleased Almighty God to put it into the Hearts of our King and Rulers to set apart Days of Fasting and Humiliation whereby we might beseech God to remove his Judgments from us but alas how is this great Mercy slighted and contemned especially among the poorer sort many poor People I myself have seen on a Fasting-day in the Fields at work and if they are told of it they will say Why it is not Sunday and I have a Family to maintain they must have Bread to eat and I hope I may pray to God with as good a Heart that he might make the King succesful in his undertaking that God would Bless and Protect him and deliver us from our Enemies I hope I may do it with as good a Heart at my Work and God will except it as well as if I went to joyn with others in publique such Replies as these some will make just like unto those who were invited to the great Gospel-Feast Luke 14.18 19 20. Every one had his Excuse to make one had bought a peice of Ground and I must go and see that another had bought a yoke of Oxen and he must prove them and another had Married a Wife and therefore he could not come now see how the Lord was wrath against them ver 24. he resolved that none of those which were bidden should taste of his Supper so Friends it may be with you if you slight and contemn that great Good and precious Mercy that God has made our Rulers Instruments of setting apart Days of Fasting and Humiliation as a means that God may be pleased with to remove his Judgments from us I say if you thus slight and contemn this great Good and will plead Poverty and Necessity and will not spare so much time as to joyn with the Assembly of God's People and spend one Day with them in pleading with the Lord in the behalf of this sinful Nation you must not expect that God should hide you under the shadow of his Wings in times of calamity and if it please God to bless this Nation with a lasting Peace and Plenty which the Lord grant yet in respect of your own particular cases the Lord may in his Wrath justly Swear against you that you shall never be made Partakers of those Blessings and Benefits which he is pleased to bestow upon the Nation nor yet to partake of those eternal Blessings