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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93050	A broken heart, or The grand sacrifice. As it was laid out in a sermon preached at St. Maries in Beverley, in the East-riding of the county of Yorke, upon the monthly fast-day in Christmas-weeke, being Decemb. 28. 1642. By John Shawe, pastor of the church at Rotherham in the same county.	Shawe, John, 1608-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing S3027; Thomason E95_13; ESTC R12113	25,506	45

man and outward man body and soule inside and outside now the soule or inside according to its severall relations or Offices is called by severall names from its nature is called a spirit from its principall seate the heart from its enlivening the body the soule from one maine Office the conscience yet one and the same soule as one man is both Father Master Husband yet the same Man for I take not the spirit for the purer and more spirituall part of the soule viz. The understanding and the heart for the lower part or affections as some are pleased to speak Q. 2. How mans soule is said to be broken and contrite Ans This phrase implies two things First that by nature our hearts are flinty stony rocky hard need breaking such are we such are our Children by nature Ezek 11. 19. Secondly that our soules might be softned melted made contrite which consists mainely in five things First conviction when by the word outwardwardly and spirit inwardly God convinceth the soule of its corruption by natures cursed estate sinfull life perhaps at first chargeth the soule with some maine principall sin as here to David so with unchastity to Woman of Canaan Ioh. 4. 18. With persecution to Paul Acts 9. 4. And afterwards chargeth a whole swarme of sins of which he never dreamed himselfe guilty Rom. 7. 9. And cries with Nathan here thou art the man now he sees his money is but brasse he is not so good as he dreamed of before aske him are you a sinner yes God have mercy upon us we are all sinners why have you broken the Law or Gospell Else you have not sinned now come to particulars aske him have you broken the first Commandement no I am no Atheist have you broke the second No I am no Papist have you broken the third No all the Parish knowes I am no swearer have you broken the fourth No all my Neighbours know I am a good Church-man have you broken the fifth no I am as dutifull a Child as lives and so of the rest Come to the Gospell doe you believe yes and ever have ever since I was borne else pitty I should live and so indeed glories that he hath not sinned but now when God sets the spirituall part of the Law and his sins in order and danger before his face now he holds up his hands before Gods Bar and cries guilty Lord guilty every word hits a thumpe on his heart and he cries Oh! I have been a vile Traitor and Rebell against Heaven Acts 2. Strikes him dead Rom. 7. 9. 2. Soule afflication not onely conscience is convinced but his heart is pricked vexed afflicted Lev. 23 27. what law saith outwardly spirit of bondage fastens it close to the heart inwardly Rom. 8. 15. Pricked and pierced in heart Acts 2. 37 Cries out oh damned I feare damned Acts. 16. 30. What shall I doe is there no balme in Gilead The soule throbs and cries Oh what a foole was I What a good God have I angred what a sweete Christ abused what a pretious soule have I defiled What feareful danger have I incurr'd c. 3. Soule shaming smites upon his thigh Ier. 31. 19. How mad was I to trade and tug in these Brick kills of Egypt and preferre the puddles of Damaseus before silver streams of Iordan ashamed with Daniel c. 9 7. Blush with Ezra c. 9. 5. Confounded in himselfe with prodigall Lu. 15. 21. Grieved exceedingly Zach. 12. 10 11. 4. Soule hating and leaving sin or leaving it with hatred Many leave and part with their sins Phaltiel parted with his Wife Michol formerly maried to David when David sent for her be left her for feare of being killed by Abner but his teares at parting argued he did not loath her 2 Sam. 3. 16. Or as mariners in a storme cast their goods into the sea for feare but hate them not but now he lookes upon his lusts as a very death Rom. 7. 24. Casts them away with detestation Isa 30. 22. Ezek. 7. 16. Yee loath themselves for them Ezech. 20. 43. yea part with them non cum animo revertendi Hos 14. 8. 2 Cor. 7. 11. 5 Soule humility A lowlinesse in his owne eyes shall ever I be proud and puft up that have had such a heart such treachery against the King of Heaven when ever proud flesh ariseth his owne vilenesse keeps him low downe proud heart what thou proud that hast done thus and thus against thy good God Job 7. 20. 42. 5 6. Gen. 18. 27. thus that Manohester Saint and Martyr Bradford closeth up his sweet Letters miserrimus peccator a very hypocrite Iohn Bradford thus Saint Bernard quasi quoddam monstruminter filios hominum Sto. Thus Saint Paul lesse then the least of Saints the Centurion unworthy to come under thy roofe John Baptist unworthie to untie the latchet of his shoes thus Prodigall unworthy to be called thy servant c. Isa 57. 15. This short inch of time enforceth me to passe by the reasons which I had gleaned to assert this truth hoping at this time you will take God on his bare word and so I with what haste I can post to the Uses which are like to Moses Arke from within and before which let me now draw out to you 1 Aarons Rod of reproofe 2. The Pot of Manna 3. The two Tables And first of the last the Tables of direction Vse 1. These Tables plainly shew us what a heart every of us hath by nature viz. hard stony flinty needs melting grinding hewing unsensible inflexible compared to a stone that drops melt not to a dead man whom words move not Eph. 2. 1. Ezech. 11. 19. Aske your servant or child when you come from Church where was the Text what was the Sermon they scratch but not a word you would wonder how they could so quite forget it or how those flocks of divels that follow the hearer as birds the sower have stollen all Luke 8. 5. Let this Servant goe to Market aske him how this or that graine or goods sold what newes aske him of some play or shew he tels you a very ready tale oh the flinty mind to saving truths Offer a man 1000 pound a yeere to this or that convenient thing threaten him with great fines imprisonments death oh he strats runs shrinkes c. tell him of eternall glory in Heaven besides a hundredfold gaine here or of eternall garboiles and flames in Hell besides a hundredfold losse here all these never startle never move him oh the rockie heart to saving good such are you such thine by nature c. 2. This Table would have directed us in trying of our selves whether we were ever broken hearted or not and in this Table I had thought to have mentioned foure searching signes and trials but having much before me I must be faine at present to reprive this Vse 2. I come next then to the pot of Manna and it will helpe us the way

to sin that unpardonable sin against Holy Ghost Matth. 12. 31 32. 1 Iohn 5. 16. Or 2. that God sweare against us in his wrath and give us up to our owne hearts lusts Rom. 1. Psal 81. 12. Ioh. 12. 40. If God say let never grace grow on thee while world lasteth as Mark. 11. 14. Or 3. If death any one way of a thousand quolibet momento mille moriendi modi come and seize on thee thou art eternally undone thou hast supped sure Farewel God Heaven hope for ever and for want of hope thy heart may breake Let this danger worke upon thee ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas Thus the Law will be a means to break our hard hearts Thirdly A third means is melting Gospel the consideration what Christ hath done and suffered for thee so vile a wretch tendred to thee so unworthy a worme this Feather bed breakes some flints more then hammer of Law thus did it to the prodigall Luk. 15. I remember a Story in our Chronicles the place I cannot cite not having bookes of a poore Cobler that sometimes lived in London neere a very rich honest Merchant the Merchant was so exceeding kind to the Cobler that he wanted neither money gold cloths meate any thing but the Merchant helped him told him that he should never want any thing which he had ere long dayes of persecution for the Gospel came on and who was the main man to accuse and persecute the rich Merchant endanger both his life and fortune but this Cobler yet so it pleased God the Merchant escaped afterwards the Cobler would never meet the Merchant but ran to the other side of street or turnd back whē he came neere him but in a strait lane one day the Merchant purposely met him and sayes I freely forgive thee all the wrong you have done me I will never thinke worse of thee come to me at any time and I will afford thee any help or meanes I can at which kindnesse the Cobler falls downe almost baptized againe in his owne teares was so overcome with this free mercy that it broke and melted him into as loving and dutifull a poore Neighbour as lived Oh! Jesus Christ hath laid downe his life for us wretches Tendred to us Gospell Heaven c. Yet we by our sinnes shew this Christ brought upon him unspeakable sufferings persecuted him in his members proved false with him in the covenant c. Yet he followes us to our doores consciences with free mercy promising both to forgive Exodus 34. 7. And to forget what hath beene amisse Ier. 31. 34. And Mica 7. 18. And to helpe us for this life for next for body soule grace and glory Oh let all this kindnesse melt us let all this goodnesse winne us to Repentance Rom. 2. 4. As Jer. 3. 22. When the Jewes had fouly fallen and againe back sliden and still God calls and runs after them with mercy Oh this melts them and they cry out Oh Lord behold we come to thee for thou art the Lord our God Such a melting glory Ruffin tells of Saint Iohn the Evangelist towards a yong man fallen away but I hasten c. Goates Milke breakes this Adamant c. Fourthly meanes to breake our hearts is the consideration of Gods Workes even these may helpe us this way 2 Chron. 33. 12. Psalme 119. 71. Luke 15. 16 17. And because this is Verbum diei most suitable to the present times lend me somuch patience as a little to enlarge it in some particular considerations relating to our owne case and here consider 1. What great mercies England hath had mercies positive great peace great plenty great store of Gospell comparative mercies give mee leave so to speake great peace Gospel and plenty then any other Nation in the World since the first light darted from above Before the fall of Adam he had never that great mercy of Christ to dye c. having no sinne needed no Saviour he had a covenant of workes we of grace he as the Angels now justified by inherent righteousnesse though then no merit we by the Righteousnesse of another impured 2. From the fall of Adam till Christ the Church was in its swadling cloths under darke types and shadowes Moses's padagogie but now the Vaile is rent Types fulfilled Christ is come and all things cleared 3. After Christ during Primitive times what raging ten Persecutions many hundred Christians sluine every day in the yeare save the first day of Ianuary And what hellish heresies did the Dragon belch up Especially foure that occasioned foure generall Councells 4. Since then how hath God cleared up the Gospell in these parts and for peace admirable It s thought worthy the Registring in Scripture that twice the I●wes had peace and rest forty yeares Iudg. 3. 11. 5. 31. But once for a wonder it s Chronicled that Gods Church had peace eighty yeares together Iudg 3. 30 But we beyond them above eighty yeares peace our fore-fathers would have given whole Cart-leads of Hay and Corne in King Henry the eighth his time for a few Chapters of St. Matthews Gospel or St. Iames's Epistle yea Bibles in English not permitted yea latter in the beginning of that Virgin Queene Elizabeths Raigne we have heard such a man was one of the third or fourth Preachers in the shire now more good Sermons in one City in a moneth then was in all England in a yeare and for plenty admired by our friends envied by our enemies tell me of any Nation in all points the like Et eris mihi magnus Apollo Nay let me adde superlative mercies above all mens expectation who would have said Gen. 21. 7. That Sarah should give suck so who would have said three yeares agoe that we should have a Parliament a trienniall Parliament and that not to be broken up without mutual consent c. Who would have said such great things should be done or endeavoured thereby Nay mercies above the ordinary course of Gods providence and dealing with others a promise in the Bible we have such naturall sinnes for which God plagued and threatned other Nations yet we exempted by speciall prerogative as a godly Divine said well Nay mercies above all the plots of devill and devillish men have wee not had formerly and lately against us French plots Spanish plots Irish plots English plots and a plot a plot a plot and still a plot yet God hath soared us above all as on Eagles wings Adde to these also privative mercies hath not God delivered us from heathenisme when this poore Iland worshipped every severall day a severall God the Moone on Munday Tuisco on Tuesday c. But God delivered us after this came Egyptian darknesse of Popery but God gave the beast a blow in King Henry the eighth his time brought him on all foure in King Edward the sixth time gave him a deadly blow in famous Queene Elizabeths dayes and still more and more doth and I