Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	goodness_n	great_a	sin_n	6,173	5	4.6117	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19372	Foure sermons whereof two, preached at two assizes, this present yeare, 1638. at Maidestone in Kent, the other two, in his own charge. By Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1639 (1639)	STC 58; ESTC S100378	53,626	193

that ye doe not this day wilfully sinne against his judgement and so I turne to the children of Israel and the children of Ammon and their cause The children of Israel are 2. 3. The parties Iudged and their cause here in full colours something like Adam in innocency making all the beasts before them to tremble They have 1 The children of Israel all the advantage of lawes libertie Judges of Israel and the Lord the Judge looking upon their cases You are not Israelites according Though wronged to the flesh yet God prevailed with for abundance of blessings upon you Notwithstanding some of you have been feared in your lives some of you have beene spoyled in your goods some of you have beene hurt in your names Must get the Lord to judge some of you have beene disquieted in your possessions some of you have beene battered in your members and in this onely different from the children of Israel heere As you have the Lord the Judge let the Lord the Judge judge for you in the judgements of men When Hezekiah received a blasphemous letter from By declining revenge 2 King 19. 14. proud Senacherib hee went to the temple and spread it before the Lord hee thus appealed to this great Judge you are now as in the temple even so doe you Shew God your cause with honest hearts and seeke and receive judgements as from him How gloriously will this worke it will make you proceede not in the lust Non Libidine unidictae sed amore justitiae of revenge which God hates but in the love of justice which God loves you have the sword of justice in your hands upon the best termes and in truth Christ saith for you sell a garment and buy a Luk. 22. 39. sword But heare how an ancient worthy meditated upon that text O Lord why dost Ambr. in Lucam thou bid me buy a sword forbiddest mee to strike with it Surely it is for just defence not for revenge Thou hast shewed me that I could revenge but I will not of conscience to thy command Even so doe you So be it Love law love justice love peace love truth but Rom. 12. vengeance is mine saith the Lord the Judge Philosophers say that seeing is the noblest sense if not for discipline yet for generall use because it suffers not by contrary objects It can looke upon blacke and white without an appetite of revenge on either Why should it not bee thus with Christians who are better enlightened by him who is all eye If your annoyances bee great let the Lord the Judge judge by his Iphtahs liefetenants and deputies and rest in that without the picklocks of new vexations But if they be lesse cloy no● surfet not the honorable bench Is there not a wise man amongst you shall the pillars 1 Cor. 6. of the earth weare themselves out in bruising dust small when there are mountaines enough to levell God forbid If you and your causes are such the Lord the Judge will not judge for you at last But for the children of Ammon 2 The Children of Ammon where are they It is pitty they have not a ring in some place of this crowne that the word may fall upon them like raine upon the dry ground They are peeping out of their gates thinking this time too short which haply some of you do think too long I can say nothing to them because absent yet give mee leave to speake a word of them against them for them This be spoken of 1 Of them them They are such as love not the law Though let the Vivat Rex currat Lex King live and the law runne be the good subjects prayer yet the old law Iulia could not please adulterers nor the law Cornelia murtherers nor the law Rhemnia promoters so nor our lawes can please those wicked Belialists Their blisters must bee let out This bee spoken against 2 Against them Ne sint pedes nimium lanei ne tandem manus fint nimium ferreae them They have lived in this blessed Church where they might have beene better taught or if they have beene taught where they have unlearned many a good lesson If the ministery can doe no good the magistrate must take the care Let not your feet bee too much made of wooll least at last your hands bee made of two much yron Magistrates and ministers are compared to the teeth Some are Cutters which cut the meat and Incisores forme the voyce these are like ministers who convince Tit. 1 13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Molares cuttingly Some are grinders which bruise the meate and fit it for passage these are like magistrates who by justice bruise the sonnes of wickednesse in peeces and send them downe into the draffe of the world Neither let it grieve you to be so compared seeing Christ is called the Rock of offence that breaks them in peeces on whom hee falls This lastly bee spoken for 3 For them them They are subjects though bad ones for else the law could not fall on them And though they have made themselves of christians in name Barbarians indeede in particular acts yet are they of two sorts Some are misled Errones Turbones and some are misleaders some are apprentices to sinne some monsters in that blacke art Now doe but consider how For mercy of Gods making carefull the Lord the Judge is least he slay with the wicked the righteous who are so either in present act or under charitable hope If he worke a worke of mercy hee delighteth in mercy if a worke of Mic. 7. 18. justice hee calleth it a strange worke because hee shaves with Esa 26. 21 a razor that is hired if he had no justice of his owne If he Esa 7. 20. be to work a worke of justice he is slow to anger comes to Exod. 34. it when there is no remedy but if a worke of mercy he is rich Chro. 36. 15. in mercy abundant in goodnesse If he looke upon occasions it is a great matter that mooves his justice when the sinnes of the Amorites are at the full Gen. 15. 16. when all flesh had corrupted her waies and the wickednesse Gen. 6. 5. of man was great in the earth when old and young even all the people from every quarter Gen. 19. 4 were given to sinne but a small matter mooves him to shew mercy If there be but tenne men in Sodom If Gen. 18. there bee but one Iacob in the house of Laban one Moses praying for Israel one Phinehas executing judgement and one man in Ierusalem Ier. 5. 1. that seekes the truth hee will spare multitudes So doe you and prosper when it is fit God is well pleased if you follow his owne sonne who excused his disciples in some infirmities saying their spirit is willing their Mat. 26. 41. Eph. 5.