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	lord_n	psal_n	4,045	5	7.5057	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90897	God the father glorified: and the worke of mens redemption, and salvation finished by Iesus Christ on earth. Opened in a sermon before the Right Honorable the Lord Major, and the Right Worshipful the sheriffes, aldermen, and recorder, of the Citie of London, the second day of the tenth moneth (called December) 1649. / By Vavasor Powell, a willing (though weake) labourer in Christs Vine-yard in Wales.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3087; Thomason E584_15; ESTC R206284	43,217	67

What it is to glorifie God A. You must consider that the Scriptures What it is to glorifie God speak of this under severall words and notions as sometimes it is to r Exod. 15.2 Esa 25.1 exalt the Lord sometimes it is to ſ Psal 34.3 Luke 1.46 magnifie him sometimes it is to t 1 Tim. 1.17 Heb. 2.7 honour him sometimes it is to u Psal 30.1 Dan. 4.37 extoll and advance him and all these words they are synonima's and of the same nature and signification and hold forth the same truth to us But to answer it more particularly to glorifie God is this it is to set forth God in all his excellencies or to make knowne God in all that he is and to acknowledge him in all that he doth this I say is to glorifie God to set forth God in all his excellencies thus did the Lord Jesus Christ doe ●●one did ever set out God like unto Jesus Christ God was never seen in any man as he was seen in Christ neither in any mans words or works And therefore it is said in the first of Iohn the eighteenth verse That the onely begotten son John 1.18 who is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared him John 17.26 And in this 17. Chapter and the twenty sixth verse saith Jesus Christ I have declared unto them thy name and I will declare it that the Love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them I have declared unto them thy name If you ask me what is meant there by Name I answer Name it is taken variously in Scripture sometimes for person x Acts 4.12 There is no other name given under heaven whereby we must be saved i. e. no other person Besides Christs name is also sometimes taken for for y Exod. 3.18 20.7 33.19 Psal 8.1 Gods attri-butes as his wisdome mercy goodnesse power and it is taken also for glory and excellency and here peradventure may be meant all these I have declared unto them Oh Lord thy being thy power thy properties thy grace thy goodnesse thy excellency and thy glory I have declared all these unto my people in the world Psal 76.1 And so we have the word Name in 76. I salme and the first verse In Iudah is God known his name is great in Israel that is his power is great his glory is great his renowne and dignity is great in Israel amongst his owne people of any other there the Lord is more specially present and more clearely known Exod. 23.21 So the Lord in the 23. of Exodus and the 21. ver bids the Israelites fear the Angel that he sent before them beware of him saith he and obey his voyce provoke him not for he will not pardon your transgression for my Name is in him This Angell was Christ this name that was in him was his fathers honour power and glory well thus you heare the first thing opened Q. The second thing to be opened is this How did Iesus Christ glorifie his father or glorifie God For he saith I have glorified thee upon earth A. Three wayes Jesus Christ glorified him upon earth for that 's the thing I am to speak of How Christ glorified God and not how he glorifies him in heaven I say three wayes he glrorified him negatively positively and passively First negatively Jesus Christ did glorifie his father these two wayes negatively 1. In that he did not sinne for as sin is z Rom. 2.23 a dishonour unto God so non-sinning is an honour unto God Jesus Christ did glorifie his father very much in this he did never sinne against him no Christ did not sinne he did never commit the least evill The Apostle Peter a 1 Pet. 2.21 saith he did no sinne neither was there guile found in his mouth not the least fraud not the least vaine word not the least hypocrisie found in Jesus Christ and this did tend much to glorifie God his father 2. Iesus Christ did glorifie his father negatively thus by denying himselfe Christ did not seek himselfe by not seeking himselfe and this is a speciall way to glorifie God and this speciall way did Christ glorifie him John 8.50 as you may finde in the eigth of Iohn and the fifty verse I seek not my owne glory there is one that seeketh and judgeth hete he denies his owne glory So you finde when the people would have made him a King he b John 6.15 would not be made a King he knew that his father was God and King and did he deny himselfe and this did tend much to the glory of God As a child when hee is bare-headed and silent before his father Vide Heb. 5.5 when hee reverenceth and respects his Father and does nothing but what he commands and seeks nothing but what he gives him you know the child thereby honours his Father thus did the Lord Iesus Christ doe and that 's the first way negatively The second way he glorified God Second way was positively and this he did also two wayes By his words and by his works First by his words namely by his preaching Christ glorified his Father by his words by his preaching by his praying and by his confession he did glorifie God mightily by his preaching when the people heard him they wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth and it s said he or God in him c Luke 4.15 By his Prayer was glorified of all Then by his prayer he glorified God d John 12.28 Glorifiethy name in one place e Mat. 26.39 By his confession and not my will but thine in another place thus his prayer tended to glorifie God His confession also did glorifie him f John 10.29 and 14.28 My Father saith he is greater then I g John 5.19.30 againe I can doe nothing of my selfe but the works that my Father doth those doe I thus by his words he glorified him Then by his works he did glorifie God very much and I pray note this that when Christ wrought miracles by the power of his Father the people did wonder and give glory to God You have this eight times at least in the New Testament I shall onely give you two texts h Matt. 9.8 15.31 Mark 2.12 Luke 7.16 13.13 17.15 23.47 the first is in the ninth of Matthew the eigth verse when the multitude saw it they marvelled and glorified God So when they saw how Christ cured the man sick of the Palsie it s said they glorified God These great and mighty works that Iesus Christ did upon earth they had a tendency in them to exalt and glorifie the Lord and this is the second way Iesus Christ glorified his Father The third way was passively that is Third way by his sufferings Christ glorified his Father I say he glosied him by his sufferings as