Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	hear_v	lord_n	sin_n	15,720	5	5.7661	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80759	Light in darknesse: discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, November 24. 1647. being the day of their publick fast. / By William Carter, minister of the Gospel. Published by order from that House.	Carter, William, 1605-1658.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1648 (1648)	Wing C680; Thomason E416_29; ESTC R204499	20,093	37

upon each other and with as much eagernesse and vigor as they have against the common adversary witnesse that bitternesse and envy still amongst us and where strife and envy is sayes James 3. 16. the Apostle there is confusion and every evill work Those divisions which now hinder our proceedings would mischiefe us much more had we obtained our desires against our enemies therefore now is he forced to make delayes and carry on his work by such steps whereby to exercise his people with afflictions thereby to bring them lower to weare off such inordinate affections to fit them for the mercy when it comes Were we again in peace both from without and with our selves he sees it may be we should love the world too well therefore by lengthening out our trouble he weanes us from the world you may discern this hath a part in his delayes because a worldly spirit is a cause of our distractions were men more single hearted for God and lesse for worldly ends the businesse of the kingdome would goe on more smoothly what God intends to be removed he suffers to be cause of our afflictiōs Thus was he forced to carry Israel into Canaan by the wildernesse there to wander long suffer much when as he could have carried them a nearer way in few dayes to humble them to Deut. 8. 2. 16. prove them to doe them good in the latter end He answers us by terrible things because in Reas 4 righteousnesse he doth it By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation Such an answer David had Psalm 18. as you have heard what sayes David thereupon verse 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse according to the cleannesse of my hands hath he recompenced me With the mercifull thou wilt shew thy self mercifull with the upright man thou wilt shew thy selfe upright with the froward thou wilt shew thy selfe froward That is in hearing praier he deales with persons much according as they deale with him Three wayes he answereth us in righteousnesse by answering by terrible things First by this means in bestowing mercies he takes occasion to chastise his people for their sinnes Psal 99. 8. Thou answeredst them O Lord our God thou wast a God that forgavest them although thou tookest vengeance for their inventions A poore soule begges of God an enjoyment of himselfe in the comforts of his Spirit but it may be walketh not so close with Christ as ought to be is carelesse of his service eaten up with worldly cares and lusts God answers that petition yet so as he teaches him another lesson makes him see and feele with sorrow what it is to sinne brings him unto those enjoyments through bitter trials and afflictions What he doth in answering p●titions is a branch of the administration of the kingdome of Christ who is a righteous King A Scepter of righteousnesse is the Scepter of thy kingdome Psal 45. 6. True it is that Christ hath fully satisfied his Fathers justice for his people they are without Ephes 5. 27 spot or wrinkle in his sight therefore his afflicting them for sinne is not to fill up any satisfaction unto Gods eternall wrath that was finished upon the Crosse Col. 1. 20. but for his perfecting that work wherein he is ingaged for their good afflictions are a means whereby he trains them up and fits them for that glorious inheritance which hee hath purchas'd for them therefore this his justice in his dealings with them is founded in his love it is a Fathers justice therefore also is a part of what he answers unto their petitions Suppose a Father by a price redeems his sonne rescues him from the justice of the law that sonne is liable to his fathers justice notwithstanding is corrected by him and the rather because of his redemption Thus is it with Christ who by redemption frees us from eternall wrath yet not to live in sinne or as we list no when we are taken out of the state of nature and delivered from the curse yet are we put into a Kingdome that a righteous Kingdome there to be governed if need be to suffer too under the Scepter of our king Onely take this in by way of caution you must distinguish betwixt the justice of this Kingdome and the justice of a Creatour to his Creature and that two wayes 1. First in respect of the subject the justice of this kingdome is the justice of a Father the other of a Judge without all such ingagements A Fathers justice is a rule which he takes up in his proceedings with his children m●erly out of love to doe them good by his rewards and punishments should a father punish and reward without some rules of justice he should abuse his children and himselfe and yet a father cannot doe no not in justice that in punishing which others can lest he wrong himselfe and them yet justice notwithstanding but a fathers justice The eternall pardon stands yet God as a father hath another pardon which sometimes he will not grant unto his children Matth. 18. 35. He refused as to this worlds punishment to forgive that sinne of Moses at the waters of Meribah Numb 20. 12 13. 2. In respect of the end In the Creatours justice the end of punishments is onely the glory of the Creatours justice in which case summum jus est jus and there is no sparing therefore he stirrs up all his wrath against the wicked contends for ever with them will be alwayes wroth But in the justice of this kingdome the end of punishing is the glory of the justice of that kingdome in which the good of the person punished is included therefore Christ sometimes can have his end by sparing then he spares sometimes by lesse afflictions then he takes a lesse if not he comes with seven times Levit. 26. 24. more yet never to the full desert of any sinne Thou Psal 103. 10. hast not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our iniquities Thus I say this caution taken in the Lord in his rewards and punishments amongst his subjects deales according unto rules of justice and answers all petitions still in righteousnesse and that so as I may adde although he frees his people from eternall wrath yet in his righteous dispensations in this life he punisheth his people more severely many times than wicked persons he hath rods for them which those who are his enemies seldom or never feel afflictiōs that will not fasten on a rotten unbeleeving heart the hidings of his face woundings of the spirit with apprehensious of a fathers not displeasure seldom have we found a wicked person suffering such things as Job struck with such poysoned arrowes the poyson drinking up his spirit besides the losse of his estate and children with sharp diseases on his body or as David when hee was wounded and sore broken and roared by reason of the disquietnesse of his heart