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
A90065	A sermon, tending to set forth the right vse of the disasters that befall our armies. Preached before the honourable houses of Parliament, at a fast specially set apart upon occasion of that which befell the army in the west. In Margarets Westminster, Sept. 12. Anno 1644. / By Matthew Newcomen, Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex.	Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing N913; Thomason E16_1; ESTC R18134	39,055	48

not only have fasted but have starved not only have shed Teares but Bloud all this should never have prevailed with God to relent any thing at all towards him or reverse one Tittle of the wrath denounced against him we would have thought so had not God left the contrary upon record in his holy word to teach us That his thoughts are not as our thoughts nor his wayes as our wayes Therefore the word of the Lord came to Elijah saying Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me because Ahab humbleth himselfe before me I will not bring the evill in his dayes Let all the earth now keep silence before the Lord and after so manifest a proofe of Gods regard to Humiliation even in an Ahab let sinfull dust and ashes never murmure more nor dare to say What profit is it that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts Mal. 3.14 Application Now what shall we say to this Shall England that hath more Strugglings in her wombe then Rebekah had say as she If it be thus why am I thus If it be thus as we have heard that God doth vouchsafe so gratious a tender regard unto the Humiliations of his people Why am I thus Why am I yet after so many Dayes of monethly and other occasionall Humiliations a Stage of warre a Field of Bloud Hath God forgotten to bee gratious or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies Is his Mercie cleane gone or doth his Promise faile for evermore Hath not the Lord promised 2 Chron. 7.14 If my People which is called by my Name shall humble themselves and pray and seeke my face and turne from their evill wayes then will I heare from Heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heale their Land And againe Levit. 26.42 43. c. If they shall confesse their iniquity and the iniquity of their fore-fathers c. and if then their uncircumcised heart be humbled and they then accept the punishment of their iniquitie then will I remember the land Now what shall we say hath God forgotten to be gratious was God gratious not only to Joshua and the Elders when they humbled themselves but to Rehoboam and his Princes when they humbled themselves Nay even to Ahab when he humbled himselfe and will not the Lord be gratious unto us Hath God promised that if his people humble themselves and pray and seek his face he will forgive and heale and doth his Promise now faile God forbid we should thus thinke or speake the failing is on our part not on Gods we faile in that which God hath made these Promises and usually beares this Tender regard unto We are not humbled we are not humbled we are not humbled After two yeares of extraordinary judgements and three yeares of extraordinary Meanes and Dayes of Humiliation we remaine an unhumbled people where can we finde the Evidences of such a Humiliation as was here in Joshua or such as was in Rehoboam or such as was in Ahab or such as was in Nineveh Oh England thou hast destroyed thy selfe thou hast destroyed thy selfe even with a double destruction Thou hast destroyed thy selfe Once by thy sinnes thy ancient idolatries and persecutions Thy late Apostacies Superstitions Oppositions to the Power of godlinesse hating to be reformed c. these have called the destroying sword upon thee Thou hast destroyed thy selfe by these a first time And a second time thou hast destroyed thy selfe by thy unhumblednesse and impenitencie under the present judgement Thy sins began thy not being humbled perfects thy destruction I am as confident as confidence it selfe can make me for I have Scripture for it that if England were humbled England should be healed God would say unto his sword that now devoures Returne unto thy place Rest and be still Nay though All England were not humbled yet if King and Parliament were but humbled the Breach between King and Parliament yea betweene God and the King between God and the Kingdome should be healed God would be reconciled to King Parliament and Kingdome and God would reconcile King Parliament and Kingdome one unto another if King and Parliament were but humbled and things should yet goe well in England That Example of Rehoboam and the Princes of Judah induceth me thus to thinke Nay if the Parliament were but humbled if you Lords and Gentlemen were but humbled I durst promise that things should yet goe well in England God would prosper your Counsels your Armies things should succeed in all according to your minde if you were humbled according to the minde of God This sad blow whereby God hath called you to his foot this day even in your owne understandings speakes thus much that God would have you even you be more humbled then yet you have been The Lord sanctifie it and blesse it that it may produce such and such a measure of Humiliation in you and in us all as that for time to come our gratious God be no more enforced to use such severe wayes to breake our hearts and humble us I come now to that which God gave notice of to Joshua in these words Israel hath sinned and hath also transgressed my Covenant wherein you may please to consider first the thing that God gives Joshua notice of Secondly the Manner how God gives Joshua notice of it The thing that God gives Joshua notice of is Sinne Haec Thesis Israel deliquit sic quasi per gradus amplificatur graviter deliquit Israel nam quod nuper jusserānō observarant fecerūt enim nonnullas reliquas res quas perdidisse oportuit quod gravius est non reliquat modo fecerunt sed sibi usurparint tum quod majus est flagitiū surtine usurparunt ad haec mēdaciis insuper ●allere conati sunt Denique quod malorū est extremū obsirmarunt animū rebus subtractis in suum suppellectilem relatis Mas in loc Israel had sinned The Manner of Gods giving Joshua notice of it is first by way of gradation God first in the generall tels him Israel hath sinned Then secondly descends a little neerer to the Nature of the sinne And they have also transgressed my Covenant And then thirdly instances the particular sinne And they have taken of the accursed thing and have also stolne Then fourthly follow the aggravations of the sinne And they have dissembled also and they have put it even amongst their owne Stuffe Or if you please you may consider in the words 1 Gods Charge against Israel and 2 the Amplification of it The Charge it selfe is this Israel hath sinned The Amplification is in severall particulars First their sinne was a breach of Covenant They have also transgressed my Covenant Secondly this breach of Covenant was in an accursed thing For they have taken of the accursed thing Thirdly this breach of Covenant in the accursed thing it was a Theft And they have also stollen Fourthly they have added Lying to their Theft They have also