Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	jesus_n	sin_n	sinner_n	3,659	5	7.4408	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40953	Truth ascended, or, The annointed and sealed of God defended in an answer written by Richard Farnsworth as a testimony against a conterfeit commission and all injustice and false judgement done and pronounced under pretence of the same.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1663 (1663)	Wing F511; ESTC R37783	25,146	33

altogether just they were commanded to follow Deut. 16.20 But thou dost not so 1. Consider then that thou hast not only done injustice both in the eye of the Law and of the Lord but also thou hast done the same by colour of office First in the eye of the Law thou hast done it because thou presumes to pass the sentence of Death upon the bodies of men and women as a pretended Judge and hast no certain outward known Laws as a rule of Direction to guide thee in the ways of right Justice to give judgement upon them nor can produce no commission to put any known Law in execution or impower thee so to do and are therefore no competent Judge in that matter And secondly injustice in the eye of the Lord thou hast done and also by colour of office under pretence of chief Judge in the world and by a pretended commission of the Spirit pretended to be received from a God without thee that spake thou saist by voice of words to the hearing of the ear 2. Consider the nature of thy offence how far it extends it self and that is to pass the sentence of eternal death and damnation both upon the bodyes and souls of men and women and that to Eternity 3. Consider that thy injustice done by colour of office deserves to have a punishment proportionable to the offence and can the offence in the eye of the Lord be any less then sin against the Holy Ghost because thou hast pretended to do it in the Name of the Holy Ghost and so wouldst make the holy Ghost the Author of thy offence which it is not And seeing thou art guilty of sin against the holy Ghost there is a punishment already proportioned for such an offence and also thou art punishable by the Law of the Land for presuming under pretence of a commission and as a Judge to pass the sentence of death upon the bodies of men and women and pretends to go by as certain a rule in so doing as the Judges of the Land do when they give Judgement according to Law which thou hast no cognizance or right unto neither hast thou done so as before I have proved and I had not medled with the outward Laws of the Land but that I have such a pretended chief Judge to deal with to shew him his folly and injustice done by colour of office as I have done thee which thou Lodowick maist for ever be ashamed of for presumptuously doing as thou hast done who hast also erred in thy judgement and hast given it contrary to truth and against the Law of the Land And it 's said That if any Judgement be given contrary to the points of the great Charter it shall be undone and holden for nought 25 Ed. 1 2. and by a Statute made Anno 25. Ed. 3. it is declared That if any thing be done against the Law it shall be redressed and holden for none as thine is and is therefore reversed undone and holden for nought Take notice of that And whereas thou saist That in obedience to thy Commission thou hast already cursed and damned many hundreds of people both soul and body to eternity I say the greater is thy presumption and sin who hast no Right nor Authority to do the same thy judgement is contrary to truth and is against the Law of God and the Law of the Land and is therefore reversed and holden for none as aforesaid Whereas thou saist That no infinite spirit of Christ nor any God can or shall be able to deliver from thy sentence and curse I say That is false or no less then blasphemy and there is a punishment due to the nature of the offence Thou hast hereby denied Christ as he is the Advocate with the Father and the propitiation for the sins of the whole World 1 John 2.1 2. What a miserable condition art thou in And how great is thy sin of presumption and folly Wouldst thou have the great King of Heaven the Lord who is a great God and a King above all Gods Psal 95.3 and Christ Jesus who is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth Rev. 1.5 to commit their whole power solely to thee who may abuse it as thou hast done under pretence of a Commission and reserve no power in the Eternal God-head to pardon offences committed against them and preserve and save poor penitent offendors by shewing mercy unto them and forgiving of them And wouldst thou have no power reserved in the Eternal Godhead to correct and punish thee and such as thou art for abusing the Power and People of God as thou hast done Wouldst thou make the Eternal Power and Godhead inferior to the Kings of the Earth Do not they reserve a pardoning and punishing power in themselves besides what they give to their Judges by their commission But notwithstanding thy pretended Commission false Judgement and Doctrine This I affirm on the behalf of the Lord and the Eternal God-head That there is a pardoning and a punishing power in them reserved beyond thy pretended Commission First as to the pardoning power it is declared by them that were sent of the Lord God and his Spirit saying Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous his thoughts and let him return to the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God and he will abundantly pardon Seeing it is so it remains certainly true that there is a pardoning power reserved and remains in the Eternal God-head and it also remains true That the unrighteous and wicked upon the forsaking of their evil thoughts and wicked ways and returning to the Lord according to his requirings are objects of mercy and pardonable as aforesaid which is contrary to thy false doctrine and judgement Secondly As to the pardoning power that remains in the God-head is manifested in Christ whom God the Father hath exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins and we are his Witnesses of these things and so is the Holy Ghost whom God hath given to them that obey him Acts 5.31 32. Thirdly Christ Jesus who is the chief Judge ordained of God to judge the quick and the dead Acts 10.40 41 42. he hath manifested the pardoning power that remains with the God-head by shewing of mercy and forgiving offences The Scribes and the Pharisees sought an occasion against him because he was merciful and forgave sins and they took a woman-woman-sinner and brought her to Christ and set her in the midst First They brought her before Christ and set her as an offender before the Judge Secondly They accused her unto him of the act of Adultery John 8.1 2 3 4. Thirdly They pleaded both Law and Fact to make their case good and to have shut up Christ's mercy and compassion against her to have moved him to give judgment upon her who it's like thought he could not otherwise have done

if he owned Moses Law and if he had denyed it then they would had an occasion against him which they sought for They pleaded Fact saying Master This woman was taken in Adultery in the very act Joh. 8.4 Then they pleaded Law saying Now Moses in the Law commanded that such should be stoned Joh. 8.5 But what saist thou This they said tempting of him that they might have to accuse him John 8.6 And they continued asking of him John 8.7 shewing how earnest they were to have had an accusation against him they tempted him for that very end and to see if he would deny putting Moses Law in execution upon that woman which they had taken in Adultery and brought before him to accuse unto him But Jesus himself who was chief Judge ordained of God and had power or authority given him to execute judgement John 5.22 27. he did neither accuse the offender nor countenance those bloody accusers that brought her before him though they pleaded both Law and Fact unto him as aforesaid who teacheth by his example in that case That it is not the duty of a Court to accuse any though a known offender nor to countenance bloody accusers but rather to mollifie their rigour as Christ did in the same case who in great wisdom answered their question and said unto them He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her Joh. 8.7 or put Moses Law in execution upon her but those accusers were none of them without sin because they sinned in tempting of Christ and the Witness of God in their own conscience testified the same unto them whereby they were convicted and thereupon went out one by one beginning at the eldest even unto the last and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst John 8. ver 9. First By which wise answer of his he put a stop to their cruelty against the offender and thereby he delivered her from their cruelty and took her into his mercy who knew better how to deal with her then they would have had him Secondly He by that gracious wise answer unto them put a stop to their subtilty and crost their intent which they had in their minds in their temptation against him Thirdly He hath shewed by that wise answer unto them That criminal persons are no competent Judges to condemn others for that which themselves are guilty of 4. He also by that wise answer unto them preserved himself out of their snare for he thereby owned Moses Law in its time and place which if he had then denyed they thought to have had an occasion against him or whereof to have accused him and having preserved himself out of their snare and taken the woman sinner out of their cruelty into his mercy as aforesaid He then as a gracious and merciful Judge looked upon her with an eye of compassion saying Woman where are all those thine accusers Hath no man condemned thee Joh. 8.10 She answered and said No man Lord. And Jesus to manifest his mercy and the pardoning power which remained with the God-head he said Neither do I condemn thee go and sin no more Joh. 8.10 11. And as a merciful Judge he forgave her that offence and set her free and gave her commend to abstain from sin for the time to come saying Go and sin no more as much as to say let mercy held forth in forgiving thy offence that is past engage thy heart against sin and unto God for the time to come But though thou Lodowick pretend to be the chief Judge in the World thy example doctrine and practice teacheth quite contrary to the doctrine and example of Christ whereby it appears and is plainly made manifest That thou art not ordained chief Judge in his stead First Thy Example Doctrine and Practice teacheth to be both Judge Accuser and Witness contrary to the Law of God and the Law of the Land Secondly To condemn at a distance without any due course of Law or orderly proceedings before thou have the parties and their Accusers face to face before thee to hear what they can say Thirdly To condemn at will and pleasure contrary to any known Law either of God or the Land 4. It teacheth not the preservation of any known Law but rather the destruction of all known Laws both of God and the land 5. Thy example doctrine and practice teacheth to condemn the bodies of men and women without any known law either of God or the land as a rule of direction to guide and lead in the ways of right Justice to give judgement upon them accordingly Lastly Thou teachest thereby That if judgement or sentence be given pronounced or past though never so contrary to truth it ought not to be redressed or reversed undone and holden for nothing which is quite contrary to the law of the land And we are sure that the judgement of God is according to truth Rom. 2.2 but thine is not so whereby it is evident that it is not the judgement of God It appears and is evident first That thou art an unlawful Judge because thou presumes to pass the sentence of death upon the bodies of men and women without cognizance or lawful Authority so to do 2. That thou art a foolish unwise Judge because thou passest the sentence of death upon the bodies of men and woman at a distance from thee without having them and their answers face to face before thee Thirdly That thou art an unjust Judge because thou passest the sentence of death upon the bodies of men and women contrary to truth without any known laws either of God or the Land as a Rule of direction to guide and lead thee in the ways of right justice to give judgement upon them accordingly 4. That thou art a cruel unmerciful Judge because if thy sentence be once pronounced and past though it be never so erroneous and false thou wouldst have it impossible for any God to reverse and undo the same or to deliver therefrom Seeing that it is so it remains certainly true That thou art no true and competent Judge neither ordained of God nor man to pass the sentence of death upon the bodies of men and women and it remains as true That the souls in the Father's hand thou hast nothing to do withal First Because Christ giveth to them eternal life and they shall never perish John 10.28 Secondly Because no man is able to pluck them out of the Father's hand as it is written John 10.29 And thirdly Because the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against them Likewise it remains true That thou art not the chosen Witness of the Spirit of Truth and that thou hast not received thy pretended Commission from the God of Truth to do as thou hast done and pretendest to do by colour thereof First Because thou denies Almighty God himself Secondly Because thou denies Christ Jesus of his Offices Thirdly Because thou denies him of his Officers