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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67808	Crooked pathes made straight: or, The wayes of God made knowne to lost sinners, or bewildered saints Wherein is represented the severall conditions of a Christian in the spirit, as hee growes up out of weaknesse into strength, through death into life eternall. By Anne Yemans.	Yemans, Anne.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187	125,255	256

nothing in us that moved Go●● to bestow his Sonne upon us to be crucisied f●● us but it was his free love Herein is love 〈◊〉 that we loved God but that he loved us and se●● his Son to be the propitiatin for our sins 1 Joh● 4.10 Hereby perceive we the love of God beca●● he laid downe his life for us 1 John 3.16 A●●● while we were yet sinners Christ died for us e● when we were dead in sins Ephes 2.5 For so loved the world that hee gave his only begotten Sonne that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved John 3.16 17. For I came not to judge the world but to save the world John 12.47 Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay downe his life for his friend John 15.13 That is the greatest love that friends can shew one to another but Christ hath loved us with a greater love for while wee were his enemies he dyed for us to reconcile us to God and to make us his friend hee takes occasion by our sins to shew us merie The Lord complains of the spirituall Idolatry of his people in Hosea 2. which of all sins that is partly the greatest to forsake God and cleave to Idols and to give that to them that belongs only to God for they made their Idols their God gave honour and glory to them but the Lord saith I will not give my honour to another nor my glory to graven Images Hos 2.13 14. Shee decked her selfe with her ear-rings and her jewels and she followed her Lovers and forgate me saith the Lord. Therefore behold I will allure her and bring her into the wildernesse aad speake comfortably to her Hos 11.7 My people are bent to rebellion against me though they called them to the most High yet none at all would exalt him Yet this did not turne the love of the Lord from them for in the 8. and 9. verses he saith How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I delive thee Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are rouled together I will not execute the fiercenesse of my wrath I will not return to destroy Ephraim for I am God and not man the holy One in the midst of thee Ezek 20.44 And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have respect unto you for my Names sake and not after your wicked wayes nor according to your corrupt workes O ye house of Israel saith th●● Lord Isa 43.25 I even I am hee that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake and wil● not remember thy sins Isa 44.22 I have put away thy transgressions like a cloud and thy sinner as a mist turn unto me for I have redeemed thee Jer. 33.8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me I will pardon all their iniquities wherby they have sinned against me and whereby they have transgressed against me Jer. 50.20 And in those dayes and at that time saith the Lord the iniquitie● of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and for the sinnes of Judah and they shall not be found for I will be mercifull unto them Here is the free mercie of God and riches of his love belonging to all man-kinde that ever was is or shall be there is not any one excluded from his love for there is nothing can keep us from God but our sins and that Christ hath dyed for and hath made full satisfaction to his Father and hath obtained of his Father a full pardon for all the sinne of all man-kinde although they be never so great 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithfull saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chiefe He was a persecuter and a blasphemer and an injurious person yee saith he I obtained mercy The Lord is no respecter of persons He shed his dearest heart-blood for all sinners as well for the chiefe of sinners as any other for without blood-shedding there can be no remission of any one sinne though never so small in our apprehension but by the blood of Christ being shed for us the greatest sins are pardoned as well as any For the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all unrighteousnesse And this gift of God in giving his Sonne is a free gift of God given to all to redeeme all from sinne hell and the Devill Hes 13.9 O Israel one hath destroyed thee but in me is thy helpe The Devill having overcome man by his tempting the woman and they yielding to him wee were all destroyed by the Devill but in Christ is our helpe against him Jer. 31.11 The Lor● hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he All man-kinde fell by and in the fall of Adam from that glorious condition that th●● were in before they sinned So we all fell fro● that glorious condition with him into a sta●● of condemnation sin and the wrath of Go● both spirituall and temporall and hell an● damnation and as we all fell in Adam so we are all raised by and in Christ not to tha● condition that Adam fell from but from tha● condition that he fell into and as we all dye● in Adam so wee are all made alive in Chri●● Adam was a publique person for man-kind so was Christ therefore he is called the secon● Adam Therefore as by the offences of one which was Adam judgement came upon all men to c●● demnation even so by the righteousnesse of ou● which is Christ the free gift came upon all m●● unto justification of life For as by one mans dis●● bedience many were made sinners so by the obe●●ence of one shall many be made righteous Rom. ●● 18 19. All were made sinnners in Adam so all a●● made righteous by Christ Quest How are all made righteous 〈◊〉 Christ Answ He being made a publique person so all man-kinde he undertook to make full satisfaction for our sins which he did comit so he redeemed us from that condemnation that came upon all the world by the fall of Adam so that for those sinnes wee shall never be condemned Hee hath redeemed the whole world from the Devill and sin to himselfe that we should serve him in all love so the Devill and sinne cannot keepe the world out of heaven they can doe us no harme yea those that are very great sinnes cannot nothing but unbeliefe can keepe us out There was nothing that kept the children of Israel out of the Land of Canaan but unbeliefe We see they could not enter in because of unbeliefe Heb. 3.19 They had committed many sins and those that were very great ones and God complained of their sins in

many places of Scripture yet none of them kept them out of the Land of Canaan which was a type of heaven but only unbelief And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkenesse rather then light John 3.19 Christ hath obtained of his Father a full pardon for all the sins of the world and a perfect righteousnesse and heaven and spirituall and temporall things and it is kept in store for us in Christ all the spirituall things are till wee doe really believe what Jesus Chri●● hath done for us in particular and he woul● have his love made knowne to the world tha● they might believe and then hee will mak● known to them that their sins are pardoned and how great his love is to them and wh●● hee hath purchased for them and what the● are in him And although there remaines s●● in the conversation yet sin in the conscien●● is done away The blood of Christ which throug● the eternall spirit offered himselfe without spo●● purge your consciences from dead workes to ser●● the living God Heb. 9.14 And he speaking i● the 9th verse of this chapter and verse 2. of th● 10th chapter of the sacrifices in the time of th● Law there was offered gifts and sacrifices tha● could not make holy concerning the conscience of him that did the service for if it could would they not then have ceased to have bee● offered because that that the offerers onc● purged should have had no more sine in thei● conscience but those sacrifices could not take away sin in the conscience Heb. 9.24 25 26. For Christ is not entered into the holy places ma●● with hands which are the figures of the true bu● into heaven itselfe now to appeare in the prese●● of God for us Nor yet that he should offer himself● often as the high Priest entereth into the holy pl●●● every yeare with blood of others For then must often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath be appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himselfe And it is he alone that can and will sanctifie us in our conversation Let us draw neer with a true heart in assurance of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an evill conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water Heb. 10.22 Christ shed both water and blood John 19. ●4 His blood for to sprinkle our conscience from evill works that so they shall not damn us and water to purge and sanctifie us in our conversation that sin shall be mortified in us and we shall walke in obedience to God And this Christ hath done for all and would have all know it that they all might come to Christ and be saved For be tasted death for-every man Heb. 2.9 And be dyed for all that they that live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that dyed for them and rose again 2 Gor. 5.15 Christ not only dyed and was buried but hee also rose from the dead which doth declare unto us that hee hath gotten the victory over the spirituall death for us he triumphed over it for us Death is swallowed up in victory O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Chris● 2 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. So Christ hath done all things for thee an● hath made way for to goe to God by him J●sus said I am the way the truth and the life ●man commeth to the Father but by me John 1● 6. And now he makes a generall proclamat●on for all to come unto him and he will gi●● them life for their life is hid in him and they doe not come unto him they shall dye● their sins and the Lord saith As I live I wi●● not the death of a sinner Isa 55.1 2 3. Ho ev●●● one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and 〈◊〉 that hath no money come ye buy and eat yea com● buy wine and milke without money and with●●● price Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread and your labour for that which sati●fieth not hearken diligently unto me and ea●● ye that which is good and let your soule delight selfe in fatnesse Encline your eare and come un●me heare and your soule shall live and I wi●● make aneverlasting Covenant with you even t●● sure mercies of David The waters that we are invited to come 〈◊〉 to is Christ he is the water of life John 4 1● And he calls all to come without any worth nesse of their owne though they are never 〈◊〉 great sinners let them come let them not ke●● back because they are great sinners but ther●fore let them come for he dyed for their sins ●nd if they come unto him he will give them a ●ardon for their sins their sinnes cannot be too great for him to pardon and doe not stay for ●ualification to come to Christ for there is ●o qualification out of Christ but come unto him and he will qualifie thee there is no vessel so unclean but the blood of Christ wil cleanse ●t And saith Christ Those that come to me I will ●●n no wise cast away and that wine and milk is Christ John 15.1 I am the Vine that brought forth those grapes that this wine came of and he was pressed in the wine-pres of the wrath of God for us to drinke of the fruit of it And as it is the nature of wine to comfort strengthen and refresh those that are ready to faint So it is with this spirituall wine Christ whosoever hath tasted of him it comforts him exceedingly and when they are ready to faint through the sence of their sins this wine refreshes them and strengthens them against the Devils temptations and their owne sins and this milke is to feede those that are babes in Christ I have fed you with milke and not with meate for bitherto ye were not able to beare it 1 Cor. 3.2 For every one that useth milke is unskilfull in the word of righteousnesse for he is a babe Heb. 5.13 So Christ is this milke that feeds those that are babes in him he is their nourishment and hee revealeth his love to them by degrees and 〈◊〉 are babes at the first and grow by degrees be men in Christ and hee leades them acco●ding Wherefore doe ye spend money for that whi●● is not bread you spend a great deale of cost paines to get a righteousnesse of your own a●● so feede upon that but that is not bread th●● is but ashes that will not nourish thee b●● wildo thee more harm than good Christ sait● He is the bread of life John 6.48 This is 〈◊〉 bread which came downe from heaven that a m●● may eate of it and not dye I am the living bre●● which came downe from heaven if any man