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
A75582	The just mans defence, or, The royal conquest being the declaration of the judgement of James Arminius, Doctor of Divinity in the University of Leyden, concerning the principall points of religion, before the States of Holland and VVestfriezland / translated for the vindication of truth, by Tobias Conyers, sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge.; Declaratio sententiae de predestinatione. English	Arminius, Jacobus, 1560-1609.; Conyers, Tobias, 1628-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing A3700A; ESTC R208013	52,267	187

destruction of some men no consideration had in his decree of their disobedience which detract's from his love to the Creature that which appertains to it and represent's a Creature-hatred in God without any cause or necessity drawn from his love of justice and hatred of obliquity wherein true it is not that sin is the primary object of Divine displeasure and the sole meritorious cause thereof Of how great importance this is to the razing the foundation of Religion we may aptly see in this similitude suppose a child speaking My father is so great a lover of justice and equity that if I should be found in waies of disobedience before him he would disinherit me though his beloved son therefore the duty of obedience is highly incumbent upon me if I think to be his heir Another saith My father hath fixed his love so much upon me that he is absolutely resolved to make me his heire what need is there of obedience for in his immutable Will I am destinated to the inheritance and rather then he will suffer me to come short thereof he will draw me to obey him by force irresistible which is in a direct line of opposition to the words of the Baptist Matt. 3. 9. And thinke not to say within your selves Wee have ABRAHAM to our Father for I say unto you God is able of these Stones to raise up Children unto ABRAHAM The Christian Religion is also built upon this double Love as upon its foundation though a little otherwaies considered then before according to the change of mans state who being created in the Image and favour of God became peccant through his own default and an enemy to his Maker The love of Righteousness upon which our Religion leaneth is chiefly that which once he declared only in Christ that nothing should expiate sin but the blood and death of his Son neither would he admit him our Advocate and Intercessor but as besprinkled with his blood A declarative of this he makes daily in the preaching of the Gospel that he will not communicate Christ and his benefits to any but those that turn unto and believe in him The Love to miserable sinners upon which also the Christian Religion is bottom'd is first that by which he hath given Christ his Son for them and appointed him the Saviour of them that believe as also that by which he requires obedience not according to the rigour and severity of his utmost right and authority but with grace and clemency and the promise of remission of sin if so be lapsed man repent This Fundamental the doctrine of Predestination encounters two ways First by affirming Gods love to be so great to some Sinners that he would precisely save them before he had given satisfaction to his love of Justice in Christ Jesus and that in his fore-knowledge according to his purpose nay it overturns the foundation of Christianity by representing God willing to have his justice satisfied because hee would precisely save these men which is to subordinate his love of Justice testified in Christ to his love of sinful men whom he would resolutely save Secondly by making God absolutely willing to damn some sinners without any consideration of their impenitency when a plenary satisfaction to his love of Justice and hatred of Sin had been given in Christ Jesus so that nothing stood in the way of his mercy to be shewn unto Sinners be they what they will but the condition of repentance except some have a minde to say what is contained in this doctrine of Predestination that God will proceed in greater severity with the major part of men then hee did with Lucifer and his apostate Angels and that it is his will that Christ and the Gospel profit them no more then the infernal spirits that the gate of mercy is equally shut against them both when these sinned in their own persons out of malice by a voluntary act the other in their Parent Adam having no actuall being of themselves To the better understanding A more exact declaration of the precedent things how this twofold love is the foundation of Religion and that in the mutual respect one to another let 's ponder more accurately that of the Apostle to the Hebrews Heb. 11. 6. He that cometh unto God must believe that he is that he is a rewarder of all those that diligently seek him In these words two fundamentals are laid against the two fiery darts of Satan Security and Despair the pernicious Pests of Religion either of them sufficient to the eversion and extirpation thereof The first flatters a man into the perswasion that though he serve not God yet shall he not perish but obtaine salvation The other renders him confident that though hee do worship and serve him yet shall he not get any remuneration of him either of these exclude all true divine worship An Antidote against both the Apostolicall words affords He that believes God wil give eternal life to those onely that seek him and upon all others inflict everlasting death cannot easily be secure he that credits God to be a rewarder of those that seek him will not readily despair The ground of the first perswasion is Gods love of Righteousness more dear to him then Man himself which shakes off security The foundation of the other by which man believes stedfastly God to be a rewarder of the true seekers of him is that his so great love to the Creature Man that nothing impedes his bestowing salvation on him but the love which hee bears to his own Justice which is so far from being an hindrance that it doth rather promote and advance it Upon this account Man in his disquisition and search of God is not dubious of divine remuneration and thus diffidence or desperation is put to flight If so that this double love and the mutual relation as hath been clear'd be Religions foundation without which it cannot subsist then the doctrine repugnant to this love both absolute and relative everts and overthrows the same Twentiethly This Doctrine 20 Arg. of Predestination as well in former times as these wherein wee live stands rejected by the greater part of the Professors of Christianity To pass in silence the Ages foregoing things themselves witness it hath been reputed erroneous by the Church of Rome the Anabaptisticall and Lutheran Churches Luther and Melanchthon though in the beginning of the reformation they approved it yet afterwards deserted it This the later writings of Melanchthon apparently testifie of him The same being witnessed of the other by the Lutherans themselves who earnestly contend rather for their Masters more full declaring of his judgement in this then desertion of the former opinion Philip Melan●hth●n believed this opinion of Predestination not much different from the Stoical Fate as his papers testifie especially his Epistle to Casper Peucerus Lelius certifies the contests are grown so high at Geneva about the Stoical Fate that one