Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	witness_n	world_n	worthy_a	15	3	5.6702	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08213	Gods new-yeeres gift sent vnto England, or, The summe of the Gospell. The first part contayned in these wordes, God so loued the world ... Iohn 3.16 / written by Samuel Nicholson ...	Nicholson, Samuel, fl. 1600-1602.	1602 (1602)	STC 18548; ESTC S1317	17,019	41

sooles we know no mā willingly leaues his land to a foole I answere This amplifyes the mercy of God who hath chosen the foolish things of the world c. Again 1. Cor. 2. Paul sayes The carnal man vnderstands not the things of ●od How then Why surely Ignoti nulla cupido what a man vnderstands not he neyther destres nor delites in Therfore the world was as worthy of this great present as swine are of pearles or the swinish Gergesenes were of Christs cōpany when they willed him to depart out of their coasts Againe Iob. 15.16 it 's sayd The heauens are vncleane in Gods sight how much more is man abominable filthy which drinketh iniquity like vnto water Le here fiesh blood thou wretched offpring of Adam consider here thou vnworthy world tell me what thou wast when Gods mercy found thée out O Loue beyond all loue how much thou art Man abominable and filthy man is fit matter for Gods mercy to worke on Man that drinketh iniquity like vnto water is thought worthy to drink of the waters of Life In this saying Iob doth anatomize the world calling it abominable filthy But will you sée a more exact Anatomy of the world lym me by lymme Paul to the Gal. 5. rips vp the hody of the world there finds in it a whole den of deuils the works of the world saith he are Adultery fornication vncleannes wantonnes Idolatry witchcraft hatred debate emulatiōs wrath contētions seditions heresies enuy murthers drunkennes gluttony c Here are the deuils which God must cast out the world as he did the buyers sellers out of his Temple if he will reconcile the world to himself The Apostle brings thē in by ranks as if hel were broke loose or as if this later world were so wicked that eyther deuils séemed to be turned into men or men into deuils And this signifies S. Iohns saying Totus mundus in maligno positus the whole world is set on mischiefe To conclude this 4. poynt of the vnworthines of the world to whom God hath giuen this Legacy This Vnworthynes shall appeare most excellently if we consider the Iewes a chosē part of the world or rather a people chosen from the world let vs I say consider in thē what the world is how vnworthy of such a present Whē God had sent this vnspeakeable Gift of his onely begotten Sonne to the Iewes by the hands of his seruants the Prophets they tooke his seruants beat some and kild some and stoned others God sent againe his Prophets they vsed them likewise The louing mercy of God looke no vnkindnes at this but at last sent to thē this Gift by the hand of his only Sonne thinking surely Though they regard not my Gift yet they will reuerence my Sonne But how did they reuerence him This is the heire say they come let vs kil him the inheritance shall be ours Christ was no soo●● 〈◊〉 ●●orne but they sought his life how was hee entertained reuiled blasphemed persecuted contemned hunted too fro haled before the Magistrate accused in 2. Consistories there reuiled smitten condemned at last most cruelly done to death Behold here the desert of the world behold here to whom God hath sent his Sonne consider this vprightly thou will cry out with Dauid Lord what is man that thou regardest him what is eyther Iewe or Gentile the thou respectest him If thou wilt néeds shew such Loue thē shew it to thy holy Angels who honour thée to thy goodly creatures the Sunne the Moone starres who neuer did offend thée onely man is the sinner in this world and he alone tastes of thy goodnesse I. this is mercy Lord to saue where thou mightest destroy to salue where thou findest sicke to helpe where thou findest néed to forgiue our sinnes while we forget our thanks to giue vs heauen who haue deserued hell As the starres shine clearest in the darkest night so thy mercy appeares whitest being cōpared with the blacknes of our deserts Thou didst visit vs when we were nothing but banity thou didst clothe vs in the righteousnes of thy Sonne whē we were al naked of grace thou didst instruct vs whē we were fooles and heaie vs when we were abominable filthy thou didst séeke vs when we knew thée not find vs when we had lost our selues thou didst set thy hear● 〈◊〉 vs when our hearts were set on mischiese thou didst pray for vs whē we persscuted thée dyed for vs when we hated thée thirst our saluation when we thirsted thy hlood thou hast ransomed vs from hell rewarded vs with heauen Therefore to thée Lord to thée will we sing a new song and reioyce in the strength of our saluation We are taught frō this 4. poynt the excéeding riches of Gods mercy And to come home to our selues what were we before this Gift was sent to vs by the most happy reigne of our dreas Soueraigne As Abraham sent not his seruāt without gifts when he went to take a wife for Isaac so God sent not Religion empty-handed into our Land but accompanied with a vertuous Prince and gracious Mother of this our Israel and all to woo and winne vs an vnspotted Spouse to our Isaac Christ But what were we I say to whom God hath shewed such mercy the this Text séemes to be spoken of vs So God loued England that he hath giuen c What were we when his Loue sought vs his mercy found vs out Were we not blinde Idolaters horrible back-sliders cruell murtherers of his Saintes For these sinnes he cast off his people the Iewes and yet with these sinnes hath he chosen vs. As a man taketh his wife with all her infirmities so the Lord 〈◊〉 taken vs with all our faults our blind Idolatry and horrible rebellion our wilfull ignorante and wicked resistance our prophane liues polinted consciences our hate of the fruth loue vnto lyes our following the Pope forsaking of Christ all this was but matter for Gods mercy to work on So that we may say with Dauid Lord what is man that thou regardest him Lord what is England that thou respectest it this poore frozen corner of the North that thou art mindful of vs We are frost-bitten Snakes wormes no men whom thou hast so pittifully cherished in thy bosome If hate deserue loue if cruelty merit kindnes if finne purchase pardon if murther require mercy thē Christ is our due then God is our debtor then heauen is our owne But Lord our hearts tels vs that we are this vn worthy world our liues witnesse that hell is our portion damnation is our due but eternall Life is the Gift of GOD in Christ To whom with thee and the holy Chost hee all prayse honour and glorie for euer and euer Amen FINIS