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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85648	The Great work of redemption deliver'd in five sermons at St. Paul's, and at the Spittle, Aprill, 1641 ...		1660 (1660)	Wing G1787A; ESTC R42330	65,630	217

is the faith of Christians and if you will know what fruit there is from Christs rising from the dead the third Preacher will inform you and I shall use no other Introduction then his own I will shew you that it agrees well with the resurrection from the dead for the mercy of God flowes from this resurrection of our Saviour for he dyed for our sins and rose that our souls might be saved in that melting Sermon of his which was anchored upon that place in the Psalms A Sermon Preached by Doctor Potter Bishop Carlisle at the Spittle on Tuesday in Easter week PSALM 130.4 But there is mercy with thee that thou maist be feared THE words are an Appeal of the Princely Prophet David from the Throne of Justice to the Throne of Goodnesse and are considerable in their Context and in their Text. First in their Context and that three several wayes First they must be considered in way of consequence as they follow the former verse First he speaks of the Judgment of God If thou O Lord shouldst enter into Judgment who could stand And then he comes in with a discourse of Mercy And secondly as in order so he tempers Justice and Mercy together Thirdly as they are a cry of perplexity he cries in the first verse complains in the second verse fears in the third and here he resolves to set upon Mercy The first point from the first of these is That we can neither sensibly nor safely Preach mercy in forgivenesse of sins unlesse as we do acquaint you with the Justice of God as in the former place so in the second place we must make and contemper in our meditations the thoughts of mercy with the thoughts of justice Thirdly though the action of sin may be short yet the passion will be long A sin may be soon committed but the pardon of sin is not so soon had First That before we can sensibly or safely Preach the mercies of God in the forgivenesse of sins unto you we must acquaint you with the justice of God as in the verse before my Text. If thou entrest into Judgment who shall stand But there is mercy with thee c. that thou maist be feared It was the method that was alwayes used in the Old and New Testament Our first parents hiding themselves through terrour of spirit among the bushes when God would Preach the Gospel unto them he first arraigns them and then passes a promise of mercy That the seed of the woman should break the Serpents head Thus it was in the Law before a man could know God he must come to Mount Sinai and the Law is a Schoolmaster to lead us unto Christ Thus it was at the giving of the holy Ghost there was a rushing of a mighty wind and then the holy Ghost came into their mindes and hearts This was the method of that Preacher then in the New Testament first men must be weary and heavy laden and then Christ comes to ease Matth. 11.8 I came not to call the righteous those that imagine themselves so but sinners to repentance those that are so wise to see it and so humble to say it No expectation of healing from the brasen Serpent but onely from those that were hurt and look up First see your selves led into captivity by the Devil and then you are fit to receive infranchisement and deliverance from God and this that good Father applyed unto our selves First let it be an Instruction for us to consider though Hell fire be flasht in our faces God doth it but as parents to their children they hold them over the fire to make them afraid of falling into the fire The Law is a Schoolmaster to Christ First Law and then Gospel First plow up the Fallow-ground of our hearts and then sowe the word Jer. 4.4 according to the method of Gods appearing to Elijah First a blustering wind then an Earthquake after that Fire and last comes God in a still voice First look for Earthquakes Winds and Fires in the soul and after all for comfort Thus it is Gods most usual way And then secondly what shall we say to those carnal Gospellers that are all for the calm doctrines of the times those that complain they cannot sit quiet in their seats for the threatnings of some Ministers they would have a Gospel of Gold and Salvation of Silver and Testaments of precious stones and go to Heaven upon featherbeds But beloved I had rather speak a thousand words to comfort then one to discomfort but it is for the good of your souls and for the glory of our Saviour we cannot dare not must not do otherwise we must come home to your consciences come home to them so the Prophets so the Apostles have done in all ages they have denounced the judgments of God against all their Auditors and did you but hear those yells that are now in Hell those that cry out I may thank that flattering Preacher for these pains if he had told me of this I had not come hither Think of it now that you feel it not hereafter In the next place it is good for us to temper the thoughts of mercy and justice together not to talk of justice onely but also of mercy My Song shall be of Mercy and Judgment saith David Psalm 101.1 and Deut. 28. Half the Chapter speaks of judgment and half of mercy Deut. 11. Blessings on one Mountain and Cursings upon another Blessings upon Mount Gerizim and cursings upon Mount Ebal And indeed there are two main rocks between which most men fall Presumption and Despair we are between them like Susanna between the Judges we are between them as between Sylla and Charybdis We may say of Desperation as of Saul it hath slain his thousands but of Presumption as of David it hath slain his ten thousands and therefore though we diet our selves with the mercies of God we must not glut with them and this was applied by him unto the souls of Preacher and people First to Preachers we should take a lesson from hence that when we finde that there is mors in olla death in the pot discomfort in the heart then we must take the herb of comfort and put it in That hand is hewn out of the hardest rock that will not administer comfort to the soul that needs it We must like the good Samaritan pour oil and wine into your sores wine to open them and oil to supple them speak not of judgment alone God did never intend this unto you and do not deal all of mercy but think of judgment also for if God had never so much mercy in store there is none for you presumptuous sinners That was the second consideration The third consideration was That though the action of sin be short yet the passion is long though a great sin be soon committed yet a small sin is not so soon remitted Look upon David he committed two great sins adultery and murder