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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	blood_n	lord_n	shed_v	1,770	5	9.8115	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94051	Mercy rejoycing against judgement: or, God waiting to be gracious to a sinfull nation. A sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons in Margarets Westminster, upon the solemne day of their publique humiliation and monethly fast, Octob. 29. 1645. / By John Strickland, B.D. pastor of the church at Edmonds in the citie of New Sarum, now preacher at Peters Poor, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Strickland, John, 1600 or 1601-1670.	1645 (1645)	Wing S5973; Thomason E307_21; ESTC R200349	19,186	32

prevaile by Judgements or by mercies some must be brought in by an earth-quake others will be brought in as easily by a still voice Thirdly He waits because he is a God of Judgement to know when the giving in of mercies will bring God most honour and when Gods hand will be most clearly seen to give in mercies so that they may be convincing mercies thus he waited on his stiff-necked people that he might be mercifull to them even till Antiochus had broken all their power so that there was no help to be expected and then the Lord came in with Michaels deliverance Dan. 12.1.7 when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people Dan. 11.1.7 for then they could see that their help was from God Thus he waited upon the wastful Prodigall till he had spent all so that he must either have God or nothing Luk. 15. and then the Fathers imbraces are sweet and welcome Luk. 1. Before I come to the Use of the Prophets doctrine which the text presents you let us consider whether this age be not one of these sometimes wherein God wonderfully suspends his Judgments and waites upon a provoking people that he may be mercifull to them Are we not astonished and like unto them that dreame this day while wee looke upon the God of our salvation answering us as he doth by terrible things in his righteousnes doing terrible things that we looked not for whereby the moūtaines even the mountains of enemies and opposition do flow down and tremble at his presence he that hath formerly drawn out the sword and bent his bow and like an enemy fought against us giving Iacob to the spoile and Israel to the robbers has in the midst of wrath remembred mercy and when he saw that there was no man and wondred that there was no intercessor his own Arme hath brought salvation to him and his righteousnes it sustained him Who would have thought in a few months past that we should have seene such a change in England in so short a time that our solemn fasts the fast of the 4th monetle and the fast of the 5th and the 7th and the 10th month should be turned into solemne feasts of joy and gladnes that our thanksgiving dayes should over number our dayes of humiliation Yet am I so farr from the opinion of laying aside our humiliations in these times of rejoycing as if they were inconsistent with our joyfull feasts that I conceive the duties of humiliation and rejoycing spiritually performed very helpfull one to another and to spiritualize one another blessings obtained by prayer and fasting cannot but affect the soul and raise it unto a greater pitch of spirituall thankfulnesse and when mercies have made the soule to rejoyce in God it cannot but mourne over sinne more ingenuously then before If mercies will not work with a people this way when God gives them in after judgements they will be but lucida intervalla presages of greater Judgemēts to follow Sim. like the Sunshine between two dread full stormes or rather like a reviving between two fits of a feaver when the patient dyes of the latter Chorazin that had been lift up to heaven by mercies and the great works that were done in her was afterwards thrust down to hell in Judgements Ingentia beneficia ingentia flagitia ingentia supplicia If great wickednesse follow great benefits great punishments shall follow great wickednesse as is confessed by Ezra 9.13.14 Ezra 9.13.14 Repentance and reformation is the point that we must be brought unto either by Judgments or mercies and since former Judgements have not brought us to it O that the Lord would melt our hearts this day with his astonishing mercies that our hard and frozen Spirits which would not be broken hitherto by the hammer of his Judgements might now be softened by the fire of his mercies And truly honorable and beloved mercies especially when they are given in to an undeserving people as our mercies are are very proper premises and principles of godly sorrow and shame for sin seeing that this is promised as a fruit of mercy I have looked into the Book of God to see whether God hath been wont in former times to bring in his people to repentance and reformation by deliverances and mercies For if God have never gone in such a way with a people heretofore I should feare that notwithstanding our many and wonderfull publick mercies wherewith God hath at present blessed our Land we should have an after-clap and be brought back again into the refiners fire and furnace of affliction that our drosse which is not yet severed from us may be purged out and our filthinesse depart from us which is the way whereby God ordinarily prevailes with a people in that kind And of all the hopefull presidents I could find wherein God hath brought in a people by mercy this is the most eminent Ezek. 36.31 32. Applied Ezek. 36.31.32 Then shall yee remember your own evill wayes and your doings that are not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations Not for your sakes doe I this saith the Lord God be it known unto you be ashamed and confounded for your own wayes O house of Israel You may look upon Israel in this chapter as Englands parallell in our present condition They had defiled their own land with the bloud that they had shed and with their Idols yea they had profaned the name of God among the heathen also and therefore the Lord had powred out his fury upon them V. 17-21 v. 17 -21 but the Lord pitied them for his own holy Name which they had profaned and he resolved to sanctifie his great and holy Name by delivering them from captivity and setting them at peace in their own Land V. 21-25 v. 21 -25 And further he would reform them according to his covenant and make them a holy people and their land which had been laid waste a fruitful land v 25-31 V. 25-31 And when the Lord shall have done all this and that without the least desert of theirs as the Lord bids them take notice of it Be it known unto you then shall they repent and be ashamed He is a stranger to England that hath not seen England like unto Israel in their sinnes it hath been defiled with bloud and idols whereby the Name of our God hath been profaned and like to Israel in their punishments the Lord hath powred out his fury upon them and like unto Israel in their deliverances and mercies God is now sanctifying his holy Name which we had polluted by delivering us and making way to settle us at peace in our own land The Lord make England like unto Israel in their repentance and reformation also Now because the undeservednesse of mercie and that they are given to those that could not expect them has a great influence upon the heart