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lord_n	good_a	set_v	speak_v	20,295	5	7.2364	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87103	A sermon, preached at St. Gregories church by St. Paul's on Sunday the 13th. day of Iune, 1658. Intended for the funeral solemnization of Iohn Hewit, Dr. of divinity, and late minister there	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing H747A; ESTC R231880	12,735	26

it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} men of mercy which may admit of a double construction whether taken in a passive or active sence In a passive sence they are men of mercy or as the Hebrew word will further carrie it men of good will or favour they are men to whom God bears a singular favour an especial love There is a Philanthropie which God hath to all men and though he hates the work of their hands yet he loves the work of his own hands but God here speaks of a favour and good will which he hath to his servants and you have it fully and summarily set down in the 24th Psalme latter end The Lord God is a Sun and a Shield the Lord will give grace and glory c. And according to this construction it may be taken the Prophet Isaiah speaking of the righteous how that they are taken away by men of crueltie intimates though they are hated by the wicked they are men of love in respect of God whilst the world reproches and reviles them yet God loves them though they perish and are taken away we must not think that God hates them they are his favorites Some men think God should not let the wind blow upon his servants but it is not that of a mother but a fatherly love with which God loves his children nor was Benjamin the lesse beloved because the Cup was found with him The righteous they are still men of mercy yet I rather conceive we ought to take it in the active sence they are men that love mercy and shew mercy and to this I encline in regard of that paralell place the 7. Micah 2. The good man is perished from off the earth c. So here men of mercy that is men that are practisers and lovers of mercy Mercy is a condolencie of others misery and withall an endeavour to deliver them out of it so that there is both pittie and bountie bowels of mercy and works of mercy thus a righteous man is a mercifull man the wise man joines them both together Prov. 21. and 21. And indeed they never goe asunder our Saviour hath coupled them together blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled then it followes blessed are the mercifull c. The righteous have bowels of mercy their inwards are troubled at the miserie of others and hence their heads consult which way they may do them good the liberal man devises charritable things upon his bed and their hearts ake for their brethren they inquire how what which way to do them good they are stil going out of their doores in mercy their eyes behold which way they may do acts of mercy their ears listen to their complaints and their hands are ready to relieve it would be too much time spent to let you see how this spiritual River overflowes by giving and forgiving by vouchsafing to our Brethren spiritual and corporal Almes that concerne their souls and bodies by remitting all those injuries they do against us and thus it is true they are men of mercy as for the wicked Solomon saith their very mercies are cruel when they pretend mercy it is in crueltie nay they shew mercy that they may be wicked but the righteous he shews mercy even to his beast it runnes down even unto them and hence it is here called mercifull men or men of mercy but now look upon the complaint it self and that sets forth their seeming miserable condition The one of perishing The other of taking away The righteous perish the mercifull men are taken away the first of these is very strange and hard especially of the Righteous that he is said to perish Perish is capable of various acceptations 1. There is a perishing that neither seaZes on the Righteous nor the wicked 2. There is a perishing befalls the wicked and not the good 3. And there is a perishing befalls both the godly and the wicked 1. There is a perishing that befalls neither the Righteous nor the wicked a perishing of totall destruction and annihilation The Psalmist saith Wicked men are like the beasts that perish Sensuall men are so in their dispositions but not in their natures the beast perishing dissolveth into his first being to nothing and happy were it if it were so with the wicked that there were annihilation 2. And then there is a perishing that befalls the wicked and not the Righteous the memory of the wicked shall not but it shall not be so with the just No dying no marrying can obliterate their names but the wicked their names perish which is worse there is a perishing in the Soul and it is that perishing which is opposed to good to Eternall good the Righteous is scarcely saved it is not almost they do not perish hereafter but the wicked perish Eternally But then 3. There is a perishing that is common to the Righteous with the wicked will you know what it is Understand it either of the miseries of this life as S. Paul saith if I perish I perish Whatever hazard we run or fall into it may be termed a perishing or chiefly perishing by death this is common to all the Prophet Michael tels us the good man is perished out of the Earth that is he dies when he perisheth it is a Relative to perishing in this world in this present life So when the Righteous die he perisheth therefore it was that the Prophet made use of this word to let them see what the wicked thought that the Righteous perisheth it is not so in reallity and that we might not be troubled at the harshness of the phrase in the first clause Go on to the second Taking away God hath given most members double two hands two feet two eyes two eares that if one faile the other may supply so the spirit of God gives two phrases often in Scripture that if the one be obscure the other may make it plain so it is here least the one should be too hard here is another to explain it when he saith Perish he means onely taking away from the society of men that is aIl as we may very well read the words the mercifull men are gathered as the Hebrew will carry it they perish not but rather are gathered to their Fathers as that expression in Ecclesiastes the body goes to the grave and the Soul to heaven or to him that gave it it is that they may be gathered to the innumerable company of Angels to the Spirits of just men made perfect to the beatificall vision all this is meant in this one expression taking away And the Summe is the Righteous ones the mercifull ones were taken away by death perished from the earth And so this is true in respect of a naturall death the Righteous as well as others perish because of the same nature and constitution and also the remainders of the same corruptions that are in them therefore