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Mercy in her beauty, or, The height of a deliverance from the depth of danger set forth in the first sermon preached upon that occasion / by Nath. Hardy.
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Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.
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Mercy in her Beauty OR THE HEIGHT OF A DELIVERANCE FROM THE DEPTH OF DANGER Set forth in the first SERMON Preached upon that Occasion By NATH HARDY Master of Arts and Preacher to the Parish of S. Dionis Back-Church PSAL. 118.17 18 19. I shall not die but live and declare the Works of the Lord The Lord hath chastened me very sore but he hath not given me over to death Open unto me the gates of righteousnesse I will goe into them and I will praise the Lord Basil. Mag. Hom. 9. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Aug. in Psal. 41. Quia magis crebra sunt mala dulcior â—rit misericordia tua Etenim scriptum est quodam loco speciosa misericordia Domini in tempore tribulationis sicut nubes pluviae in tempore siccitatis LONDON Printed by J. G. for Nath Web and Will Grantham at the Black Beare in St. Paul's Church-yard neere the little North-Doore 1653. Sermons Preached and Printed by Mr Nathanaell Hardy M.A. and Preacher to the Parish of St Dyonis Back-Church JVstice Triumphing or The Spoilers spoiled A Sermon preached on the 5th of November in the Cathedrall Church of St Pauls The Arraignment of licentious Liberty and oppressing Tyranny in a Sermon at a Fast before the Lords in Parliament In the Abbey-Church at Westminster Faiths Victory over Nature A Sermon preached at the Funerals of Mr John Rushout Junior The safest Convoy or The strongest Helper A Valedictory Sermon before the Right Honourable Sr Thomas Bendish Barronet his Majesties Ambassadour to the grand Seigniour at Constantinople A Divine Prospective representing the Just mans peacefull End A Sermon at the Funerall of the Right Worshipfull Sr John Gayr Knight Love and Fear the inseparable Twins of a blest Matrimony A Sermon occasioned by the Nuptials between Mr William Christmas and Mrs Elizabeth Adams Divinity in Mortality or The Gospels excellency and the Preachers frailty A Sermon at the Funerals of Mr Richard Goddard Minister of the Parish of St Gregories by Pauls Printed and are to be sold by Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham at the black Bear in St Pauls Church-yard near the little North-door 1653. To the Right Worshipfull Worshipfull and Wel-beloved The Inhabitants of the Parish of S. Dionis Back-Church Health and Wealth not only in this life but chiefly in that which is to come Worthy Friends IT is a full Decade of yeers since I first was called by Divine Providence to begin the work of my Ministry among you and it is not yet half so many months since in humane probability both my Ministry and life seemed to be at an end But the wise and gracious God in whose hands all our times are hath mercifully lengthned my dayes blessed be his name for the greater good of my own and I hope of your souls These Sermons which upon this comfortable occasion I lately preached were by some of you desired to be made more publique which I have fulfilled so much the more willingly that I might testifie before the world first my infinite obligation to Almighty God for so remarkeable a deliverance and withall my manyfold engagements to a great part of you for your affectionate love and multiplyed courtesies And now my Dearely Beloved and longed for in the Lord give me leave having this opportunity to acquaint you with my serious thoughts and earnest desires and I trust through Gods grace that the transcript of them before your eyes will helpe to make a deeper impression of them upon your hearts And first I thanke my God through Jesus Christ for your stedfastnesse in the faith and your mutuall amity whereby you become exemplary to many parishes in this wavering and contentious age Oh that not onely you but all the people of this Land were alike minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus Next let me in the bowels of our common Saviour beseech you and if this will not prevaile charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall Judge the quicke and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdome that as you drinke in the heavenly raine which commeth oft upon you so you endeavour to bring forth herbes meet for the great husbandman who dresseth you I beare you record and that without flattery you are attentive hearers oh that you may be all forward doers of the word There are some amongst you whose love towards me hath been not onely in tongue and in word but in deed and that in a more than ordinary measure But yet let me freely tell you There is nothing if I know my owne heart would so rejoyce me as to see the fruit of my weake labours in the holinesse of your lives Beleeve it this is the greatest Kindnesse a people can show to their Minister since whereas by a liberall contribution they adde to his comfortable subsistence upon earth by a religious conversation they increase his eternall reward in heaven And now Brethren I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among them which are sanctified humbly intreating you to strive together with me in your prayers to God both for me and your selves that I may so preach and live you may so heare and doe as that we may behold each other and all of us our Redeemer with joy in the last day So prayeth Your faithfull servant for Christs sake in the Gospel NATH HARDY Phil. 2.27 the former part For indeed he was sick nigh unto death but God had mercy on him IF you please to peruse the five last Psalms of David you shall finde them beginning and ending with an Hallelujah Praise ye the Lord being the Alpha and Omega the Prora and the Puppis the first and the last words of each Not much unlike is Saint Pauls practise in the Epistle to the Romans who almost in the very entrance placeth an {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I thanke my God through Jesus Chrict and closeth with a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} To God onely wise bee glorie through Jesus Christ In imitation of these patternes I shall place Thanksgiving both in the Front and Reere of my Discourse Indeed what fitter Prooemium to a gratulatorie Sermon than a Benedictus Blessed therefore be God who kept his unworthie Servant from falling into the Grave a Land of Silence and Forgetfulnesse and hath now vouchsafed him the libertie of entring into his House the place of Prayers and Prâ—yses Blessed be God who hath brought my feet from lying in a sick bed to stand in this holy Mount Finally blessed be God who hath given me a joyfull occasion of handling and just cause of applying this Scripture to my selfe by changing the third Person unto the first For indeed I was sick nigh to death but God had mercy on me This Text naturally spreadeth forth it selfe into two maine