Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	abel_n	blood_n	cry_v	2,397	5	9.4770	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57477	The preciousnesse of Christ unto beleevers. Or, A treatise wherein the absolute necessity, the transcendent excellency, the supereminent graces, the beauty, rarity and usefulnesse of Christ is opened and applyed. By John Robotham, preacher of the Gospel	Robotham, John, fl. 1654.	1647 (1647)	Wing R1733; ESTC R208474	115,896	303

so an Advocate with the Father as that the Father is made ours fully and perfectly and so the eager and malicious adversary can doe nothing against us Fourthly Our Advocate is Jesus a most sweet and heart refreshing name it signifieth a Saviour one that doth not onely intreate for us but perfectly save us other Advocates may intreate and not prevaile but Christ intreates and prevailes and so saves his people from their sinnes Fiftly He is called Christ there 's an addition and increase of comfort in this name it signifies anointed Christ was anointed to be our Prophet to shew us the waies of life and salvation he was anointed to be our Priest to offer a reconciling sacrifice for us And he was also anointed to be our King to protect us and to destroy all our enemies Sixtly Our Advocate is called the Righteous by an eminency none so righteous as he he is perfectly righteous so that he needs not as other Advocates to plead for himselfe he pleadeth onely for us and he must needs have good successe in his pleading because he is righteous himselfe he is the Righteous just and a justifier absolutely and compleatly righteous by his own inherent purity and conveying righteousnesse to us by imputation Lastly our Advocate is such an one as stands in our roome and takes the whole penalty and punishment due to us for our offence upon himselfe therefore the Apostle addes that he is the propitiation for our sinnes that is he is the sacrifice that implores and begs pardoning Mercy for us Hence the bloud of sprinkling that is the bloud of Jesus Christ is said to speake better things then that of Abel Heb. 12. 24. for of Abels God speaks thus the voyce of thy brothers bloud crieth unto me from the ground Abels bloud cried unto God for vengeance to be executed upon Caine that murdered him but the bloud of Christ crieth unto God for mercy to be shewed unto poore miserable sinners Now then if Christ be our Advocate if he be an Advocate with the Father alwayes in his presence alwayes neere and deare unto him if he be an Advocae mighty to save if he be an Advocate separated and sanctified of God himselfe and anoynted to beare Office for us if he be an Advocate perfectly righteous and blamelesse in his owne person if hee be such an Advocate as is willing to stand in our stead and to beare the burden of our deserts like him that cried out when he saw his friend ready to be sl●ine Me me Adsum qui f●ci in me convertite ●er●ū Me mee I am he that did the fact turne your sword upon me Lastly if he be such an Advocate as refuses none but receives all without exception that come unto him if Christ I say be such an Advocate such a days-man so every way qualified and furnished to doe us good then surely it cannot be but that the prayers which we present unto God in his name must finde acceptance and obtaine a glorious returne Whatsoever you aske the Father in my name he will give it you saith Christ Joh. 16. 23. Christ puts incense upon our prayers and mingles them with the sweet odours of his owne merits he is the onely Altar of Christians sanctifying all their gifts and sacrifices Thus you have a taste of the excellent priviledges of Beleevers through Jesus Christ they have accesse to the Throne of Grace and all their petitions find acceptance with God returning as the Spies did out of Canaan with great and weighty clusters of blessings or as Jacobs sonnes did from their brother Joseph full and loaden with good things Oh then how precious how lovely how longed for ought Jesus Christ to be who accumulates and heapes such royall favours upon us who stores us with such rich and inestimable gifts who gives us free ingresse into the presence of God and regresse from him with joyfull hearts who makes way for our prayers that they may come as things of worth unto his Father and sends them back againe with good newes and glad tidings of blessed successe how precious I say and how highly to be esteemed and regarded is such a Benefactour as this how ought wee to draw out all our love and the very strength of our affections to cast them upon such a lovely object as this and to embrace Jesus Christ who hath done for us above all that wee can either name or thinke I passe now to some meanes by which we may awaken and stirre up our affections unto Christ And herein I shall give no other directions then the Church doth to the daughters of Jerusalem in Cant. 5. 10. c. And the occasion was this The Church was seeking Christ earnestly and diligently and in her seeking enquires of the daughters of Jerusalem for her beloved upon which the daughters utter these words What is thy beloved more then another beloved ô thou fairest among women The Church for answer and as a meanes to draw forth the affections of the daughters sets forth exactly the high perfections and excellencies of Christ shee doth anatomize him in every part and particularize him in every excellency setting him forth thus First the Church describes Christ in generall and that two wayes 1. Positively 2. Comparatively First positively my beloved is white and ruddy verse 10. that is he is of the most compleate perfect healthy constitution The strongest complexion and constitution is noted by these two colours white and ruddy and it denotes unto us the power and omnipotency of Christ whereby he is able to doe the greatest things in the world Also his whitenesse denoteth his purity and Righteousnesse and ruddy his owne bloud and sufferings and likewise his vengeance on his enemies for he hath his garments dipt in bloud Isaiah 63. 2. Secondly comparatively he is the chiefe of ten thousand or having 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the banner above ten thousand Christ is the Standard bearer of ten thousand that doth excell all men and Angels and all other creatures in the world Now in Armies the goodliest men use to carrie the Ensigne or banner so Christ is incomparable beyond all other and hath the perfections of Angels of men and of all creatures beside Againe the Ensigne is a warlike Instrument and the bearer thereof one of the chiefe so Christ is for the Ensigne of his people Isa 11. 10. And all the Armies in Heaven and earth doe follow him Rev. 19. 11. the Saints they worship him the Angels they adore him for he is the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah and he is the first-borne of God set above all the Kings of the Earth Secondly the Church descends from her generall commendations of Christ to that which is more particular setting him forth by all the members and lineaments of his body First the Church begins with Christs head which is the most eminent part of all the body His head is as the most fine gold verse 11. that is