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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
A58808	Practical discourses concerning obedience and the love of God. Vol. II by John Scott ...	Scott, John, 1639-1695.; Zouch, Humphrey.	1698 (1698)	Wing S2062; ESTC R32130	213,666	480

the precious Blood of the Son of God such as our Saviour must die for or our Souls must have suffered for to all Eternity How different therefore are our Thoughts from God's We think it a Matter of Sport and Laughter a Thing to Play and make Merry with but God who knows the inmost Nature of things looks upon it as a Thing of such a black and horrid Nature as that nothing but the Blood of our Souls or the Blood of his Son can make Expiation for O blessed God! Had we but such Thoughts of our Sins as thou hast how should we start and tremble at the Sight of them and with what Horror and Amazement should we reflect upon them Surely if all the Devils in Hell should stand round about us in the most gastly Shapes and Apparitions it would not put us into half that Agony of Fear as would the Sense and Remembrance of our own Guilts and Follies For had we but a Window into Hell to look through and see what unsufferable Torments the damned Ghosts undergo there for those Sins we make so light of how they burn and roar in those Flames of Lust about which we like silly Flies do sport and dally or had we but the Cross always standing before our Eyes with the Son of God hanging on it for those Sins that are our Recreation sighing and groaning out his innocent Soul in Torment and Agonies to expiate those Faults which we commit with so much Greediness and Pleasure surely either of these sad Spectacles would be sufficient to cool our Courage and to make us affraid of ever sinning more Why then should not our Belief of these Things have the same Effect upon us as the Sight and Sense of them must needs be supposed to have O my Soul why should I be so mad as to hug and embrace my Lusts any longer when I believe the Evil of them to be so great as that the merciful Father would never have forgiven them had not his own most blessed Son born their Punishment and freely submitted himself to suffer for them in my Stead yea and which I verily believe he will never Pardon yet unless I heartily repent of and forsake them but notwithstanding all that his Son hath suffered to make Expiation for them will yet pursue and prosecute them with the most direful effects of an endless and omnipotent Vengance 2 ly Hence I infer the Certainty of our perishing for ever if we do not repent of our Sins and forsake them For if God would not have forgiven them upon our Repentance unless an Expiation had been made for them by the Blood of his Son how can we imagin that he will now forgive them whether we repent of them or no When all that could be obtained for us from our offended God by the vocal Blood and Wounds of his own Son whose Language was a thousand Times more effectual for us than all the Retorick of Angels could have been was only this that if yet we would heartily repent and amend we should certainly find Mercy and Favour at his Hands can we be so assured as to hope for any more Is it likely that our obstinate Continuance in wilful Rebellion against him should be a more prevalent Advocate for us than the most eloquent Blood of that innocent Lamb which spoke better Things for us than the Blood of Abel Will he be more indulgent to our Sins than he was to the obedient Sufferings of his own Son whose Blood cryed Mercy Mercy with a Voice more moving and persuasive than the united Prayers of a World of sinful Creatures could have done though they had been washed in Floods of penitent Tears Let us not therefore be so fond as to presume that when the utmost that God would grant us for his own dear Son's sake was to receive us to Mercy upon our unfeigned Repentance he will now for our own sakes pardon us whether we repent or no. And since at the powerful Intreaties of the Blood of Jesus he hath indulged to us as much Mercy as was fit for him to grant and much more than we could ever have hoped for let us not be so immodest as to expect any farther but fix this as an eternal Verity in our own Minds that either our Sins or our Souls must perish and then if after all that he hath done for us we will continue wicked there is no Remedy but we must be miserable for ever 3 dly And lastly Hence also I infer how inexcusable we are if we now perish in our Sins now God hath done such great Things for us and contrived such an excellent Way to pardon us So that now there can be nothing wanting to the Accomplishment of our Pardon but only our own Repentance and Reformation for God and our Saviour have done all that is to be done on their Part our Saviour hath suffered for us and God hath accepted it as an Expiation for our Sins And now the whole Matter sticks at us and there is nothing wanting but only our Repentance and if we will not Repent and thereby intitle our selves to that merciful Pardon which God and our Saviour have prepared for us there is none can be blamed for our Ruin but our selves For when Inquisition shall be made for the Blood of our Souls the only Cause of our Ruin will be found to be this that we were wilfully and obstinately impenitent What then shall we be able to say for our selves when we come to plead for our Lives at the Tribunal of God Shall we plead that our Condition was hopeless and desperate we being bound over for our past Sins to an irrevocable Damnation Alas With what Confidence can we plead this when God had been so merciful as not to exact of our own Persons the Penalty which his Law had denounced against us but graciously admitted another to suffer for us and upon his suffering promised to forgive us if we would heartily repent Or can we pretend that by this gracious Indulgence of his he encouraged us to Sin on and gave us Reason to hope that he who without our Repentance had remitted so much of the Severity of his Laws as to admit another to suffer in our Stead might as easily be induced to remit all whether ever we repented or no Why how could he have more effectualy discouraged us from sining on when he would admit of no less Suffering but what considering the Greatness of the Person who underwent it was as dreadful an Example of his Severity against Sin as if he had damned for ever a whole World of Sinners Or will you urge that you thought it in vain to return since by your former Sins you had for ever forfeited the Favour of God For though there was some Hopes that he might be intreated to pardon or remit your Punishment yet 't was in vain to hope that after so many Provocations he would ever be throughly reconciled again