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
A93062	The sinfulnesse of evil thoughts: or, a discourse, wherein, the chambers of imagery are unlocked: the cabinet of the heart opened. The secrets of the inner-man disclosed. In the particular discovery of the numerous evil thoughts, to be found in the most of men, with their various, and severall kinds, sinful causes, sad effects, and proper remedies or cures. Together with directions how to observe and keep the heart; the highest, hardest, nad most necessary work of him that would be a real Christian. / By Jo. Sheffeild Pastor of Swithins London.	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing S3064A; Thomason E1863_1	165,696	337

beleeveth there is a possibility that thou maiest beleeve though yet thou dost not or canst not Say I cannot beleeve if thou wilt Say not with Thomas I shall no● I will not beleeve yet didst thou so Jo. 20. 25. conclude thou mightest after come to cry out with highest rejoycings of assurance with him My Lord and my God Nay if Jo. 20. 28. thou art come to that to say there is no possibility in thee to be saved Are our impossibles impossible with God Our Saviour speaking of the difficulty of the salvation of some resolves and staies it upon Gods omnipotency With man this is impossible but with Mar. 10. 27. God all things are possible Hang therefore upon possibility to beget desires and on these desires till thou gettest hope on hope above or against hope till thou come to faith on faith till thou come to assurance Say I will look up to his holy temple I will Jonah 2. 4. look up to the mercy-seat and if I perish I will not perish with my hands in my bosome but I will repent mourn pray and when I have done my part the Lord do with me what he will I have read of one in despair whom Satan perswaded in was in vain to pray or serve God for he must certainly go to Hell who yet went to prayer and begged of God that if he must go to Hell when he died yet he would please to give him leave to serve him while he lived upon which his terrors vanished being clearly convinced none could pray that prayer that had sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost 5. Let me say to thee as Tamar to Amnon in another case This later evil in turning 2 Sam. 13. 16. mercy out of doors is worse then the former in abusing it and forcing it to serve thy lusts Both are nought this worse The sin of Cain despairing was worse then the killing his brother there he wronged Justice here mercy thereby he violated the law hereby he disparaged the Gospel thereby he set light by the bloud of his brother hereby of the bloud of a Saviour which crieth louder for better things then the bloud of Abel for vengeance we say the like of Judas despair Heb. 12. 24. it was a greater sin then the betraying of his Master Lastly If thou must have examples to encourage thee who sayest none was ever such a one as my self and pardoned consider what is written in Scripture Manasses was a man given over to all wickednesse an Idelater 2 Chron. 33. 3 4 5 6 7. Corrupter of Gods worship a man of bloud a consulter with familiar spirits the greatest contemner of the Prophets and commands of God that could be yet found mercy when he was humbled And Paul who had been before a persecutor and a blasphemer and injurious in the highest degree 1 Tim. 1. 13 14 15. to make him the greatest of sinners yet found mercy We could instance in some others of our own knowledge having many gracious experiences of that truth Where sin hath abounded grace hath more then abounded super abounded And where sin hath reigned as a tyrant Ro. 5. 20. 21. unto death and condemnation grace hath reigned as a gracious King unto eternall life in acts of pardon and mercy through Jesus Christ But I shall content my selfe to give thee one as sad an example as you shall ordinarily meet with out of Aretius a Godly and eminent Author speaking of the sin against the Holy Ghost I saw saith he and knew the man my self and it is no fained story There was saith he a Merchant at Strasbourgh whose whole l●fe was abominable for whordome Usury drunkennesse contempt of Gods word he spent his lfe in gaming and whoring to his old age at Aret. in Mat. 12. 32. last he came to reflect on himself and be sensible of the dreadfull judgments of God hanging over his head Then did his conscience so affright and the Devil accuse and terrifie him that he fell into open and down right desperation he confessed and yeelded himselfe to the Devil as being his he said the mercy and grace of God could not be so great as to pardon sins so great as his Then what horrour was upon him gnashing of death weeping wayling yea he would challenge Satan and wish the Devill would fetch him away to his destined torments he threw himselfe all along upon the ground refused both meat and drink had you seen him you could never have forgot him wh●le you had lived you had seen the fullest pattern of a despairing person Yet saith after the many paines of Godly and learned men who came to him watched with him reasoned with him laid open the word and will of God and after many prayers publick and private put up for him at length he recovered and became truly penitent and having lived piously for certain years after he died peaceably Wherefore he concludeth it is not an easy matter to determine of any man sinning against the Holy Ghost and uncape●ble of mercy so long as he yet live● CHAP. XV. Of presumptuous thoughts BUT of the thoughts of presumption the world is more full It is that which first digged and opened the Pit of Hell now keepes it open at length will fill it up brim full This is Satans standard-bearer And of this we may safely say It was the first sin in the world The Original sin of the lapsing Angels who not content with their allotted station in so high glory thought it no robbery to be equal with God and having entertained such a presumptuous thought of a Dii erimus they aspired after it and were thrown into Hell with it so that their place is no more found in heaven nor any place for presumption there since But this their originall sin they soon propagated to mankind soon after falling Satan in the likenesse of a subtle serpent buzzing in their heads a Dii eritis ye shall be as Gods they Gen. 3. 5. neither regarding precept or threat to the contrary were soon tainted with it and were justly for their presumption cast out of Paradise But though it could find no place in Heaven or Paradise it hath overspread the whole world And this Dii eritis as one saith will never die but in every presumptuous sin or attempt or rising of heart there is a spice of it Dii sumus or Dii erimus we will be as Gods and as for the Lord every presumptuous sinner saith in his heart I know him not Ex. 5 3. Psal 12. 〈◊〉 Who shall be Lord over us And being bred in the flesh it will never be out of the bone as we say every one more or lesse tainted with it And there are presumptuous thoughts of two kinds we are subject unto Carnall and spirituall presumption 1. Carnall all are subject unto hence if we have an arm of flesh to trust in how apt Jer. 17. 5. are