Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	according_a	lord_n	love_a	2,028	5	9.4424	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04840	Two sermons. vpon the Act Sunday, being the 10th of Iuly. 1625 Deliuered at St Maries in Oxford.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; King, John, 1559?-1621. aut	1625 (1625)	STC 14972; ESTC S108030	43,354	86

of the land which was Sampsons stratagem with foxes firebrandes to burne the Philistimes corne Or whē they cut off the convoies block vp a beleaguered towne so that it cannot take in new prouisions which is the new militarie discipline of these times when by breaking the staff of bread and causing cleannes of teeth the enemies prevaile more then by their owne courage and force of armes Or else when in times of peace aud plentie our great Corne-masters will make a dearth by hoording vp their graine that they may the better enhance the price of it Suffering the bowells of the poore to be emptie while their store-houses are full and with a pittiles eye beholding their needy brethren whil'st they cannot but knowe that mise and ratts and other vermine revell in their garners There are other waies in which the hand of man may concurre to a famine Therefore David refusing those two vnder that phrase submits himselfe here to the Pestilence by submitting himselfe to the hand of the Lord. And of the Lord alone that he would visit immediatly without deputing or substituting any vnmercifull creatures to that worke of vengeance For he is facile and exorable slow to conceiue a wrath and loath to execute it when it is conceiued in rigor and strictnes For his mercies are great Which is the strong Inducement and Reason of Dauids choice to cast himselfe vpon the Lord. And obserue his emphaticall expressions He doth not say mercie but mercies in the plurall more then one Not few mercies but many mercies nor many litle but many and great mercies nor there a stoppe but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very many in their number very great in their dimensions Nay they are not onely many and great but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 very many great and tender mercies as the Septuagint well render the Originall Not by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The very bowells of motherly compassion for which the Evangelist's oftimes use 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His mercies are extended according to the extension of all our miseries and elevated according to the elevation of our sinnes Be they neuer so many neuer so weightie yet the mercies of the Lord are ouer all his workes and ouer all those which we may most properly call our workes It is a high degree of mercie that although I haue offended in many things yet I might haue fallen into more and more foule transgressions had not his mercie restrain'd me It is an addition of mercie that the Lord who spared not the Angels which kept not their first estate but presently cast them downe from Heauen is long suffering towards me and expects my returne to him almost at mine owne leasure Non continebam à sceleribus tu á verberibus abstinebas He farther enlargeth his mercy when this long expectation and forbearance brings mee to repentance and that hee toucheth my heart with compunction and remorse Againe when his mercie leaues me not in an vnfruitfull repentance in the bitternesse of my soule bu● accepts of it and seales vnto me the comfort of the remission of my sinnes Yet he followes this with another giuing me the power to amend my life and hereafter to walke more cautelously Nether are his mercies yet shortened but new euery morning nay euery moment minute in that he giues me constancie and perseuerance that I fall not into a recidiuation a relapse Lastly there is the height of mercy when he giues me a miserable sinner who am not worthy so much as to lift vp mine eyes to heauen an assured hope of obtaining heauen Here are seauen degrees of mercy like those seauen loau●s wherewith thousands were refreshed And I might with St Bernard gather vp many baskets full of the fragments of each of them But what heart can comprehend what discourse can containe those many very great and tender mercies that know no other bounds but aeternitie The mercie of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting ab aeterno per praedestinationem in aeternum per glorificationem Great are the mercies of the Lord euen in his executions of Iustice 1 That he will at all shew vs so great a testimonie of his loue as to correct vs. Quos amo arguo That Ezech. 16. 42. I will be no more angry is an euident token of the Lords greatest anger Tunc magis irascitur cum no● irascitur Let fauour be shewed to the wicked hee will not learne righteousnes sayth the Prophet Isa. 26. 10. The presumptiō of impunity will breed impudence in sinning and that not stay till it haue brought in most fearefull impenitency Super omnem irammiseratio ista as St. Bernard exclames such forbearance such conniuence is beyond all vengeance Let then this mercy of the Lord first shew it selfe that he will be pleased to disciplinate and correct vs and not leave vs to our owne corrupt imaginations not giue vs ouer to the inuentions of our owne hearts and in the second place he will not forget to be a Father of mercies towards vs in the measure of his corrections It is a fearefull thing indeede to fall into the hand of the Lord but it is then onely when his left hand of Clemencie doth not know what his right hand of iustice and seuerity purposeth to inflict But such iustice without mercy onely attendes those that haue reiected and conte●ned both Otherwise there is euer a hand of mercie either ready to stay the hand of the Lords seuerity towards the paenitent as the Angell held Abrahams hand when he was striking or at the least to breake the force of the blowes to moderate and temper them according to our patience As the Prophet Habbakuk makes it his petition In wrath remember mercy so our last translation hath it but the vulgar makes it a confident perswasion Cum iratus fueris misericordiae recordaberis Indeede wee haue Gods owne word nay his oath for it as Dauid had Once haue I sworne by my holinesse that I will not lye vnto Dauid If his children forsake my law I will visit their iniquity with the rod with stripes but it shall be In Plag●s filiorum hominum with no more cruell stripes then humane infirmitie can beare as we read the same promise repeated Misericordiam autem non auferam Neuerthelesse my mercy louing kindnesse shall not depart from them Behold then what consolations Dauid had in the many mercies of the Lord the same are still stretched out ouer vs if as he was a mā after Gods heart we be after Dauids What euer calamitie or pressure be vpon vs we must keepe holy Iobs aequanimitie and good temper to receiue evill as well as good from the hand of the Lord. But when the visitation is particularly discerned to be the Plague as Dauid here desired when we see that the hand of the Lord is vpon those houses