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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
A71286	A sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne monethly fast Januarie 29th, 1644 wherein these foure necessary considerations are plainly proved and demonstrated out of the holy Scriptures, viz ... / by George Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1645 (1645)	Wing W364; ESTC R6426	39,735	52

we have had in soothing Prelates and promoting their pride the more zealous let us be in trampling their pride under foot and in abhorring all appearance of it and in shewing open detestation of all their Iniquity Superstiton and Idolatry David was a man after Gods heart and when through fleshly frailty he had fallen into great and scandalous sinnes adding to his adultery murther though upon his confession of his sin the Lord forgave the iniquity of it and the Prophet told him that the Lord had taken away his sin he should not dye nor undergoe any destroying punishment of wrath and vengeance yet he rested not in confessing fasting mourning and praying for a day but out of loathing and abhorring his sinfull corruption he afflicted his soule seven dayes lying upon the ground fasting weeping and making supplication with strong cries and saying Have mercy upon me ô God according to thy loving kindnes according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out all my transgressions wash me throughly from my wickednesse deliver me from bloud-guiltinesse create in mee a cleane heart restore to me the joy of thy salvation Psal. 51 And againe O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath I am troubled I am bowed greatly I goe mourning all the day long As wee may more at large see in his penitential Psalmes in which his sorrowes are ingraven and recorded to all posterities And all this repentance proceeded not from horrour of conscience or feare of death and hell as that of Ahab and Iudas did but out of true remorse and godly sorrow for that he had sinned against a God so gracious and full of tender compassion His owne words shew the true ground of his griefe where he saith Against thee thee only have I sinned It was his love of God and sense of Gods love and mercy to him which made him so hate his sinnes and loath himselfe And indeed this is true Evangelicall repentance which works effectually to the mortifying of the old man killing the body of death and subduing the rebellious lusts of the flesh this makes our former sins hatefull and grievous to us and terrifies us from falling in to the like againe O how happy should we be if we could thus repent if we could thus humble our soules in these our Fasts Gods bowels of compassion would yearn towards us as the bowels of tender parents doe over a deare child when they see him grieving at the heart and mourning for his offence of them and disobedience to them When the Lord our God sees us thus penitent he will answer us graciously meet us and embrace us with love make us behold his face with joy in the righteousnesse of Iesus Christ accept his ransome for us and will say to your soules I am your salvation His scourging rod the cursed Bramble with all the Thornes and Pricks thereof all the bands of the wicked which trouble us shall be thrown away into the fire burnt and consumed I proceed to the second poynt which is the resemblance of the severall sorts of ungodly malicious and ill-affected persons banded together to consult devise and practise evil against the Church of Christ to oppresse persecute and doe mischiefe to Gods people unto the severall sorts of pricks on the great Bramble of which some are green and more tender others dryed and hardned but all sharp pricking and hurtfull and are all to be taken away as with a whirle-wind This ministers to us the second Doctrine That all persons combined in any Band or faction consulting and working together against Gods Church and people whether they bee doctrine 2 more or lesse pernicious and able to do mischiefe whether Hypocrites working under hand or open profest persecutors they are all sharers in the same wickednesse and being all of the same cursed Band and crew they shall perish in the same destruction This is further confirmed by Gods own words Psal. 50.16 c. But unto the wicked said God what hast thou to doe to declare my Statutes and to take my Covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my word behinde thee when thou sawest a Thiefe thou consentedst to him and hast beene pertaker with the adulterers thou givest thy mouth to evill and thy tongue frameth deceit thou sittest and speakest against thy brother and slanderest thine owne mothers son In which words I observe that some wicked men make a profession of Religion declare Gods Statutes and take his Covenant in their mouth Secondly that they hate instruction oppose Reformation and break their Covenant with God Thirdly that by sitting in Counsell with persecutors speaking evill with their mouthes and framing deceit with their tongues and consenting to the deeds of evill-doers they are pertakers of their sinnes Fourthly that Gods wrath is kindled against them and if they doe not repent he will teare them in pieces and none shall deliver them And Psalme 26.4.5 The holy Psalmist pleading immunity from sliding and that God will not take him away nor gather his soule with sinners nor his life with men of bloud in whose hand is mischief because he hath not sate with vaine persons nor gone in with dissemblers but hath hated the Congregation of evill doers and will not sit in Counsell with the wicked doth necessarily intimate that all they who do joyn in counsel with the wicked help forward their designes are pertakers of their sinnes and shall perish with them And to the same purpose the Prophet Ieremy speaks saying I sate not in the assembly of the mockers nor rejoyced why is my paine perpetuall and my wound incurable which refuseth to be healed which words import that they who are of the Band of Scorners and rejoyce in their evill doings are pertakers of their wickednesse and their wages shall be perpetuall paine and wounds incurable All in Corah's conspiracy even women and children were found guilty before God of that rebellion and perished in it And in a City falling away to Idolatry all in it yong old are guilty and to be cut off And indeed there is good Reason grounded on the word of reason 1 God to prove this For if childred are punished for the sins of their fathers unto the third and fourth Generation because so long they may by sight or hearing know them and see the prints and monuments of their fraud violence oppression pride and the like and wittingly hold and possesse their ill-gotten goods of which they having knowledge become pertakers of their sinnes and make themselves guilty by approving or imitating them or neglecting to grieve and mourn for them and to make restitution and not removing their cursed things out of their families Then much more they who are Counsellors abettors actors and promoters of ungodly actions and have an hand in the doing of them are pertakers and guilty of them as being their owne sins for which they are justly punished Now the first is manifest