Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	anger_n	lord_n	slow_a	2,036	5	9.7827	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26309	Dying infants sav'd by grace proved and the blessd man with his blessedness described in a sermon preached near Namptwich in Cheshire at the burial of a deceased infant, July 25, 1695 / by S.A.	Acton, Samuel, d. 1740?	1699 (1699)	Wing A452; ESTC R28175	24,873	32

and all that is within me bless his Holy Name who forgiveth all thine Iniquities c. Psal 103.1 2 3. And if here is not enough to ingage us in the unwearied celebrating of God's Praises what will or can since they whose Sins are not imputed are admitted to a Happiness above all expression and when once they have entred the Heavenly Region and are ranged there among the Blessed will think Eternity little enough to be spent in ascribing Praise and Glory to God who sits on the Throne and to the Lamb in discharging us from the Guilt and Punishment of Sin and in stating us in so great high and lasting a Happiness as the fruit of his not imputing Sin for I say Blessed is the Man unto whom the Lord imputes not Sin We now proceed to shew you on this foot of Account that dying Infants are Blessed being such on whom the Lord will not charge Sin to their eternal Condemnation And truly I cannot but hope my work is more than half done from the cordial desires of our Hearts that it may be so The thing is certainly very desirable especially to such as have long mourned being doubtful in the matter not knowing what the eternal State of their deceased Babes may be To remove their fears and satisfy all I shall tho the more briefly because of what has been said already labour to clear up the Safety and Happiness of dying Infants through the Grace of God in not imputing Sin unto them and that from these Considerations 1. Consider the unparallel'd and incomparable Goodness of God towards all There is no rank of Creatures no not the silly Ant in the Earth or Fly in the Air but partakes of divine Bounty and Goodness being always under the beneficial influences of that God who is Gracious Merciful of Long suffering abundant in Goodness and Truth as he stiles himself Exod. 34.6 And he is not so in himself only but he is diffusively so he upholds and communicates of his goodness to all his Creatures so says the Psalmist Psalm 145.8 9. The Lord is gracious and full of Compassion slow to Anger and of great Mercy The Lord is good to all and his tender Mercies are over all his Works If over all even the meanest of his Creatures then why not over innocent and dying Babes who never had either Will or Power in their own Persons once to offend Can there be thought a more meet object in all the World of the Goodness of God than innocent and dying Infants who have Souls more valuable than the whole World and are capable of the joys of a blessed or undergoing the Woes of a miserable and doleful Eternity Hath God in his goodness a care of every hair of your heads so that not one shall fall to the ground without his permission Mat. 10.29 30. and shall he have no compassion nor tender regard to the precious Souls of dying Infants I pray in what sense could the Royal Prophet in truth say The Lord is good to all if not in this sense good to Infants who it may be no sooner breath but die and are violently hurried from the confines of the Womb to the confines and region of Hell it self to suffer the punishment of Eternal Fire Is this consistent with Goodness it self to have no regard to so great and noble a Part of his Workmanship as Man in his Infant-State is and in which State he is but merely a passive Creature and not only so but to let him drop nay to cast him with indignation into those Flames that were originally and intentionally prepared for the Devil and his Angels Mat. 25.41 for what they could not possibly avoid and that without the least Remedy This is rather to strip God of his Goodness which by Man ought to be esteemed the very Perfection of his Nature who is so good that in comparison of him as our Lord says there is none good but God Mat. 19.17 2. That dying Infants are blessed and happy we may be assured from Christ's dying for them And such is the virtue and efficacy of the Death and Blood of the Lord Jesus that by it the Salvation of all dying Infants is secured else Christ in dying did not tast Death for every Man according to the intent and purpose of God in his Grace towards Man as the Apostle declares in Heb. 2.9 But that he tasted Death for every Man is certain since he is truly stiled the Saviour of all Men tho more especially of them that believe 1 Tim. 4.10 it is not only of them that believe but also of all Men. And so in Chap. 2.6 He gave himself a Ransom for all If for all then for dying Babes for who shall exclude them since Christ hath by his Death expiated and done away the Sin of the World But enough of this having toucht on it before 3. That dying Infants are blessed is evident from the utter impossibility of its being otherwise 'T is not possible they should perish since there is not any that can or will damn them God will not and Men cannot they cannot damn themselves being under the Power of no Law and where there is no Law there is no Transgression Rom. 4.15 and where there is no Transgression there is no Damnation for that is the Wages of Sin Rom. 6.23 Man cannot damn them I confess Men may destroy them as to a temporal Life Mat. 10.28 they may murder and ruin them in their Passion and Madness or in their blind Zeal may make them Sacrifices to their Idols as in the case of Moloch The Devil cannot damn them at most he can but tempt sollicite and allure by such Means and Arguments as he judges most likely to prevail But who can be so weak as once to imagin that Satan ever levels his fiery Darts against innocent and dying Babes They cannot rationally be the Subjects he sollicits the Persons he tempts or the Tinder he drops his fiery Sparks upon because they have no knowledg between Good and Evil Deut. 1.39 they discern not betwixt things that differ they know not their right hand from their left Jonah 4.11 nor have any power to chuse the Good and refuse the Evil. Tho Parents should be so wicked by their Sin and Apostacy to forfeit their title to the happiness of a promised Canaan yet Parents cannot destroy their Childrens Right by such defection from God's Law to the happiness of the Celestial Region No thither are dying Infants bound and hastning under the happy advantages of Wind and Tide let Men or Devils do what they can as you may see to perfect satisfaction Numb 14.30 31. No interposition can hinder their passage or obstruct their entring the Port of Eternal Blessedness And as these cannot so God will not damn them you have his Promise to the contrary and he is faithful to perform besides Christ hath died for them in whom they are made alive 1. Cor. 15.22 Rom. 5.19 But