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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
A50522	The works of the pious and profoundly-learned Joseph Mede, B.D., sometime fellow of Christ's Colledge in Cambridge; Works. 1672	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.; Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing M1588; ESTC R19073	1,655,380	1,052

should a man take in that gain which he knows he must one day forgo as willingly as now he desireth covetously when he might thus say with himself The time must come that I must wish from the bottom of my heart that this I now do had never been done if ever I mean to find mercy at the hands of God The time must one day come that I must restore all this I have thus unlawfully gotten yea make recompence besides for the injury I have done or else woe worth the time that ever I was born and cursed be the night wherein I was conceived If men would consider this Alas I shall never say unto God on my death-bed I repent from the bottom of my heart if I bequeath one jo● of this I have thus gotten I shall never say unto God I wish from my soul this sin I have done were undone or if it were now to do again no motive in this world should make me do it Alas how can I say this whiles it is in some sort in my power to undo sin by restoring if I will not Surely he that had this in his mind would think it would not quit the cost to attain any of this world's goods unlawfully But let them think as they will as sure as God is true Without Restitution Repentance can never be true and without true Repentance it is impossible to be saved And thus much of this Third degree of Repentance and of the First part of my Text. I COME now to the Second which is The Condition and State he comes unto who hath done all this and that as ye hear is a State of Mercy The repentant sinner is capable of the Mercy of God to pardon and forgive his sin If the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous his thoughts The Lord will have mercy on him our God will abundantly pardon The Mercy of God is here as you see his loving-kindness unto a sinner to set him free from that evil he is liable to through sin and to restore unto him the good he hath lost thereby that is with commiseration of his misery to forgive him and restore him to that blessedness which is in the favour of God This mercy or mercifulness of God is here exprest first simply in the words The Lord will have mercy on him and secondly with a degree he will pardon abundantly Of these I will speak briefly and so make an end And first of the first If the forgiveness of our sins and the accepting of us into the everlasting favour of God be a work of Mercy then not of any Merit or deserving on our part for these two cannot stand together So saith S. Paul Tit. 3. 5. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he hath saved us For if when we have done all we can we are still the subjects of pity it needs must be we are still in misery for no man shews pity or commiseration but to those that are in a pitiful case wheresoever Mercy is shewn the party aileth something But to be in case of Merit is no pitiful case what can he aile for his sin to whom Heaven is due for his merit who need not be beholden to God for his kindness but may challenge him for justice If this then be the manner of God to shew mercy unto those who deserve nothing at his hands it is our part to be like unto him We are not in actions of charity to look upon the merit but the misery the bestowing of Alms is no paying of wages or giving of rewards but an act of holy pity The like I might say of forgiving the offences of our brethren If he repent him of the injury thou are not to exact a merit of forgiveness but let thy love be as ingenuous unto thy brother as God's was free unto thee The last thing to be considered is The degree of God's mercy in delivering us from our sins It is no small favour for he pardoneth abundantly Amongst all the works of God his works of Mercy toward mankind are in surpassing measure Hence it is that he proclaims himself by this as by his principal style Exod. 34. 6. The Lord the Lord God merciful gracious long-suffering which David expounds Psal. 103. 8. The Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger and plenteous in mercy S. Paul describes him Ephes. 2. 4. a God who is rich in mercy This may appear by the admirable way of our Redemption in sending his own Son from Heaven to suffer the ignominious death of the Cross for our sake Even so God loved the world saith S. Iohn that he gave his only-begotten Son for the same This may appear by his patience and long-suffering in enduring sin In the 65. chap. of this Book v. 2 3. He spreadeth out his hands all the day unto a rebellious people which walketh in a way that was not good yea which provokes him to anger continually to his face Lastly It may appear by that huge proportion wherein his Mercy exceeds his Vengeance He visits the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate him but sheweth mercy unto the thousandth generation of those who love him and keep his Commandments This may serve for our consolation in the most grievous temptation about the greatness of our sin The Lord is rich in mercy and therefore he will forgive the most grievous sin for the mercy of the Lord is greater than the sins of the whole world This Argument of comfort Moses bringeth in Deut. 4. 31. Because the Lord thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thee nor destroy thee nor forget the Covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them DISCOURSE XXXIX S. MATTHEW 7. 21. Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven THERE are three sorts of men in the World Some which call not Christ their Lord as Turks Iews and Infidels Some which call him Lord as all Christians but not all in like manner for there are two sorts of them some which call him Lord and that is all others which both call him Lord and do the will of his Father the administration whereof is committed to him The first of these three sorts Those who do not so much as call Christ their Lord it is plain they cannot be saved for there is no other name under heaven to be saved by● but by the name of Christ only For the second sort Those who call Christ their Lord that is are Christians and profess to believe in Christ and hope to be saved by him and yet do no works of obedience unto God though such as these may think themselves in a good estate yet our Saviour here expresly excludes them from entring into the Kingdom of Heaven