Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	depth_n	free_a	great_a	44	3	2.0894	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45545	The choicest fruit of peace gathered from the tree of life presented to the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in a sermon preached before them at the Abbey church of Westminster, on April 30, 1660, being the day of their solemn humiliation / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing H713; ESTC R17334	18,790	38

battell by horses nor by horsemen And though there were persons instrumentall in carrying on the work as Cyrus Darius Zerubbabel Ezra Nehemiah yet they were such as God did immediately and extraordinarily raise up and it was done without secondary means which are usuall in recovery of our Rights It is so many times in Gods vindictive and gracious acts there is little of man that himself may have all the glory 3. Creation is a mercifull act as there was no instrumentall so neither any deserving cause of the framing of the world {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to them that ask what was the moving cause of the Creation no other answer can be returned but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the grace and goodnesse of God saith Phillo the Jew It was not a naturall act to the Trinity as the Generation of the Son is to the Father but a voluntary and free act arising from the good pleasure of his will and when there was nothing besides God there could be nothing without God to move him to it and therefore the Psalmist attributeth the making of the heavens not only to the depth of Gods wisedom but the length of his mercy To him that by wisedom made the Heavens for his mercy endureth for ever And surely it was no other then meer mercy which moved God to command salvation to the Captive Jews so the promise runs with great mercies will I gather thee and yet more fully not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be it known to you Indeed whatsoever deliverances God at any time vouchsafeth and that to his Church are to be ascribed not to her merits but his mercies 4. Creation is an act whereby something is produced out of nothing to wit either simpliciter or secundum quid meer nothing so was that first matter created or that which is no way disposed to the production of such forms as that matter was in respect of the things created out of it And what lesse was the restoration of the Jews who were no way able to rescue themselves nor yet the Babylonians disposed to let them go Thus many times that God which cemmanded the light to shine out of darknesse who framed this beautifull Edifice out of that rude chaos and every spring clotheth the naked trees with leaves spreadeth the bare earth with a green Carpet and enammeleth it with flowers by his wonderfull power wisedome and goodnesse brings happy settlement out of disorder and confusion 5. Creation is an irresistible act as being the work of Omnipotency and such was the Jews liberation Indeed the wicked were like the troubled Sea that is as some glosse it the wicked Babylonians used all the wayes and means possible to disturb and hinder the peaceable return of the Jews and it was true in the History Sanballat and Tobiah with many others endeavoured both by power and policy to obstruct their prosperity but that power and wisedom which created the world knoweth no impediments I will work saith God and who shall let it Unlesse there were a power above his none can and if there be he is not God Except the Lord keep the City saith David the watchman watcheth but in vain and if the Lord will keep it the enemy opposeth in vain so true is that of Elihu to Job when he giveth quietnesse who then can make trouble 6. Lastly Creation is an instantaneous act a sudden passage from not being to being without any successive motion or previous alteration It is true the world was not finished in lesse then six dayes but the act of creation upon every one of those dayes was in an instant and though in this the parallell is not full yet thus far it is true that the Jews return out of Babylon was sudden and speedy To this tend those expressions in this Prophet Who are those that flee as the clouds and as the doves to the windows And again who heard such a thing as this Who hath seen such things Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day or shall a Nation be born at once for as soon as Zion travelled she brought forth her children Thus though God is long before he begins yet ofttimes he quickly maketh an end Though therefore the vastnesse of our confusion strength of our adversaries length of our sufferings weaknesse of means and sence of our unworthiness may discourage us yet when we remember that God can and doth create deliverance let us be encouraged especially considering what he hath begun to do to an humble confident and patient waiting for the completion of our salvation and so much the rather because of the facility of the accomplishment in those words The fruit of the lips which is the last particular and cometh now to be handled To the right understanding whereof the Question would be made and resolved whose lips are here meant and according to a various reference there are severall interpretations More particularly it may be looked upon either as the fruit of Gods or mans of his or our lips and each in a double notion If we refer the fruit of the lips to God we may understand a double word to wit imperii and promissi the fruit of the lips that is his word of command and that lets us see how God would create peace or else the fruit of the lips that is the word of promise and that lets us see why he waited to create it 1. I create the fruit of the lips that is God would by a word of Command accomplish peace and this sence very fitly agreeth both with the thing and the phrase As to the restoration of the Jews it was effected by a word God did but speak to Cyrus and he maketh a decree for their returns so it runs in this Prophecy Thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus And as to the phrase of creating it is most sutable since Creation was by a word he commanded and they were created saith the Psalmist of the Heavens Jussit extendit campos said the Poet of the earth It was but an Ephphata and the deaf ears were opened a tace and the raging Sea was still an obmutesce and the devils were silenced but a fiat and the heavens and the earth were made It is very observable that of the devil to our Saviour If thou be the Son of God command or as the Greek word signifieth speak that these stones be made bread intimating that if he could turn the stones into bread by a word he would conclude him to be the Son of God this being indeed peculiar to a Deity that his word is the work and his most glorious operations are but the fruit of his lips 2. I create the fruit of the lips that is it had been the fruit of his lips in promising and therefore it should be the work of his