Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	endure_v	lord_n	psalm_n	3,889	5	9.1870	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77362	Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's Westminster, May 17, 1648 being the day appointed for Thanksgiving for the great Victory in Wales / by William Bridge ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4451; Thomason E471_3	19,393	30

is there no act of mercy to be showne none of Christs friends to be relieved shall we make no progresse shall we stand still doe nothing as men in a maze shall we make no improvement of this deliverance and victory why should we not all sit down under our relations and say How shall I make improvement of this mercy what shall I do now for God and Christ that I did not before Is there nothing in your hand what No present to be given to Christ have we nothing at all then let us bring the sence of our own Nothing for the more humble ye are after victories the more thankfull for victories And if ye have no present in your hand this day to bring unto God for this victory Imago Caesar is reddatur Caesari imago Dei reddatur Deo August yet bring the victory it selfe and give it to God Ye give to Cesar the things that are Cesars why because his image is upon them and hath not this victory much of the image of God upon it When David was delivered from his enemies we reade in the 116. Psalme that he checks himselfe for his former unbeliefe I said in my haste c. and gathers up himself into God againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In ingenu is Ar. Motan sic Tarnov in Psalm passion Returne unto thy rest O my soule When delivered from his enemies as we reade in the 118. Psalme he sounds a retrate from man O my soule trust not in Princes not in man nor in the sons of men trust not in Princes The word in the Hebrew is Ingenuous men for Princes should be ingenuous and if any men are to be trusted to they are ingenuous men but being delivered from men he retreates from men and sayes O my soule trust not in men nor in the sons of men not in Princes not in ingenuous men Yea and in that Psalme he cals upon others also for to praise the Lord and so let us do in his words O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endures for ever He stilleth the rage of the sea and the tumults of the people for his mercy endures for ever Who hath owned your cause again and your forces again for his mercy endures for ever who hath remembred you in your low condition for his mercy endures for ever and hath visited us with his love at midnight for his mercy endures for ever O give thanks unto the God of Gods for his mercy endures for ever Praise the Lord. If Christ come at midnight Applic. 2. then me thinkes his personall coming is not farre off I cannot say it is midnight in that respect but surely it is very late it is very darke and it hath been darke a great while We reade of two sorts of signes which go before the coming of Jesus Christ Some that are more remote and transient some that are more immediate and just at his coming Those that are more immediate and just at his coming ye reade of in the 24. of Matth. vers 29 30. Immediately after the tribulation of those dayes shall the sunne be darkened and the moone shall not give her light and the starres shall fall from Heaven and the powers of the Heavens shall be shaken and then shall appear the signe of the Sonne of man in Heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourne and they shall see the Sonne of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory These are yet to come But those that are more remote all seeme to be past already Before the coming of Christ sayes the Apostle the man of sin shall be revealed that is past Before the coming of Christ there shall false Prophets arise and say I am Christ and another I am Christ that is past Before the personall coming of Christ there shall be warres and rumours of warres this is past And before that day there shall be great divisions even in the matter of Religion one saying Loe here is Christ and another Loe there is Christ this is already And immediately before and at his coming men shall be smiting their fellow servants eating and drinking with the drunken this is already The wise and the foolish Virgins shall be all asleepe and was there ever a time when both wise and foolish were more asleepe then now when men set themselves to sleepe they draw their curtaines put out their lights and will have no more light come in so now When men are asleepe their senses are bound up that were open before they see not heare not taste not smell not their senses are lock't up Sleep is Ligatio sensuum And was there ever time when mens senses were more bound up that were formerly exercised then now are there not some that would pray and heare and reade that will not now who have now throwne off all duties ordinances and meanes Oh! what sleeping is here was there ever such sleeping among professors as now there is if ever wise and foolish virgins were afleepe they seeme to be in our dayes and shall we sleep also will ye not rather watch and pray watch and pray pray and watch and what I say to one I say to all watch and pray least ye enter into temptation Take but two or three wakening observations from this Parable First If ye looke into this parable ye may observe a most desperate sleepe is to come upon all prosessors immediately before the coming the great coming of Christ I call that desperate sleepe which is universall this Parable fals upon the Churches Then shall the Kingdome of Heaven not the Kingdome of the world be like to ten Virgins and those ten shall be all asleepe good and bad And sayes our Saviour in another place Neverthelesse when the son of man comes shall he find Faith on earth Againe I call that a desperate sleepe which shall be in the face of light It s an hard thing to sleepe whilst a candle is held unto ones eyes and in the time before Christ comes much light and truth shall breake out as Antichristian errour goes off and yet even then good and bad shall fall asleepe I call that desperate againe which shall be in the midst of trouble It s an hard thing for a man to sleepe when he is pincht and stricken in the times before Christ and when he comes men shall be smiting their fellow servants and yet even the smitten shall be asleepe Oh! what desperate sleeping times shall the latter times be have we not all cause then for to watch and pray Againe secondly If ye looke into this Scripture or Parable ye find that those who fall asleepe immediately before the coming of Christ shall never wake again till Christ come And they all slept sayes the text of the ten Virgins and waked not till the Bridegroome came Now if a man be very sleepy and you come to him and say Sir take heed