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
A96180	The anchor of hope, for Gods tossed ones, or, Mercies thoughts for the vessels of mercy under misery, or, Gods bowels let out, opened, proclaimed to afflicted saints in a little treatise on the 29 of Jer. 11 vers. / by John Welles ...	Wells, John, 1623-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1290A; ESTC R42975	70,879	217

shall get the upper hand Now now I shall see David his fellowe stumble shortly now Saul will meet with him and he shall never escape his hands yea but saies David the goodnesse of God endures thou forgettest thy selfe Doeg our God hath purposes of love hee hath fruits of love his goodnesse endures in it selfe it is so constant that it is unchangeable it endures in regard of Gods owne people t is made over to them God himself hath made it sure to them t is so his that t is theirs too in way of title and they may challenge challenge the fruits and manifestations of it in Jesus Christ do not thou think Doeg that there is no more ado but kill and slay Saints at thy pleasure what ever God hath permitted thee to do hitherto the goodnesse of God endures it is not as yet come to an end towards the Saints not never will thou deceivest thy self yet God is good to Israel he is good to David he is good to all Anointed ones thus David cooles persecuting Doeg and certainly if those that are thus bad against God and his people could were able or would see God thus good unchangeably in himself relatively towards his people they would have little heart to persecute it is a fond conceipt of having the fill of their own desires upon the people of God that flushes wicked men so that puts such wicked motions in life against the Saints it is a vain hope of successe that claps them on the back and bids them go on and be desperately resolute Secondly let the Saints know here is a glasse for them to see many precious duties in 1 Ye that believe ye that by faith are brought home to Jesus Christ and have the blessed fruits of these thoughts of his love powred out upon you fall a wondring let it work you to admiration and to blessed acknowledgements such a view should you take of the sweet wayes of Gods love towards you think not with your selves we have mercies and there is an end Saints must not make such sinfull stops you must go abroad to see mercy and neither house up nor hood-wink your selves 1 Does not God minde you when you are in your greate● straits under the heaviest clouds He hath an ear to hear your groaning when oppression hath a● hand to make you groan Isra●● though dis-respected in Egypt yet hath respect in heaven when Saints have the harshest vilest bloudiest usage from a proud Pharaoh they shall have tender mercy from their God God that heard the voice of a perishing Ishmael Gen. 21.17 the bond-womans sonne will much more hear the voice of a living and a faithfull Isaac the sonne of the free-woman when tyrants be trampling Saints under feet and writing their names in the dust yet then are they graven upon the palmes of Gods hands and their broken walles their broken conditions Isa 49.16 are continually before him there was never a time as long as time hath been never a strait as many as Saints have had wherein God hath forgotten them God ever yet walkt with his children though in the fiery furnace he will be where they be when they be where he would have them to be he will be with his mercy and his grace where they be in their sorrows and in their troubles God hath many thoughts and all precious thoughts of love towards them what do you thinke that God minds not his Saints in England that could not that would not that was not unmindfull of his Saints in Egypt do you thinke that these onely are forgotten or in this age alone God puts his people out of his mind or do you thinke that God minds not the degree of their sufferings how far they be gone how low they be brought the depth of their miseries or the height of their extremities or the rage of their adversaries or will God now content himselfe with an everly looke upon his peoples case with a cast of an eye with a glaunce onely towards them no no he hath them alwaies in his heart upon his breast he hath them alwaies in his eye he hath them alwaies graven upon his hand behold and wonder at such love and yet this is not all In the 2. place he is a forecasting God for them he purposes deliverances long before even from all eternity his thoughts be a contriving as it were the time the best time the way the sweetest way the end the happyest end the mercy the greatest mercy for his owne people to have in this way he is now walking with his people in this land his thoughts have been long at worke upon these things and now is our God a bringing forth his owne purposes to light a shewing his owne thoughts now he is a telling his Saints in England that he is a God that can love can contrive can take care for his people can tell how to send them good to give them mercy to worke for their liberties for their peace blesse our God ye Saints cause the voice of his praise to be heard publish and say Who may be compared to our God he alone is excellent in his thoughts in his purposes in his bowels in his workings there is none marvelous but him there is none like unto him And therefore yet more in the third place these thoughts of our God are they no full of wonders do they not deserve to be sought out of all his Saints see into this love that passes knowledge that is so above the reach of the minds eye see into the length and depth of this mercy of our God which is so unfadomable these purposes these thoughts they are the blessed issues of Gods own heart towards his they are those pure and living streams sweetly and immediately flowing from the fountain of life it self and how can mercy be deeper set then in the very nature in the very heart of God and can these be any other then mercies of a full length how can they have lesse then an infinite an eternall reach with them are these like to end that had never any beginning in the thoughts of God shall man give a measure or time put a period to such a love no no this mercy endures for ever and ever and here is ground enough for Saints to praise yea to call upon others too and say O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever yea to speak it over and over as David did Psal 136.1 2 3.26 verses who plyes this thing so that he doubles and trebbles it yea four times he makes mention of it in that one Psalm oh this pleads strongly for thanks it cries mightily for an high strain of praise his mercy enduring for ever the Lords eternity of mercy puts on Saints hearts sets them upon this heavenly tune O give thanks unto the Lord. In the 4. and last place see is not our God waiting to be gracious