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mercy_n	father_n	lord_n	redeemer_n	2,002	5	9.8210	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94070	XXXI. select sermons, preached on special occasions; the titles and several texts, on which they were preached, follow. / By William Strong, that godly, able and faithful minister of Christ, lately of the Abby at Westminster. None of them being before made publique.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing S6007_pt1; Thomason E874_1; ESTC R203660	309,248	523

laid down these things in the general I hope it will ingage others to look further into them The first by way of Doctrin on this time There shal be a great and a national conversion of the Jews unto the Lord not here and there a man but even multitudes of them a whole Nation all Israel the whole house of Israel shal live they that went before were but as the first fruits Rom. 11.16 if the first fruit be holy so is the lump the harvest therefore all that have been converted is but as the first fruits in comparison of the lump the harvest of that people are yet to come into God Is 66.8 the Earth brings forth in a day and a Nation born at once Esay 49.21 I was desolate and left alone who hath begotten me all these where have they been c. And the grounds are First they do many of them belong to the election of grace God will not cast off his People whom hee knew before and though we can see none yet the Lord looks not as men look he hath 7000 in Israel c. when a man cannot see one and the Elect shall attain mercy for electing love wil follow a man til it overcome him and prevail with him and wil overcome 2dly Austrium Predestinatio electos ad gloriam usque producit By reason of the covenant made with their fathers they are beloved for their fathers sake its true God doth take children into their Parents covenant but they first in the outward priviledges of the covenant then God breaks them off from this also but the Lord hath a time when the covenant shal take place again and it is by vertue of this covenant that they do attain mercy the Lord remembring the covenant made with Abraham and with his seed and therefore he wil not cast away the whole society in the latter dayes he will return unto them again and a redeemer shal come unto them there is a seed of election runs through their fathers loyns and when this seed is brought forth then for their fathers sake they shal be called Vse Such a conversion we should help forward by faith and prayer and so much the rather because the time approaches the promises are even come unto the birth and they do draw on apace Consider these six things first how sweet wil the presence of God then be 2. The Sun shal be ashamed and the Moon confounded when the Lord shal reign in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously Esay 24. last Then shal it be said the Tabernacle of God is with men 2dly How glorious wil it be to see aboundance of Souls converted every one bearing twins and not one barren amongst them Rev. 15.8 No man was able to enter into the Temple during the time of the Vials now the smoke being gene many enter in 3dly To see Grace acted in the life and in the glory of it which is but little in the Christian Church to see men walk in the povver of the holy Ghost being as Justin Martyr calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how lovely and amiable would the lives of Christians be it shal be as life from the dead as they that have known nay had experience in themselves of another resurrection c. 4thly To see so many lie as dead withered branches upon whom the heart of God was set and were dear unto him they pitied you how much more should you pity them that through your mercy they might attain mercy Rom. 11.31 that is by the sight and the apprehension of the mercy that God hath shewed unto you they may be provoked for to look out for a part in the same mercy that was shevved tovvards you when you were lost the same wil the Lord extend unto them also c. 5thly Consider that their comming in shal be without your loss your comming in was with their rejection the natural branches were broken off that tho● mightst be grafted in we can knovv no reason for it but admire the Wisdom of God as Christs spirit was not given because Christs spirit was not glorified c. but novv you may be of the same Olive Tree and you may be in the same fold c. 6thly You have great benefits by it you have much profit by their rejection you shal have more by their restoration even life from the dead to you an inriching of the Gentiles with greater riches then the Gentiles can inrich them for the Lord Jesus will in a special manner exalt the Kings of the East Some Objections are to be answered when God gives another opportunity As then suffer them to live among us that they may have the Gospel preached to them that 's the way to their conversion to bring them into our land Ans First if they be here in providence we should not cast them out 2. If the Jews did live among you they were to have by the Law of God no other liberty among Christians then the Jevvish Magistrates were to give the Heathens among the Jews if they were here as they were not to suffer the Gentiles amongst them upon the account of aiming at their good neither might we suffer these among us not to abuse their worship or set up a false worship prophane their Sabboth or blaspheme their God This the Jews permitted not to the Gentiles nor should the Gentiles now permit the Jews 3. The stage place of their conversion shal not be in the Western parts of the world where few of thē are but in the East and North c. Dan. 11.44 it s said tydings out of the East and North shal trouble them as indeed their main residence is in those parts 4. It shal not be by the preaching of the Gospel vvhich is the ordinary way for the Gentiles but the Lord will do it in an extraordinary way A Nation shal be born at once therfore these are but the weak plots or charitable mis-apprehensions of men in this ignorant of the Scripture and all Labours this way will be to no purpose but let thy compassion run out in faith and prayer to bring the promise to the birth c. FINIS Heedless SERVICE Vnacceptable 2 KINGS 10.31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the way of the Lord God of Israel with his heart for he departed not from the sins of Ieroboam which made Israel to sin IN the Text are three things principally contained First a great service performed by Iehu both against the house of Ahab and the house of Baal with the Lords commendation of the same ver 30. that he had done well in executing that which was right in his eyes and had done according to all that was in his heart Secondly a great reward promised by God in Recompence of this service not ex precio operis but ex largitate donantis thy children to the fourth Generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel whoever is