Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	father_n	lord_n	spare_v	2,118	5	9.2354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65319	A lawyer's advice to the devil's agents: or, Some strokes at the unfruitful works of darkness, tending to their destruction made with a weapon taken out of the armory of the Most High. By William Watson, student in law.	Watson, William, student in law.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1150A; ESTC R220895	26,435	71

'll rather continue in them and presume upon the Mercies of God for pardon but the Mercies of God are conditional and you have no right to them unless you perform the Condition The wicked must forsake his way and the unrighteous Man his thoughts and return unto the Lord if he will have mercy and pardon ontherwise he cannot have it for Christ came not into the World to maintain people in sin but upon their Faith and Repentance to forgive them their Sins this is the only way in which he will be a Saviour unto you as you may learn from hes own Words Luke the 7th Chapter at the last Verse This you 'll say you know very well and that you must part with your sins or lose Heaven but you vainly think it's time enough yet and so defer it from Day to Day from Week to Week and form Year to Year 'till you are habituated to wickedness and so make it the more difficult to cast it off and what if by deferring it thus from time to time you should be suddenly as many are taken out of the World where are you then I shall not speak my thoughts but leave you to judge what your place and your Portion must be for ever very miserable I fear For I must tell you 't is a great presumption and very dangerous for any one to think of doing that in time to come which God bids him do presently 't is as if he knew better when it were to be done than God And if God says To day if you will hear his Voice harden not your Hearts and tells you That this is the day in which you should begin to seek after Salvation 2 Cor. 6.2 Behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of Salvation How dare you defer seeking after it 'till to Morrow much less for a longer time as hereafter as you call it Is to this the ready way to provoke God to anger and to make him Swear in his Wrath as he did to 〈…〉 stubborn Israelites Psalm the 95th at the last Verse That you shall not enter into his Rest And then you are undone to all Eternity For although God's Mercies are great yet we must not carelesly and wilfully forget his Commands and rely so much upon his Mercy as to forget his Justice for as he is merciful so he is just and a Man may run on in Wickedness so long till he becomes merciless and then God's Justice will take hold on him and destroy him Jer. 13.14 And I 'll dash them one against another even the Fathers and the Sons together says the Lord I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy but destroy them And if you will prevent the passing of this dreadful Sentence upon you now is the time Seek ye the Lord whilst he may be found call ye upon him whilst he is nigh Consider you have a whole Eternity to labour for and you have many of you lost a great deal of time already therefore make the better use of what is to come it may be shorter than you are aware of Ask Forgiveness forthwith under all the Circumstances of Humility on your bended knees for all the Sins you have hitherto been shamefully guilty of for those Knees which are now too strong to ply in God's Service will be too weak one day to stand in his Presence and keep a strict Account of all your Thoughts Words and Actions for the time to come and every Night before you compose your selves to sleep bestow a little time in considering how you have spent the day and see what evil you have committed and what good you have omitted that you may certainly and sincerely crave Forgiveness for it which is the properest and most likely method for getting into a Habit of Vertue and Goodness especially if you are careful to return Thanks to God in the Morning for preserving of you from the perils of the Night and earnestly desire that his Favour and Blessing may attend you throughout the whole Day and that he would prevent your evil Actions and bring your good ones to perfection And not adventure to lie down in the Sins not only of that Day but of many Years as too many careless People do 't is much to be feared lest you should sleep the sleep of Death spoken of in Psalm 13.3 and the Wrath of God should seize upon you and cast you into the dismal place of eternal misery But immediately fix your Resolutions for the glorious Kingdom of everlasting Happiness and let Piety be your continual practice which is the certain way of attaining of it Cease to do evil learn to do well and be not weary of it but be diligent Followers of them that through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises and in due season you shall reap your Reward and be owned by Christ when he comes in the Glory of the Father with the Holy Angels and appears to those that look for him the second time without sin unto Salvation FINIS