Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	ghost_n	holy_a	redeemer_n	2,615	5	10.3339	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32782	Death compared to sleep in a sermon preacht upon the occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Mary Allen, who died Feb. 18, anno Dom. 1695 / by Thomas Cheesman ...	Cheesman, Thomas.	1695 (1695)	Wing C3774; ESTC R32592	6,713	21

Soul the spirit of a man can both hope and fear rejoyce or grieve discourse and deliberate about things when the Body is captivated in the deepest slumber Tertullian useth it as an Argument to prove the Souls Immortality How can that be subject to real Death which is not subject so much as to the least shadow likeness or similitude of it Whether that Reason be cogent or not to be sure Temporal Death can exercise no Jurisdiction over the Soul that is near akin to the Angels and shall live for ever Some men of corrupt minds have thought that the Soul of Man sleeps with his Body in the Grave till the Resurrection there it lies sensless and sluggish not capable of joy or sorrow Pope John the 22. to give the Christian World a proof of his Papal Infallibility declared himself the Patron of this Opinion being so hot and vigorous in the maintaining of it that he suffered none to take their Degrees in the University of Paris unless they did first subscribe this brutish Doctrine but by the Pope's leave let the Holy Ghost decide the Controversie Paul says expresly that when Believers are absent from the body they are present with the Lord. And Christ tells the good Thief upon the Cross This day shalt thou be with me in Paradice His Body was to lie it may be in the same Grave with the other Malefactors but his Soul had this priviledge to go with Christ himself into Paradice a place of unspeakable delight and pleasure When Christ and some of his Disciples was upon the Mount of Transfiguration the Souls of Moses and Elias appeared discoursing with him about the sufferings which he was to accomplish at Jerusalem Likewise when Christ would stop the mouth of the Sadduces who denied the Resurrection he quotes that place out of Exodus I am the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob presently from thence inferring he is the God of the living and not of the dead so that the Souls of those Renowned Patriarchs were at that time living tho' their Bodies for many hundred years had lain rotting in the Grave Rev. 6.9 10. When he had opened the fifth Seal I saw under the Altar the Souls of them that were slain for the Word of God and for the Testimony which they held and they cried with a loud voice saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth These Scriptures sufficiently prove that the Soul of Man is never subject to the sleep of Death 4. Tho' men sleep in the night they commonly awake in the morning Thus tho' the People of God fall asleep during the long Night of Death yet they shall be awakened in the Morning of the Resurrection When Christ shall descend from Heaven with a mighty shout the voice of an Arch-Angel and the Trumpet of God all both good and bad shall appear with the same numerical Bodies which they had when they lay down in the Graves both the Justice and Mercy of God require this For if the Body have joyned with the Soul to carry on a Trade of Rebellion against God if it has been a slave to Sin and Satan and a servant to fulfil unrighteousness what can be more just than that the same Body should be joyned again to the Soul to be its Companion in a state of everlasting Misery and Torment and on the other side if the Body have been possessed in sanctification and honour if it has been a living Temple of the Holy Ghost if it have joyned with the Soul to serve and worship God the Mercy of God requires that the same Body be united to such a Soul and be its Companion in a state of everlasting Bliss and Happiness Job was very confident of this chap. 19.25 26. I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand in the latter days upon the Earth and tho' after my skin Worms destroy this Body yet in my flesh shall I see God If Job's Faith concerning the Resurrection were so strong ours may well be stronger all circumstances of it being made known to us by New-Testament Revelations and we need not question but that the same Almighty Power which fashioned our Body in our Mothers Womb can as easily give it us again and restore it to us tho' it has been consumed in the Grave for what can be difficult to him whose will is his work as Cyprian speaks Deo voluisse est fecisse 5. Men after sleep oftentimes have greater comfort and refreshment Sleep is one of Nature's best Physicians it recruits our spirits that are spent and restores our strength that was decayed Thus the Bodies of God's People when they are awakened after the long sleep of Death shall be in a better condition than ever for tho' they shall be the same for substance yet their qualities shall have a wonderful change they shall be raised strong and powerful swift and speedy in their motion it may be beyond any Bird that flies in the Air or any Star that moves in the Heavens they shall then have no defect or blemish they shall be raised spiritual bodies supported by the immediate influence of the Soul without Meat Drink or Physick and other natural helps which now they stand in need of for they shall be like the glorified Body of Christ 6. Men go to sleep that they may take their rest Thus the People of God when they sleep in their death shall rest from all sin and suffering from the Persecutions of wicked men from being buffeted by Satan's Temptations They shall no more stand in fear of his fiery Darts they shall rest from all trouble and disturbance all pain and labour Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord that they may rest from their labour and their works shall follow them 7. The more pains men take and the harder they work all the day long the better they sleep at night Solomon tells us The sleep of a labouring man is sweet Thus the harder men work for God the more they work for their Souls and make provision for Eternity during the time of life the more refreshing will their sleep be when the night of Death comes therefore Christians shake off sloth and negligence do all the good you can the remembrance of any one good work when you come to die will comfort you more than thousands of Gold and Silver Fill up your time with good and gracious actions bestir your selves as it becomes those which believe that future Glory tho' it be not dispensed according to the merit yet according to the measure of good works they shall sit upon the highest Thrones of Coelestial Honour and wear the brightest Crowns when they come to possess the promised Kingdom which have done most for God in their present Generation 8. If a man over-charge himself with eating and drinking just as he goes to sleep that will make his sleep very