Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	glorious_a	miserable_a	sinner_n	7,011	5	10.4658	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36463	The covenant of grace, or, An exposition upon Luke I. 73, 74, 75 by George Dovvname ...	Downame, George, d. 1634.	1647 (1647)	Wing D2059; ESTC R17888	143,573	346

whereof are the parties between whom this Covenant was made NOw I come to the Text it self the contents whereof as you see is an Oath wherein we are to consider both the parties between whom it was made and also the tenor of the Oath it self The parties as well him that sweareth viz. The Lord God of Israel as he to whom the Oath was made viz. Abraham our Father Concerning the tenor we are to know That whereas some Oaths are assertory wherein some truth is avouched others promissory wherein some promise is made this is of the latter sort containing the promise of a gift for so he saith That he would give us This gifs is twofold viz. Redemption in those words That we should be delivered from the hand of our enemies and the fruit and end of our Redemption which is the true worship of God in those words That we should worship him c. which worship of God is set forth both by the parts and properties thereof The parts are two Holiness and Righteousness for by Holiness we are to understand the duties of the first Table which we owe unto God and by Righteousnesse the duties of the second Table which we owe unto man The properties are three The first respecting our enemies from whom wee are delive●ed in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without fear of them the second respecting God in the words before him the third respecting the continuance all the dayes of our life The first of these is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or spirituall security the second is uprightnesse and sincerity the third is constancie or perseverance Of these in order Concerning the party which did swear we are to consider these three things 1. By whom hee sware 2. How or after what manner 3. To what end For the first it is the manner of men in their oathes to swear by a greater But the Lord when he made this Covenant with Abraham because he could not swear by a greater he sware by himself Heb. 6. 13. By my self have I sworn saith the Lord c. Gen. 22. 16. Concerning the manner we may gather by that which the Lord requireth in our oathes what he performed in his own Ier. 4. 2. There are three properties required in an Oath Truth Iudgement and Righteousnes Truth opposed to falshood o● perjury Iudgement to rash and common swearing Righteousnesse to unjust and unlawful oaths For the first that the Lord did swear in Truth it is most certain because it is impossible that the Lord in his promise and in his oath should lye Hebr. 6. 18. and therefore we may be assured of that wherewith Micah concludeth his prophecy Mic. 7. 20. that the Lord will undoubtedly performe his mercy which by oath he promised to Abraham From whence we may learn this most profitable instruction That seeing the oath of the Lord whereby he promiseth to give to all them that are delivered from the hand of their spirituall enemies that is to all that are redeemed by CHRIST grace to worship him in holinesse and righteousnesse is infallible we should therefore be carefull to bring forth these fruits of our redemption otherwise we can have no assurance that we are the redeemed of the LORD Yea on the contrary it may be verified of us that if we do live in sin and do not at the least desire and endevour to serve God in the duties of holinesse and righteousnesse it is as certain as the Oath of God is true that as yet we have no part in the redemption wrought by CHRIST And the reason hereof is evident for to be a servant of sinne and to be redeemed from the bondage of sinne are things repugnant and imply a contradiction For whom Christ the Sonne of God maketh free they are free indeed Joh. 8. 36. but he that is a servant of sin is not freed indeed Now every one that committeth sin as habituated in sin that is in whom sin raigneth he is the servant both of sin Ioh. 8. 34. and of Satan 1 Ioh. 3. 8. Secondly in Iudgment a man is said to swear in judgment when he sweareth advisedly upon just and necessary occasion for Oaths are then only good when they are necessary This necessity of the Lords Oath ariseth from our weakness and infidelity who will not beleeve the Lord without an Oath and therefore the Lord in great mercy to relieve our infirmities hath confirmed his Promise which in it self needeth no confirmation as being truth it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 6. 16. more abundantly then otherwise needed by Oath which as it argueth our great corruption so it ought to be a remedy for the same It is great infidelity not to beleeve the Word and Promise of God but greater not to beleeve his Oath In not beleeving his Promise thou makest him a lyar 1 Iohn 5. 10. In denying credit to his Oath dost thou make him any better then a perjured person And yet this is the estate and condition of many professing the Name of Christ. God hath swo●n and will not repent That to those whom he Redeemeth grace shall be given to worship him in holiness and righteousness These men do not so much as desire care or endeavor to worship God in holiness and righteousness but live in sin and go on in sin without repentance and yet for all this they will needs perswade themselves that they are the Redeemed of the Lord contrary to the express Oath of God Thirdly in Righteousness men are said to swear in righteousness when that which they promise by Oath is lawful and good and this goodness is measured by the reference which it hath to the glory of God and good of man Neither doth the Lords Oath want this property for what could be either more glorious to himself or more profitable unto us then that which by this Oath is promised For as touching the glory of God among all the works which God ever wrought there is not any that setteth forth more the glory both of his Mercy and of his Justice then the work of our Redemption with the fruits thereof For hereby appeareth his mercy to be such as that rather then he would suffer us most miserable sinners to perish in our sins he gave his own and his only begotten Son to die for us His justice such that rather then he would suffer the sins of his own elect children to go unpunished he hath punished them in the death and sufferings of his only begotten Son And if you consider our profit it is evident that as hereafter you shal hear in the things promised by this Oath our happiness doth consist Neither doubt I to affirm that by the things promised in this Oath our estate becometh better then that which we lost in Adam Adam though he were just stood righteous before God but in his own righteousness but we being redeemed by Christ stand righteous before God in the righteousness of Christ which far