Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	israel_n	lord_n	redemption_n	2,132	5	10.1091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53902	The raptures of a flaming spirit Being a directory, wherein methodically is contained the several parts of prayer. With select expressions for the performance of the duty. As the author useth to express himself before and after his sermons. By Nico. Pearson. &c.	Pearson, Nicolas, fl. 1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1010A; ESTC R217486	58,578	311

with the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit in the Inner Man then we shall be more than Conquerors One Deep calleth to another the depth of our Weakness to the depth of thy Strength the depth of our Folly to the depth of thy Wisdom the depth of our Poverty to the depth of thy Riches the depth of our Miseries to the depth of thy Mercies Suffer not thy Displeasure to kindle and break out into a Flame against us Turn from us that Wrath that as a just recompence of our Provocations are due unto us Spare us according to the multitude of thy Mercies Lord Jesus thou art the hope of Israel with the Lord there is mercy and with thee there is plenteous redemption Let thy Obedience recompence our Obstinacy thy Abstinence our Superfluity thy Meekness and Patience our Pride Irefulness and Enmity Let thy Charity recompence our Malice thy Devotion our Dulness Love our unkindness thy holy and precious Death our wretched sinful Lives But forasmuch as thou resistest the Proud but give●● Grace to the Humble thou fillest the Hungry with good things but the Rich thou sendest empty away Therefore empty us of our Laodicean Riches discover our Spiritual Poverty and set home to our Consciences the weight and danger of our Sins Suffer not our Consciences to let us be quiet until they have drawn us before thee in all Humility and Brokenness of Spirit in Bitterness as one is in Bitterness for the loss of their First-born and confessing our selves loathing the Persons as well as the Actions With Detestation and Self-abhorrency and with indeclinable Resolves of Amendment of Life In regard there must be a Resurrection of our Actions as well as of our Persons if our Sins rise not again in this World to bring us to shame and confusion of face and unfeigned and sincere Repentance they will rise again in the World to come and be as so many Ghosts and Devils and torment us for ever and ever We had better judge our selves than put God to judge us Therefore O God by thy powerful voice raise our Sins that are graved in oblivion and set them in order before us that we may break them down by repentance Thou canst teach us to gather Grapes of Thorns and Figgs of Thistles because all things are possible unto thee There is no Evil so great but thou canst bring good out of it We turn Gold into Dross but thou canst turn Dross into Gold again Therefore be intreated thou Almighty One that in regard we are such miserable Sinners that our Sins may make us humble for humility is in the sight of God of great price And in regard we are so evil that we may be more charitable in judging of others let our own unworthiness hang so in our light that we may not be too busie in medling with others And in regard we are such great Debtors to Divine Justice that we may be more charitable in forgiving others That we may take heed of taking our Brother by the Throat lest thou call us to an account and cast us into prison until we have paid the utmost farthing And in regard we are such notorious Criminals that we may adore the light of the glory of God that shineth in the face of Jesus Christ to the praise and glory of his grace And in regard we have spent so much time in rebellion and yet thou art ready to shew mercy that therefore we may look upon our selves in future as persons ingaged to walk before thee in righteousness and holiness all our days Spiritualize our Affections every day more and more Irradiate our Souls with high apprehensions and so elevate us unto thy self where true Riches are to be had We stand as poor Beggars without but in consideration how thou feedest thy people with delicacies in the perfection of righteousness peace and joy O God we have heard with our ears and our Fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou dost in Heaven and Earth O Lord arise help and deliver us for thine honour Bring us out of the Land of Egypt and out of the house of Bondage that thou maist feed us with Manna from Heaven and that we may offer unto God acceptable Sacrifices Make out unto us that thou art our God and we thy peculiar people That we may live in absolute resignation subjection and love unto thee Discover unto us the things beyond the World that our Affections may be taken off from the World The wise man trusteth in his wisdom the strong man in his strength and the rich man in his riches The ship-wrack'd man catcheth hold on what is next him Adam ship-wrack'd us all and we are floating in a Deluge of Calamity Man is born unto trouble as the Sparks flie up ward and in this wretcheduess we naturally catch hold on something Self-preservation being a clear Dictate of Nature But our ignorance and misapprehension make us to catch at deceitful things that fill every one that trust in them with disappointment some on Honour some on Pleasure some on Riches And here they abide until God shew them a more excellent way What ever the Objects of our Souls are we shall not desert them until better Objects be discovered unto us Altho it be an unsatisfied satisfaction that we enjoy by any sublunary thing yet when we know of no better we hold fast by what we have Therefore we pray for some Discoveries of that glory that shall afterward be revealed of those never-dying comforts for our never-dying souls 'T is but an unquiet quiet and a restless rest that we enjoy from the Creature We pray for the Contentment above the World which is better than the World without that Contentment Ever since thou dravest out the Man we have been seeking rest but have found none As Noah's Dove could find no rest for the sole of her foot until she return'd into the Ark again neither is there any rest for us until we return and center in our God Now when we turn our faces towards thee for we know not what to do but our Eyes are towards thee take us into the Ark of the Covenant We are very much foil'd with walking after the sight of our own eyes and desires of our own hearts take us into thy protection that we may lay us down in peace for thou makest thy people to dwell in safety Embrace us in the arms of thy mercy Hide us under the Covert of thy Wings cover us with the Canopy of thy Love that we may feel thy Power supporting us and thy Goodness supplying us That we may rejoyce in thee as our Treasure and rest in thee as our Center In this far Countrey we thought to have met with great matters when we ran away from thee but we find nothing but Husks which Swine feed upon and gladly we would fill our Bellies with them but cannot Here is no soul-suitable nor soul-satisfying good

Tree of Life Sin hath over-laid their hopes O raise them from the dead Let down a beam of Comfort to temper their Despair Contend not for ever be not always wroth then the spirits will fail and the souls which thou hast made Teach them to feed on the Promises as Sampson did of the Honey-comb Out of the Eater came forth Meat and out of the strong came forth Sweetness That they may be justified by Faith and have peace with God thro our Lord Jesus Christ Hang forth the White Flagg of Mercy and lift up their Heads that they may see their redemption drawing near Display the Ensign of thy Compassions then shall they run to thy Standard Help them that are under the pains and pangs of the New Birth guid them in the way that leadeth to Everlasting Life Open unto them the Gates of Righteousness that they may go in and praise thy Name Let the Lords Compassions reach to all that are wrastling with and tossed in the Sea of their Corruption and are violently carried on with temptations and over-power'd by their licentious Affections in the Straits of Repentance that have much ado to keep off from the Rocks of Despair and afraid to be swallow'd up in the Gulph of Perdition When they pass thro the Waters be thou with them When they go thro the Rivers suffer them not to over-flow them When they walk thro the Fire suffer them not to be burned nor the flame to kindle upon them Consider their trouble for thou knowest their souls are in adversity Turn the Bruised Reed into a Golden Pillar and the Smoaking Flax into a Triumphing Flame Be thou their Arm every morning and their salvation in a time of trouble Bring them from the depths of Death Glorifie thy self in their Deliverances Redeem Israel from all his iniquities Swallow up Death in Victory Wipe away tears from their Faces and take away their Rebuke Let the times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord. Execute not the fierceness of thy Wrath for thou art God and not Man Cast them not away from thy presence but uphold them with thy free spirit Bind up the breach of thy servants and heal the stroke of their wound For thy Names sake defer thine anger and for thy Praise refrain Guid them with thy Counsel in order to their Reception into Glory And comfort just Lot that is vex'd with the unrighteous Conversation of the Sodomites from day to day How the second Man the Lord from Heaven the New Man is plagued with the Hittites the Hivites and the Jebusites The small beginnings of Grace are preserved by the powers from Heaven The Sojourner is opposed and despised because of the contrariety between them Damn'd Satan the World and the Flesh combine to extinguish that which thou hast kindled The Flesh Iusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh these two are contrary the one to another Relieve thy Servants who are ingaged in the Holy War When they walk thro the midst of trouble do thou revive them stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of thine enemies that thy right hand may save them Support them with the Spirit of Power and the power of the Spirit Perfect that which concerneth them thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever forsake not the Work of thine own hands It is the Lord that bringeth forth his People from their Enemies and lifteth them up on high above them Corruption is always strong enough to keep Grace low Grant 〈◊〉 Grace may prove strong enough to keep Corruption low Suffer not their Corruptions to worry and devour the Fruits of the Spirit Take the Foxes that spoil the Vines for the Vines have tender Grapes Fill every one that hunger and thirst after Righteousness Deny not those ardent desires of the blissful fruition of thy Self which the lively sense of thy own Goodness hath enkindled those breathings and gaspings for an eternal participation of thee The Soul is depressed with an unpassable thicket of hinderances the frailties of the Body the current of the World and the spiritual Enemies that continually war against Goodness they are ever checking the production of those good motions she is pregnant with Oh send a spring of auxilliary Grace to actuate the dull habits of inherent Grace Thou knowest their wo because they dwell in Mesech and are constrained to dwell in the Tents of Kedar Lead forth thy people whom thou hast redeemed and guid them with thy strength to thy holy Habitation Open the Rivers in high places and Fountains in the midst of the Valleys Make the Wilderness a Pool of Water and the dry Land Springs of Water The whole World cannot satisfie their Spiritual Longings give them Soul-suitable Returns The Good that they would do that do they not the Evil that they would not do that do they because of the Law of the Members that war against the Law of the Mind They would gladly be with thee but they cannot get near because of the Croud Their Souls thirst upon the Cross but Gall and Vinegar is their Drink Shall not the good Angel minister unto them Help them who are troubled with vexing Scruples and reduced to dark Perplexities When they go forward thou art not there and when they go backward they cannot perceive thee Oh manifest thy self unto them Cause thy Grace to guid their slippery steps And unto them who thou hast in some measure given Victory to make the Habitation of their Righteousness prosperous Cause the Righteous to hold on his Way and he that hath clean Hands to be stronger and stronger That they may grow in Grace and from one degree of Grace unto another Cause the Light of the Righteous to shine more and more unto perfect Day Suffer not Pharaoh and his Host to over-take them Suffer them not to look back to Egypt nor to long after the Garlick and the Onions That they may rather think of the burden and bondage and the woful circumstances and consequents of Sin than the vain pleasures of it Suffer them not to be plagued with Satans return or any fresh invasions or revolutions of their old Sins Thou who settest them up and makest them holy keep them up and make them steady Keep them from lapses and prevarications Let them not want the Pillar of a Cloud by Day nor the Pillar of Fire by Night Let the Blessed Spirit which was the Pre-operator be the Co-operator lest they return to the borders of Egypt Fight their battles and supply their wants Give them a clear sight of the Crown of Immortality that the joys of that which is set before the eyes of their Faith may still refresh them that they may endure unto the End Give them a Sample of what they are pressing toward and sometimes a Taste of the Fruits of Canaan that they may resolve to fight with the Sons of Anack Fraught them so with hope that they may venture into any storm That they may