Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	magnify_v	2,538	5	10.8447	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23803	The whole duty of mourning and the great concern of preparing our selves for death, practically considered / written some years since by the author of The whole duty of man, and now published upon the sad occasion of the death of our Most Gracious Sovereign Lady Mary the II, Queen of England, &c. of blessed memory.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.	1695 (1695)	Wing A1194; ESTC R33068	65,567	192

and the Workers of them are called dead Men Mat. 8.22 Luke 15.32 John 5.25 Eph. 2.1.5 and therefore upon every occasion of Sin committed we are taught to remember Death Whatsoever thing hath Death annex'd and threatn'd as the Reward and Fruit belonging to it the same thing is a just and necessary Memorial of Death Now all our Sins have this Reward denounced Rom. 6.23 and 7.5 and therefore in all Sins Death is set before us as God also speaks expresly in his Warnings against Sin Deut. 30.15.19 as in sight of Death we are to remember Sin the Cause of it so in the sight of Sin we are to remember Death the Effects of it II. Neither are these Sins thus to be considered by us only in respect of their future Reward but God by a further Judgment in sending a present Terrour and Fear of Death upon the present Acts of Sin Lev. 26.36 Heb. 2.15 doth call Men yea and force them to remember Death thus it is with all Wicked Doers and with the Just sometimes in part through divers Temptations Psal. 77.3.7 8. but with the Faithful there is another Remembrance of Death by occasion of Sins as comfortable to them as the former is terrible to the Wicked for in fight of Sins that perplex 'em they call to mind what shall quite free 'em from those Sins which Expedient is Death thereupon they set Mortality before their Eyes and are taught that Lesson of the Almighty to long for their Redemption by desiring to remove out of the Body Rom. 8.23 2. Cor. 5.8 III. Afflictions Sicknesses and Dangers wherein Death is threatned unto Men are likewise Means of Death and by them also we are called of God to remember our Latter End Sometimes it pleaseth the Great Being for the Warning of Secure Men to bring them to the Gates of Death before they enter Psal. 9.13 and though he bring them back again yet is this done by the Almighty for a Memorial of Death God brings Men into such Extremities that nothing but Death is to be expected they receive the Sentence of Death in themselves and despair of Life 1 Cor. 8.9 and are free among the Dead in their own and others Judgment Psal. 88.4 5. and thus many times they are in Deaths often 2 Cor. 11.23 and such things God worketh oftentimes that Men might renounce the World and set their Heart and their House in Order as a Preparation for their Departure Job 33.22 29. IV. Let us praise then the Goodness of the Almighty who ordains all things for the best to his Servants whose unlimited Providence governs us all our Life and takes so peculiar a Care of our Death He wisely casts us down on our Beds of Sickness and mercifully draws the Curtain 'twixt the Transitory World and us shutting out all its vain and pernicious Designs and contracting all our Affairs and Business to a little Room or Chamber there in that close and quiet Solitude he speaks to our sorrowful Hearts and methodically sets before us all our sinful Life there he prudently discovers to us the Frauds and Fallacies of this World and kindly invites us now at last to prepare speedily for the other Thither he carefully sends his Messengers of Peace to treat earnestly with our Souls and reconcile them to his Heavenly Kingdom Thither he sends even his only beloved Son to secure our strait Passage and to guide and conduct us to himself V. O how quite contrary will our serious Thoughts be then to what they were in our Negligent and Careless Health how shall we justly and freely Censure what we once much esteemed and be easily and readily convinc'd into wiser Counsels when our unruly and stubborn Senses shall be check'd with Aches and Pains and our rash and inconsiderate Minds made sober and calm with Fear When the Opportunity and Occasions of Sin shall be removed away and every Object about us encline us to Repentance VI. Let thy Holy Name O Lord for ever be magnified whose Mercy Sanctifies even thy Punishments and Judgments into Favours thou bringest us Low and Weak to persuade us to be humble and prescribest us a Sickness to heal out Souls and cure our Infirmities thou commandest the unsatisfied Grave to dispense with none but indifferently seize on all alike That all may not neglect to provide for that last and fatal hour and none be utterly undone with foolish and mistaken Hopes thou tell'st us sincerely and plainly we all must dye but tenderly and kindly concealest the Time and Place that every where we may readily stand on our Guard and every moment vigilantly expect thy Coming VII In the Age of Man where they first climb up and ascend to their height and then presently decline and descend again is propounded by the Almighty Now the Face of Man is a Dial of his Transitory Age and the manifold Changes thereof from time to time as the Shadow of Declination in the Dial do shew his Mortality and the main Differences in the Physiognomies of Men may justly serve for a Memorial of Man's changeable Estate his Beauty and the Vigour of his Countenance being daily altered as the Grace and lovely shape of the Flower that perisheth James 1.11 This ought to affect us daily that the different Faces which we behold may put us in mind that the fashion of this world passeth away VIII As the Face so the Stature of Man growing up as a Plant according to the divers Measures and Degrees of his growth appointed of God Psal. 144.12 Luke 1.80 and 2.52 is another Testimony of his changeable Estate even from the Child of a Span long unto those that have their full growth Lam. 2.20 though some be of low stature as Zacheus Luke 19.3 and some again higher by the head as was Saul 1 Sam. 10.23 24 yet even in these compared with themselves the proportion of their Growth is an Evidence of their Age to such as know them and thus the Wheel of Man's Age is visible in the variation of his his Stature which may put him in mind of his Latter End IX Besides the Face and Stature the Almighty hath set other Marks upon the Bodies of young and old for a Memento of their Time passing away God describes to Youth the Time of Love Ezek. 16.7 8. and to Age the near approaching Tokens of Death whereby they are warned of God to prepare for it for through decay of strength the Arms and Hands the Keepers of the House begin to tremble Eccles. 12.3 and the Legs that are as Pillars of the Body bow themselves and the help of a Staff to rest on is sought of the Aged Person Zach. 8.4 and with that Assistance at every Step he takes he strikes upon the Earth and raps at the Gate of the Grave untill it be opened unto him This Weakness is further signified by the ceasing of the Grinders Eccles. 12.3 both the upper and the nether Millstone which are called the Life of Man