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	people_n	9,048	5	5.3230	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77704	A sermon on the 5th of November, being the last which was preached by the reverend father in God, Bishop Brownrigg. Bishop of Exon.	Brownrig, Ralph 1592-1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5209; Thomason E2107_3; ESTC R210054	13,448	78

found innocent secondly the innocency of his cause before thee O King have I done no hurt 1. The Innocency of his person Certainly Daniel was as all other men a sinner himselfe confesseth it Chapter 9. I confesse mine owne sins and the sins of my people So asserts John if we say we have no sin we wofully deceive our selves and there 's no truth in us Daniel he was highly beloved of God and yet he had weaknesses frailties and infirmities 2. Innocentia causae I have done no wrong to thee O King Object But he did not obey the Kings commandment for did not the King sorbid him to pray yet he will still be praying Yes he did so yet he was an obedient subject though he did crosse the Kings command He is a disobedient subject that doth breake and trample under his feet just good and profitable Lawes but if the Law be against God and his will we may well depart from it but upon these three cautions 1. It must be in manifest evill if the Magistrate lay such commands upon us as are repugnant to God and his word there our obedience must be restrained yet when doubtfull as it was in the case of numbering the people Joab misliked it it was vanity in the King though he diswaded him from it yet the Kings Commandment tooke place and he went about it 2. Our disobedience must be without contempt of their persons and callings 3. It must be with offering of our passive obedience If we cannot doe their wills we must obey their punishments in the text you may observe our Combinations 1. Here 's Duplex obedientia a double obedience obedience to God and obedience to the King too they must goe together we must not sever them asunder we must not be Herodians all for the King if Herod be King all is well no matter for God and his Religion nor must we be Pharisees only very strict and nice upon some cerimonious point of Religion but false hearted to the King no we must be both good Kings and good Subjects 2 Here 's Duplex tribunall the tribunall of God and before him Daniel is acquitted counted innocent then here 's the tribunall of Darius before him he is cast and condemned Well here 's our comfort though the tribunall of Men may condemn us yet let them know there 's a higher then they Solomon speaks it for our comfort if we can justifie our selvs before God 3 Here 's Duplex solicitudo a double care this Prophet shews his duty to God and man first he does here plead his innocency before God then he doth avouch his innocency before men 't is that that Paul teaches us I have exercised my selfe to have a conscience void of offence both towards God and men Indeed he first prefers God afterwards man I count it no great matter to be judged by man's law Good Christians first observe their conscience to God and then their credit with the world they will not be scandalous nor give offence to any man 4. Combination here is Duplex purgatio a double purging of himselfe first before God a purgation of evidence God cleer'd him and past a sentence but before men purgatio protestationis he doth protest and avow it before men Application to the day LEnd me your attention to some application of this Treason and the deliverance which this day we are bound to commemorate with all possible thankfullnesse See the comparison betwixt these two 1. By way of similitude how they both agree and are alike 2. By way of dissimilitude how the Treason of this day exceeds that in the Text. First the similitude in these particulars 1. They had the same Authors who are they that would have ruin'd the Prophet It was the Babilonian Princes And surely the Treason of this day was framed in the same wombe it was the Babilonian Princes the Pope and his complices plotted this great ruine to this Church Saith Austin here 's two Babylonians Babilon the Mother and Babilon the Daughter the Eastern Babilon that 's the Mother the Western Babilon that is the Daughter We may say of this Treason what God saith Ezek. 24.2 Son of man write the name of the day even of this same day the King of Babilon set himselfe against Jerusalem this selfe same day 2. They agree here in the Motive What was the Motive that stirr'd up these Babilonian Princes to seeke the ruine of Daniel It was envy as indeed envy is alwayes in treason they envyed him so those that plotted our ruine O it gall'd and vexed them that King James succeeded in the Crown 3. The Plea that they make for themselves what 's their Plea The sentence of Darius was unalterable he was condemned by the Lawes of the Meades and Persians that could not be changed And the Traytors of this day hath the same Plea Pope Clemens sent to the Papists not by any meanes to admit a protestant King here for all the world like their forefathers the Preist and Elders that condemned Christ we have a Law and by our Law he must dye 4. Their pretext was to preserve the honour of the King the King should be worshipped and all must concur in this course of worshipping the King and of him onely And was not this the same amongst our Traytors the Popish religion bringing in Masse burdening the Church withall those trumperies Nay it was to worship their Popish Darius to acknowledge his Supremacie and no Religion should take place here among us but onely by his allowance 5. They had a Cave a Den of Lyons So had these and all in order to blow up and destroy 6. Here 's a like deliverance he was delivered by an Angell and certainly as great power from heaven did watch over us the letter that gave notice of this treason consider it as ordered by Gods providence it was written with a pen that was made of an Angels wing as he there speakes of writeing the Scripture the Devil hates that Fowl that Bore that Wing that made that Pen by which the Scriptures were written 7. We were all delivered the snare was broken our King and Parliament preserved though at the point of death but all rescued by Gods holy hand Secondly the dissimilitude and disagreement of these Traitors with those of Babilon the deliverance of this day doth much exceed it 1. The Conspiracy of the Babilonian Princes were onely against one man if they could but get Daniel inward and cut him off they were fully satisfied But the conspiracy of this day was not against one man nay the King State the Lords spirituall and temporall the Law reverend Judges all the flower of the Gentry were all to be blown up at one time it was a universall destruction like Hamans conspiracy scorning to reveng himself upon Mordecai alone but he sought the ruine and destruction of all the Jews 2. The conspiracie here against Daniel it was against one that was of the children of the captivity of Judah a forreigner but the traytors of our dayes were against their own country men their own brethren they were all of them English men the shame of our Nation to say so that Vipers should be thus bred among us but such they were if Jacob did abhor the cruelty of his two sons upon the Sichemites how would he have digested their cruelty towards their brother Joseph 3. The Cospiracy among the Babilonians was against a man that was a Subject to King Darius I but these men they plotted against King Queen Prince Parliament all the Nobles of the Land all the blood Royall This is that makes them extream odious they would have destroyed not onely one man but the whole nation 4. This Treason and conspiracy here it was against the Prophet that was a Holy man of God and the men that did it were secular men Princes Commanders Governours but the Treason of this day was wrought by Clergy men men of the Church holy Fathers of the Church of Rome great Grandees of the Jesuits Indeed for secular men to masicre the Preists of God is a high provocation but for Divines men of the Church to plot treason and conspiracyes to be incendiaryes of all seditions that 's a double evill 5. They were cruell yet there was some mercy in it First the Prophet hath some warning given him there was a Law published and made known Then they had faire proceeding he was convented examined convicted and so was condemned the Prophet had time to looke about him to prepare himselfe for death to addresse himselfe to God for the saving of the soule But here was no warning they did digg deepe and hide in Hell it was as suddaine destruction that should have been brought upon us 6. After this deliverance by the Angel Darius blesses God for it gives testimony to that Religion that was thus honoured repents himself of it punishes those that plotted this mischiefe against them and doth advance Daniel to be the cheife man in his Kingdome But our conspirators hung their heads bit their lips nay the Pope himselfe was so far from saying with Jacob cursed be their anger that he had not so much as the spirit of old Eli to chide and reprove them O my Sons I heare an ill report of you you would have blown up the Parliament and destroyed Nations No they were far enough from that for he does canonize some of them for Marters Bookes were written for their defence When Elijah prevail'd over Baal's Priests in bringing fire from heaven the people all renounce Baal and cryed out the the Lord is God but when the Lord answered us from heaven not by kindling fire but by quenching fire but still they stand out in their obduration O Let us thankfully acknowledge this great mercy O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and set forth his loving kindnesse before the sons of men If you count it now a day out of date an old day and it may now be forgotten take heed a second war does not finish that work that those Traitors would have done but could not accomplish That speech may truly be said of us never people were more wonderfully delivered by God and never was people so wofully and wretchedly undone by themselves FINIS