Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	lord_n	people_n	spare_v	2,606	5	9.3833	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87697	A solemne and seasonable warning to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the land for holding fast the League and Covenant with England, and avoiding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof: / by the Commissioners of the Generall Assemblie.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A.	1646 (1646)	Wing K336; Thomason E419_34; ESTC R15383	4,070	8

A SOLEMNE AND SEASONABLE WARNING To all Estates and Degrees of Persons throughout the Land For holding fast the League and Covenant with England and avoiding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof By the COMMISSIONERS of the Generall Assemblie EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 1646. Edinb 19. Decemb. 1646. THe Commission of the Generall Assembly Ordains this Warning to be forthwith Printed and that thereafter it be sent to Presbyteries Requiring them immediately after the receipt thereof to cause every Minister of their number read the same distinctly and explain it to their People upon a Sabbath day in their severall Kirks And that they report accompt of their diligence with the first conveniencie Appointing in the mean time that to morrow the same be read in all the Kirks of this Citie A. Ker. A Solemne and Seasonable VVARNING to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the Land By the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly Edinburgh 17. December 1646. THe conscience of our duty and of the great trust reposed in us suffereth us not to be silent nor to connive at the present dangers which may justly be apprehended and expected from the enemies of this Cause and Covenant Who although they cannot in this conjuncture of time appeare in the same manner as formerly they have done yet having retained the same principles while they seeme to lay aside their former practises do in a more covert and dangerous way still drive at their owne ends And as Sathan is neither sleeping nor idle though he appear not alwayes as a roaring Lyon So these who are inspired and acted by him have their wheeles still moving though sometimes they make no great noise Wherefore that we may truely and faithfully contribute what is incumbent to us for preventing or removing any occasions of new troubles or differences betweene the King and his People in both or either of those united Kingdoms or between the Kingdomes themselves And lest the Church of Christ and the true reformed Religion be againe tossed with another and perhaps a greater tempest in the deepth after we seemed to be neer the harbour We have found it not only competent to our place and calling but necessarie for us according to former laudable presidents both old and late To emit this new Seasonable Warning to the People of God in this Land and to all Estates and Degrees of men therein Whom we exhort That first and above all things They apply their thoughts to make peace with God To take notice of the remaining and renewed tokens of divine displeasure against the Land To tremble at the remembrance of former and appearances of future judgements To lament after the Lord To lye low before the Throne of Grace To cry mightily to heaven for dispelling that cloud of sin which separateth between our God and us and for turning away that cloud of wrath which hangeth over our heads There is cause to be humbled and to repent as for all our iniquities So for the too little assistance which hath bin given to such as have born the heaviest burthen and suffered most in this Cause And for the too much compliance with and indulgence to many who have beene active in the late execrable Rebellion We know that none can reach the perfection of their duety neither will the Lord reckon with his People according to his Justice but spare them who walk in the integritie of their Spirits as a man spareth his own son So that they may rejoyce in his mercy notwithstanding of their short-comings wherein they doe not allow themselves But wilfull neglects are just grounds of a great controversie on the Lords part and of deep humiliation on ours And we conceive that the failings of many are such because the Word of the Lord is a burthen unto them And though they walk in the wayes of their own heart yet they say they shall have Peace We would have none that are thus guilty to account light of it and say Is it not a little one Every duty whereto we are oblieged in the Covenant is of great consequence and breaches even in smaller things prove inlets unto more grievous revoltings When we consider how many who were once open opposers or secret underminers being received to the Covenant yet remaines disaffected to the ends of the same We cannot but think that we walk in the midst of snares and that mysteries of iniquitie work amongst us which may produce most sad and lamentable effects unto the prejudice of our Religion and Liberties Therefore Because God hath no greater quarrell against a Nation then that of a broken Covenant Let all who feare an oath remember the vows of God which are upon them Watch and Pray and take good heed that they bee not cheated nor charmed into a violation of all or any of the Articles of that Sacred and Solemn League and Covenant And let these especially be observed and avoided who do or shall endeavour a division and breach between the Kingdoms or the making of any factions or parties contrary to the Covenant under pretence of preserving the King and His Authority whilst they do not constantly and sincerely prosecute and presse our frequent desires of His subscribing the League and Covenant and giving satisfaction in all things to the just desires of both Kingdomes Which underhand dealing can prove nothing else but an abusing of His Majestie for mens own designes We wish that none suffer themselves to be deceived by any false glosses of the Covenant under which some may possibly urge the keeping of it so as to draw us into a certain breach thereof and presse the defence of the Kings Authoritie and of Religion to engage us in those wayes that would tend to the ruine of both We are not now to presse the want of full satisfaction in the much desired work of Uniformity as the ground of a breach betweene the Nations Though we still conceive this Nation will never be wanting to prosecute that work to the uttermost of their power in all lawfull wayes according to the League and Covenant These Kingdoms after many fervent Supplications and faithfull endeavours of all the Lovers of Truth and Peace have been happily united into a League and Covenant which to this day hath been kept inviolably notwithstanding of all the opposition of open Enemies and plotting of secret Underminers And we are confident that none but such as have hearts full of Atheisme and Treachery will attempt the violation thereof in whole or in part And that if any shall do the same They shall expose themselves to the Curse of Almighty God who wil be avenged upon all that Swear falsly by his Name We know that men of perverse mindes wanting the fear of God and measuring all things by their own ends may conceive of it as alterable or at least that all the Clauses or Heads thereof are not so to