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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90835	The poor man's mite, unto the more large contributions of the liberal, at this day freely added, in testimony of that respect which is born unto the faithful and their interest, as it's laid up and hid in Jesus. Briefly discovering, 1. The vanity of that rejoycing, which seems to glory in any thing save the Lord. 2. What is required of all that expect to have the form of the Lords house revealed unto them. 3. That however the chief corner-stone may be rejected, none other foundation can no man lay. 4. That as Christ shall appear, so with him shall the interest of the second of new creation, appear with him in glory. 5. A postscript, or additional word to the reader, occasioned by the late revived noise of uniformity, or national conformity to the principles of some men.		1659 (1659)	Wing P2867; Thomason E986_3; ESTC R207764	9,278	15

have been thought are none of the smallest of our offences how ought all the Lords people though of different judgments and perswasions to be one even in a lamenting this and all other our evills committed against the Lord that yet spareth us as a man spareth his son that serveth him and to be provoking one another to walk answerable to the wonderful mercies conferred upon us least the Lords returning to visit us with favour amongst men be mis improved and by agravating our former disobedience impatience and ingratitude a worse thing happen unto us And now ye honourable ones whom the Lord we hope in mercy to your selves and us hath restored to your former station or places of trust Though it be Judged that you have not wanted remembrances on the Lords behalf at this day yet it s also hoped that it will not be an offence to you especially the truly meekned and humbled ones among you to hear though from a babe that if with full purpose of heart ye resolve to decline the evills of the Times past when men acted partly for God and partly for themselves and become intire and true to the interest of God and the faithful that with him it is to shew you the form of his house who will not only be found amongst you in so doing but in the day when he shall come to make up his Jewels and to enquire for what honour hath been done to Mordecai for his fidelity to the King of Kings he will crown you as wise Master-builders and even now whilest ye are a building if ye keep close to him in your undertakings will enable you to carry on his work against all the Tobias's and Sanballats of this age who doubtless by asmuch as in them lyes will endeavour the hindring and impeding thereof for they love not the prosperity of Zion and every appearance of the new Jerusalem is an offence to them And some of them have been made to own the Lord and his people amongst men yea wicked men who saving their vizards were ravening Wolves and greedy Lions that gaped for the time when the innocent should become their prey But for ever magnified be that name whose mercy is above all his works Daniel is escaped and ye are owned in the day of the Lords appearing thus far to visit and redeem his people Wherefore be it ever remembred as pertinent and besuiting us That when the breaches began to be stopped and the walls of Jerusalem were built the builders and people were much cast down in their own eyes for they perceived that the work was wrought of God at every of whose appearing to work let the fearful and unbelieving learn to become obedient and comply with the pure interest of God and his people in all the degrees arisings and gradations thereof for you will finde its of force enough to work out it self through all the heaps of thick darkness which the Prince of the Aire and Children of disobedience hath this many hundred of years been casting upon it and will surely shelter and all the day long be a covering to those that love and cherish it And who so soares in this Region are in Communion and correspondency with the spiritual and hidden operations of this Interest To such no greater folly is there nor more apparent then the spousing or contracting thereunto the interest of the flesh or wordly power and wisdom as the needful expedient to hasten the work of God among men by joyning together what God would have put asunder which attempts henceforward as Light and Truth riseth higher in the Earth may expect by the wise in heart to be esteemed and accounted of for none other then the fruit of a carnal selfish degenerating principle that will at last evidently demonstrate the Attempters to be Children in whom there is no faith and after a large pretence to serve none other King but Jesus give the World an occasion to say Lo this is the man that made not God his strength Hos 5. When Ephraim saw his wound and Judah his sickness they sent to the Assyrian and to King Jareb but they could not heal them And therefore ye worthy builders whose experience hath out-lived the rise and fall of much of this kinde of doings in England the hopes of the faithful enlightned ones are that your wisdoms will be such as to make a righteous advantage thereof to redeem the time past for the dayes were and are very evil and how little the last five or six years added to the setting up of any thing that 's able or ought to stand notwithstanding the specious pretences made thereunto I leave to all that are concerned to judge who after a general survey of things I fear will hardly finde any thing lifted up that 's more abiding or deserve to be so then an Image of wax that 's either capable of receiving another Impression or in a short time lyable to be thrown to the ground Honoured Sirs though our purpose is not to be tedious yet forasmuch as the concerns of a worldly political Interest leaves you not unpresented with seeming plausible and substantial bottomes to work upon to the intent the chief Corner-stone may be rejected or laid aside it may not therefore be omitted to reminde here That none other foundation can no man lay and prosper then that which is laid which is Jesus Christ and if any as wise Master workmen shall build thereon their works will be tryed and the durable substance thereof revealed and that by fire and accordingly shall the reward of every builder be for by how much the work will not abide the tryal by so much shall the loss of the workman be wherefore in all your undertakings to build be sure to digg deep till you meet with the Rock of ages for your foundations Then you will not need to fear though stormes arise the winde blow the rain descend or though Ashdod Ammon Moab be offended or inraged for the prosperity of the Lords work for the Lord himself hath respect unto it and by his own everlasting arm shall every true Nehemia be preserved and born up The last things offered to the faithful in general are that when Christ who is our Life shall appear we also shall appear with him in glory now we are sons but it doth not appear what we shall be but we know that when he doth appear we shall be like him c. As hereby the purpose of the Lords Servants may be understood to work out from amongst the Saints the evil of an unbelieving heart if by all means possible they might beget in them a lively hope or an ability to hope to the end so they seem to promise the safety of a believers interest as it 's rooted and laid upon a Rock that 's higher then they the which whosoever is made truly to believe and see as with the eye of faith maketh not hast but is ready to wait for