Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	pardon_v	sin_n	transgression_n	2,321	5	9.8948	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60354	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London at Grocers-Hall by Samuel Slater ...	Slater, Samuel, d. 1704.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3975; ESTC R10144	44,686	50

and to remove and abrogate them when he will. He gave out the Ceremonial Law unto Moses and by Moses to his ancient people the Iews upon Mount Sinai and it was taken away by him Col. 2.14 He blotted out the hand-writing of Ordinances which was against us The question is what was that hand-writing I answer the Moral Law But how not as it was a Law binding us to duty to God our selves and our neighbours not as it is a rule of life for so it is irreversible it stands still in force and lays upon us an eternal obligation but as it was a Covenant of Works and as it did so oblige us to perfect and compleat obedience as withal to oblige us to punishment and damn us to Hell for the least neglect and disobedience nay for the least failure and defect in our obedience I answer again this hand-writing was the Ceremonial Law wherein there was a publick confession and acknowledgment of sin and of the sinners obligation to punishment and deserving of death and everlasting misery and upon that account or so far it was against us now this Christ blotted out by his Doctrine and after that he nailed it to his Cross by his death and at it i.e. he finished it he utterly abolished it He took it quite away out of the way of our duty we are no more to observe it and out of the way of our happiness so that it cannot prejudice nor obstruct that as it cannot do us any good so it shall not do us any hurt as it cannot purge and cleanse us from sin so it shall not charge us with it and this he did as the Lord of Ordinances and instead of that he hath been graciously pleased to introduce and set up another worship less onerous and painful more easie and spiritual and therefore more glorious for which we have cause to admire his goodness and to bless his name and this is his right to do and his alone those that bring in worships and modes of worship besides his do usurp a power that belongs not to them Men have no power to institute because they have no power to sanctifie bless and prosper any of their Institutions that is in the alone power of Christ as he is Lord and Head of the Church Moses the man of God did put up his sweet and excellent petition which we ought heartily to repeat Psal. 90.17 Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us Oh that it may be so but when is it so when as I hinted briefly before the Church is constituted according to the mind of Christ when all its Offices and Officers are appointed by Christ when all Ordinances in it are administred according to the Law of Christ when the lives and conversations of Professors are ordered according to the Rule of Christ. It is not the beauty and grandeur of the world which doth become the Courts of Earthly Princes it is not the beauty of human inventions how fine and pretty soever it may seem but the beauty of the Lord but of this we have spoken before Q. 4. Our fourth Question is this What God doth mean when he saith He hath set his King upon his holy hill of Sion Or what may be the import of that word setting Answ. I answer the word in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to anoint and so you have it render'd in the Margent of your Bibles I have anointed my King perfudi I have poured out my holy Oyl upon him it doth import a plentiful effusion an abundant pouring out of the Oyl upon him The very same word is used in Isa. 29.10 where it is translated poured out The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes the prophets and your rulers the seers hath he covered they are drown'd in sleep they are in a dead sleep He hath poured out such a profound and deep sleep that they are cover'd with it this word is metaphorically used to cover yea so to cover a thing all over as to hide it from the eye and prevent any bodies seeing it and as our learned Criticks observe it is most commonly applied in the Scripture to the pouring out of the drink-offering upon the sacrifice which drencht it and ran over it Jerem. 32.39 They have offered burnt offerings unto Baal and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger And it is also applied to and made use of for the covering of Sin in a way of pardoning Mercy and Grace Psal. 32.1 Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is covered so cover'd as that it is quite hid as a Body that is buried in the Grave out of sight or as a weight that is cast into the bottom of the Sea from whence it shall never be fetched up again it shall be remembred and mentioned no more to a Person 's Condemnation and eternal Reproach Thus God makes good his gracious Promise of pardoning abundantly When once he justifieth the Sinner upon his Repentance and Faith he wholly covers his Sin tho not from the Eye of his Omniscience yet from the Eye of his revenging Justice This anointing in the Text doth import God the Father's ordaining constituting and appointing of Christ for King upon his holy Hill of Sion or as it is in your Translation the Fathers setting of him up placing him in the Throne Kings and Priests were by the Divine Order to be anointed as those know that know the Scripture And so were Prophets 1 Kings 19.16 Iehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-Meholah shalt thou anoint to be Prophet in thy room All these Offices meet together in Christ which they never did in any other David was a King and a Prophet but not a Priest. Samuel was a Prophet and Priest but not a King. Christ is all the Prophet Priest and King of his Church he hath a fulness of Offices and so hath been anointed as you find in Isa. 61.1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek that he doth as a Prophet he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted that he doth as a Priest and to proclaim Liberty to the Captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound this he doth as a King. And as he hath the greatest fulness of Office so he hath the greatest fulness of the Unction But let us speak a little more particularly This plentiful anointing of our Lord Jesus Christ from whence he hath his Names the Messiah and the Christ doth hold out to us these two things 1. His being admirably yea thoroughly accomplished for the exercise of Royal Authority and Power 2. His Investiture and being by the Father cloathed with it Of both which I shall say something tho far short