Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	prepare_v	vessel_n	wrath_n	3,005	5	9.3678	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34980	Christ exalted and Dr. Crisp vindicated in several points called antinomian, being cleared from neonomian suggestions alledged, by some remarks on Mr. A-, his rebuke to Mr. Lob shewing from Scripture and most orthodox authors the invalidity of his rebuke in taxing the doctor to be apocryphal, and his doctrine antinomian : with some observations on the Bishop of Worcester's letter concerning the great point of the change of persons between Christ and believers ... : with a table to find the heads insisted on / done by a happy, tho' unworthy branch of the said doctor.	Crisp, Samuel, 1669 or 70-1704.	1698 (1698)	Wing C6917; ESTC R24787	120,659	146

which is laid Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3.11 and all hay and stubble upon it shall be burnt Which every sincere lover of our Lord Jesus daily prays may be hastened Even so come Lord Jesus §. LXXX Our Rebuker like some Captain General in the Confederates Army in Flanders where most of them are Papists or very sorry Protestants is in the next place giving orders for a kind of Popish Barriere to be set about the Divine Justice in pa. 51 though by the way a Barriere against an Enemy had been more like a General 's Word of Command but let it go for the Neonomian Word of Command a Barriere about Divine Justice his Sentence is this I would have I your General a Bar a Barriere about the Divine Justice that Men may not dare to represent him or it for better sense as a Tyrant in making so many millions to damn them eternally to damn them without respect had to their demerits This is plain Arminius or worse and such as I never suspected from my Dear Kratiste to justifie the general out cry of corrupted Natural Religion What did God make us to damn us How could we help our first Parents Sin But doth not the Scripture say In Adam all dyed for that or in whom all have sinned and by the offence of one judgment came upon all Men to condemnation Rom. 5. And will you now run with the Herd and cry God made Millions to damn them as a Tyrant without respect to their Demerits because they are condemned in Adam Now I see some Reason why the Rebuker said once in the Pulpit in Pinners Hall We did not sin Adam ' s Sin But I am sure he must own that in Adam all dyed then he must own with Augustine In Adam all are damned Damnati antequam nati Damned before Born and yet God no Tyrant but Holy and Just as well as Gracious and Merciful Hath not the Potter power over the Clay of the same lump to make a hundred Chamber-pots and but five drinking Vessels Shall proud insolent Man teach God what Vessels of Wrath prepared of old to this Condemnation to make Jude 4. and what Vessels of Mercy Or whom he will to have Mercy on and whom he will to harden O that Men were wise and not to set Barriers of their divising God hath set his Barriere and let Men stand and adore and tremble at that word What if God willing to shew his Wrath and to make his Power known endured with much long-suffering the Vessels of Wrath fitted for destruction Is God by saucy prophane Man to be called a Tyrant for shewing his Wrath on Vessels of Wrath before of old ordained to this Condemnation having fitted themselves by their Sin in Adam for this destruction Shall we say it is without their own Demerits when God saith in Adam all dyed O that Men were wise to Sobriety and would not think to jostle God out of his Throne Let us adore Free Rich Sovereign Grace that is published in the Gospel that whoever will may take the water of Life freely Rev. 22.17 All in the sound of the Gospel being invited to come to Christ and they shall find rest for their weary Souls Those that charge God as a Tyrant for damning Millions without respect to their Demerits when they are lost and condemned in Adam will not condemn a Temporal Prince for a Tyrant to take and sieze the Estate of a Traytor condemned and to take it from all his Posterity ever after to the Worlds end And shall Man be justified as no Tyrant and God be charged so arrogantly Let us adhere to God's Barriere that in Adam all sinned and the Wages of that Sin is Damnation to all that have not an Interest in Christ §. LXXXI In his hedge about Justification I take notice of his indispensable Bulwark that is That Faith be made indispensably necessary to it in all the Adult Here one might ask what precise time should be fixed for the Adult it being an odd word and unscriptural The Scripture saith He that believes shall be saved he that believes not is condemned already And if there be not the Seed of Faith in Infants before they dye which God alone gives as Sanctification in the Womb or afterwards when he pleaseth I know not how according to the Scripture our only Rule to judge by they can be saved if they have not the Seed of Faith in Sanctification Would you have one way for Infants to be saved and another for the Adult when Christ alone is the Way the Truth and Life But passing by that it may be ask'd what kind of Faith is it that is to be so necessary There is bare assent to the Truth and this many call a Faith sufficient provided they live good Lives as they call it but this Faith the Devils have and tremble Then there is Historical Faith and Temporary Faith There is above and beyond these a Faith of assurance which some make absolutely necessary I would hope he means none of these but a Faith of adherence to the Lord Jesus for Life and Salvation by him and him alone of relying on him trusting to him renouncing our selves and our best performances as loss and dung in the matter of Justification or as any cause of our Salvation This might have given some Light into his indispensably necessary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the Doctrine of Justification I fear there lyes a snare in this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this indispensably necessary Some and those mighty Friends to the Arminians make Faith necessary as a Cause or Co dition that stands in the place of Works of the Law Some make it a Condition as joined with Repentance and pers verance in Gospel-Obedience and so put it in the place of Christ's Righteousness imputed to us and make Faith as it is our Work to be imputed to us for Righteousness And so the Hedge is become a hodge-podge of our Gospel Righteousness joyned with Christ's Righteousness under the notion of Faith a Condition O how good is it for us to fence our selves with God's Word that the Foundation of God stands sure Whom he did foreknow them he did predestinate and them he called and them he justified and them he glorified Here 's not a word of what we do that we predestinate we call we justifie or we glorifie our selves 't is God doth all And if instead of our pleading to justifie and glorifie our selves we would indeavour to justifie and glorifie God for his free justifying and glorifying us through and for the sake only of his dearly beloved Son our Dear and Blessed Lord and Saviour it would be much better than to make a pother about the Conditionality of Faith when all is of Grace But I hope in this indispensably necessary Faith to Justification he doth not exclude some mixture of doubting with Faith though he names not the least allowance for that and yet where is the Faith