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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80396	A pattern of mercy. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls, before the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor, and the Lord General Monck: February 12. 1659. / By Tobias Conyers, minister at St. Ethelberts, London.	Conyers, Tobias, 1628-1687.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5994; Thomason E774_8; ESTC R207295	28,966	47

poor to be taken care of by the rich The poor saies our Lord and Saviour yee have alwaies with you me ye have not alwaies that what love we feel in our hearts unto Jesus Christ we might express unto our indigent brethren for his sake To do good therefore and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God is well pleased However some men have taken up a Religion that excuses them from all acts of bounty goodness and charity yet the Apostle Col. 3. 12. makes Charity or mercy to be a peculiar sign and character of God's Elect Put on therefore as the Elect of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bowels of pities and mercies Let me therefore give you that advice which was given to Nebuchadnezar Dan. 4. 27. That you break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor be daily casting in of your abundance into this treasury of God Make unto your selves bags that wax not old so shall you have treasure in heaven Let us not be lifte the hypocritical Jewes who fasted for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness and even then when they made long praiers devour'd widows houses but rather like the good Centurion Act. 19. that not onely our praiers but our Alms and Charity may come up in remembrance before God Thus we have finished the first Use by way of imitation 2ly By way of Consolation if our heavenly Father be so merciful Are any of us made sensible of our great miscarriages and how unsuitably we have acted to the genious and Spirit of Christ and the Gospel Do we recollect how often we have violated his righteous Laws transgressed his holy precepts abused his mercies against the light of nature against the light of grace This Doctrine administers great Consolation that we have to to do with God and not with men with God whose mercies are infinite and not with men whose mercies are cruelties This is the greatest comfort that can possibly be laid before us in all our soul-conflicts That our God is a lover of souls that the lives of his creatures are very dear and pretious in his sight and next unto his own Justice which is himself we are considerable with him It was a great comfort to the Syrian King and his Nobles 1 King 20. 31. that they heard the Kings of the house of Israel were merciful Kings this was the great incouragement of Address a motive to humiliation upon hopes of acceptance We have allheard that God is a merciful God a tender and merciful Prince Let it move us to put on the garment of true humiliation and make our solemne and penitential Addresses unto him That he may pardon our sin and remember our iniquities no more To conclude Let us not presume upon the mercies of God so as to turn his Grace into wantonness to take Arguments of Sinning from the considera-of Divine mercy that because mercy abounds therefore we make sin to abound this were ill to requite the Lord and know that by how much the mercies of God have been encreased by so much will the wrath and the displeasure of God be encreased against us if we abuse them FINIS Books worth Buying THe Banner of Justification displayed or a Discourse concerning the deep and important Mysterie of the Justification of a sinner wherein the several causes thereof being both numerous various are from first to last diligently inquired after and their several contributions towards so great and happy a work clearly distinguished and assigned to their proper causes respectively By Mr. John Goodwin newly come forth Triumviri Or the Genius Spirit and Deportment of the three Men Mr. Richard Resbury Mr. John Pawson and Mr. George Kendall in their late Writings against the Free Grace of God in the redemption of the World and vouchsafement of means of salvation unto men briefly described in their native and true colours borrowed of themselves in their Writings respectively Together with some brief touches in the Preface upon Dr. John Owen Mr. Thomas Lamb of the Spittle Mr. Jeans Mr. Obadiah How and Mr Marchamond Needham in relation to their late Writings against the Author In Quarto by Mr John Goodwin The Tryers and Ejectors of Ministers tryed and cast by the Laws of God and men By Iohn Goodwin Mercy in her Exaltation a Sermon preached at the Funeral of Mr. Daniel Tarlor by Mr. John Goodwin In Quarte The Natural Mans Case stated Or an exact Map of the little World Man in 17. Sermons by Mr. Christopher Love To which is added a Sermon preached at his Funeral by Mr. Thomas Manton of Newington In Octavo A Comment on Ruth together with two Sermons one teaching how to live wel the other minding all how to dye well By Thomas Fuller Author of the Holy State Gospel publick Worship Or the Translation Metaphrase Analysis and Exposition of Rom. 12. from vers 1. to 8. describing the compleat Pattern of Gospel Worship Also an Exposition of the 18. Chapter of Matthew to which is added A discovery of Adams threefold estate in Paradise viz. Moral Legal and Evangelical by Thomas Brewer in Octavo The Grand Enquiry who is the righteous man by William Moore at Whaley in Lancashire The Declaration of the Judgement of Iames Arminius concerning Election and Reprobation translated into English by Tobias Conyers An Idea or body of Church-Discipline in the Theorick and Practick by Mr. Rogers in quarto Lucas Redivivus Or the Gospel-physician prescribing by way of Meditation Divine physick to prevent Diseases not yet entred upon the soul by Iohn Anthony Dr. in Physick in quarto A Letter of Address to the late Protector Oliver by D. F. alias Tobias Conyers in quarto The Return of Mercies or the Saints advantage by losses By Mr. John Goodwin in 12.