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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94051	Mercy rejoycing against judgement: or, God waiting to be gracious to a sinfull nation. A sermon preached before the honorable House of Commons in Margarets Westminster, upon the solemne day of their publique humiliation and monethly fast, Octob. 29. 1645. / By John Strickland, B.D. pastor of the church at Edmonds in the citie of New Sarum, now preacher at Peters Poor, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Strickland, John, 1600 or 1601-1670.	1645 (1645)	Wing S5973; Thomason E307_21; ESTC R200349	19,186	32

was a type of Christ in whom God and man were reconciled God will now magnifie his mercy and patience so that * Multa in scriptura efferantur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quae tamen oportet intelligi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damasc lib. 4. de orth fide cap. 20. Saepe illa Hebraea particula 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 et graeca 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in bibliis usurpatur adversative pro quamuis licet Tarn Exer. Bibl in 1 Sam. 2.25 though man be as sinfull as ever he was and deserves that the ground should be cursed again with another floud as well as ever he did yet God to shew the riches of his grace and mercy will not again curse the ground any more for mans sake though the imagination of mans heart is evill from his youth which leads me to the grounds of reason holden out in the next place The reasons of such Gods wonderfull dispensations somtimes are given in the text And first why he suspends his Judgements so unexpectedly and extraordinarily somtimes Reasons when yet a people do still provoke him even because he will be exalted in his mercy And therfore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you exaltabit Exalted se he shall stir up him self that he may have mercy as intending to show mercy with all his might When the psalmist would have God help the Church to purpose he intreats the Lord to stir up his strength and help her Psa 80.2 so when he intends here to be mercifull to purpose he will stir up himself Or exaltabitur parcendo vobis God shall be exalted in pardoning it shall appeare to be grandis clementia Dei as Hierom cals it when he pardoneth unexspectedly he lifts up his mercy above mens thoughts as far as the Heavens are above the Earth So in the Prophet God speaks of himself when he pardoneth aboundantly Isa 55.7.8.9 I will nor trouble you with the many other interpretations that are made of this phrase as that it signifies the exaltatiō of Gods hand in fimilitudinem percussuri as Oecolampadius or Gods going up again into Heaven from whence he was come down out of his place to punish them and the like The two first interpretations give you as I humbly conceive the genuine sense and mind of the words which holds out the reason of the point even that God may be the more exalted and set up in his mercy There is an ordinary course or path holden out in Scripture wherein divine justice and mercy do commonly proceed in punishing or in pardoning When a people sinne against God they shall be punished when a people repent of their sinne God will repent of their punishment and they shall be pardoned thus it is generally in Gods dispensations and because God hath not tyed or limitted himself to walke alwaies though he hath tyed us alwaies to waite upon and expect him in the way of his word for the dispensation of his justice and mercy there is also a way of Prerogative as I may call it wherein God may and sometimes doth dispense his mercy in reserved cases above the common rule Videtur miscricordiae limites transilire Theodo Suepsius he somtimes repents of punishing a people before they repent of sinning against him as you have heard in the proofe of the point and when he walks in such untrodden paths God is singularly exalted in his mercy these foure waies How God is exaleed in his mercy by such dispensations First In the principle of mercy I mean the goodnesse of his nature whereby he is so strongly so invincibly inclin'd to mercy that he will not retaine anger he will not be provoked somtimes though he be provoked by the sins of his people and this sets him up so incomparable high in the admiration of his people Mica 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage Mica 7.18 he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy According to what the Lord declared of himself to Moses when he made his glory to passe before him Exod. 34.6 The Lord God mercifull and gracious Exod. 24.6 long suffering and aboundant in goodnesse what goodnes is it that God will forbeare to strike in the midst of provocations The Prophet wholly ascribes the praise of our non destruction to that Lam. 3.22 It is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed Lam. 3.22 because his compassions faile not What goodnes that the great God on whom all the creatures in Heaven and earth should waite should waite on his poore creatures Secondly by such extraordinary dispensations God is exalted in the freenesse of his mercy punishing lesse then we deserve is confessedly mercy Ezra 9.13 Ezr. 9.13 pardoning fully where punishment is deserved is yet more but how is mercy exalted when blessings are given instead of punishments I say not praeter meritum but contrameritum when there is not only nothing at all in the people to help forward but almost every thing in them that might hinder the exercise of mercy when all the arguments and motives to mercy must be drawn out of Gods own bowels God must needs be very glorious in the freenesse of it Thus God held out the gloriousnesse of his free mercy toward Israel when after their rejection he restores them what blessings he bestowes upon them Ezek. 36.11 Ezek. 36.11 I will setle you after your old estates and will do better to you then at the beginning The very materials of the blessings are large demonstrations of mercy even that he will do such great things for them but lest they should not see the full glory of his mercy toward them therein he presseth them to take notice that he would do these things freely ver 22. ver 22. Say unto the house of Israel thus saith the Lord God I do not this for your sakes O house of Israel but for my own holy Names sake which ye have prophaned among the heathen Thirdly God is hereby exalted in the richnesse of his mercy when a people continue in their provocations rebellions against God t is not a little mercy that can stand in the breach When Israel Num. 14.11.12 had very far provoked the Lord num 14.11.12 so that he spake of plaguing disinheriting them Moses prays ver 17.19 ver 17.19 That the Lords power may be great in pardoning and that he will pardon according to the greatnesse of his mercie the Lords great wrath was kindled therefore his power had need be great to keep it in When a man is thoroughly moved with anger there is much ado to keep in his passion that it break not out now nothing can be so provoking to stir up our anger as sin is to stirre up Gods displeasure against a people how great is that mercy then that can keep in divine wrath