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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	goodness_n	lord_n	merciful_a	1,997	5	8.9155	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19953	Gods mercies and Ierusalems miseries A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Iune. 1609. By Lancelot Dawes, Master of Arts and fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford.	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1609 (1609)	STC 6388; ESTC S109409	43,755	146

then any whatsoeuer Iustin lib. 18. That Tyrian proued the wisest in the end who hauing concluded in the Euening with his fellowes that hee which could first in the next morning behold the Sun which they worshipped as a God should bee King looked not toward the East where hee riseth but towards the westerne mountaines where his rayes did first appeare We will follow his Example and seeing we cannot seeke into the fountaine at which the Cherubs did couer their faces let vs behold it in the mountaines that is the Prophetes and Apostles Hierom. lib. 110. Commēt in Ezech. as Ierome expounds the word or the mountaines that is the creatures and works of God in all which it doth most clearely shine there is no worke of God in al which there doth not appeare such manifest Characters of his mercy that he which runneth may reade them Those benefites in tended towards his children as namely Election before all time creation in the beginning of time Vocation Redemption Iustification in the fulnes of time Glorification after all time c. To proue them to bee so many riuers of the bottomles Ocean of Gods neuer dying mercy it were but to busie my selfe about a principle which I hope none of you will call into question Gods almighty power is manifested vnto vs in that hee hath created the world of nothing p Psal 33.6 and made all the hoast of heauen by the breath of his mouth and it is a property in describing of which Gods Secretaries do striue to be eloquent Iob to shew it saith that q Iob. 9. he spreadeth out the heauens like a Canopie and walketh vpon the the height of the Sea that he maketh the starres Arcturus and Orion and Pleiades and the climates of the South Elihu sets it forth vnder Benoth whose taile is like a Cedar r Iob. 40. and his bones like staues of brasse yet the Lord leadeth him whither soeuer hee will and vnder Leuiathan which makes the depth to boile like a pot and the sea like a pot of ointment and yet the Lord can put a hooke in his nose and pearce his iawes with an Angle Dauid to shew it sayth that hee maketh the mountaines to skippe like Rammes and the little hils like young sheepe Psalm 114. I say to expresse it sayth that ſ Isa 40. all nations before him are as a droppe of a bucket and are counted as the dust of the ballance that he taketh away the Isles as a little dust that hee hath measured the waters in his fist counted heauen with a span comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountaines in a weight and the hilles in a ballance and yet his mercy goeth beyond his power in that his omnipotency hath made nothing but what his mercy moued him to create and it comes after too in preseruing and guiding and protecting by his heauenly prouidence a branch of his mercy whatsoeuer his powerfull hand hath made if hee should but once stoppe the influence of his mercy al the works of his hands should presently bee annihilated t Psal 33.5 The earth is full of the mercies of the Lord sayth the Psalmist hee sayth not the heauens sayth Austen Quia non indigent misericordia vbi est nulla miseria they needed no mercy where there is no miserie Augustin in illum locum and yet in another place hee addeth the heauens to thy truth an other of his attributes goeth vnto the clouds there it stayeth but thy mercy goeth further Psal 14.5.9 it reacheth vnto the heauens in fewer wordes It is ouer all his works But my text leades me to entreat of his mercy as it hath reference vnto his iustice where you shall find that of two infinites one doth infinitely surpasse an other to bee called a mercifull God and the father of mercy is a title wherein God especially delighteth but he is almost neuer called the God of iudgement heare how hee proclaimeth himselfe The Lord the Lord strong there is one Epithite of his power mercifull gratious slow to anger aboundant in goodnesse and truth reseruing mercy for thousands forgiuing iniquity and transgression and sinne there are sixe of his mercy Then comes his iustice in punishing of offences not making the wicked innocent visiting the iniquity of the Fathers vpon the children vnto the third and fourth generation there he confines his iustice hee sayth vnto vs as he doth vnto the seas in Iob (w) Iob. 38.11 Hither shalt thou goe and thou shalt goe no further here shalt thou stay thy raging waues it shall not passe the fourth generation and that is more then Ordinarie if it come so farre it is but at a high spring Exo. 20.5.6 vpon such as hate him but his mercy followes like a boundlesse Ocean vpon thousandes of those that loue him Nay the Prophet tels vs that to punish is with God a rare extraordinary work x Esa 28.21 The Lord sayth he shall stand as in as in mount Perazim he shall be angry as in the valley of Gibeon that hee may doe his worke his strange worke and bring to passe his act his strange act This is an act of iudgement where you see that to punish with him is an vncouth and strange worke an acte indeed vnto which without compulsion of iustice hee could not be drawne hee is more loath to put out his hand for to inflict a iudgement then euer was Octauius to subscribe his name to the execution of any publike offender whose vsuall speech was this Sueton. Vtinam nescirem literas I would to God I could not write How oft doth miserable man offend against his maker surely if the iust man fall seuen times then the wicked falleth seuenty times seauen times yet hee maketh his Sunne to shine vpon them both he makes his rain to fall vpon them both still almost hee containeth the sword of his iustice within the sheath of his mercy if in case hee bee enforced to draw it hee is as it were touched with a feeling of that which the wicked suffer heare himselfe speak Therefore thus sayeth the Lord of hoastes Isa 1.24 the holy one of Israel ah I will ease me of mine aduersaries and auenge mee of mine enemies it is a kind of ease to be auenged of thine enemie and therefore God when the Iewes continue still to prouoke him to his face will ease himselfe by inflicting his iudgements vpon them I will ease me of mine enemies but it comes with an ah or alas it is paine and griefe to him hee is wounded to the very heart his bowels are rowled and turned within him a few teares might haue made him sheath his sworde and deferre his punishments the history of Ahab will proue as much who was one that had solde himselfe to worke wickednes that prouoked the Lord God more then all the Kings of Israel that were