Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

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
A52286	The dissenters jubilee as it was sounded in the audience of a solemn assembly at the publick meeting-place in Spittle-Fields near London, on Tuesday May 17, 1687, being a day of Thanksgiving to praise the Lord for his vvonderful appearance and over-ruling providence, in the present dispensation of liberty of conscience / by Charles Nicholets ...	Nicholets, Charles.	1687 (1687)	Wing N1086	30,128	54

hath done great things for us that in the Ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his Power in his kindness towards us in rescuing us from the jaws of Death and keeping us from going down into the Pit and by his glorious Omnipotence turning our Captivity as the streams of the South And this Almighty Power of his has been of old exerted for the deliverance of his poor distressed People as we may see in the Churches appeal to it upon her Invocation in time of trouble Isa 51.9 10 11. Awake Awake put on strength O Arm of the Lord as in the Antient days in the Generations of Old Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab and wounded the Dragon art thou not it which hath dried the Sea the Waters of the great deep that hath made the depths of the Sea a way for the Ransomed to pass over therefore the Redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with Singing unto Zion and everlasting Joy shall be upon their heads they shall obtain Gladness and Joy and Sorrow and Mourning shall flee away As if she had said Thou hast formerly shined forth in the Glory of thy Power in cutting Rahab that is in plaguing Egypt in wounding the Dragon that is in destroying Pharoah and in drying up the Waters of the Red-Sea Oh put forth that power now in Freeing and redeeming us from our present troubles that we with them may sing those Hosannahs of Joy on Earth which will be perfected in Hallelujahs when we come to Heaven Tantum gaudebimus quam tum amabimus tantum amabimus quantum cognoscemus says the devout Austin We shall Rejoyce as much as we shall Love and we shall Love as much as we shall know Our knowledge of the glorious Attribute of Gods Power will then be perfect and our rejoycing at it will be in perfection also we find the Prophet in a dark and gloomy day when things lookt black upon the People of God had recourse to this great Power of God for his support and bearing up under the pressures of those sad and heavy things he saw a coming upon Jerusalem as you may see in that solemn and serious Prayer of his Jerimiah 32. verse 17 c. Ah! Lord God behold thou hast made the Heaven and the Earth by thy great Power and stretched-out Arm and there is nothing too hard for thee Thou shewest Loving kindness unto Thousands and recompensest the Iniquity of the Fathers into the bosome of their Children after them the Great the Mighty God the Lord of Hosts is his Name great in Councel and mighty in Work for thine Eyes are open upon all the ways of the Sons of Men to give every one according to his wayes and every one according to the fruit of his doings which hast set Signs and Wonders in the Land of Egypt even unto this day and in Israel and amongst other men and hast made thee a name as at this day and hast brought forth thy People Israel out of the Land of Egypt with Signs and with Wonders and with a strong hand and with a stretched-out Arm and with great terror This prayer is very argumentative and conclusive concerning the Power of God that it is able to effect all things since by it the vast globe of the World was made out of nothing the Lords Might anb his Mercy are the good Soul's Jachin Boaz the names of the two main Pillars in Solomons Temple the one signifying Stabllity the other Strength to note the Saints are safe and established in the the Power and Mercy of God. Thus the great Lord hath done great things for us Secondly The Lord the good and gracious God the Tender and Merciful God who hath proclaimed himself before Heaven and Earth before Angels and Men. The Lord The Lord God Mercifull and Gracious Long-suffering abundant in goodness and Truth the Lord who is good yea exceeding good whose Mercy endures for ever The Lord whose thoughts concercing Mercy are not as our thoughts nor his ways with respect to doing good as our wayes but as the Heavens are higher then the Earth so are his Thoughts higher than our Thoughts his Ways than our Ways The Lord that is as ready to Grant as his People can be to Ask who is nigh to all that call upon him in sincerity when Troubles and Calamities do Surround them as you may see in his most tender affectionate answer to bemoaning Ephraim as soon as he came upon his knees before him Jeremiah 31.20 Is Ephraim my dear Son Is he a pleasant Child For since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my Bowels are Troubled for him and I will surely have Mercy upon him saith the Lord. God may seem a great while as one unconcerned at the troubles of his People but when they are so high as to overwhelm their Spirits and their Hearts are bowing and bending yea breaking under them he then hath Pity and Compassion upon them in their Distresses As Croesus's dumb Son who never spoke in his Life before when he saw one attempting to Assassinate his Father violently cryed out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Man Do not kill Croesus So the blessed God cannot hold coming in with supplyes of Mercy when his People are ready to be swallowed up in the gulf of Misery Mercy is his Name and Mercy is his Nature there is nothing he delights in so much for Mercy pleases him as much as it pleasures us and as he is great in Mercy so he is rich in it and free in it without any previous condition or qualification in the Creature He is a most free Agent in the distribution of Mercy Romans 9.15 for he saith to Moses I will have Mercy on whom I will have Mercy and I will have Compassion on on whom I will have Compassion No other reason can be assigned no other motive by the Wisdom of Men and Angels could be produced why God should shew any Mercy to any of the Sons of Adam but his own free-will to it and his gracious Complacency in it When he is angry with his People and visiting them with some Judgments as Tokens of his Displeasure he is said to come out of his place importing that when he is doing good and shewing mercy he is then in his own proper place the place he would for ever be in did not our Sins too often occasion his removal We likewise read of his delighting in mercy Mic. 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee That pardonest iniquity and passest by the transgressions of the Remnant of his Heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy O Admiration Admiration That a dishonoured provoked and highly-incensed God should keep in the Vials of his wrath and shew so much Love and so much Mercy to his distressed ones yea in his Love and in his Mercy to do such great things for them Indeed when God strikes he strikes to