Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	admire_v	deep_a	great_a	25	3	2.0923	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36938	The Christian's compass, or, The mariner's companion being a brief compendium of the principles of religion, in the things which are necessary to be known and practised by all who profess the name of Christ / long since prepared, and now published by John Durant ...	Durant, John, b. 1620.	1658 (1658)	Wing D2671; ESTC R8810	36,678	107

and sweet experiences which then thou hast enjoyed to learne to live and hope in any tempest and storm that hereafter thou mayest meet withall 10. How useful and serviceable is every Rope yea the least about the ship in its proper place And how well skilled are the Sea-men in them How do they know them all by name and with what dexterity and strength do they hand and hale and hold any of them as occasion is Surely O my soul all thy spiritual tackling is useful and necessary Every word of God is good Every precept promise threatning experience c. all and each of these are occasionally to be remembred improved yea every work and providence every mercy and affliction should be known as it were by Name And wert thou but divinely dextrous and spiritually skilful thou mightest make special use of all in thy spiritual Navigation 11. The ship hath not onely Merchandize and treasure in its hold but it carryes force and strength upon its Decks Here are instruments of war guns c. to secure from enemies and pyrates as well as Commodities to traffick withall all And surely O my soul it becomes thee to minde the weapons of thy warfare that whole Armor of God which out of the Magazine of the Scriptures thou art to be furnished withall Go into and take a sight of the Armory as 't is opened Eph. 6.14 15 16 17. There are Enemyes and Pyrates upon the soul-Sea Men yea and devils of wrath and war that way-lay thee Expect an onset and provide None ever did passe over the Sea of the world but met with Pyrates Thou must resist and fight yea and that unto blood to secure thy self from being taken or sunk and remember this and look about thee O my soul thou carryest petty Pyrates within thee that will never fight for thee flesh will not fight against the world and Satan nay which war against thy soul Look to it therefore to watch against those within that thou mayest the better maintain thy fight without 12. Still by our Helm stands the compasse that the steersman may alwayes eye it As soon as his hand is on the Helm his eye is on the Compasse and with what exactness strength doth he hold the Helm to steer to a point by that Thus it becomes thee O my poor soul to eye thy Compasse in all thy stirring and steering up and down the world It 's not enough to hand and hold the Helm to put forth strength to stir and do indeed this is very good against idleness but thou must eye the rule that while thou stirrest it may be within as we say are according to Compasse Many who are not idle are yet evil employed who though they stir yet it 's not according to compasse and it is a thousand to one if they run not aground upon some Rock ot Sand. But let the word be in thy hand in thy heart keep it that it may guide thee Remember retain it O my soul as a certain truth That they make shipwrack of their soul who ey not and steer not according to Compass how active and zealous soever they be otherwise Actions that are irregular and without Compass are as bad as direct idleness if not often worse CHAP. XI Here are some occasional Meditations to stir up and to direct in this work I Have now almost done only to these Maritine Meditations which I call mixed as being of sundry sorts I shall add twelve more occasional ones drawn from some particular occasions and then I 'le conclude On the Boatswains Whistle What a shril sound doth this whistle make How is it heard both fore and ought above and beneath Deck And how ready is every one at the sound thereof Surely there is no vertue in this Whistle onely the Sea-men know the sound and use thereof and 't is therefore that they are so ready at its call to come Both John and Jesus piped O my soul but the refractory Jews stirred not surely they knew not what that sound meant But shew thy life and skill O my soul and upon any sound of the words whistle stir Upon every blast of sacred breath which sounds that sacred silver pipe up and see what it means O let the sound thereof be shrill and powerful on thy heart On a piece of Plank floating on the Sea Yonder swims the sad signe of the wracke of some I conclude the sinking of the passenger from the swimming of the Plank Blessed Lord Why suffer me to ask it why didst not save some one upon that piece of Timber might not that board or broken piece have been as in Pauls case a little Ark to save some from drowning by carrying them to shore But pardon my presumption in this question Yet it may be there wanted a Paul in the vessel to whom thou mightest have given all that did sail therein But why should I so imagine and uncharitably sink them lower who are gone down into the bottom of the great deep Turnin O my soul upon thy self reflect and see what might have befallen thee That Plank might have been thy floating Tomb or Monument that some other passenger might have read on it thy departure by drowning Be not high-minded then but fear Admire mercy in preserving thee The same hand that broke that Vessel in pieces whereof that Plank or piece of Timber was can split thee at his pleasure And the next passengers may see the broken pieces of the ship in which thou wert and read a better Lecture on them then thou dost on this making better use both of instruction and improvement by example On a Sea-man which fell asleep in the shrouds and fell down in the Sea while the Sermon was preaching c. What another Eutychus is here yet there 's a difference Eutychus in the Acts chap. 20. was asleep in the window and he sunk down from the third loft saith the holy Historian but this yong man was asleep in the shrowds of a ship and sunk down into the Sea Eutychus was dead with the fall this young man but almost drowned Eutychus had a fairer excuse for his drowsiness for it was in the night then this young man who fell asleep at the noon of the day Yet O my soul canst not say this to excuse this young man He had not so holy so rowzing a Preacher as Eutychus had Alas how far art thou O my soul beneath Paul Well let the yong man learn to be less drowzy and be thou more awaking stirring in preaching Yet tell others O my soul 't is dangerous sleeping in Sermon-time Bid them to look about them to attend to the word of life lest they sleep the sleep of death and sink down from a corporal to a spiritual sleep never to awake till they are rowzed up to give an account for that Sermon at which they they slept and dyed On a great distraction in the Navy suddenly and safely ended