Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	call_v	lord_n	sin_n	6,583	5	4.5982	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42331	The Paschal or Lent-Fast, apostolical & perpetual at first deliver'd in a sermon preached before His Majesty in Lent and since enlarged : wherein the judgment of antiquity is laid down : with an appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the fast of Lent / by Peter Gunning ...	Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.	1662 (1662)	Wing G2236; ESTC R5920	244,843	370

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pauperes_fw-la huius_fw-la jejunium_fw-la valdè_fw-la acceptum_fw-la est_fw-la apud_fw-la deum_fw-la we_o have_v the_o day_n of_o lent_n consecrate_v to_o fasting_n we_o have_v the_o 4_o the_o and_o 6_o the_o day_n of_o the_o week_n whereon_o we_o solemn_o fast_v there_o be_v also_o yet_o another_o religious_a way_n of_o fast_v who_o praise_n be_v set_v forth_o in_o write_v from_o certain_a of_o the_o apostle_n for_o we_o find_v in_o a_o certain_a book_n that_o it_o be_v say_v by_o the_o apostle_n blessed_n be_v he_o who_o fast_v also_o for_o that_o end_n that_o he_o may_v relieve_v the_o poor_a this_o man_n fast_n be_v much_o accept_v with_o god_n misericordia_fw-la &_o pietas_fw-la eleemosynae_fw-la &_o orationes_fw-la jejuniis_fw-la sunt_fw-la alae_fw-la per_fw-la quas_fw-la tollitur_fw-la &_o portatur_fw-la ad_fw-la coelum_fw-la sine_fw-la quibus_fw-la iaceo_fw-la &_o volutatur_fw-la in_o terrâ_fw-la say_v chrysolog_n serm_n 8._o the_o jejun_n alm_n and_o prayer_n be_v the_o wing_n of_o fast_v by_o which_o it_o be_v carry_v up_o to_o heaven_n as_o be_v cornelius_n without_o which_o it_o lie_v dead_a and_o spiritless_a upon_o the_o earth_n idem_fw-la ibid._n jejunantes_fw-la ergo_fw-la fratres_fw-la prandium_fw-la nostrum_fw-la reponamus_fw-la in_o manu_fw-la pauperis_fw-la ut_fw-la servet_fw-la nobis_fw-la manus_fw-la pauperis_fw-la quod_fw-la venture_n nobis_fw-la fuerat_fw-la perditurus_fw-la manus_fw-la pauperis_fw-la est_fw-la gazophylacium_fw-la christi_fw-la pauperi_fw-la qui_fw-la non_fw-la jejunat_fw-la deo_fw-la singit_fw-la jejunium_fw-la sine_fw-la misericordiâ_fw-la simulachrum_fw-la famis_fw-la est_fw-la sine_fw-la pielate_fw-la jejunium_fw-la occasio_fw-la est_fw-la avaritiae_fw-la quia_fw-la parcitas_fw-la ista_fw-la quantùm_fw-la siccatur_fw-la in_o corpore_fw-la tantùm_fw-la tumescit_fw-la in_o sacculo_fw-la let_v we_o therefore_o o_o my_o brethren_n when_o we_o fast_o deposit_v our_o dinner_n in_o the_o hand_n of_o the_o poor_a that_o that_o 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