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	sinner_n	2,337	5	7.5568	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72443	A mirrour to confesse well for such persons as doe frequent this sacrament / abridged out of sundry confessionals, by a certaine deuout and religious man.	Heigham, John, fl. 1639.; Charles Borromeo, Saint, 1538-1584.	1624 (1624)	STC 14570; ESTC S5316	47,553	316

I haue just occation to shed foorth a riuer of teares yea rather of blood then of water It is truely a wonder that my harte doth not burste in sunder with vehemence of Contrition when I consider the greatnesse and enormitie of my sinne O would to God would to God I had neuer offended Would to God I had neuer letted thy grace in me Would to God I had neuer contemned thy mercie towardes me O let it please thee sweet IESV for the same thy mercie once more to washe me with thy pretious blood Once more to heale me with thy sacred woundes Once more to sanctifie me with thy death and passion O cleanse me cleanse me cleanse me perfectly Restore me the innocencie which thou gauest me in Baptisme that I may truly please thee Here I make Lorde in thy presence and before all the Angels and blessed spirits a firme purpose to amend my life I renounce al sensuall delectation I renounce all vanitie and impuritie I renounce and vtterly detest al sinne and iniquitie My deere Sauiour shed foorth thy wrath vpon this my body Afflict me Cut me in peeces Burne me in this worlde Lay thy Crosse vpon my shoulders I am content with al only that I neuer more offende thee A prayer before Confession O Most sweete Lord th● fountaine of all mercie giue me I beseeche thee true Contrition and sorrowe fo● my sinnes Send me the gifte of speech and of veritie that 〈◊〉 may explicate and declare my sinnes humbly simply an● entierely to my ghostly Father without either disguising or concealing any thing to the end that making an entire Confession I may obtaine a full and perfect absolution Amen Another for the same O Most beningne gentle Sauiour IESV I beseeche thee by the merits of thy bitter Passion that it would please thee to haue pittie on him whom thou hast created to thyne image and likenes and bought by a painfull and dolorous death O my Lord who art the wisedome diuine let it please thee to informe me of the knowledge of my sinnes that I be not deceiued by the spirit of lying in the recitall of them which I intend to make to my ghostly father by thee established in vertue of thy pretious bloud to giue me absolution O my Lord which art the power diuine driue from me I beseech thee all feare and humane shame to the end that I be not any wayes withdrawen to open and manifest the woundes of my soule grant this by the merits of thy woorthy woundes so many tymes for me opened and renued Amen What the penitent is to doe when the Priest giueth him absolution WHILST the Confessour shall giue the Absolution the Penitent may consider the great bounty mercy of God to haue giuen vs this Sacrament for the washing and Purgation of our soules by the merits of the Passion of our Lord Iesus Christ or thinke vpon some poynt or article of the Passion or say some briefe jaculatory Prayer such as this which followeth or the like A Prayer to be said whilst the Absolution is giuen O My sweete Lord God giue me the grace that there be not in me any impediment to receaue the true entire and totall remission of all my sinnes by the merite of thy most precious blood shed for me vpon the Crosse O IESV haue mercie on me O God be mercifull to me a sinner Thou who sufferedst for me haue mercie on mee A Prayer after Confession O My Lord God the Father of mercy who hast called me expected my repentance and comming vnto thee by the Sacrament of Confession thou hast gently receaued me by thy bountie pittie and mercie and by the merits of the precious bloud of my Sauiour IESVS which hath bene applied vnto me in this holy Sacrament Thou hast giuen mee the grace to haue Contrition and sorrow for my sinnes and faults which is the first part of Penance Thou hast giuen me the force and constancy to confesse them all so farre foorth as I could remember which is the second Giue me grace now to fullfill the third which is Satisfaction in discharging me duely and deuoutly of the payne which is cōmanded me so that hauing accomplished the whole mysterie of Penance I may be receaued reckoned amongst the number of thy true children with Saint Peter and S. Mary Magdalen the true mirours of pennance Amen Another for the same O Soueraigne bounty bottomelesse depthe of mercie and God of all clemencie and sweetnes it is vnto thee that I come to render my selfe vnto thee I make my refuge hauing vnfoulded my faults in the Sacrament of Confession and discharged my selfe of the great burthen of my sinnes which did ouermuch oppresse my soule wherof I giue thee most humble thankes and I beseech thee to confirme in my spirit the hope of saluation which thou hast giuen me by newnes of life the which hereafter thou maist make to grow in me by thy holy grace O let it please thee for the time to come to support me by thy power to the ende that I fall not into the snares of mine enemies who seeke euery moment to deuoure me I call o Lord for thy helpe helpe me against the world the flesh the diuel that I may keep preserue me in the obseruance of thy holy commandements and diligently humbly and deuoutly serue thee and laud thee by the bloud and merits of IESVS CHRIST thy Son to whome with thee and the Holy Ghost be all prayse and glory Amen FINIS CERTAINE VERY PIOVS AND GODLY CONSIDERATIONS Proper to be exercised whilst the incruentall Sacrifice of the Masse is celebrated SET FORTH For the comfort and benefite of al● deuout Catholikes By IOHN HEIGHAM ANNO 1624. THE MANNER HOVV TO HEARE MASSE AND FIRST Of the Ornaments appertayning to the Priest Of the Amice WHEN the Priest putteth the Amice before his eyes I wil● consider the cloath wherew●●● the Iewes did blind-fould 〈◊〉 eyes of Christ buffet him on the face saying Prophecie vnto vs O Christ who was he that smit thee Of the same VVhen he puteth the same Amice vpon his head I will consider the sharpe Crowne of thornes which was s●t vpon our Sauiours head which peirced his braines to his exceeding torment Of the Albe VVhen he putteth on the Albe I will consider the longe white garment wherin Christ being cloathed they mocked him despised him and reputed him for a foole Of the Gyrdle VVhen he puteth on the Gyrdle I wil cal to minde how they streightly bound the handes of our Lord behinde him and like a notorious malefactor led him from place to place and from one Iudge to another Of the Manuple VVhen he putteth on the Manuple I will consider the cordes wherewith they tyed that innocent LAMBE wh●●●● he was lamentably whi●● 〈◊〉 and scourged at the Pillar Of the Stole When he putteth on the Stole I will consider the heauy Crosse which was layde vpon our Sauiours shoulders as

neither that confession which thou doest make afterwards although thou doe confesse the sinne left out before if thou doe not vtter that in thine other confessiō thou didest willinglie conceale it and thou must repeate as well the former confession as all others made in this maner so likewise if thou doubt whether any thing be a mortall sinne and doest not vtter the same it is a M. s. but not if thou leaue to doubt and art resolued that it is no M. S. To cōceale a Venial sinne not to cōfesse it is no M. S. Note 3. That the Confession is not of force if thou haue not a true and full purpose to abstaine from all Mortall Sinne and true sorow for those that be past nay thou doest sinne mortallie if thou goe to Confession with intention to be absolued in that state but not if thou goe with a desire to be holpen of thy ghostlie father and to doe that which thou oughtest Note 4 That thou must tell the number of thy Mortall sinnes as neere as thou canst remēber if willingly thou doe not vtter them thy Confession is not auaileable as also if thou doe not manifest the circumstances which doe chaunge the nature and kinde of Mortall sinnes And therfore it sufficeth not to saie I haue sinned with a woman but is needfull also to tell whether shee were kinne to thee or no and if shee were such then whether she were a virgin or a married woman Religious or secular c. Note 5. That a man must forgoe and leaue the occasion of M. S. as the conuersation of such persons and in such places where and with whom he is wont to sinne otherwise he may not be absolued for that it is a signe that he doeth not repent him selfe although he saie the contrarie in wordes Note 6. That it is necessarie to restore other mens goods as soone as may be and likewise their good name by saying that is not true which I tould of such or such a person and this to all those to whom it was spoken of if it were false but if it were true it is sufficient to praise the persons that were spoken ill of Note 7. That if one had bin a meanes or procured that any other sinned mortallie he must needes confesse it Note 8. That if one went into Nuneries forbidden by Excommunication without licence he is excommunicated as also he haue strooken by diabolicall suggestion any Religious person or any that had holie orders or such as had lesser orders Note 9. That he which doth examen his conscience touching the thinge a forementioned must take that onlie which he hath donne and tell it as it is there set downe that is whether he did it with a full purpose or no and the like is to be vnderstoode of lies whether they were with oathes or without them that so the ghostlie father may knowe when it is a M. S. and when not The which thou shalt see if thou doe finde adjoined therunto these letters M. S. and where there is V. S. it signifieth a Veniall Sinne which being vnderstoode by thee thou must flie mortall sinnes and choose rather to die then to commit one onlie as also thou must eschue venial sinnes as much as lieth in thee Note lastlie that a stedfast minde a full purpose a resolute will aduisedlie and with all our hart is one thinge and when this is it maketh that our thoughts desires words and deedes be mortall sinne in matters of importance and therfore it is needfull to refraine our wil that it consent not but rather to saie with our will I wil not or no for that where the will hath repugnāce there cannot be sinne especiallie mortall wel there may be veniall sinne by reason of our negligēce in not resisting so soone as we should As for example if there came to thy minde an euil thought whilst thou doost not marke it it is no sinne but when thou doest reflect vpon it and see it if thou doe cast it off speedilie thou doest merite therby and a little negligence in this behalfe doth make it a Veniall sinne but voluntarie or willing delighte in the same doth make it mortall albeit thou hadst no purpose to put it in execution but onlie to take pleasure in such a wicked thought The resolution to put it in practise dooth make the sinne greater and if it be done in deede it maketh it yet greater whē there was the act now reallie donne it is sufficiēt only to cōfesse the same because in this is vnderstood the thought the resolution made but if it were a thought onlie with the delite aforesaid it must alone be vttered in Cōfessiō euē as it past Some one perchance will say Sir I can not speedilie rid my selfe of such naughtie thoughtes The answeare is that then thou art supposed to haue cast them off speedilie when thy will doth repugne and mislike of them and sayeth no or I will not albeit such thoughts continued for a whole yeare together or turned back a thousand times a day against thy will The which if it be vnderstood aright and as it behoueth will giue exceeding great cōfort to deuout soules to those that haue a timerous cōsciēce who neuer would consent to any sin Frō which being free together with doing good godly works we may hope through the grace of almightie God to arriue to the glorie of heauen by his infinite mercie Amen WHAT THE PENITENT OVGHT TO DOE AFTER he hath examined his conscience AFter that the penitent hath recollected himselfe gathered and set before his eyes that which his consciēce shall tell him of the sins which he hath committed since his last Confessiō be it either by thoughtes by wordes or by workes he shal excite him selfe to cōtrition repētance for his sinnes where with he hath defiled the beauty of his soule with great confidence in the mercie of God and in the merits of the pretious blood of IESVS CHRIST by the which we are washed from our sinnes in the Sacrament of Pennance with a firme purpose of amendemēt for which effect let him say the prayer following A deuout prayer to procure Contrition O Good IESV good IESV good IESV O my hope my refuge my health haue mercy haue mercie haue mercie on me Alas I am a most wicked and most vnworthie sinner I am a most vile sinner I haue sinned I haue sinned I haue sinned and done euill before thee After a thousand and a thousand graces receaued from thee After a thousand and a thousand promises made vnto thee I am as wretchedly fallen as before A thousand times therefore haue I deserued to be euerlastingly damned Nay hell it selfe hath not so many punishments as may worthelie correct my sinne and iniquitie Wretch that I am I am vnworthie to be called thy creature Vnworthie whome the earth should beare or to whom it should afforde any manner of sustenance O my Lord