Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	compassion_n	great_a	lord_n	4,900	5	4.1517	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30201	Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse / by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5591; ESTC R25312	44,776	103

of the Element The Earth with her strong Bars surrounded me Yet thou O Lord from Death hast set me free When my Soul fainted on the Lord I thought And to thee to thy Temple then was brought My Pray'r They their own Mercies do despise Who have regard to lying Vanities But with the Voice of my Thanksgiving I Will offer Sacrifice to thee on high And pay my Vows which I have vow'd each one For why Salvation's of the Lord alone And now the Fish as God did give Command Did vomit Jonah out upon dry Land CHAP. III. AND now the Second time to Jonah came God's Word and said Arise go and proclaim To that great City Nineveh what I Have heretofore commanded thee to cry So Jonah rose up and prepar'd to go To Nineveh as God had bid him do Now was the City Nineveh so great That it was three days Journey long compleat And as into the City Jonah made His first days Journey he cry'd out and said When forty days shall be expir'd and past This City Nineveh shall be laid waste Then did the Ninevites with one accord Believe this was the Message of the Lord And did proclaim a Fast and every one From greatest to the least put Sackcloth on For to the King this News was quickly flown And he arose and came down from his Throne And having laid aside his Robes of State He put on Sackcloth and in Ashes sate And issuing out his Royal Proclamation And through the City making Publication Thereof being by the King and Council sign'd A solemn and a general Fast enjoin'd And said I will That neither Man nor Beast Nor Flock nor Herd shall their Provision taste But let them all put Sackcloth on and cry Unto the Lord with greatest fervency Yea let them all their evil Ways refrain And from the Violence which they retain Who knows if God will yet be pleas'd to spare And turn away the Evil that we fear And God beheld their Works and saw that they Had turned from the Evil of their Way And God turn'd from his Wrath and did revoke The dreadful Judgment whereof he had spoke CHAP. IV. BUT hereat Jonah was extreamly vext And in his mind exceedingly perplext And to the Lord his God he pray'd and said O Lord I pray thee was not I afraid Of this when I was yet at home Therefore I unto Tarshish took my flight before For that thou art a gracious God I know Of tender Mercy and to Anger slow Of great Compassion and dost oft recal The Evil thou dost threat Mankind withal Now therefore Lord I earnestly do pray That thou would'st please to take my Life away For I had better die than live Dost thou Do well said God to be so angry now So then out of the City Jonah went And on the East-side of it made a Tent And underneath the shade thereof he sate Expecting what would be the City's Fate And over Jonah's Head behold the Lord Prepar'd and caused to come up a Gourd To shadow him and ease him of his Grief And Jonah was right glad of this Relief But God a Worm sent early the next day Which smote the Gourd it withered away And when the Sun arose it came to pass That God a vehement East wind did raise Besides the Sun did beat upon his Head So that he fainted saying would I were dead For it is better for me now to die Than thus to lead my Life in Misery And to distressed Jonah said the Lord Dost thou well to be angry for the Gourd And he unto the Lord made this Reply I do well to be angry even to die Thou hast had pity Jonah on the Gourd For which thou didst not labour said the Lord Nor madest it to grow which also came Up in a Night and perish'd in the same And should not I extend my gracious Pity To Nineveh so populous a City Where more than Sixscore thousand Persons dwell Who 'twixt their Right-hand and their Left can tell No difference wherein are also found Cattle which do in Multitudes abound The End of the Prophecy of JONAH THE LIFE of JOSEPH TAKEN Out of the latter Part of the Book of Genesis Chap. xxxvii WHen Jacob from his Brother Esau fled He by the Hand of Providence was led To Padan-aram in Assyria where He serv'd his Uncle Laban twenty year During which time he was in all things blest And with a num'rous Issue 'mongst the rest Amongst whom none so pleasing in his sight As Joseph was who was his chief delight Who by the time that Jacob was return'd Into the Land where 's Fathers had sojourn'd Was full arriv'd at seventeen years of Age And by his Hopefulness did then presage He was indued with a noble Mind That would to vertuous Actions be inclin'd For being sent to feed his Father's Flock Among his Brethren he great notice took Of what they did and if in any sort They did amiss he thereof made report Unto his Father and did thus create His Father's favour but his Brethren's hate His Father lov'd him better than the rest As being the Son wherewith his Age was blest And that his Kindness might the more appear Made him a party colour'd Coat to wear But as it often haps his Father's Love Did in his Brethren greater Hatred move But that which most incens'd them was his Dreams By which in a Prophetick way he seems Their low Submission and his future State Of Greatness plainly to Prognosticate For to his Brethren thus his Dreams he told And said as we were binding Sheaves behold My Sheaf arose and stood up in the Field And all your Sheaves stood round about to yield Obeisance unto mine And what must we Indeed say they be subject unto thee Their Wrath increas'd this added to his Crime And Joseph dreamed yet a second time And said Behold I saw the Sun and Moon And the eleven Stars to me fall down At which his Father highly was offended And for these words the Lad he reprehended And said fond Youth Dost thou pretend to shew That I thy Mother and thy Brethren too Must all submit to thee Thou dost but dream But Jacob kept his words and thought of them Now Jacob's Sons did feed their Flocks in Shechem And he desired Joseph to go seek 'em And find them out and come again and tell If all things with them and their Flocks were well So Joseph went and wander'd here and there But could not find out where his Brethren were Untill a Man had told him their Intent Of going to Dothan where he also went And when his Brethren at a distance saw him They held a Consultation how to slay him And said here comes the Dreamer we shall see What the Event of all his Dreams will be For we will kill and in a Pit will hide him And say some Beast or other hath destroy'd him But Reuben somewhat tend'rer than the rest Endeavour'd to perswade them to desist From