Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	day_n	holy_a	lord_n	5,913	5	4.1120	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00458	A defence and true declaration of the thinges lately done in the lowe countrey, whereby may easily be seen to whom all the beginning and cause of the late troubles and calamities is to be imputed. And therewith also the sclaunders wherewith the aduersaries do burden the churches of the lowe countrey are plainly confuted..; Libellus supplex Imperatoriae Majestati caeterisque sacri imperii electoribus, principibus, atque ordinibus nomine Belgarum ex inferiore Germania, Evangelicae religionis causa per Albani Ducis tyrannidem ejectorum in comitiis spirenibus exhibitus. English.	Newcomen, Elias, 1550?-1614.	1571 (1571)	STC 18441; ESTC S94277	61,500	152

betwene vs by name toung and continuall societie and that we let passe all ambiguyties Remember most mighty Cesar that Charles the fifth your fathers brother was lately chosē out of the middes of Flaūders to the gouernement of the Empire as though he had bene by nation a Germane and that Maximilian also your great graundfather did ioyne in alyaunce by mariage all the countrey of Belgy to the most noble and auncient house of Austrice And that Charles the Emperour not long before caused that whole prouince to bee accompted as one of the estates and limites of the Empire in the Parlament holden at Auguste all the estates and princes of Germany assentyng thereunto and that they might be in the sauegarde and defence of the Empire agaynst all violence and iniuries And that they by name haue bene sent as Embassadors to all the assemblyes of the Empire from the prouince of Belgye and that they haue payde tribute required of them for the repeilyng of the great Turke and that it is vntill this day controuersie whether the Duke of Brabant or the Byshop of Magdeburge should sit in hygher roomes at the assemblyes so that without all doubte the prouince of lowe Germany should not be accompted as Athenes from the Empire Do not you therfore contēne most mighty Emperour and ye noble Princes of Germany the humble suyte of vs your frendes requestyng your trust and ayde agaynst the outragious cruelty of those most proude and abhominable men We do not deny to be obedient to our kyng to obey hys commaundementes paye our tributes taskes and subsidies whatsoeuer to shewe our fayth and loyaltie towardes hym in all poyntes But in we most humble wise do desire that we may haue our conscience and Religion left vs fréely lest in that last iudgement we be found giltie of violatyng the fayth of Iesus Christ with an vngodly conscience and that we may by the good licence of the kyng defend and kepe the health of our soules And we by the Immortall God and by his onely sonne Iesus Christ whose name we professe in our publike religion pray beséech your Maiesties highnesses that we may defend our selues our wiues childrē riches but aboue all our conscience frō the pride of the Inquisitors frō the auarice of the new bishops frō the outragious lust of the most mischeuous ministers of the inquisition and rascall souldiers And if the frendly name of the Gorgnames can nothing moue you yet let that most straight bond wherwith we ar knit together in Iesus Christ whose members we boast our selues to be moue you let the duety you owe to all mankinde moue you let the doubtfull incertayne condition of mans estate moue you let crooked old men now wrapt in sorow moue you let miserable wydowes vnfortunate orphanes mournyng virgines let so greate and so huge a company of miserable men moue you who altogether driuen out of their houses throwne from their possessions depriued of the commodities of theyr countrey spoyled of al estimation violently plucked from the bosomes of their iust carefull parentes louing wiues and tender childrē wandring and scattred abroad in straunge countries not knowing what shal become of them do séeke wast resting places small cheare and libertie of theyr conscience But if no occasion shall be offered you to restore vs vnto our countrey agayne yet geue no eare to our aduersaries accusations nor place to theyr vnsatiable crueltie We know for a certainty that they will neuer cease to vrge you to depriue vs of all the humanitie and gentlenes wherewith you entertayned and cherished vs in your countries so that there be neyther ayre left to the liuing nor earth to the dead nor refuge to poore exiles But we pray you most noble Princes to regarde more the commaundement of God who commaundeth you to receyue straungers and poore banished men not onely wythin your gates or walles but euen in your houses and to cherish them wyth all humanitie then the commaundementes of a few spanish priestes which with the duke of Alba contend and labour to haue vs the throwne out of your Empyre Suffer not the feare and terror of the spanish name to be of more force wyth you then the name and frendship of the Germane For what should we speake of the agréement of our religion the which truely shoulde moue you not to suffer vs which be ioyned wyth you in the body of Christ in one profession of fayth in one baptisme to be by the lust of a few which haue no religion but theyr gréedy auarice banished lyke straungers and enemies lest that Christ the King of all kinges in that last day of iudgement take that done vnto hymself which is cruelly exercised agaynst vs being by hys frée grace and mercy vnited to his body and made his members for though they do pretende the difference of our religion there is no cause most noble princes why you should be moued For we which do with you acknowledge one God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ true God and very man one holy Ghost and we which do rest our selues in the onely satisfaction of Iesus Christ and for hys sake are banish●● 〈◊〉 ●ar countrey spoyled of our goodes a●● appoynted as shéepe vnto the slaughter which acknowledge one church one woorde of God for the foundation of our health and lastly with you do looke for one resurrection from the dead and lyfe euerlasting geuen by the frée grace and mercy of God do not you thinke that we professe any other religion then that which you do But if we shall by the exposition of some woordes séeme to differ remember that the Apostles themselues and theyr disciples did neuer so fully agree but there was in some thinges a litle dissention Remenber that euen the auncient fathers of the primitiue church haue not onely left in theyr writinges errors but also in many places open contrarieties the which truely by the déepe prouidence and wisedome of God is not without great profite appoynted that we knowing the infirmitie of our owne wit may learne to forsake the iudgement of man and cleaue onely to the authority of the woord of God and not to peefer the auctority of man and our owne iudgment before the auctority of the word of God but to beare one an others burdens and with christian charity to couer and wisely to beare one an others errors and infirmities And yet notwithstandyng what discorde of Religion can there be amonst vs which do not onely embrace the onely word of God but also out of that worde take the forme of our fayth and all thinges which we vse in our religion For we truely do wyth most ioyfull hartes receaue and embrace the confession which our Auncytors deliuered vp to Charles the Emperour at Augusta And if we may geue our iudgement in any thing we subscribe in all pointes to the doctrine of those Diuines by whose labour that forme of theyr fayth was drawne