Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	eye_n	lord_n	soul_n	5,234	5	5.2822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76058	A companion for prayer, or, Directions for improvement in grace and practical Godliness in time of extraordinary danger by Richard Alleine, author of Vinditiae Pietatis.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing A984A; ESTC R228577	12,119	45

your holy design Now is a time wherein you have your hearts at the advantage having such weighty arguments before you and the opportunity 〈◊〉 doing two such great things more as the saving of your selves and also of the people both from iniquity and calamity Direct 3. Do all you do in pursuance hereof in the Name of the Lord Jesus Be not discouraged at any prospect of difficulty trust in him for his help Encourage your hearts with the words of the Apostle Phil. 4. 13. I shall be able to do all things through Christ that strengthens me Direct 4. Keep your eye and your heart much upon God and the other world Be able to say with the Apostle Phil. 3. 20. Our Conversation is in heaven that is there the business of our life lies and that not only above spiritual and heavenly things but with God himself Live at the fountain and spring-head thence all your light and 〈◊〉 and holiness and strength must flow down Be much in looking upwards and beholding in a glass the glory of the Lord you will be changed from glory to glory into the same Image 2 Cor. 3. 18. Look much and often upon the things that are not seen if ye would be delivered from the power and malign influence of the things that are seen let your eye be upon the Sun and you will see a dimness and darkness upon the earth get you cloathed with the Sun and you will get the Moon under you feet Direct 5. See that there be no allowed sin in your heart or practice Psal 66. 18. If I regard iniquity in mine heart God will not hear my prayer nor help me An allowed sin is as the d●●● flesh in the wound whatever methods or medicines be taken there will be no healing till the dead flesh be eaten off you may profess and pray and hear all your life long and yet will never prosper whilest you are privy to any one indulged sin Direct 6. Be constant and instant in dayly secret and family Prayer Let not extraordinary Prayer excuse your ordinary and let not your neglect of ordinary Prayer unfit you for extraordinary Let not your way to your Closet be untrod He that holds his acquaintance in Heaven by being often with God will be the most like to prevail with God in the most pressing and difficult cases those that are much in Prayer those are the men that use to be mighty in Prayer Direct 7. In all your praying both ordinrry and extraordinary let your eye be I say not chiefly but firstly upon the case of your own Souls What improvement you obtain here will be of this double advantage 1. There will be the more hope of your ●●ing heard for the publick 2. If ●●e Lord be not prevail'd with for ●●blick mercies and deliverances ●●t you will be the better prepar'd ●●r sufferings If God should shew ●ercy as to the publick should scat●●r our clouds and blow over our ●●orms should cause our light to ●reak forth as the morning and our ●●ghteousness also as the noon-day 〈◊〉 what would all this be to thee ●●ho art unrighteous What would ● be to thee if in all the Land of ●●oshen there should be light and ●●ou in the midst thereof shouldest 〈◊〉 covered over with the darkness 〈◊〉 Egypt if there should be dew 〈◊〉 all the grass of the field and thy ●●ece only should be dry if thou ●●ouldest live to see thy people a fa●●d people and an holy and fruitful ●●ation and thou should'st stand as a ●ithered and dry Tree amongst all ●●e flourishing Cedars Get up ●●ine own heart into good proof 〈◊〉 whatever spiritual plenty thou maist see in Israel yet thou wilt 〈◊〉 eat thereof Talk no more of thi●● hopes of seeing good days how ●●tle would that be to thee unl●●● thou get thee a better heart Direct 8. Let your Prayers followed with a constant care of y●●● wayes Let not your pray●●● serve you instead of repenting a●● reforming but let it quicken you 〈◊〉 your whole duty let your entri●● into your Closet be your ascendi●● heavenwards and let not your 〈◊〉 turns thence be the falling down 〈◊〉 your Souls from Heaven to Ear●● Let your duties and ways be all o● piece live like praying Christia● Let not the spirituality of yo● mornings and evenings countena●● or encourage you in your all-d●● carnality Be in the fear of the Lo●● all the day long Prov. 23. 17. Direct 9. Whatever incomes 〈◊〉 receeive from God into your own Sou●● ●e free in dispersing to others I mean in a way of holy discourse and conference Dispersing and communica●ing is the best way to thriving Pro. 11. 24. There is that scattereth and ●et increaseth there is that withholdeth and it tendeth to poverty 'T is true with respect to spirituals as well as to temporals There are none that grow more rich towards God than those who by bringing forth what they have received labour to make others rich also Give the holy fire within you a vent and it will burn the clearer Keep not ●our Religion to your selves let your full cup run over let your lips drop as the honey-comb let your mouth be a well of life and your ●ips feed many Prov. 10. 11. Build up one another in the most Holy Faith provoke one another to love and to good works let your Fami●ies your Wives and Children your Neighbours and Acquaintance have ●ight from your Candle and be warmed by your Fire Doubtle●● it s one special part of Gods quarr●● with Christians That they are ●● very many of them of such carn●● and unsavoury converses Is it thy case hast thou this to charge upo● thy self O! amend amend an● see that thou continue not such ● barren Soul as low as 't is with th● in grace think not to rise high unless thou wilt make better use 〈◊〉 what thou hast 2. Particular Directions Direct 1. Consider what it is wher to you have already attained and b● thankful and thence be encourage● to press on and hope for more Ha● thou obtained Grace from the Lord and hath he caused his Grace to abound towards thee and in thee 〈◊〉 and hast thou a witness within the● that thou hast not received th● Grace of God in vain But do●● thou study to walk worthy of tha● Grace wherein thou standest O rejoyce in the Lord and let all within thee bless his Holy Name and take what thou hast thus received as an earnest of more Set thy foot upon the neck of every mortified lust take the more heart to thee to go on in the fight and rejoyce in hope of a total and final victory The Soldier when one Wing of his Enemies Army is routed or they do but give ground and begin to fall this raises his courage and he falls more smartly on Go thou and do likewise and let thy beginning much more thy growth in Grace and thy experiences hereof be the ●oiling of thy wheels for