Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	faith_n	grace_n	repentance_n	2,335	5	7.5639	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00024	Peace with her foure garders Viz. fiue morall meditations: of concord, chastitie, constancie. Courtesie. Grauitie. Eschew euill, and doe good, seeke peace and ensue it.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1622 (1622)	STC 1002; ESTC S118662	30,466	62

sword or shield And leades him by the eye-lids to her snare Heau'ns from such subtill vile allurements shield All those that haue a Conscience and care Their hearts fit Temples for thy Spirit to prepare Purge vs with Hyssope and we shall be pure Wash vs we than the Snow shall be more white Our Soules and Bodies Temple shall be sure A holy house wherein thou mayst delight But I the vertue for the vice haue quight I purpos'd Chastity here to commend But Lust so fiercely with my Muse doth fight I scarce mine owne am able to defend Therefore with Prayer I my Meditation end Oh thou that mad'st my Soule a little King And in this little-world my-Body plac't It subiect making to the ordering Of Reason wherewith thou this King hast grac't Set first of all the Soueraignes Kingdome fast Whereby his Subiects he may rule aright That is affections keepe most pure and chast But most in spirituall chastitie delight To which adde Constancie of which I next do write MEDITATION 3. Of Constancy SO oft as I the Splendour do behold Of heau'nly Graces linkt in golden chaine Which them so firmely doth together hold That all they but as one seeme to remaine My Soule is so delighted with their traine That she desires to dwell with them for ay But oft employment pleasures cares and gaine Mine eyes and heart so draw another way I fleshly motions more than spirituall obay And as these Graces ioyn'd my soule delight So doth each singled out by Meditation Sing I of Loue I loue with all my might If Humblenesse she workes humiliation So Faith Repentance Hope Iustification By Righteousnesse imputed Mercy kind Ioy Patience Fortitude chast Conuersation Peace Meeknesse Prayer Zeale eu'n all I find Do alwayes to my Song both sute mine heart and mind But such are my Corruptions innate Hels malice and the worlds enticements vaine I can no longer hold that happy state Than I in Contemplation remaine This is the cause my Muse is now so faine To sing of Constancie that heau'nly Grace Which all the rest doth ay with vs retaine Most glorious Grace the lustre of whose face Both heau'nly Loue and all her Peeres for euer grace For without Her the rest are all but showes Like Corne by high-wayes side flourish awhile And seemes more glorious than that which grows Vpon best bottom'd dunged tilled Soyle But as that onely doth our eyes beguile With flourishes in calme and gentle spring But Summers heate and frosts it 's verdure spoile Eu'n so these rootlesse Vertues flourishing Aduerse or prosp'rous Fortune to confusion bring Thou that art from Eternity the same Without least shadow of Variety Like to the Sun heau'ns pure world-lightning flame Constant in beate course and serenitie Three yet subsisting in one Deitie Who though thou seem'st to change with things below Art farre in truth from Mutability Oh make mine heart in vertue constant grow That thence as from a Fountaine this Discourse may flow We Constancie a Perseuerance call In some good purpose for in eu'ry thing We vndertake right must be first of all Resolu'd of next our firme perseuering A vaine vnsettled idle wauering Without iust ground by Proteus Poets faine Who on himselfe as many formes will bring As he hath idle notions in his braine Or base desires and Lusts which in his heart remaine But in good purpose to stand fast and sound Not onely man-like is but most diuine Like God in whom no change was euer found For as the Sunne this worlds pure crystall eyne In heau'n doth alwaies with like glory shine Though by the varying Medium's here below It seeme more glorious in the Summer time Than when Eolian blasts darke clouds do blow So Constance is the same though alt'ring oft in show This Constance is with Patience a twin Begot by Iupiter of Fortitude Mother and Babes as like as neere of kin Who hath one with all three must be indude These lift vp to heroicall habitude And come from Iustice and a prudent mind If Fury Rage Wrong Rashnesse do intrude We them no vertues faire but vices find With whom Minerua nor the Graces euer ioyn'd Patience and Constancie in this agree Effeminate faint hearts ay to oppose And men relieue in all extremitie Vndanted resolute who will not loose That liberty they haue the Good to choose Thus seeme they one now marke their difference Patience all wrongs with courage vndergoes For without Suffering's no Patience But Constance is in ioy and paine a firme defence Without Compulsion free for Vertues sake Patience constrain'd oft by necessity Most cheerefull valiantly doth vndertake To beare what cannot well auoyded be One good end Constancie propounds which she Onely regards but noble patience Before her will all euils conquerd see Which her oppresse in flesh or conscience Both haue braue resolution and sound confidence No fury of the headlesse Multitude No Tyrants rage a constant mind can shake Though all the world turne to a Chaos rude The ruines crush him may but can not make Him stagger nor Ioues thunder make him quake The Sea may roare the waues mount to the skies And threaten him to drowne in deepest Lake But Fury Rage Waues all he doth despise And when hopes outward faile his inward highest rise He constant perseueres vnto the end Like some good traueller who giues not in Till he attaine the place he doth intend And as the Souldier that the towne would winne Fights stoutly till he conquers all within Eu'n so in Buildings Arts or Merchandize In any Worke or Science we beginne It is the end where all our glory lyes He runs in vaine that faints before he wins the Prize Though all her meanes all her strength do saile Yet feares she not to hold out to the end She 's still the same and nothing can preuaile To alter any Good she doth intend To whom the heau'ns true Constancie do send Within their hearts to dwell on all occasions Effects most admirable thence transcend She fils the heart with such secure perswasions They it defend from all faint-hearted base inuasions A constant man the most disastrous fate With a most pleasing forehead entertaines Integrity so sweetens his estate As in a pleasant Calme he ay remaines With her he alwayes in his heart retaines Hope Prudence Fortitude Right Temperance And when him Troubles Losses Griefe or Paines Assaile so stoutly patience doth aduance He liueth most secure not subiect vnto Chance Braue noble Constance who art neuer sound Except dame Prudence thee accompany Thou on her counsels and aduice dost found Thy setled resolutions all whereby Thou standst most firme for Truth and Honesty Nothing can thee thus well resolu'd withstand In vaine and euill things no constancie But base peruersnesse we do vnderstand Iust honest profitable's all she takes in hand For perseuerance in a thing that 's ill Is to this Vertue no lesse enemy Than they that by affections guide their will With vaine inconstancy and leuitie