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
A01991	Admirable and memorable histories containing the wonders of our time. Collected into French out of the best authors. By I. [sic] Goulart. And out of French into English. By Ed. Grimeston. The contents of this booke followe the authors aduertisement to the reader; Histoires admirables et memorables de nostre temps. English	Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Grimeston, Edward.	1607 (1607)	STC 12135; ESTC S103356	380,162	658

vsuall answere was that GOD did chastice him and that his mercy knew what issue his afflictions should haue which nothing hindered the assurance that he had of his eternal saluation through IESVS CHRIST At 7. yeares end he died peaceably full of the spirit of repentance faith and hope in the grace of his Sauiour on the eleuenth day of September in the yeare a thousand fiue hundreth fifty and two Not long ago sayth M. ANDREVVE HONDSDORFE we sawe an Almaigne very poore and sickly and as wretched and miserable as might be by reason of the imprecations which his Father had made against him a little before his death wyshing that all kinde of misfortune might accompany him as long as he liued A Mother hauing a very disobedient Sonne fell downe on her knees and prayed GOD that her wicked Childe might bee burnt with a secret fire This imprecation fell not to the ground for the Sonne beeing suddainly seized with that fire ouer all his body beganne to cry Mother Mother your praiers are heard and languished three dayes in vnspeakeable torments hee was consumed therewith A disobedient Sonne in the Cittie of Milan mocked his mother and made mouthes at her The Mother iustly ince●…sed with so vyllanous a pranke sayd would thou mightst make such mouthes at the gallowes It fell out not long after that this rogue beeing apprehended for theeuing was condemned to bee hanged and being on the ladder at the place of execution ready to be turned of by the hangman euery one sawe him make such mouthes as hee had made before to his Mother These Histories and infinite others such like warne Parents to shun such speeches and to reclaime their Children with good admonitions or conuenient corrections They likewise exhort Children to shew themselues humble tractable and obedient to the end they bee not confounded by the iust iudgement of GOD maintayning the rights of those which are his liuely images vpō earth In Silesia happened two memorable Histories which shew the dangerous fruite of imprecations the fauour of GOD assisting vs by the ministery of his Holy Angells against the fury of euil spirits A gentleman hauing inuyted certa●…ne of his friends prepared a sumptuous feast seeing his expectation frustrated by their excuses entred into some cholor sayd since none of them will vouchsafe to come would al the Diuills in hell were here Thervpon hee got him forth of dores and went to Church where the minister was preaching vnto whō he gaue very dilligent eare and continuing so behold certaine men came riding into his yard of tall stature and all in black which willed the gentlemans man to go and tell his maister that his guests were come They fellow exceedingly affraied ran to Church aduertised his Mr of it who very much dismayd asked Coūsell of the minister what he shold do He hauing finished his sermon willed that euery body shold voide the house It was no sooner cōmanded then performed but with hast that they made to get out they left a little Child behinde them sleeping in the Cradle Those guesse that is to say the Diuils beganne to fling the tables other things about the house to roare to looke out at the windowes in the likenes of Beares Wolues Cats terrible men holding glasses of wine dishes of meate in their pawes As the gentleman to gither with the minister and neighbors were in great feare beholding such a sight the poore Father began to cry alas where is my Child Scarce was the word out of his mouth when one of those black guests brought the Child to the windowe in his armes and shewed it to all that were in the streete The gentleman almost beside himselfe sayd to one of his men whom he made most account of alack what shal I do Sir answered his seruant I wil cōmend my life vnto GOD in whose name I wil enter the house through his fauor assistance bring you your Child Wilt thou sayd his Mr GOD be with thee strengthen thee The fellow hauing receiued the Ministers blessing went into the house cōming to the Stoue where those dreadfull guests were he fell downe on his knees commended himselfe to GOD then opened the dore sawe the Diuills in horrible formes some sitting some standing others walking some ramping against the walles but al of thē assoone as they beheld him ran vnto him crying Hoh Hoh what makest thou here The seruant sweating with feare and yet strengthned by GOD went to the fiend that held the Child and sayd vnto him Come giue me this Child No marry wil I not answered the other he is mine Go bid thy Maister come and fetch him The fellow insisting sayd I will execute the charge which GOD hath cōmitted vnto me for I know that all that I doe according there-vnto is acceptable vnto him Therfore in regard of mine office and in the name assistance vertue of IESVS CHRIST I will take this Child from thee and carry it to the father Saying so he caught hold on the Child and held it fast in his armes The black guests returned no answere but roared and cryed out Hoh sirra let alone the Child or we will teare thee all to peeces But he not respecting their menaces went safely away and presently restored the Child to the gentleman his Maister Certaine daies after all those guests vanished away and the gentleman become wiser and a better Christian returned to his house IOHN GEORGE GODELMAN Doctor of Lawe at Rostoch in his treatise of Witches and Witchcraft booke 1. Chap. 1. Another gentleman vsing to giue himselfe vnto the Diuell trauelling by night but with one man was set vpon by a companie of fiendes which would haue carryed him away The seruant beeing desirous to saue his Maister held him fast about the middle The Diuills beganne to crie Sirra let goe your hold but the fellowe persisting in his determination his Maister escaped The same In Saxony a young maid that was very riche promised mariage to a proper young man but poore He foreseeing that wealth and inconstancie of sexe might easily alter this maidens resolution freely opened his minde vnto her about it Wherevpon she made a thou●…and imprecations to the contrary and amongst others this which ensueth If euer I marry any other let the Diuill take me and carry me away on the wedding day What followed there-vpon A certaine time after the fickle wenche was betrothed to another hauing vtterly forgot the former who gently admonished her more then once of her promise and horrible imprecation She nothing regarding him made her ready to be marryed to the second but the wedding day come when euery body else was merry the bride being wakened by her conscience seemed sadder then shee vsed to bee Where-vpon two men on Horse back came and lighted at the house where the feast was kept who were presently caried vp and after dinner when they fell to dancing one of them as