Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	forgive_v	sin_n	sinner_n	4,554	5	8.1858	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68419	Siuqila too good, to be true : omen : though so at a vewe yet all I tolde you is true, I vpholde you, now cease to aske why? for I can not lye : herein is shewed by way of dialogue, the wonderful maners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not friuolous.	Lupton, Thomas.	1580 (1580)	STC 16951.5; ESTC S1352	138,381	186

you know thē not yet the more happye you féele them not but the moste happie of all that you follow them not If you had béene as well bitten with suche beastes as wel st●ng with such serpentes and as wel gnawne with such Uipers as wée you woulde haue knowne them by their name as wel as we By their name they signify Biting but by their déeds they procure altogither Killing and maye I trust you haue you neuer an Usurer among you OMEN No truelye you are as good talke to me in that tongue that I knowe not as to speake that woorde to me SIVQILA Though it be not wel known with you it is a little too well know●●●yth vs euerye ●oy or girle with vs can tel you what an ●●●irer is ● they are such pin●hers that they are able to make Lordes without landes Gentlemen without goodes Marchants without mony and themselues without honestie OMEN These fellowes are more fitte for the Féende than to inhabite among honest men wée stande in néede of none such but if we had any such whatsoeuer they bée we would make them do otherwise I praye you what kinde of persons are they SIVQILA Forsoothe wée call them Usurers that lende out their mony for their gaine who will be sure to haue an vnreasonable interest therfore or else they wil haue the parties that borowes money of them wrayte in Statutes and Bondes that if they breake theyr daye they will so pinche them that they will haue perhappes tenne times more than the valew of their mony which they lent OMEN But will they haue no remorce of the partie if he chance to forfaite his bond SIVQILA Yes perhappes some will and some wyll not OMEN Then bèlyke these Usurers you speake of lyue ●dlely of the spoyle of other SIVQILA I must néedes confesse they do so OMEN Oh detestable trade oh drifte of the Diuell oh snare of Sathan these Usurers I perceyue are they that Dauid speaketh of saying Who shall dwel in the Lords Tabernacle He that is innocent of handes c. And hathe not put his money to Vsurie Then they that put their money to Usurie must néedes dwell in the Diuels denne where there is nothing but woe sorrow dole mourning howlyng tormentes paines wéeping and gnashing of téeth and that for euer and euer wor●● without end SIVQILA All the deuises you haue cannot driue it into some of their heads that it is diuelish or damnable OMEN And all they cannot make me beléeue that it is godly and charitable If it had bin good Christ would haue commended it in his Gospell and bycause it is euill GOD hath forbidden it in the old law SIVQILA There are some Usurers that thoughe they take it to be a greate offence doe lighte so muche of their owne repentaunce and of the mercy of God that I pray God they dye not without both Christ bade his holye Apostles Watch pray least they should fal into tēptation Nowe séeing it behoueth the good and godlye to Watch and Praye if they meane to be saued then can the detestable and wicked Usurers whome the holye Ghost sayeth shall not dwell in Gods Tabernacle looke to be saued by sléeping and slumberyng still in Sinne and to watche and praye neuer a whit at al These are the delectable dreames that the Diuell deludeth them withall Whyche of the godlyest and perfectest men of the Earth can warrant himselfe from sodaine deathe Whiche of them all can say that they can not repente when they will and be forgiuen when they list Whiche of them is able to loath his leude life at anye time Whiche of them can sighe and sorrowe for his sinnes at suche time as he shall appointe Naye whyche of them can saye and that truelye that they will such a day and suche an houre doe suche a thing and thinke suche a thyng for thoughe it be easye to saye it yet they are not sure to doe it for perhappes the partie may be lame sicke or else deade whereby he can not do it and perhaps the partie may be a sléepe whereby he can not thinke it yea perhappes neyther lame sicke dead nor a sléepe and yet maye haue cleane forgot it Nowe séeing the godly men can make no warrauntise hereof then howe can the vile and wicked Usurer and other abhominable Sinners be safe from sodayne death repent when they list be forgiuen when they will or doe what they determine or thinke what shall please them Therefore I beséeche GOD that these wicked Usurers and all other carelesse sinners maye repente theyr sinnes here in time maye aske mercy here in time maye be forgiuen through● Christe here in tyme and not to driue till after they be dead which wil be out of time which the Diuel that lulleth them here asléepe in their sins knowes wel ynough OMEN ●●● and they maye sléepe long ynoughe ere hée will once awake them Well let them be sure of one thing thoughe he suffer them to sléepe as long as they liste hée will let them sléepe in He● neuer a whitte Why do you suffer these Usurers in your Country wherfore do you not cut them off● SIVQILA We can not if we would OMEN Nay you wil not if you might Now I remember that we haue an auntient lawe against Usurers but it was cleane out of my mynde whiche if it were au●hori●ed and throughlye executed with you I woulde laye a wage● if you hadde ten thousande Usurers nowe in youre Country you shoulde not haue one at the tweluemonethes ende SIVQILA At al aduentures I woulde we had it what is it I pray you OMEN Oure lawe is that if anye lende money and receyue any thing for the loane thereof at the lending of the money or shall or oughte to receyue anye thing ouer and aboue the summe lente at any time after then the lender of the same money shall haue hys right han●e cut off for the first ●●●●used and shall for●en the one halfe of all hys goods which shall be equallye deuided in thrée partes one parte whereof shall be to the vse of the King one other parte to the reuealer and the thirde parte shall remaine as a stock in that towne where the Usurer dwelleth whiche shall bée lente as occasion serueth to the poore that shall stande in néede to borrowe vpon a sufficient gage wythout paying of anye Interest at all therefore And none vppon payne of loosing of theyr hande shall lende anye thing to the sayde Usurer for the space of fiue yeares after And the ●artie that borrowed the same money to Intereste shall for the firste time so borrowing haue the forefinger of hys or hir right hande cut off and shal forfeite the fourth part of all his or hir goods which shall be deuided and employed to the vses aforesayde And euery one that knowes of the same contracte and bargaine that conceales the same foure and twentie houres shall loose likewise their