Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	grace_n	work_n	6,662	5	5.6625	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09667	Breife meditations of the Most Holy Sacrament and of preparation, for receuing the same. And of some other thinges apertaining to the greatnes and deuotion of so worthy a misterie. Composed in Italian by the rev. father Luca Pinelli of the Societie of Iesus.	Pinelli, Luca, 1542-1607.; Garnet, Henry, 1555-1606.	1600 (1600)	STC 19937; ESTC S106099	79,090	338

with great reuerence 43 Neuer to doe any thinge which may not be done before all men 44 Not to make comparison betwixt this man that man because comparisons are odious 45 When thou shalt be reprehended by any to harken vnto him with humilitie both internally externally and to pray for him that hath reprehended thee 46 When one Superiour commaundeth any thinge not to say that an other hath commanded the contrarie but to thinke that both of them haue good intentions and obey them both as much as thou canst 47 Not to be curious in speaking or demaundinge of thinges which belong not vnto thee 48 Let thy life passed be present before thy eies for to lament it and also thy present coldnes how much thou wantest to be fitte for to go to heauē because these are causes of great goodnes 49 To doe alwaies what those of the house shall require thee so that it be not against obedience and to answere them alwaies with humilitie and meeknes 50 Neuer to demaund without greate necessitie any perticuler thinges either in eating or clothing 51 Neuer to cease from humbling and mortifyinge thy selfe in all thinges vntill death 52 To get a custome to do mame actes of loue towardes thy Neighbour and God because they inflame and make tender thy hart and to do the like of all other vertues 53 To offer vp all thinges vnto the eternall Father in vnion of the merittes of Iesus Christ his onely begotten sonne 54 To be meeke and courteous with all others and sharpe and rigourous vnto thy selfe 55 In the feastes of Saintes to consider theire vertues and in grace to demaund thē at Gods hand 56 To haue greate care euery euening to examine well thine owne conscience 57 The praier which thou hast to make the morninge before that thou receauest shall be to consider how that thou which art a most vile miserable creature hast neuertheles to receaue thy God and the night folowing it shall be to remember how that thou hast receiued thy Lord and maker 58 If thou art a Superiour neuer reprehend any one in choler but when as it shall be past and by this meanes thy reprehensiō will be profitable 59 Earnestly to procure to get perfection deuotion therwith to dispatch all affaires 60 To exercise much thy selfe in the feare of God and it will bring thy soule to compunction and humilitie 61 To consider well how soone mens mindes are changed and how litle thou oughtest to trust vnto them and therfore to haue great confidence in God who is neuer changed 62 To deale those things which belong vnto thy soule with thy Spirituall and learned Confessor and to communicate with him all folowing his aduise counfaile in all thinges 63 Euery time that thou doest communicate to demaunde of God some gift for that his great mercies sake wherwith he voutsafe to come vnto thy soule 64 Albeit thou hast many holy Saintes for thy Aduocates yet in perticuler be thou deuoted vnto S. Ioseph who will obtaine of God great grace for the 65 In time of melancholines perturbation neuer to leaue of thy accustomed good workes of penance praier and such like because the Deuill will disquiet thee to th entent that thou shouldest leaue them wherfore follow them more at such times thou shalt see that our Lord will soone fauour thee 66 Not to communicate or imparte thy temptations and imperfections with weaklings and imperfect persons in the house because it will harme thy selfe and hurt others but with those which are the most perfect 67 Remember that thou hast but one soule that thou art to die but once that thou hast but one short life and that perticuler to thy selfe neither is there more then one glorie which is eternall 68 Thy desire shall be to see God thy feare shall be to loose him thy greife shal be that thou doest not possesse him and thy ioy in that which bringeth thee vnto God and so thou shalt liue in great peace He that will reape fruite by these Documentes must read them once ouer euery weeke Certaine Iaculatorie praiers written by the Reu. Fa. R s. GRatious Lord and sweete Sauiour giue me a pure intention a cleane hart and a regard to thy glory in al my actiōs Iesu possesse my minde with thy presence and rauish it with thy loue that my delight may be to be imbraced in the armes of thy protection Iesu be thou light vnto mine eies musicke to my eares swetnes to my taste contentment to my hart Iesu I giue thee my body my soule my substance my fame my frends my libertie and life dispose of me all that is mine as shall be most to thy glory Iesu I am not mine but thine claime mee as thy right keepe me as thy charge loue me as thy child Iesu fight for me when I am assaulted heale me when I am wounded reuiue me when I am spirituallye killed receaue mee when I flie and let me neuer be quite confounded Iesu giue me patience in trouble humilitie in comfort constancie in temptations victorie against my ghostly enemies Iesu giue me modesty in coūtenāce grauity in my behauiour deliberatiō in my speaches puritie in my thoughtes righteousnes in my actions Iesu be my sunne in the day my food at the table my repose in the night my clothing in nakednes my succour in all needs Iesu let thy blood runne in my mind as water of life to cleanse the silth of my sinnes to bring forth the fruit of life euerlasting Iesu stay my inclinations frō bearing downe my soule bridle mine appetites with thy grace and quench in me the fire of all vnlawfull desires Iesu keep my eies from vaine sightes my eares from hearing euill speaches my tongue form talking vnlawfull thinges my sences frō euery kind of disorder Iesu make my will pliable to thy pleasure resigned wholly to thy prouidence and graunt me perfect contentment in that which thou allottest O Lorde make me strong against occasions of sinne sted fast in not yelding to euill yea rather to die then to offend the. Iesu forsake me not lest I perish leaue me not to my ownenes lest I fall without recouery Iesu graunt me an earnest desire to amend my faultes to renue my good purposes to performe my good intentions and to be ginne a fresh in thy seruice Iesu directe mine intention correct my errors erecte my infirmities protect my good endeuours Iesu make me humble to my Superiors frendly to my equals charitable to my inferiors and carefull to yeld dew respecte to all sortes Iesu graunt me sorow for my sines thankfulnes for thy benefittes feare of thy iudgementes loue of thy mercies and mindfulnes of thy presence Amen Laus Deo Opt. Max. Bea. Virg. Mariae omnibusque Sanctis Amen