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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80952	A most learned, conscientious, and devout-exercise; held forth the last Lords-day, at Sir Peter Temples, in Lincolnes-Inne-Fields; / by Lieut.-General Crumwell. As it was faithfully taken in characters by Aaron Guerdon.	Guerdon, Aaron.; Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing C7117A; Thomason E561_10; ESTC R206017	9,823	16

the good workes wee have done no no wee will acknowledge it to bee meerely out of the free grace and mercy of the people for when wee have done all wee can for them wee confesse wee are but unprofitable servants I thank them they have made mee Generall for Ireland and you know I am upon the point of going thither in great hopes of reducing those Rebellious Traytors to our obedience But then beloved so many of you as goe along with me must bee mindfull of my text that is you must bee Subject to me and my Lieutenant Generall Whensoever wee bid you goe you must runne when wee bid you Storme you must doe it though it bee against nothing but stone-walls you owe us your lives and your limbs and all that you have whensoever wee demand them you ought to surrender and that freely not grumbling for you must submit to the Higher Powers c. The veritie is this expedition against Ireland is like to prove a very hard task unlesse I can in policy engage Owen Roe if not joyne with Jones Munk and Coote yet to keepe off at a distance with Ormond I am beloved about it and I shall doe my endeavour too to set Inchequeene and him at variance and yet at that very instant will I loose no oportunity to re-obliege him to the Parliament for you all know what Inchequeene is I have him I will not say how But it 's very probable an Act of Indempnity tyed in the strings of a 5000.l bag may worke a miracle For hee good man is but misguided hee stands not upon such punctilioes of honour as Ormond doth In truth beloved this Ormond is a shrewd fellow and were hee not one of the wicked a man highly deserving not so much for his knowledg and experience in Military Affaires which yet may challenge some proportion of honour as for his diligence and faithfullnesse in the trust committed to him valour I will not allow him any 't is only desperatenesse and that hee wants not but remember wee not how politiquely hee carried himselfe in the businesse of Dublin after wee subdued the Common-Enemie here the first time How dexterously hee avoided the Messages and Commands of the late King which wee extorted from him for the surrender of that City How shamefully hee baffled our Commissioners which were sent to Treat with him about it at what distance hee kept them still urging the Captivity of the King to excuse his disobedience and how oft and on what sleevelesse Errands hee sent them back to re inforce their Instructions whil'st all that while hee was underhand indeavouring to know the King Pleasure by the hands of his owne Messenger And when hee was satisfied with the Reality of the Kings Desires and Condition how notably hee truck'd with us for his owne security and satisfaction Nay more when hee stood upon the receipt of some thousands before hee would surrender you shall heare how hee there serv'd us For notwithstanding that I caused the parliament by their letters volutarily to assure him the full double of the sum he demanded upon condition hee would quit the Kings declare for our Interest and that hereunto hee had return'd a fine silver-tongu'd Response in answer to the parliament had therupon return'd him the authority of the parliament to Indempnifie him and his Followers for all things said or done in relation to the English or Irish Warres and 4000.l in recompense for his losses with this additionall assurance that hee should soone after the surrender bee re-invested with full power and government of Dublin by Commission from the Parliament yet no sooner was Dublin delivered to us upon the Kings letters and his Pasport sent him but in contempt of all our faire and civill proffers hee transports himselfe for France abruptly waving both our proffers and protection This Beloved I instance not to justifie him in his Rebellious courses against the Nation those I will use my utmost to destroy him for but to let you see how gloriously even a wicked and ungodly man as this Ormond is appeares in the Eies of the World who but approves himselfe true to his trust that scornes to bee corrupted with gold and continues so to the last wherunto Beloved you are all of you enjoyed by the words of my Text Bee subject to the Higher Powers c. Nor will I let to acknowledge him lesse formidable then faithfull for doubtlesse hee hath gone very neare to parcify all Interests and pick't out of them a numerous Army over whom hee hath placed good Officers good said I I doe not meane beloved Godly Officers for they are all of them Papists or Popishly aff●…cted but tryed soldiers such as will not easily turne their backs of an Enemie I must ingenuously confesse too they have a great strength by Sea and a number of wilfull Fellowes for Marriners who are in great heart by reason of the many and great Prizes they have taken from our Merchants and so forth but what of all this shall were therefore bee discouraged God forbid the more numerous the Enemy is the greater shall be the victory over them the more difficult the worke is the more our honour the fuller their pockets are the worse they will fight you know by experience the plunder of Leicester gave us the victory at Naseby there you saw the Cavaliers chuse rather to leave their King to His shifts then shift from behind themtheir Cloake-bags Believe it Bretheren wee shall meete with many advantages against them Rupert himselfe I know will doe us some good though it bee but in Crossing of Proverbs and heare I but once that Culpepper or Hyde is there doubt it not all is owne I cannot recount a Tithe of them But this I am sure the honest Citizens have feasted us to good purpose for upon that occasion wee had their Promise to advance moneys a fresh for Ireland Sans Nombre on Mensure that 's French b●loved the English whereof is without Weight or Measure Verily they are of a stiffe-necked generation become very tractable and obedient servants of a turbulent and mutinous an exceeding meeke and humble People And indeede my Beloved it was no small worke wee had to subdue those Malignant Spirits of the Citty considering how aud●ciously they once withstood our Authority and despised our Government how peremptorily they Petitioned for Personall-Treaty with the King and sent their Servants into Colchester Surrey and Kent to enforce us thereunto how bitterly they inveighed railed against the honourable Proceedings of the Parliament and Army How largely they contributed to bring in a forraigne Nation to Invade us whilest yet they denied us the payment of our Arreares or to continue the necessary Taxes or Excise for our future maintenance who had preserved them and their Families from the Rapine and Cruelty of a Barbarous Enemy but beloved Brethren I meane not to rip up old Matters Let is suffice that being thus warned by