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	lord_n	truth_n	4,866	5	5.5488	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40187	For the King, and both Houses of Parliament, sitting at Westminster, and for every member thereof to read	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1661 (1661)	Wing F1821; ESTC R181334	15,857	25

of Christ Jesus his Command and because we will not Transgresss his Command and the Apostles we say The will of the Lord be done And we do say it is not well for Christians to Persecute or Imprison such as Obey the Command of Christ who in their communications use Yea and Nay according to his Doctrine and if their Yea be not Yea and their Nay Nay and if we break our Yea and break our Nay then let us suffer as much for breaking of That as others for breaking their Oath This Imprisoning and Fining us because we cannot Swear to the breaking of the Command of Christ hath got up since the Apostles dayes for which doing so and practice among the Apostles and Church in the Primitive Times there is no Command nor Example And we desire to have who pay their Taxes and Assessments as much Liberty as Stage-Players and Mountebanks and Ballad-Singers who meet together in hundreds to the Dis-honour of God and likewise all other Playes which we do not hear are called Tumultuous Meetings as ours are who meet together to Edifie one another in that which is good to worship God And this is allowed in the Scripture They that feared the Lord spake often together whom the Lord heard and these were cast out and hated in the dayes of Isaiah for they were such as trembled at Gods Word but Sports and Playes the Scripture does not allow of but the Lord by his Servants Rebuked such Let no one be put to Death for Cattle or Mony but let them Restore and if they have not wherewith let them Labour till they have in the thing that is good and so that they may have space to Repent and this is agreeable to the Scriptures Let all Writs and Indictments Subpaena's Warrants have no more put in them then the things that are truly charged against him and all Laws drawn in a short Volume that all may know them that all things may be kept wholesome and sweet that to the Lord God you may be a good Savour and let all Prisoners that have layen four or five yeares in Goales Prisons and Houses of Correction be brought out to a Tryal before their Accusers and see who there is that Accuses them and let them not lye to perish in Goales and Prisons that mercy and Tenderness Justice and Truth may flow among all people that to the Lord you may be a good Savour and in your Generations and a Praise to God And again concerning Religion and severall Opinions and Judgements in the Worship of God let every 〈◊〉 speak his Judgment speak his Opinion Let all Magistrates keep peace with his Magistrates Sword and keep down the Hand and Fist of People that they shall not strike with their Fists Clubs Swords and Staves for Envious Persons Strikers and Man-Slayers the Law is against and let the Magistrates be like Gameliel who said If it was of God it would stand if it was not it would fall who said to others They should take heed lest they were found fighters against God so let the patience of an Heathen be an Example to Christians which indeed them that professe the Name of Christ should be beyond Gamaliels so whatsoever Opinions Judgements that are not of God will fall but take heed do not fight against it lest you be found fighters against God and consider Christs mind who said Let the Tares and the Wheat grow together till the Harvest Therefore you may see he stopped his Disciples from pulling up lest they should pull up the Tares and Wheat together and so prevented that danger therefore mind that Caution And Saul before he was converted in his first birth was a Persecutor running up and down from the Chiefe Priests with his Packet of Letters to hale and persecute from City to City such as lived in the Life of Christ Jesus but of this Action he Repented when he was converted and the Apostle had no such Agents as the Jews Chief Priests had with packets of Letters to persecute and hale them from City to City and they that have done so since the dayes of the Apostles gone up and down with their packets of Letters haling and persecuting such as have been in the Life of Christ Jesus have been like the unconverted Jews and Priests and Saul but not like the Church in the Primitive Times and converted Paul So here you may see the converted and the unconverted he that is in the birth born of the Spirit and he that is in the birth born of the Flesh And concerning of what Sort of People the Lord made use of and spake to in the Old Testament and concerning also what sort his Son CHRIST JESUS made use of and spoke to in the New Testament in the Old such as were Herds-men Plow-men Keepers of Cattel Gatherers of Fruit Threshers of Corn Keepers of Sheep and these were hated of the World as Abel a Keeper of Sheep and Moses a Keeper of Sheep and Jacob a Keeper of Sheep an●●he Prophet David a Keeper of Sheep and these confounded the World and such like as these speak forth the Scriptures And Christ chose Fisher-men for Soul Gatherers Paul a Tent-Maker c. And these had not been at Universities and Schools of Learning to Train them up in but Christ Jesus was their Teacher who did not call many of the great Doctors and Learned men who is the same to day yesterday and for ever both God and Christ And if he make use of the same and such like now be not offended if he fill the earth with his Knowledge and cover it with the same as the water the Sea let none be Troubled and Offended For all the Children of the Lord shall be taught of Him and in Righteousness shall they be established and great shall be their Peace according to Esaiahs Prophesie Esay 54. Which Prophesie many of Us do witness And likewise we do witness the Promise of God who said he would make A New Covenant not according to the Old For he said I will put my Law in their Minds and put them in their Hearts whereby they shall not have need to say to one another Know the Lord for all shall know Him from the Greatest to the Least and I will be to them a God and they shall be me to a People c. And this we Witnesse And so we need not to have Teachers saying Know the Lord. So therefore we need not be compelled to such Teachers who would keep us alwayes in Teaching that we might be alwayes paying of them who keeps us alwayes Learning under whose Teaching we were never able to come to the Knowledge of the Truth under whose Teaching we were kept in Reprobation from Faith which Christ is the Author of now unto whom we look and need not say to one another Know the Lord. And Christ is the Head of every Man who is Our Head who is Our Leader who is Our Way and we need not