Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	goodness_n	lord_n	psal_n	4,045	5	7.5057	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40042	An alarme for sinners containing the confession, prayers, letters, and last words of Robert Foulkes, late minister of Stanton-Lacy in the County of Salop, who was tryed, convicted and sentenced at the sessions in the Old Bayly, London, January 16th, 1678/9, and executed the 31st following : with an account of his life / published from the original written with his own hand, during his reprieve, and sent by him at his death to Doctor Lloyd ...	Foulkes, Robert, d. 1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1644; ESTC R14395	27,043	44

since I could not think of appearing before an earthly Judge without shame and affrightment of spirit O Lord work in me a greater dread of thee with a greater shame and confusion of face now that I am in thy presence for which end be pleased to represent unto me effectually the wickedness and baseness and vileness of all my evil doings as well as the guilt and just desert of them O that I could hate and abhor them more than that death which I expect very shortly to suffer for them Bestow on me O Lord that ingenuous and godly sorrow which worketh repentance and unfeigned purposes of Amendment of life They come too late indeed I may justly think to find Acceptance with thee and therefore not without fear and trembling and a great sense of my undeservings I look up unto thee acknowledging thy infinite goodness if thou wilt vouchsafe me but the smallest hope of mercy Mercy mercy good Lord cast me not quite out of thy sight for Jesus Christ his sake who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity It is the beginning of some mercy and an Earnest I hope of more that thou hast made me sensible of mine offences and that thou hast wrought in me a resolution to forsake them and some love to a godly sober and righteous life Help me O Lord to manifest the sincerity and uprightness of my Soul in these resolutions as much as I am able by giving thee hearty thanks that the hand of Justice has overtaken and laid hold upon me and put a stop to the further mischief which I might have committed and by making a free and open Confession of my Crimes and taking the shame which belongs to me before others and by acknowledging that I am unworthy to live and by earnest Admonishments to all to be warned by my Example and to cease betimes to do evil and learn to do well O God that I could glorifie thee a little in my latter end after this manner and till I come to receive my deserved punishment help me to spend my time in bewailing my sins in humbling my self before thee for them in setting my heart against them in studying and admiring with the greatest affection the Holy life of the Lord Jesus in calling other Offenders to Repentance and exhorting them thereby to give thee Glory Deny me not Grace I beseech thee to enable me thus to employ my self that I may have some taste of thy Mercy and the fear of death may be abated by some hope that when my Soul shall be parted from the body thou O blessed Jesus wilt receive it though so unworthy into some of the Heavenly Mansions Amen Amen Amen FINIS His LAST WORDS spoken at the place of Execution Good Christian People I Intend not and I hope you will not expect any long Discourse at this time but I have taken care that my Confession wherein as I shall by and by answer to the God of Truth you will finde nothing but the truth shall be published more fully and to your better advantage than I could possibly make it here It a few words therefore You may in me see what sin is and what it will end in you may in me see the lamentable and irreparable mischiefs of Vncleanness and Hypocrisie in particular and what it is for one who was the Member of Christ to make himself the Member of a Harlot It is a sin that seldome goes single and alone it is the Mother-sin to abundance more and they more ugly and deformed than it self I have found it by sad and woful experience It led me to Lying to Oaths and Execrations to conceal and defend it Nay I went further to advise contrive and assist in what might procure Abortions which certainly in the sight of God was Murther in intention Nor stopt it there but went forward to murther in Act and Execution for which crying sin I am come hither to satisfie the Law of man and do acknowledge the Justice of that Sentence And Oh that all you may fear and tremble at God's holy and righteous Judgments which have overtaken me and that they may make you take warning to avoid the Snares of a whorish woman and especially to keep the Married bed undefiled Beware of hypocritical pretences to Religion of coming to the Holy Sacrament while you live in those filthy practices Do not grieve or quench the Holy Spirit of God nor stifle the Convictions of your own Consciences lest God leave you as he did me to work all Vncleanness with greediness and lest at last you be brought to this most miserable condition to which he has most justly brought me to whose most righteous Judgment I do submit I forgive all the world as I desire to finde mercy at God's hands through Jesus Christ I do earnestly desire you by me to take warning not to continue in sin for in the end it will finde you out As to my sin I have but two things to say one I have cause exceedingly to lament and that is the great Scandal I have thereby brought upon Religion and the holy Function of the Ministery The great disparagement which reflects on these I look upon as the most hainous Aggravation of my loose and licentious life Therefore I pray you take up no prejudices against them upon my Account they are holy and good and grant no Licenses at all to such wicked and ungodly practices as I have been guilty of The other I have some reason to rejoyce in 'T is true my sin has exposed the whole Nation to Judgment for through Blood the Land is defiled but this is my comfort that God by this punishment makes me expiate that Guilt for the Judgment falls upon my own pate but I hope through the mercy of God and merit of Christ will proceed no further than my body I desire all that hear me to take warning not to continue in sin but betimes to cease to do evil and learn to do well Now the Lord be with you all and have mercy upon my poor Soul for which I desire you to pray with me and for me to the last moment of my life * Dr. Lloyd Psal 23. 2. Ver. 5. Deut. 6. 11 12. 8. 10 11 12. Prov. 3. 6. Hier. in Epist ad Tit. * Qua libertate peccantem corripere potest cum tacitus ille sibi respondet eadem sé admisisse quae corripit Hier. ubi sup 1 Tim. 4. 12. Tit. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Ambr. de Dig Sacerd. Levit. 4. 3 13 23 28. Aquinas Non ex Gradu a●t Mersura fidei et poenitentiae dependet Justificatio sed ex veritati Psal 146. 9. Heb. 5. 13. 1 Cor. 14. 9. 1 Cor. 13. 1.