Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	great_a	life_n	sin_n	6,258	5	4.5340	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45999	Idem iterum, or, The history of Q. Mary's big-belly from Mr. Fox's Acts and monuments and Dr. Heylin's Hist. res.	Foxe, John, 1516-1587. Actes and monuments.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. Ecclesia restaurata.	1688 (1688)	Wing I33; Wing F2040_CANCELLED; ESTC R5327	8,878	8

said Trust in his Majesty reposed with no less good will and affection than if his Highness had been naturally born amongst us In consideration whereof be it enacted by the King and the Queens most excellent Majesties by the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same c. As it is to be seen in the Act more at large ratified and confirmed at the same Parliament to the same intent and purpose ¶ Thus much out of the Act and Statute I thought fit to rehearse to the intent the Reader may understand not so much how Parliaments may sometimes be deceived as by this Child of Q. Mary may appear as rather what cause we Englishmen have to render most earnest thanks unto Almighty God who so mercifully against the Opinion Expectation and working of our Adversaries hath helped and delivered us in this case which otherwise might have opened such a window to the Spaniards to have entred and replenished this Land that peradventure by this time Englishmen should have enjoyed no great quiet in their own Country The Lord therefore make us perpetually mindful of his benefits Amen Thus we see then how man doth purpose but God disposeth as pleaseth him For all this great Labour Provision and Order taken in the Parliament-House for their young Master long looked for coming so surely into the World in the end appeared neither young Master nor young Mistris that any man yet to this day can hear of Furthermore as the labour of the Lay-sort was herein deluded so no less ridiculous it was to behold what little effect the Prayers of the Pope's Church men had with Almighty God who travelled no less with their Processions Masses and Collects for the happy deliverance of this young Master to come as here followeth to be seen A PRAYER made by Dr. Weston Dean of Westminster daily to be said for the Queen's Deliverance O Most righteous Lord God which for the offence of the first Woman hast threatned unto all Women a common sharp and inevitable Malediction and hast enjoined them that they should conceive in sin and being conceived should be subject to many and grievous torments and finally be delivered with the danger and jeopardy of their Lives We beseech thee for thine exceeding great goodness and bottomless mercy to mitigate the strictness of that Law asswage thine Anger for a while and cherish in the bosom of thy favour and mercy our ●…ting the trouble may with joy laud and praise the bountifulness of thy Mercy and together with us praise and bless both thee and thy holy Name world without end This O Lord we desire thee we beseech thee and most heartily crave of thee Hear us O Lord and grant us our Petition Let not the Enemies of thy Faith and of thy Church say Where is their God A solemn PRAYER made for K. Philip and Q. Mary's Child that it may be a Male-child Well-favoured and Witty c. O Most mighty Lord God which regardest the Prayer of the humble and despisest not their request bow down from thine high habitation of the Heavens the eyes of thy mercy unto us wretched Sinners bowing the knees of our Hearts and with many and deep sighs bewailing our sins and offences humbly with eyes intent and hands displayed praying and beseeching thee with the shield of thy Protection to defend Mary thy Servant and our Queen who hath none other helper but thee and whom through thy Grace thou hast willed to be conceived with Child and at the time of her Travel graciously with the help of thy right hand deliver her and from all danger with the Child in her conceived mercifully preserve It hath seemed good in thy sight merciful Father by thy Servant Mary to work these Wonders that is to say in her hands to vanquish and overthrow the stout Enemy and to deliver us thy People out of the hands of Hereticks Infidels Enemies to thee and to the Cross of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ that of thy Servant thou mightest speak in far Countries Therefore for these wonderful Works which thou dost to thy Servants thou art magnified Lord God for ever and we thy People bless thee the God of Heaven which hath wrought upon us this great Mercy and hast excluded from us the Heretick the Enemy of Truth the Persecutor of thy Church We know we know that we have grievously Lord sinned that we have been deceived by Vanity and that we have forsaken thee our God. Our Iniquities be multiplied on our head and our sins be encreased up to Heaven and we our selves having offended and our Princes and our Priests for these our sins have deserved an Hypocrite to our Prince our sins have deserved a Tyrant to our Governor that should bring our life to bitterness We be not worthy to have so gentle and merciful a Queen so godly a Ruler and finally so vertuous a Prince at the very beginning of whose Reign a new Light as it were of Gods Religion seemed to us for to spring and rise The Jews did bless the Widow Judith with one voice saying Thou art the Glory of Jerusalem thou art the Joy of Israel thou art the Honour of our People for that thou hast loved Chastity and thou shalt be blessed for ever And we the English People with one agreeable consent do cry Thou Mary art the Glory of England our Joy the Honour of thy People for that thou hast embraced Chastity thine heart is strengthened for the hand of our Lord hath comforted thee and therefore thou shalt be blessed for ever But bow down O most merciful Father thine ear and open thine eyes and behold our Affliction and our humble Confession Thou knowest Lord that against Philip not by humane but by thy Ordinance our King and against thy Servant Mary by thy Providence our Queen the Restorers and Maintainers of thy Testament of the Faith and most constant Defenders of thy Church thou knowest I say that against these our two Governors By the Power of their hands they would change thy Promises and destroy thine Inheritance and stop and shut up the mouths of them that praise thee and extinguish the glory of thy Catholick Church and Altar It is manifest and plain how many Contentions how many Conspiracies and Seditions how great Wars what Tumults how many and how great troublesome Vexations how many Heresies and Schisms for these be the most ready Devices and evident tokens of Hereticks for our sins do hang over us if thy Servant be taken from this life for we acknowledge that our Lord is omnipotent who hath pitched his dwelling-place in the midst of his People to the intent to deliver us out of the hands of our Enemies Turn therefore thy countenance unto us shew unto us O Lord thy face punish us for our sins according to thy Will and Pleasure only now deliver us We bowing the knees of our