Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	hear_v	lord_n	pray_v	6,088	5	6.6801	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61733	The life and gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, and some time before L. Chancellor of England extracted out of the authentique records of his canonization as to the maine part, anonymus, Matt. Paris, Capgrave, Harpsfeld, and others / collected by R.S., S.I.	Strange, Richard, 1611-1682.	1674 (1674)	Wing S5810; ESTC R14349	107,722	368

many The Saint sent him a Remembrancer and he fell into a grieuous fitt of sicknes and in it into a phrensey in a rauing transport wheroff his arme is broken againe and in the same place Being fallen a-sleep he seemd to see the most glorious Mother of God and heare her saying to S. THOMAS who stood by her friend help this poore Caytiff help him replyd he he made a vow to visitt me before this and has not bin so good as his word Ah sayd the sweet Mother of mercy he will come to you help him I pray Let him then come replyd the Saint on Whitsunday and he shall be curd in the name of our Lord. Which sayd they both disappeard and the sick man relating the Vision to the bystanders was carryd by them on that day to the Saints Shryne where he found redress of both his maladyes by the intercession of the most glorious Virgin and the meritts of the Saint One of Staynes not farr from London became so infirme that all present judgd he could not liue one houre to an end This extremity or infirmity was the least part of his misery for he found himselfe haunted and obsess'd ouer and aboue with multitudes of Diuells in most hideous Shapes which not onely besett him but some taking him by the head others by the feet they hal'd and pulld him almost to pieces The poore sick-man halfe distracted had recourse as well as he could to Alm. God beseeching him by the meritts of his deuout Seruant S. THOMAS of Hereford to afford some assistance in this dreadfull agony And behold while he silently thus recommended himselfe he saw the man of God forth with approaching him and clasping his head betwixt his hands stood in his defence against these wicked Spiritts the greatest part of that night About break of day putt to flight they all vannishd the Saint still holding the Sickmans head as before who suddainly awaking out of his sleep and his ayde or helper withdrawing at the same instant he found himselfe perfectly restord to health both of body and mind by the powerfull mediation of his heauenly Champion who came so seasonably to his rescue To whose Tomb therfore by way of thanksgiuing he with his Neighbours vndertook barefout a long pilgrimage and there in each ones hearing attested the cure To lett vs know how dangerous it is to meddle with edg tooles that is to jeast profanely with the proceedings of Saints making a piece of drollery of what we ought humbly to venerate if we do not vnderstand a youngman Flemming by nation and seruant to an English Lady of quality he was better fedd then taught being in a Cittizens house in Hereford among other Raillery began to speak scurrilously of our B. Saint saying that while he hu'd he was certainly of a couetous humour synce after his death he receiues so many pretious guifts refusing nothing that was offerd him While he presumd to goe thus on one of his hands suddainly shrunk vpp with such violence of payne that acknowledging his fault he was forc'd before all present to inuoke the Saint for redress which no sooner desyrd then obtaynd so charitable was he towards him the hand being presently restord and all as well as before But see the inueteratenes of an ill custome shaken off it recurrs againe and clings to vs like a second nature The vngratefull wretch thus curd attributes both the payne and cure to a naturall cause and neyther the latter to his benefactour nor the former to a punishment of his profane scurrility While he was vttering these words so violent a payne and Contraction seizd the same hand a second time that no stroke but one from heauen could cause it Affliction giues vnderstanding and so did it him he acknowledgd the hand of God vpon him for his ingratitude and now hartily penitent calld vpon the Saint and desyrd all the standers-by to doe the same Theyr prayers were presently heard his hand restord and he learnd more witt then to relapse the third time Let vs learne hence to detest atheisticall drollery and serue God and reuerence his Saints in whome he is so admirably admirable The next I will relate happend in the person of Bishop Richard the so often mentiond successour to our Saint He in the first yeares of his Episcopacy was so ill of the stone that both Physitians and others lookd on him as a dyingman nor for the space of 5. or 6. weeks did he stirr out of his Chamber His Chamberlane who deposd this cure sleeping one night in his Lords Chamber to be ready on all exigences seemd in his sleep to heare one say to him arise take the Relique which thou hast of S. THOMAS it was the first ioynt of his right thumb and no body besydes himselfe knew of it wash it in the wine which in a siluer Cruett stands in the window giue thy Master to drink of it and he shall be curd The Chamberlane eyther mistrusting the call and its effect or fearfull that the wine might not be good for his Lord dissembled the matter nor took notice of it chiefly indeed for feare of loosing his pretious Re●●que which he deemd to pretious for him to keep were it once knowne to others The next night he heard the same call with a menace for his former neglect yett he out of the precedent motiues forbore also the second time the night following or 3. he seemd to behold our B. Lady accompanyd with many Virgins all which were clad in white and enuironnd with great brightnes entring the Chamber in which the Bishop and his Chamberlane reposd and coming neer to the latters bed who for some dayes before had with much deuotion besought her attistance by the meritrs of S. THOMAS for his Masters Recouery sayd to him in French sayth the Process Deynse that was the Chamberlains name art thou asleep he answerd no ryse then sayd she take the wine aboue mentiond and if thou doest it not at they perill be it This last threat made a deeper impression and as soon as it was light he Communicated the matter with the Bishops Confessour and Phisitian to know theyr judgment vpon the matter with theyr approbation and in theyr presence he washd the foresayd Relique and the Physitian gaue 3. spoonfulls of the sayd wine to the Bishop wishing him to drink it he making the signe of the Cross did so rise immediately went downe to the Chappell which he could not doe for so many weeks heard Masse and remaynd all that ensuing yeare as free as if he had neuer bin molested ther with I will conclude this present Narratiue with another deposd juridically before the Lords Commissioners by the party concernd then liuing who in his younger dayes had once bin a meniall seruant of the Saint but marrying afterwards liu'd at London and by trade was a Barber This man vpon the suddain without any visible occasion lost first one eye then the other and both