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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	heart_n	life_n	lord_n	5,097	5	3.6074	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66585	A sermon on the gunpowder treason, with reflections on the late plot by Thomas Wilson ...	Wilson, Thomas, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing W2936; ESTC R8248	16,317	39

the wrath of any enemies is hotter than that of ours Papists who have all along exercised the sharpest severities Now a man looking back upon the dangers which he hath escaped and remembring how he walked over a deep well slenderly covered and did not fall into it and how he passed through a company of wolves and bears and lions and was not devoured Oh how will he rejoyce how will he thank the Lord and what a lively sense of the mercy will he carry in his heart all the days of his life And may the remembrance of this mercy which this day we received from the Lord never be defaced so long as time shall endure nor the quick sense of it abate neither in us nor in our Children after us till we shall be free from the cruelties and malice and conspiracies of Popish Enemies Which will be when they shall be converted from their Errors and changed from their savage nature and the mystical Babylon shall be destroyed or when we shall be removed from Earth to Heaven If we owe God praises for our life health and food for preservation in time of war famine and pestilence for recovery out of desperate sickness what greater praises do we owe him for the enjoyment of our Protestant Religion and for our deliverance from slaughter from confusion from strange tortures from cruel deaths from Popery which is a mass of evils for I put you in remembrance again that not only evil to our Bodies was designed but a worse mischief to our Souls Blessed be God then that our Religion which is spiritual substantial and lively is not turned into idle and dead Ceremony shews and gazings crosses beads and reliques that the Holy Scriptures are not kept from our people and that we have not Prayers in a language which they understand not whereby the affection which alone makes the service acceptable to God is quite deadned and killed that we are not taught to pray to Angels and dead Saints and to ask of them protection grace pardon saying O Blessed Peter to whom power is given to open and shut Heaven loose by thy word the bonds of our sins O ye Apostles who shut and open Heaven heal our sick minds increase our vertues O Mother of God establish us in peace loose the bonds of the guilty bring light to the blind drive away our evils procure for us all good things Make us free from sins and mild and chast And blessed be God that we do not creep and kneel to an Image and say Tree on which Christ did hang. O Cross hail or peace or happiness to thee our only hope increase the righteousness of the righteous blot out or abolish the sins of the guilty O Cross which alone wast worthy to bear the talent or price of the world sweet wood bearing the sweet nails the sweet weights save the present company gathered this day together to praise thee And blessed be God that we are not taught nor incouraged nor tempted to rely upon the penances and satisfactions masses and sacrifices absolutions pardons and indulgences of others as if they could hereby prevent our falling into Hell-torment and being fallen into Purgatory-torment could deliver us out of it And blessed be God that we call not Sacramental Bread and Wine our Lord and Saviour falling down and adoring them with divine worship And blessed be God that we see not his faithful servants imprisoned and tortured and burned for refusing to submit to these abominations All which evils we might have seen if our Adversaries had prevailed Blessed be God for our King and Parliament our wholsom Laws our peace and safety and our lives Blessed be God for our ministers and for sound doctrin and the pure truth of the Gospel Blessed be God for the salvation of our Souls all which we might have lost some of which we should certainly have lost if Romes design now and at many other times had succeeded Blessed be God from our whole heart for his manifold mercy to us both now and evermore IV. The Confidence in God which these words describe Our help in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth That is our help was is and shall be in the Lord of Heaven They had found that God had saved them and they were resolved to trust in him ever after And well may we do so who have had the same help and favour from him in like eminent danger and as his goodness invites us to trust in him so doth his power he being the Almighty and only Supreme that made Heaven and Earth and therefore can do what he pleaseth dissolve the forces of the mighty and blow away the devices of the cunning fetter all the Devils of Hell that rise up against us and by his Command turn them back in their furious rage And we are again to remember his Eye that seeth in the dark and secret places where wicked men plot mischief and his Providence that is over all his works even to a small Sparrow and his Promise that he will defend his people and oppose his enemies And now as we trust in him there remains nothing else for us to do but to keep his Laws diligently and to walk before him with an upright heart for then shall we surely find his help They work wickedness and can they trust in him If they do it will be in vain the impudence indeed they have as to look up to Heaven when they are as deep as Hell in their wicked consultations and to say masses and make prayers to the God of righteousness for the cutting of innocent mens throats and for the accomplishing of such unrighteousness as the Devil only puts into the hearts of his slaves and which only he and his children would rejoyce to see accomplished But do they indeed trust in God It is rather in the Devil in their invented visions and feigned miracles in their plots and perverse deeds in their dissimulation and treachery in their rebellion and murthers for I see that to these they betake themselves continually as those that have no hope otherwise to prevail And no wonder for a false Religion must have indirect means to help it up and a bloody Faith will make bloody work they devise a cunning device and gather together the powers of the Earth and now say they we shall prevail we will fall upon them before they be aware and will destroy we will terrifie with torments and we will take away their chief men by death and as for the rest they will not dare to speak But alas all this is as weak as a feather and as vain as that which is most so because he is against them that made Heaven and Earth For the Lord hateth the workers of iniquity as the Psalmist speaks and abhorreth bloody and deceitful men He loveth the faithful and plentifully rewardeth proud doers The righteous Lord loveth righteousness and his

errors idolatrous worship and hellish practices You and the Devil have too much corrupted us but we are not yet corrupt enough to joyn society with you You have not yet bored out our eyes that we cannot look into the Bible nor have you yet burned those Sacred Writings and I trust never shall do either But if you should yet can you not extinguish the light of our Souls any more than you can take the Holy Spirit from us and whilst that remains we shall abhor your ways There are thousands in our Land that will not bow down to your Baal so clear is their knowledg so great their courage so strong is their faith so mighty their zeal for God so upright are their hearts so good their consciences though some timerous and more ignorant Souls you may deceive and fright into a base compliance but yet neither these by all that you can do will love your Popery Smite us if God please and we shall abhor your Church the more which delights in blood and cruelty and feeling the unrighteous plagues of your hands we shall more sensibly know what manner of persons you are and we will unite together who are not yet so close and kind among our selves as we should be with one Soul and shoulder against you Smite us and we will kiss the Rod from our Heavenly Father's Hand and will keep his Laws more perfectly Smite us and we shall be better And resolved we are do ye what you can either tempt or kill to serve the Lord and to serve him better than we have done not after your manner with shew and pageantry trifles and empty shadows blind minds and stupid devotion in candles images and agnus dei's oil chrism and water beads and shaven crowns but with heart and soul purified and inlightned in love peace and patience in sobriety justice and mercy And then I tell you what I know will sound strange in your ears that you are undone and your Kingdom 's ruin'd Go on in the imaginations of your hearts and fill up the measure of your Fathers and then fall and die For as Basil taught the Christians to say to their Persecutors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If you shall again prevail you shall again be overcome THE END * Usser de Eccles. succes cap. 9. 10. Temple 's Irish Rebellion Fox 's Acts. Clark 's Martyrol * 1 Ioh. iii. 12 * Rev. xi 15 16 17 17.6 † 1 Thes. iv 11 Rom. xii 18 * Eph. iv 3 † Luke ix 53 54 55 56. * 2 King ix 31 † Vers. 32. c. * Psal. ix 16 † Psal. vii 16 xxxvii 14 15. * Rev. ii 14 Num. xxv 1 c. Num. xxxi 16 * Rom. Breviar fest Jan. Beate Pastor Petre clemens accipe voces precantum ●●iminumque vincula verbo resolve cui potestas tradita aperire terris Coelum apertum claudere † Ib. Commun Apost Apostolorum gloriam tellus astra conci●●nt Vos seculorum Iudices qui templa coeli clauditis sanate mentes languidas auge●e nos vi●tu●ibus * Ib. Offic. Mar. Dei mater alma funda nos in pace Solve vincia reis profer lumen caecis mala nostra pelle bona cuncta posce Nos culpis solutos mites fac castos Vitam praesta puram iter para tutum ut videntes Iesum semper collaetemur * Ib. Fest. Maij. Arbor orna●a Regis purpura electa digno stipite tam sancta membra tangere cujas brachiis pretium pependit saeculi O Crux ac● spes unica piis ada●ge gratiam reisque de●e crimina O Crux quae sola fuisti digna portare talentum mundi dulce lignum dulces clavos dulcia ferens pondera salva praesentem catervam in tuis hodie laudibus congreg●tam † Ave. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk 1.28 * Num. xxiii 20 21 23. * Psalm ii Acts ix 4 * Cap. iii. * Hist. Concil Trident. p. 68. Camb. Annal. Elizab. p. 179. * 1 Pet. xi 13 * Rom. xiii 1 Mat. xxiii xxxii c. * Isa. viii 9