Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	judgement_n	sin_n	sinner_n	2,057	5	7.5058	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19341	A relation of the most lamentable burning of the cittie of Corke, in the west of Ireland, in the province of Monster, by thunder and lightning With other most dolefull and miserable accidents, which fell out the last of May 1622. after the prodigious battell of the birds called stares, which fought strangely over and neare that citie the 12. & 14. of May 1621. As it hath beene reported to divers right honourable persons.		1622 (1622)	STC 5766; ESTC S108693	3,720	16

they were in the Churches covered with Slate and built otherwise with thicke stone walles yet this was no securitie vnto them when as they had nothing to hope for but a dreadfull expectation every minute of an houre when the Churches would be fired also For they could not goe out of the Churches the fire raged so on all sides And in the Churches they heard nothing but clamors and out-cries Every mans feare was a torment not onely to himselfe but to others generally For the houses round about the Churches flaming vpon every glimce of fire the cry was raysed the Church is now on fire now we shall all be consumed This was the miserable and woefull case of those who fled to the Churches Now for those who remained in the streets as all people whose weaknesse might not shift for themselues or yong children whose want of discretion could not foresee how to avoyd the danger or such persons who loued their wiues children goods more then themselues many hundreds of these people were consumed by the fire Now concerning those who to saue their liues fled into the Ilands and fields adjoyning in what a woefull and miserable affliction were they These were beholding their Cittie in a lamentable Combustion They were turning their eyes this way and that way where sometimes their habitations were where they had goods wiues and children brothers and sisters fathers and mothers cosens and friends And all either consumed or in danger to be consumed with fire And to aggravate the bitternes of their heauie afflictions more they heard out of the Cittie hydeous and rufull cryes and clamors which made them imagine all were vtterly perished and consumed Thus what the battell and fight of the birds did presage and prognosticate fell out too true and dolefull in the vtter ruine consumption of a rich and wealthie Cittie Vpon this so grievous an accident it is absolutely necessary that all the Citties and Townes of England and Ireland should make speedie Vse of so dreadfull an example For they must consider the Saviour of Mankinde in the xiij of S. Luke when he was told of the bloudy execution of the Galileans by Herod Thinke you sayth Iesus that these Galileans were sinners more then all the Galileans that they suffered such things No But I say to you vnlesse you repent you shall all likewise perish As those xviij vpon whom the Tower fell in Siloe and slew them Thinke you they were sinners aboue all the men that dwell in Ierusalem No I say to you but except you repent you shall all likewise perish By this our Saviour doth make it manifest that some sinners are punished for examples sake that other who are guiltie of like sinnes may by speedie Repentance pacifie the wrath of God that he may spare his rod of Iustice These inhabitants of the Cittie of Corke were not the onely and greatest sinners aboue all other Citties of England or Ireland but that other Citties are as grievous sinners as they But that God hath made an especiall example in them that others may be moved to Repentance thereby to escape the heavic Iudgements of God vpon them for the like sinnes God is mercifull and long suffering but if the offer of his mercy be not taken in due time his Iustice falleth heavie where the offer of mercy is refused The Battell of Birds over the Cittie being so strange and wonderfull an accident might haue moved them to considerations of Repentance but they sleighted it over And now they find which others may feare it is good to lay hold on Mercy whilest it is offered ⸫ FINIS