Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	love_n	5,328	5	5.4187	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44078	Humble proposals for the relief, encouragement, security and happiness of the loyal, couragious seamen of England, in their lives and payment, in the service of our Most Gracious King William, and the defence of these nations humbly presented to the two most Honourable Houses, the Lords and Commons of England, in Parliament assembled / by a faithful subject of His Majesty, and servant to the Parliament and nation, and the seamen of England, in order for safety and security of all aforesaid, W. Hodges ; to which is added, a dialogue concerning the art of ticket-buying, in a discourse between Honesty, Poverty, Cruelty and Villany, concerning that mystery of iniquity, and ruin of the loyal seamen.	Hodges, William, Sir, 1645?-1714.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2329; ESTC R2277	51,833	63

penny for them Honesty I will not say what they must do but I will say if they be not prevented they that please to give their mind to it and have Tickets at their command I fear can get Powers fill'd up and witnessed by themselves or other Officers and leave Blanks for such Names to receive them as may serve to be put in afterwards And therefore it was my Advice That if the Parliament pleased they should make it Felony and Transportation to receive a Seaman's Pay by a wrong power for time to come And if they had been Seamen and cheated of their Pay ten times as often as men have Robbed on the High-way or had their Pockets pickt at Land they would have striv'd to make a Law against cheating for time tu come and not left it to will and pleasure to hinder small Officers from receiving mony by a Lawful Power although they fed them and cloathed them several Years before to assist them whsle they served the King and in the mean time leave so many ways open to cheat the King and the Seamen by other Officers still in private ways instead of those Hundreds of Pounds in a Ship received for the Captains of Seamens Pay publickly in former Years Poverty It is a Wonder that you will meddle with such Diseases as are Noli me tangeries that though they are heard of publickly now and then as the Noli me tangere is in the Weekly Bill yet hardly One in an Hundred knows what a dreadful Distemper it is although some die of the same And therefore pray if you meet with any Offices that are infected with the Ruining and Plaguing of the Seamen as the Houses of some were of Old in Israel with the Leprosie that they could never be cleansed until the very Walls were scraped And although the whole Priesthood should by the Law of God Judge them Unclean pray Honesty say no more of it And when you hear I have been sick a Year or Two or in the Hospitals and Run out of my Pay to the Ruin of my Family and I and my Family cry and groan to Heaven for Relief or Vengeance and others of my Poor Poverty Brethren be crying to Heaven and Hell for Damnation against them that Ruin them and Run away to other Nations to see if there be Mercy and Justice there pray hold your Peace for time to come Let things sink or swim you have done your Duty and you being sensible every Leaf you write must be such as must be true before God and man as to the substance of it And now you may admire at the mercy of God in keeping you hitherro as in mercy you have been hitherto Honesty That is true and that I only trust to the infinite Free Grace and Free Love and Rich mercy of God to me and all mine in Christ Jesus our Lord and only Saviour for all Time and all Eternity desiring the Eternal God to be our Refuge and Portion for ever And that underneath us may be his Everlasting Arms of Love and mercy for all Time and all Eternity to us and all ours Amen Poverty You have chosen well but do not you consider That there was an Age wherein it was said Hold thy peace for we may not mention the Name of our God But do not you think that those sad and barbarous Villains who do Cheat and Ruin and Destroy the Seamens Pay and Families in this Age do neither fear God nor Regard man but are as Ungodly Hard-hearted Case-hardned Brutes that seem as the Boy said by his Learning the Primmer some of them to be past the Graces and to be come almost as far as the Devil and all his Works And as it was said of the Gentleman by his Jackanapes An Ill Life may Expect an Ill End Therefore pray be wary how you Discourse about those sort of men Honesty I bless God I have no prejudice against the Persons of any men in England and know not any man in England but I would shew him a civil kindness and it may be there is hardly a man but would do the like by me if occasion were and I find Anger is often Folly but malice is the Devil and a dreadful burden certainly for any man to carry and I bless God who keeps me clear of that hitherto as I desire to be kept from flattery and that makes me write such plain honest homely English to serve my King and Country without much minding who are pleased or displeased and that makes me labour as heartily to endeavour the preserving of our Lives and Liberties and encouragement of our English Seamen with as much earnestness as ever I heard of any did to secure a Wall or Bank that was to keep out the Sea from drowning the Country And therefore having said it may be too much I may pass over a great part of the Art of Ticket-buying in silence for want of Time and Patience and so say little of the Buyers Skill in getting the poor Wretches in that are not in the greatest of miseries making them drunk and getting their Pay as they please Or of any buying at Five Shillings and paying them part of their money and then afterwards will have them at Ten Shillings Profit or demand their money again and extort money for Extortioning Interest besides Trouble if they cannot pay the money Neither mind I to represent how there have been some Hundreds of Pounds worth of Tickets offered without Powers at a time in One Ship Neither the making out of Twenty Hogs alias Seamens Tickets in One Ship allowed about Fifty men Neither the very great multitudes of Tickets Captains Clerks have made out privately for Seamens Pay Neither need I trouble my Head for time to come much more than other men if the King and the Nation should ever be found to be cheated of a sixth part of their money for if I pay about Twelve Pound the Year this War Taxes as I have done it is but Forty shillings Charge Extraordinary the Year And I suppose I have printed as many Thousand sheets of Paper freely to inform the most Honourable Houses of Parliament and these Nations this Last Three Years as hath cost me about Ten Years Purchase for my sixth part of the said Twelve Pound And I bless God I was never imployed by any to do it but as the good will and pleasure of God stirred me up out of a true design to serve God and my King and Country and I never had to my knowledge Ten shillings advantage from all others for the same And I am of no Club nor of no Faction neither am I any mens Instrument or Tool so that if I do any service the glory will be to God and the benefit to these Nations And if I mistake and suffer for it I must submit with Humility Love and Patience And so intreating the pardon of his most gracious Majesty and the Two most Honourable Houses of