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	praise_n	5,479	5	8.1482	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03354	Christs prayer expounded, a Christian directed, and a communicant prepared The first teaching to pray, the second to liue, the third to receiue the sacrament of Christs body. To which is added, a preface of prayer, a pithie prayer for Christian families. A thankes giuing for our deliuerance from treason by gunpowder, and learned Latin verses of that argument. By Robert Hill, preacher at Saint Martins in the fields.	Hill, Robert, d. 1623.	1606 (1606)	STC 13472; ESTC S119055	60,477	208

pardon and forgiuenes of all our sinnes this day at this time and heretofore committed against thée with a blessing vpon thy church and children euery where as well as though we had named them thorough Christ our Lord and onelye Sauiour Amen A thanksgiuing for our late deliuerance from that vnnaturall conspiracie against our King and State ALmighty Lord GOD father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him our most Gratious and mercifull Father many are thy mercyes towards vs and that our soules know right well And as we cannot be ignorant of them vnles we be senselesse soe wee may not be forgetfull vnles we be thankelesse By thée our lot is fallen into a good soile and by thée we haue a goodly inheritance by thée are our bodies deliuered from sicknesse and by thée are our soules deliuered from sin by thée our names are not a reproch vnto our enemies and by thée our estates are not a prey vnto the Idolatrous Thou euen thou hast don great things in our land thy right hand amongst vs hast brought mighty things to passe What is it O Lord that thou hast not done vnto this vine of thine English Israel and what couldest thou doe more for it then thou hast Thou hast planted it by thy hand placed it in thy vineard hedged it by thy prouidence garded it by thine Angells watred it by thy spirit pruyned it by thy rodds supported it by thy power committed it to thy husbandmen beautified it by thy mercies and fructified it by thine aboundance not of sower but swéete grapes The wilde boore of the woods can neuer roote it vp the beasts of the forest shall neuer deuour it Lord continew still to visit this vine which without thy visitation must be fruitles and strengthlesse Thou hast cast out the heathen and planted vs in thou hast subdued our enemies and made vs the mirror of the whole world Thou hast giuen vs thy Sonne to be our Sauiour thy word to be our instructor thy Spirit to bée our sanctifier thy preachers to bee our monitors thy sacraments to be our seales and Kings to be our nursing Fathers and Quéenes to bee our nursing Mothers When our enemies came against vs thou subduest them when our light was extinguished thou oldest set vp a greater 1588. Q. Elizabeth K. Iames. 1603. when the plague was amongst vs thou calmest it and when our Countrie was to be betraied thou wast our deliuerer What shall we render vnto thée for all these fauours or what can we render for all these mercies O our soules praise the Lord and all that is within vs praise his holy name O our soules praise the Lord and let vs neuer forget his benefitts Wee Lord had bin blowen vp with the powder of rebellion had not the power of thy prouidence watched ouer vs. We therefore our Princes Nobles Clergy Commons our Wifes Children Seruants and al are héere before thy Maiesty this day now render vnto thée for more we cannot and more thou desirest not the sacrifice of praise the calues of our lipp● for this wonderfull deliuerance shewed vnto our Gracious King and Country Lord teach vs therby to bée thankfull vnto thée obedient to our gouernours frequent in praier feruent in the spirit and zealous in good workes least a worse thing hereafter happen vnto vs. Make vs to detest Popery the poyson of Authority Iesuits the bellowes of sedition Papists the plotters of rebellion and to thinke better of our Christian Brethren and this not new but most auncient religion of ours by which wee are taught Pietie to God Loialty to Gouernours Peace to the Church reuerence of superiority charity to our inferiours amity to our equalls loue to our enemies patience in tribulation thankfulnesse in prosperity faithfulnesse in our calling honesty to al. And séeing of late thou hast deliuered our backs from whipping our liberty from seruing our soules from dying our country from consuming our King and Estate from a suddaine blowing vp Lord wée pray thée that the meditatiō of this mercy may neuer depart out of our minds but that wee may bée thankful vnto thée for mercies receiued and fearfull of thée for iudgements escaped Teach vs to pray vnto thée alone who canst heare graunt our requests to kéepe our country from inuasion our Church frō dissention our houses from infection our State from alteration and people from the cruell mercies of the Italian Popedom whose faith is fancie whose force is fraud whose trust is treason whose obedience is hipocrisie whose lawes are traditions whose pardōers are priests whose sauiour is the Pope whose god is an Idol whose seruice is ceremonies whose glorie is their shame and whose end is damnation except they repent Let the Sunne of the Ghospell be neuer eclipsed the Light of thine Israel neuer be extinguished the hope of our happinesse neuer bée subuerted Nor the branches of our vine euer cut off Thus we thy people and shéepe of thy pasture shall haue iust occasion to praise thy great name in the face of thy congregation from this time forth foreuermore Lord kéepe in our Kinge the Spirit of Maiestie in our Quéene the Spirit of Chastitie in our Prince the Spirit of Pietie in our Nobles the Spirit of Loialtie in our Councellers the Spirit of Prudencie in our Clergie the Spirit of Vigilancie and in vs all the Spirit of Fidelytie and as for such as wish euill to this Sion of ours the Honour of thy name the Pallace of thy pleasure the Place of thy protection and the Wounder of the world if they béelong to thée giue them hearts to repent and to returne to vs if not or euer their pottes bée hotte with thornes let indignation vexe them as a thing that is rawe Euen soe let all thine Enimies perish O Lord. And vnlesse their Children bée better then the Parents as the Prophet prayeth deliuer them vp to famine let them droppe by the force of the sword let their wiues be robbed of their children and be widdowes and let their husbands be put to death let their confederate young men be slaine by the sword let them be ouerthrowne in the day of thine anger and let none be left to make lamentation for them and to say O my brother O my sister Lord roote all Cananites out of this land of the liuing that such as feare thee may dwell safely Blessed be the Lord God of our saluation for euer and euer and let all the people say Amen Amen 1. Sam. 12.24.25 Now therefore feare yee the Lord and serue him in the truth withall you hearts and consider how great thing he hath done for you But if you do wickedly ye shall perish both ye and your King He that eateth and drinketh and letteth grace passe Sitteth downe like an Oxe and riseth like an Asse Grace before meat WE acknowledge and confesse this fauour of thine eternall God and gratious Father that it pleaseth thy maiestie to giue vnto vs so