Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	look_v	lord_n	soul_n	5,124	5	5.4191	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43044	A free-will offering by James Harwood ...	Harwood, James.	1662 (1662)	Wing H1097; ESTC R8676	24,477	96

with my eye spiritual much more While I see without I may be blinde within and spy a world of wonders in this great World and yet not see that World of wickedness in this little World O Lord open the eye of my understanding lest while I look and see the way to thy Church I miss of thy Kingdom yet lest I miss I will look ad Sinistram at my Corrosives ad Dextram at my Cordials At my Corrosives my crosses in this life seeming hindrances in my spiritual Pilgrimage but sanctified pricking spurs pressing me unto the prize of my high calling O God my God twenty years current have those lasted and hadst not thou put strength into my anckle bones long since with Gad and Reuben I had sat me down on this side Jordan And now I turn ad Dextram to the right hand of thy gracious favours high cordials in the upshor of long distempers O heaviness hath endured a long Winter night but joy is come in the morning a Plerophoria a full sea of Peace and plenzy O my God as Adversity did nor quire deject me so let not Prosperity puff me up Now that I am in part restored to my Means let not my Means make me forget my Maker Beleive it he who sets his heart on Earth shall never inherit Heaven Now I am out of the bryars Lord let not the pleasant Pageants withdraw my eyes God sent afflictions to wean me from the World these contentments are proffered to try whether I love God more then the World I may look at them and not lose my way if I love them and inordinately I am at a loss and for ever And therefore once more I will look about me lest suppressed by Adversity or surprized by Prosperity Now this is done I will up and on and having little time and far to go and many by-paths in my passage I will look unto my ways There is but one way and yet it is here said I will look unto my ways Christ is the way via recta via tuta all other ways are viae deviae by-ways and yet this way Christ is cut into two pathes is viam Divinitatis Humanitat is The first step into the Heavenly way is per Christi Incarnationem the second is per Christi Divinitatem The hand that leads into these two which run into one is Amor Dei the love of God For God so loved the world that be sent his Son the second Person and therefore God born of a Virgin and therefore made man Now this is made my way to Heaven efficienter à Deo instrument aliter per sidem and this way is by Christs Godhead Manhood whilest the Godbead dwels in him bodily And now the two Natures being joyned together in one Person and that by an Hypostatical union this considered that one way may admit of a plural without prejudice to the single singular way I mean to him who is the Way the Truth and the Life But as all that go to Heaven must look unto this way Christ cut into two pathes so I must look unto my waies ways for Plurality mine for Propriety How different are these two waies the way Christ and my waies that is the way of Life this the way of Death Have I not need now to look about me Miss of that fist and I am out of the way to Heaven walk in this other and I march a full career to Hell and yet I am never in hopes to come into the way Christ till I take a survey of my own waies my thoughts words and works This is a large task and this a lazy generation Much is to be done and all to be left undone portends a fearful doom O Jacob why layest thou thy head upon a stone O Jonah why sleepest thou in the howl of the ship O ye Disciples can ye not watch one hour O! the sluggish blankets of carnal security have lull'd Gods dearest sons asleep when the Philistines have been ready to fall upon them The Disciples let Christ be taken from them O let not your selves be taken from Christ He that sleeps in sin is sensless and whilest he is a sinner he looks not to his waies he casts not an eye to Christ nor Christ to him but mark what 's said I will look to my waies Is it not high time when surround in the rotten bogs of Whoredom and Bloodshed It hath been the hard hap of the Elect to tread awry and ere aware to step into the Red-sea of blood by the misleading of the old Man in the Womans habit Here are ways to be lookt at not walkt in See them and shun them they are dangerous by-waies leading to Hell leading from Heaven Their names are these The Vnclean Spirits Round Relapse into sin That beaten Tract Covetousness which is Idolatry That way which went of late too night the Royal Palace Rebellion and Regicide Hold of Hell-gars Despair the shadowed Grove Hypocrisie The barren Mount Presumption The new Reformers Road Sacriledge These have been common high-waies leading to Hell Death and the Devil and now the late walkers in them though disguized with the vizard of seeming Saintship are discovered But there are other more covert waies I must look to if ever I look to go to Heaven And in special that way or walk in which my corrupt heart meets with first Motions to sin Assent to sin A will to sin A seduced judgement to approve of sin in the secret of my soul Look to these waies and root out all thou meetest and fear not thou the wide road of thy conversation Smother sin in that way the entrance into the womb of thy heart and the work is done neither needest thou fear but that is the way to life everlasting But the Prophets Possessive my my waies makes him owner of these high-waies saith the Lord My waies are not your waies This Mine and Thine makes or mars Mans waies have in them nought of God Gods waies have in them nought of man While I look unto my waies I see a super plus of sins While at Gods the way to be disburthened of my sin To conclude I will look unto my ways through that looking glass the Law so I shall see I am a sinner I will look O Lord unto thy waies which thy sacred Testament points me out to ensure me of a Saintship And now O Lord lead me in thy way that so I may possess my soul in peace Lord give me grace to look unto my ways that so I may escape that death death eternal MERCY beyond MEASURE Psal 58. part of vers 1. Lord thou art become gracious unto thy Land THe people of God are returned from bondage and they sing a Psalm of Thanksgiving all Israel have been Captives and this their deliverance is of the Lords doings What the arm of man conoot the finger of God can bring to pass In the low ebb of Misery he can buoy up to a full