Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	lord_n	receive_v	soul_n	5,315	5	5.2367	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72064	The Christian knight compiled by Sir VVilliam VViseman Knight, for the pvblike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland.	Wiseman, William, Sir, d. 1643.	1619 (1619)	STC 10926; ESTC S122637	208,326	271

bee was principally intended by our holy Prophet in this place And I doe not commend it to you now for the praise of it but for the the vse of it the one beeing beyond my power to performe worthily the other beeing in your power to practise proffitably ye haue price enough in your purses as I tolde you and I would wish you to buy of it often Let not once a yeare content you which the Church doth binde ye to once a moneth in act and euery day in desire is little enough for those that know the sweete of it Little enough I say if wee haue a liuely faith and haue tasted how good it is But woe bee to vs. Wee apprehend it not and therefore wee buy it no faster Wee feele not the operation of it and therefore wee neglect it It is to bee lamented with many teares how carelesse wee bee and almost insensible in this point as will soone bee seene by vs if wee take not heede betimes Wee are like to a sea wall that must bee alwaies repayring which if wee be not by this holy Sacrament we shall goe euery day decaying further from heauen euery gust of winde and sea will make a breach vpon vs and euery little temptation will surround vs. It is Gods worke to repaire vs and not mans And if wee will bee vertuous by our selues or honest of our selues and thinke a Sacrament but an idle ceremony the next newes will bee of vs that we haue neither vertue at all in vs nor scarce common honestie All that be faithfull know what they receiue but all take not delight in it because they know not the benefit of it yea more then this let vs call and cry to them neuer so loude that they will taste often of it and try the good of it as they will doe by some thing which is hard or harsh enough to them at the first but with vse made pleasing yet in this heauenly Bread they will not doe it nor force themselues a whit to loue it because it pleaseth not sense This noble Sacrament hath many good things in it and the Ancients haue neuer done praising it and extolling it euen out of their owne feeling I haue read much but I reade no Doctor like the Doctor of Doctors Christ himselfe who best could tell what good wee receiue by it Hee hath tolde vs in two words as much as shall bee needefull at this time Ioh. 6. in me manet ego in eo Hee that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall dwell in mee and I in him To dwell in him saith Saint Augustine is to be a peece Tract 27. in Ioh. or member of him To be in him is to be one body with him And as Saint Chrysostome saith Hom. 60. non fide tantum sed ipsa re nos suum corpus efficit He doth incorporate vs vnto him not only by faith but in very deede as much to say wee doe not onely thinke it and beleeue it but our very soule doth also feele it and finde it to bee so and glorieth in it for that wee are made all one with so great a Maiesty Truely there is no two can bee one so as wee with God by this heauenly Bread receiued not the neerest friends that are not the greatest louers in the world not Angels and Seraphins yet wee are one with God by receiuing of God What should wee feare whom should wee dread on earth Rom. 8. The blessed Apostle saith If God bee for vs who can bee against vs how much more may wee say it if God be not onely for vs but in vs for so he saith Et ego in eo and I in him which words Saint Augustine expoundeth also very well in the same place how God is in vs. Hee tolde vs before how we dwell in him now he tels vs how he dwels in vs. Hee dwels in vs saith he as in his temple or place dedicated to his seruice not content with stately temples and goodly buildings made with hand walled with stone 3. King 7. couered with lead on the outside with gold and all that is pretious on the inside large faire and wide to receiue a multitude Not thus content I say but makes his chappell of ease in our hearts his tabernacle in our breasts his priuy chamber or closset in our bosomes to sit with vs to conferre with vs and as it were to solace with vs in priuate Et ego in eo How is this I in him not in a generall sort as God is euery where but in particular as hee was in Salomons temple when his Arke of Testimony was brought in 3. King 8. Impleuerat domum domini gloria domini there wee reade a Cloude entred and filled the house with glory Heere not a Cloude or shaddowe this ego in eo but the Sunne it selfe comes in and filles vs indeede with glory These bee great matters I speake of and wee may not slippe them out nor let them slippe from vs lightly To be all one with God not with earthly kings to be vnited with God not with Angels or Archangels to be the temple of God not a pallace for a Prince to bee a resting place for Iesus not a couch of golde for Ashuerus Who can tell what glory this is to vs what a priuiledge what an aduancement in the sight of the whole heauenly warfare euen greater then any Prince in the world can euer bestow on vs though it were to set vs in a throane by him Et ego in eo and I in him saith God himselfe Who can heare these words drowsily as though they were but words and belonged not vnto vs many a horse knowes when his master is on his backe and will shew it by his carriage are not we better then horses who can heare these quickening words and starts not out of a dead sleepe who heares ego in eo and aspires not to haue that ego in him often with often receiuing and when he hath receiued who can sinne wilfully that day or soone after 3. Reg. 19.8 Elias walked forty daies in the strength of one loafe how much more may we hold out in the strength of this heauenly morsell vntill the next time wee come to receiue it who cannot forget and forgiue that carries the Lord of mercy in his bosome who can wrong his neighbour in word or deede and carries the rightfull iudge in his owne body who can harbour an euill thought in his soule that hath made his soule the altar of God who can delight in vncleane talke that hath made his mouth an entrance into this temple who can thinke of nothing but buying and selling in this temple that is the temple himselfe of him that made it Et ego in eo How is God in vs is it as a commer and goer and as a passenger onely No but as a dweller or inhabiter for so the word manet signifies As