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	soul_n	time_n	6,068	5	3.8390	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54178	No cross, no crown, or, Several sober reasons against hat-honour, titular-respects, you to a single person, with the apparel and recreations of the times being inconsistant with Scripture, reason, and practice, as well of the best heathens, as the holy men and women of all generations, and consequently fantastick, impertinent and sinfull : with sixty eight testimonies of the most famous persons of both former and latter ages for further confirmation : in defence of the poor despised Quakers, against the practice and objections of their adversaries / by W. Penn ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1669 (1669)	Wing P1327; ESTC R15257	90,375	122

EVIL 2. Ignatius who lived within the first hundred years after Christ left this amongst other things behind him who was torn in pieces of wild Beasts at Rome for his true Faith in Jesus There is nothing better than the peace of a good Conscience Intimating there might be a peace to wicked Consciences that is past feeling any thing to be evil but swallowed up of the pleasures of the World And in his Epistle to the Churches at Ephesus Magnesia Trallis and Rome upon his Martyrdom saith Now do I begin to be a Disciple I weigh neither visible nor invisible things so that I gain Christ 3. Iraenius called a Father saith Such who make large Confessions and speak virtuous words and yet are not conformable to them in their life and conversation are nothing worth 4. Justin Martyr a Christian Philosopher plainly tells us in his relation of his conversion to the Christian Faith That the power of Godliness in a plain simple Christ had that influence and operation on his soul that he could not but betake himself to a serious and strict life and yet before a Cynick And this gave him joy at his Martyrdom having spent his dayes as a serious Teacher and a good Example And Eusebius relates that though he was a follower of Plato's doctrine yet when he saw the Christians piety and courage he concluded no people so temperate less voluptuous and more set on divine things which first induced him to be a Christian 5. Chrysostom another Father so call'd said To sacrifice the whole soul and body to the Lord is the highest service we can pay unto him God promiseth mercy to penitent sinners but he doth not promise them they shall have so much time as to morrow for their repentance 6. Charles the 5th Emperour of Germany King of Spain and Lord of the Nether-lands After twenty three Pitch'dfields six Triumphs four Kingdoms conquer'd and eight Principalities added to his Dominions a greater Instance than whom can scarce be given after all this Pomp Resigned all up to other hands betook himself to his retirement leaving this Testimony behind concerning the life spent in the honours and pleasures of the world and in that little time of his retreat from them all That the sincere study profession and practice of the Christian Religion had in it such joys and sweetness as COURTS were strangers to 7. Sir Philip Sidney a person whose parts courage and virtue were of such reputation aswel beyond the Seas as here at home that had Queen Elizabeth agreed upon the earnest sollicitation of the Polanders he had 't was said been ellected King of that vast Dominion of more than 2600 miles in circumference when he say upon his Death-bed and just departing the world he bad his friends behold in him the end of this worlds desires and enjoyments Reputing what was so much pursued by the Great Ones as poor abject and unworthy of their immortal souls and amongst other things his Arcadia than which though there have been many Newer Romances there is not one more modest and ingenious yet as an effect of his youthful Melancholy Amours that could be profitable unto none but rather impress the like fancies upon others and raise that which with all industry should timely be allay'd and totally extinguished in them he earnestly requested his great friend the Lord Brooks that it might be cast into the flames and never prove so injurious to his Memory which he desired to have continued and preserved on more serious subjects nor those who should spend their precious time in reading of it as to be published to the world although it is translated into most usual languages Such were the serious apprehensions of this dying man and his advice to them he left behind him who certainly then best knew the benefit or dis-service that would redound from the like conversation neither have I observed any Person left upon Record in all our English stories whom all Persons as well as the Historians agreed to merit so great an esteem but more especially for his great Modesty Yet after all we hear his Recantation of the many unnecessary things and his Recommendation of but the one thing necessary to his Friends as what would most rejoyce at last 8. Secretary Walsingham in Queen Elizabeth's time towards the conclusion of his dayes in a Letter to his once fellow Secretary then Chancellor of England called Lord Burliegh writes thus We have lived enough to our Countrey our Fortunes our Soveraign it is high time we begin to live to our selves and to our God Which giving occasion for some Court-humourist to visit and divert him Ah! said he while we laugh all things are serious round about us God is serious when he preserveth us and hath patience towards us Christ is setious when he dieth for us the Holy Ghost is serious when he striveth with us the whole Creation is serious in serving God and us they are serious in Hell and Heaven and shall a man that hath one foot in his grave jest and laugh None can be serious too soon because none can be good too soon away then with all foolish talking and jesting and mind more profitable things 9. One they call Sir John Mason who had been Privy Counsellor to four Princes and spent much time in the preferments and pleasures of the world retired with these regretful sayings After so many years experience Seriousness is the greatest wisdom Temperance the best Physick a good Conscience is the best estate and were I to live again I would change the COURT for a Cloyster my Privy Counsellors bussles for an Hermits retirement and the whole life I lived in the Palace for one hours enjoyment of God in the Chappel ALL THINGS ELSE FORSAKE ME BESIDES MY GOD MY DUTY AND MY PRAYERS 10. One call'd Sir Henry Wotton thought it to be the greatest happiness in this life to be at leisure to be to do good As in his latter end he was wont to say when he reflected on past times though a man esteem'd sober and learned HOW MUCH TIME HAVE I TO REPENT OF AND HOW LITTLE TO DO IT IN 11. The Lord Bacon sometime before his death confessed That to be Religious was to live strictly and severely for if the opinion of another World be false yet the sweetest life in this World is Piety Virtue and Honesty if it be true there be none so wretched and miserable as loose carnal and prophane Persons 12. One Dr. Donne and a great Poet taking his farewel of his Friends on his dying bed left this saying behind him for them to measure their fancies and their actions by I repent of All my life but that part of it I spent in communion with God and doing good 13. Selden the greatest Scholler and Antiquary of these Kingdoms one who had taken a diligent survey of what knowledge was considerable amongst the Jews Heathens and those call'd Christians at last professeth