Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	repentance_n	sin_n	true_a	4,896	5	5.0189	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68419	Siuqila too good, to be true : omen : though so at a vewe yet all I tolde you is true, I vpholde you, now cease to aske why? for I can not lye : herein is shewed by way of dialogue, the wonderful maners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not friuolous.	Lupton, Thomas.	1580 (1580)	STC 16951.5; ESTC S1352	138,381	186

haue brokē as great promises as that Therefore set youre hearte at rest you may not come there nor you shal not come there SIVQILA What remedy I can be but sory but my grief is the greater for that I am so nigh suche a Country where there is suche godly orders such commendable customes equitie estéemed and Uertue so embraced as you erst did tel me and cannot sée it before I goe hence O that I mighte haue bin so happy to haue séen the maners and orders therof whereby I might haue reuealed them in mine own coūtrey when I had bin come home that they might haue bin practised there Such a mind I haue that my country might excell other in goodnesse and equitie OMEN It séemes that you being so godly and of a perfect religion there are godly Preachers in your country SIVQILA Indéede there are great store of them thankes be to God and are very diligent in preaching the trueth of the Gospell and do mightily thereby reproue sinne but either the Diuell doth so busily strow Tares among the good séede of Gods worde or the audience are so stony hearted or else they are negligent or forgetfull hearers or rather all that their painefull preaching doth little preuaile yet more than some wishe but not so muche as I woulde OMEN Then it were but vaine to sée the orders vses of this oure Countrey if you mighte for séeing they wyll not followe Gods word whiche they credite being among them then it is lyke they wil muche lesse regarde oure orders being vnknowen vnto them and that so farre from them vnlesse they be of the sect of Diues brethren that rather woulde beléeue one that shoulde come from Hell than the word of God that came from Heauen Yet I am of this opinion that your Countrymen wil rather embrace toyes gawdes and newe vices farre brought than good things auntient vertues vsed nigh home So that if you hearde of our maruelous maners and excellent orders yet you were as good when you come home declare them not as they to heare them and follow them not SIVQILA Yea sir but many of them thinking that none in the world haue better maners orders customes wits and knowledge than they and then hearing of suche farre passing theirs and that in a farre vnknowne Countrey I thinke verily shame woulde driue them to followe and practise some of them at the leaste OMEN Doe you think that your Countreymen wil doe more for feare of Shame than for feare of Sinne truly you do commende your Countrymen verye well But suppose one forbeare to play the harlot for feare of shame and an other refraines the same for feare of Sinne or for displeasing of God Doe you thinke that shame can do the one as much harme in thys worlde as Sin can do the other in the world to come I thinke not for Shame can make but one to be mocked disdayned gazed and pointed at and perhaps to be whipte a little emprisoned set on the Pillorie or ryde in a Carte the memorie whereof lasteth but a whyle who after comming to wealth shall haue as many courtesies as they that neuer did the like wheras Sinne is so horrible in the sight of God that eternall damnation in Hell fire for euer is the rewarde thereof SIVQILA Yea wythout repentance in Christ amendment of life and the mercy of God OMEN Yea but that is more of Gods goodnesse than of your deseruing SIVQILA I must néedes grant that blessed be his holy name therfore Wel séeing there is no remedie I meane to go homeward againe for no place that I haue trauelled in doth excell it for true preaching plentie and peace OMEN And I tell you they are thrée such dishes as they that will not be thankful for them are worthy to fare worse I thinke few people haue more and do deserue lesse SIVQILA In déede as you saye vnlesse proud apparell haughtie hearts daintie dinners surffetting suppers detestable drunkennesse solemne swearing and other vitious liuing deserues it OMEN Nay that is the nexte waye to lose these greate blessings of God whyche they are not able to get agayne with all the cunning they haue SIVQILA They are worthy blessings indéede if they could sée it OMEN If one of them were taken away they would sée it if two of thē wer taken away they would féele it but if al thrée wer taken away they would lamēt it I can tel thē y ● SIVQILA The Lord forbid it I hope in God neuer to sée that day OMEN As good vertuous and honeste Countreys as yours haue at one time wanted some one of them they may thinke themselues blessed that haue thrée such treasures al at once SIVQILA Then what will you say to them that lacke them all at once OMEN They were most vnhappy of al other I thinke but your Countreymen were neuer in that case SIVQILA Yes truly and that of late dayes OMEN I think then they can neuer forget the goodnesse of God that hath sente them wealth for want plentie for penurie light for darkenesse quietnesse for trouble peace for warres and solace for sorowes SIVQILA No more they should if they would pray as well vnto God as they prate vnto men if they were but halfe so good children as God is a Father or if they dyd not wilfully wincke at that they shold willingly sée But truly we are made of such a maruellous moulde that riches will not make vs remember our pouertie past yet pouertie will make vs remember the wealth we haue had OMEN Such is the nature of witlesse not of witty mē your going home wil be dangerous and your getting home as doubtfull SIVQILA That God that guided me hither will I trust leade protect me thither but Sir before I go I beséech you thinke not much to let me vnderstand your name and the name of your Countrey OMEN I will not greatly sticke with you for that I am called OMEN and my Country is called Mauqsun therfore the place is not méete for you to be in vnlesse you can lyue foodelesse I had almost sayd faultlesse SIVQILA Well sir I will now take my leaue of you fare yée well OMEN Staye a little I pray you haue you a desire indéede to know the state of our Countrey SIVQILA A maruellous desire if I knew how OMEN I like you wel and now for the good wil I bear you I wil make a relation to you therof especially as much as I can remember or as you will aske SIVQILA I thanke you most heartily therefore and if you stood in néed of me as you do not and I as able to pleasure you as I am not you should find as much willingnesse in me as I perceyue readinesse in you OMEN Your curteous speach doeth muche please me therfore aske what you will and I will aunswere according to your demaunde SIVQILA I néede not aske you the cause of the good estate

you know thē not yet the more happye you féele them not but the moste happie of all that you follow them not If you had béene as well bitten with suche beastes as wel st●ng with such serpentes and as wel gnawne with such Uipers as wée you woulde haue knowne them by their name as wel as we By their name they signify Biting but by their déeds they procure altogither Killing and maye I trust you haue you neuer an Usurer among you OMEN No truelye you are as good talke to me in that tongue that I knowe not as to speake that woorde to me SIVQILA Though it be not wel known with you it is a little too well know●●●yth vs euerye ●oy or girle with vs can tel you what an ●●●irer is ● they are such pin●hers that they are able to make Lordes without landes Gentlemen without goodes Marchants without mony and themselues without honestie OMEN These fellowes are more fitte for the Féende than to inhabite among honest men wée stande in néede of none such but if we had any such whatsoeuer they bée we would make them do otherwise I praye you what kinde of persons are they SIVQILA Forsoothe wée call them Usurers that lende out their mony for their gaine who will be sure to haue an vnreasonable interest therfore or else they wil haue the parties that borowes money of them wrayte in Statutes and Bondes that if they breake theyr daye they will so pinche them that they will haue perhappes tenne times more than the valew of their mony which they lent OMEN But will they haue no remorce of the partie if he chance to forfaite his bond SIVQILA Yes perhappes some will and some wyll not OMEN Then bèlyke these Usurers you speake of lyue ●dlely of the spoyle of other SIVQILA I must néedes confesse they do so OMEN Oh detestable trade oh drifte of the Diuell oh snare of Sathan these Usurers I perceyue are they that Dauid speaketh of saying Who shall dwel in the Lords Tabernacle He that is innocent of handes c. And hathe not put his money to Vsurie Then they that put their money to Usurie must néedes dwell in the Diuels denne where there is nothing but woe sorrow dole mourning howlyng tormentes paines wéeping and gnashing of téeth and that for euer and euer wor●● without end SIVQILA All the deuises you haue cannot driue it into some of their heads that it is diuelish or damnable OMEN And all they cannot make me beléeue that it is godly and charitable If it had bin good Christ would haue commended it in his Gospell and bycause it is euill GOD hath forbidden it in the old law SIVQILA There are some Usurers that thoughe they take it to be a greate offence doe lighte so muche of their owne repentaunce and of the mercy of God that I pray God they dye not without both Christ bade his holye Apostles Watch pray least they should fal into tēptation Nowe séeing it behoueth the good and godlye to Watch and Praye if they meane to be saued then can the detestable and wicked Usurers whome the holye Ghost sayeth shall not dwell in Gods Tabernacle looke to be saued by sléeping and slumberyng still in Sinne and to watche and praye neuer a whit at al These are the delectable dreames that the Diuell deludeth them withall Whyche of the godlyest and perfectest men of the Earth can warrant himselfe from sodaine deathe Whiche of them all can say that they can not repente when they will and be forgiuen when they list Whiche of them is able to loath his leude life at anye time Whiche of them can sighe and sorrowe for his sinnes at suche time as he shall appointe Naye whyche of them can saye and that truelye that they will such a day and suche an houre doe suche a thing and thinke suche a thyng for thoughe it be easye to saye it yet they are not sure to doe it for perhappes the partie may be lame sicke or else deade whereby he can not do it and perhaps the partie may be a sléepe whereby he can not thinke it yea perhappes neyther lame sicke dead nor a sléepe and yet maye haue cleane forgot it Nowe séeing the godly men can make no warrauntise hereof then howe can the vile and wicked Usurer and other abhominable Sinners be safe from sodayne death repent when they list be forgiuen when they will or doe what they determine or thinke what shall please them Therefore I beséeche GOD that these wicked Usurers and all other carelesse sinners maye repente theyr sinnes here in time maye aske mercy here in time maye be forgiuen through● Christe here in tyme and not to driue till after they be dead which wil be out of time which the Diuel that lulleth them here asléepe in their sins knowes wel ynough OMEN ●●● and they maye sléepe long ynoughe ere hée will once awake them Well let them be sure of one thing thoughe he suffer them to sléepe as long as they liste hée will let them sléepe in He● neuer a whitte Why do you suffer these Usurers in your Country wherfore do you not cut them off● SIVQILA We can not if we would OMEN Nay you wil not if you might Now I remember that we haue an auntient lawe against Usurers but it was cleane out of my mynde whiche if it were au●hori●ed and throughlye executed with you I woulde laye a wage● if you hadde ten thousande Usurers nowe in youre Country you shoulde not haue one at the tweluemonethes ende SIVQILA At al aduentures I woulde we had it what is it I pray you OMEN Oure lawe is that if anye lende money and receyue any thing for the loane thereof at the lending of the money or shall or oughte to receyue anye thing ouer and aboue the summe lente at any time after then the lender of the same money shall haue hys right han●e cut off for the first ●●●●used and shall for●en the one halfe of all hys goods which shall be equallye deuided in thrée partes one parte whereof shall be to the vse of the King one other parte to the reuealer and the thirde parte shall remaine as a stock in that towne where the Usurer dwelleth whiche shall bée lente as occasion serueth to the poore that shall stande in néede to borrowe vpon a sufficient gage wythout paying of anye Interest at all therefore And none vppon payne of loosing of theyr hande shall lende anye thing to the sayde Usurer for the space of fiue yeares after And the ●artie that borrowed the same money to Intereste shall for the firste time so borrowing haue the forefinger of hys or hir right hande cut off and shal forfeite the fourth part of all his or hir goods which shall be deuided and employed to the vses aforesayde And euery one that knowes of the same contracte and bargaine that conceales the same foure and twentie houres shall loose likewise their