Selected quad for the lemma: father_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	mercy_n	miserable_a	sinner_n	17,321	5	11.2493	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72749	A forme of prayer to be publikely vsed in churches, during this vnseasonable weather, and aboundance of raine. Set forth by authoritie..	Church of England.; Dyson, Humphrey, d. 1633.	1613 (1613)	STC 16539; ESTC S123409	3,602	17

as they should bee at length to be affrighted and to call vpon thee Saue vs therfore O God that we perish not deliuer vs out of the mire that we sinke not preserue vs O Lord for the waters are come in euen vnto the soules of many of vs. Let not the water flood drowne vs neither let the deepe swallow vs vp and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon vs. We confesse O God that iniquitie doeth abound that our sundry pollutions haue cried euen to the heauens for all thy stormes and tempests to fall vpon vs but we beseech thee rather of thy infinite mercy to wash vs in the merits of thy Sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour for his sake accept our teares our sighes and hearty sorrow for our sinnes and by the assistance of thy gracious spirit make good our true purposes of amendment of life Let thy blessed Name rather bee glorified in our saluation Father of mercies and God of al consolation looke vpon the signe of thy Couenant in the clouds and as thou sauedst thy people in the red sea so we beseech thee to restraine thy showres and to deliuer vs from this plague of waters Furthermore O heauenly Father we doe feele that wrath is already gone out from thee that thou doest threaten vs with scarcitie and dearth by these intemperate ouerflowings to make our fruitfull land barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein wee earnestly desire thee to forgiue the ignorances of the people that the multitude of poore may not perish whome thou hast created Our manifold sinnes O Lord do deserue that thou shouldest visit vs with all thy roddes As thou hast scourged vs heretofore with pestilence doest now weaken vs with a new disease so thou maiest more deseruedly consume vs with scarcitie and waste vs with death but we flie vnto the Sanctuary of thy louing kindenesse and the multitude of thy mercies towards vs which exceede the variety of our sinnes Remember thy wonted fauours to this land how long thou hast giuen vs moderate raine from heauen and fruitfull seasons filling our hearts with ioy and gladnesse Which blessings although we haue abused like prodigal sonnes by riot and intemperance by forgetfulnes and vnthankfulnes yet for thy goodnes receiue vs when we turne vnto thee by the intercession of thy only obedient Sonne and grant vs the continuance of these temporall benefits where of we haue necessitie in this life vntill wee haue passed to immortalitie and things eternall in the life to come by the grace and mercy of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who liueth and reigneth c. Or this ALmightie and most merciful Father which vsest to be prouoked by offences and yet pacified againe by repentance which by thy punishments desirest the destruction of the sinnes and not of the soules of thy seruants We miserable and grieuous sinners doe beseech thee to encline thine eares vnto our prayers and to deliuer vs from the future calamities and afflictions which we haue iust cause to feare doe now hang ouer our heades Thou hast changed already the ordinary custome of the season and by the ouerflowing of raine and waters doest threaten to wash away the strength and fatnes of the earth to send scarcity and want amongst vs We humbly beseech thee to turne away this thy deserued displeasure from vs to consider our infirmities and vpon our sorrow and repentance to alter the sentence of seueritie if any be gone out against vs and that for thy tender mercy in Christ Iesus who liueth and reigneth c.