Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	hand_n	lord_n	stretch_v	1,680	5	9.8238	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06685	The soules pilgrimage to a celestial glorie: or, the perfect vvay to heaven and to God. Written by J.M. Master of Arts	Monlas, John.; Maxwell, James, b. 1581, attributed name.	1634 (1634)	STC 17141; ESTC S102722	91,677	186

and full of wounds and doth not give him bread to eat calleth him not into his house to warme him and that like the Samaritane powreth not oyle into his wounds what Adamantine heart is so hardned as not to open and cleave with griefe at the object of such pittifull spectacles and sights There be some that take the Etymologie of Misericordia Mercie from that it makes the hearts of men miserable by beholding the miserie of others and that with as much truth as reason for the truly mercifull feeleth in himselfe all the miseries of others which was it that drew so many teares out of Heraclitus his eyes being able to behold nothing on earth but what was lamentably miserable Saint Paul exhorteth us Rom. 12.15 to weepe with them that weepe and to be of like affection one towards another Good Iob in his complaints Chap. 30.25 said Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble was not my soule in heavinesse for the poore It is one of the most pious and generous actions of the soule to take upon her the afflictions of others and to ease them of them It is the sacrifice the most delightfull with which the Lord is pleased they are Ieremiahs ragges but they draw us from the Cave of sinne from the pit of iniquity it is the dry rock of the mountaine of Horeb from whence flowes aboundantly the wholesome waters of grace and blessing In a word it is a Iacobs ladder by the which the Angels of consolations and divine favours descend upon us by the which our faith our love and affection ascend up to Christ who stayeth for us on the top to say unto us Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the world And will not therefore our hope to heare those sweet and gracious words oblige us to comfort and consolate the afflicted and with our mean●s to ease and refresh the poore and needie since those are actions so pleasing acceptable to God that S. August saith That charity towards the poore was a second Baptisme because that as the water of baptisme is a sacred signe unto us that the fire of originall sinne is ex inguished in our soules so pitie and compassion of the afflicted is an undoubted marke that God hath powred out the sacred waters of his grace and forgivenesse upon the burning coales of our transgressions to quench them Saint Chrysostome calles it the friend of God that obtaineth of him all she asketh shee setteth prisoners at liberty recalls the banished and implores and obtaines grace for the condemned the hand of the poore is the purse of God it is the Altar whereon wee leave our gifts to goe and reconcile our selues to our eldest brother Iesus Christ our Saviour whom the wickednesse of our sinnes did cruelly fixe and naile to the Crosse Having sufficiently considered the two first branches of mercie let us now behold the third branch of this divine plant which Saint Luke hath perfectly taught us saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Love your enemies and ye shall be the children of the most high Math. 5.44 Luk. 6.27 Luk. 3.24 for hee is kinde unto the unkinde and to the evill And indeed this part of mercie doth greatly beautifie and make glorious her body for her two sisters Pitie in giving and Compassion in condoling are actions which humanity cannot refuse to the lamentable cries of the languishing to the sad and sorrowfull objects of poore and miserable men but must move your hearts were they of steele and draw teares from your eyes though they were of marble But to forgive our enemies is to vanquish and overcome our selues it is a nearer approaching to the divine nature then to the humane All Histories are full of charitable actions of men towards their neighbours and without taking them out of Scripture the examples are thankes be to God usually to be seene but to forgive our enemies not to annoy them when it is in our power is to be enlightned by the sacred presence of the holy Ghost to be regenerated by his grace to bee fully possessed of mercy Moses that great servant of God who had beheld him face to face that had seene him practise this rare and excellent vertue towards the people of Israel falling into Idolatry Hee that had mediated for them speaking to God after this manner O Lord what will thy enemies say that thou hast brought thy people out of Egypt by a strong hand and stretched out arme to kill them in the wildernesse seeing that thou couldest not bring them into the land which thou diddest promise them and himselfe notwithstanding is carried away by this passion of revenge when hee made the earth open and swallow vp alive Core Dathan and Abiram with their families though it bee not mentioned that they had participated in the murmuring of their heads yea he did not spare Mary his owne sister whom he covered with leprosie Neither is it to the purpose to say that it was in Gods cause that hee used this revenge that is vallable in putting Nadab and Abihu to death because they had violated the divine ordinance God forbid that I should excuse their fault but I desire onely to shew that though Moses were so holy a man yet hee had some touch of humane weakenesse But in this circumstance what shall wee say of David a man after Gods owne heart that so often curseth his enemies that giveth charge to Salomon his sonne to revenge him of the injuries and curses which Shimhi had spoken against him as he fled from before Absalom What greater Prophet then Elijah neverthelesse because two of Achazias Captaines were gone to seeke him to take him and bring him to the King as hee had commanded them he made the fire fall downe from heaven which consumed them with their fifties And the Apostles themselues having not beene well received in a certaine place said to Christ Wilt thou that we make fire fall from heauen upon that Citie but Iesus diverted and hindered them Wee produce all these examples not to imitate but to shunne them and thereby to make it appeare that wee must not revenge our selues when wee can doe it but rather to doe good to our enemies when they have done us hurt is to make our selues perfect in this excellent vertue of Mercy It is to becom conformable to the Saviour and Redeemer of our soules who seeing and feeling the horrible cruelties of the Iewes against him hearing the blasphemies which they pronounced against his divine Majestie notwithstanding in stead of revenging himselfe he prayeth his Father and crieth out thus Father forgive them for they know not what they doe That which made Saint Stephens martirdome the more honourable is that in the middest of his torments among a fearefull shower of haile of stones cast against him hee desireth not God to punish his tormentours but rather being possessed with the spirit of mercie and meekenesse