Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	bless_a	father_n	sinner_n	3,690	5	9.1555	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09907	A discourse wrytten by M. Theodore de Beza, conteyning in briefe the historie of the life and death of Maister Iohn Caluin with the testament and laste will of the saide Caluin, and the catalogue of his bookes that he hath made. Turned out of Frenche into Englishe, by I.S. In the yeare of our Lorde. M.D.LXIIII. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed in the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Histoire de la vie et mort de Calvin. English	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.; Stubbes, John, 1543-1591.	1564 (1564)	STC 2017; ESTC S101757	31,501	80

mought finde him alwaies watching and labouring according to his ability in his worke euen to his last breath The xxv of April he made his Testamēt in brief sort as he did alwaies auoid the vse of moe words than neded as much as in him was which doeth containe an excellent and singuler testimony for euer that he spake as he beleued which was the cause that I did willingly inferre this same word by word by the consent of his brother and only heire Antonie Caluin to the end that this acte may remain for euer as it hath pleased God that the Testaments of some of his moste excellent seruauntes haue bene enregistred to be perpetuall witnesses that one very spirit of God did gouerne them both in their life and in their death and also to make the better knowen the extreme shamelessenesse of suche as would beare men in hand that hys death was not according to his life And if any man doe thincke any thing to be herein other than trouth I will not stand much in saying againste him onely I doe gyue him warning whatsoeuer he be to thinke what thing it is that maye be true and firme among liuing men if it be lawfull for a man to dout that which hath bene done in a Towne in the sighte and knowledge of such as wold heare or vnderstand it The Testament and last VVill of Master Iohn Caluin IN the name of God Be it known and apparant to all men that in the yeare 1564. and the .25 day of Aprill I Peter Cheuelat Citezen and Notary sworne of Geneua was called by the famous Iohn Caluin minister of the worde of God in the church of Geneua and Burgesse of the said Geneua being sicke and weake of his body only the same man declared to me that he would make his Testament and declaration of his last will desiring mee to wryte it accordinglye as he shoulde speake and pronounce it which according to his request I made and wrote it by him and accordingly as he spake and pronounced it to me worde by worde without leauing any thing oute or adding any thing there vnto in forme as followeth IN the name of God I Iohn Caluin Minister of the word of God in the Church of God of Geneua feeling my self greatly oppressed with sundry diseases that I can not otherwise thinke but that God wil shortly take me out of this world haue determined to make and put in wryting my Testament and declaration of my laste will in forme folowing which is first of all that I giue thankes to God for that he hath not only had pitie on me his pore creature to take me from out of the bottomlesse pitte of Idolatry wherin I was plūged to draw me to the light of his Gospell and to make me partaker of the doctrine of saluation wherof I was to much vnworthy and that continuing his mercy he hath spared me in so many vices and wickednesse whiche dyd well deserue that I shoulde be caste of from him an hundred thousand times yea and that whiche more is he hath stretched his mercy towardes me so farre as to be serued by me and my labour to beare and to shew forth the truth of his Gospel protesting that I will liue and die in that Faith which he hath giuen me hauing no other hope nor refuge but onlye to his free adoption wherein my whole saluation is laid embracing the grace that he hath giuen me in our Lorde Iesus Christe accepting the merite of his death and passion to the ende that thereby all my sinnes may be buried and beseching him so to wash and purge me with the bloude of this great redeamer which was poured out for all pore sinners that I may appeare before his face as bearing his Image I protest also that I haue endeuored me according to the measure of the grace that he hath giuen me to teach purely his worde as well in Sermons as in wryting and to expound the holy Scriptures faithfully And likewise in all the disputations that I haue had with the enimies of the truthe I neuer vsed cautel nor Sophistry but haue proceded plainly in the maintenaunce of his quarell But alas the wil that I haue had and the zeale if I moughte so call it hath bene so cold and slacke that I finde me greatly endetted in all and thorow all and were not his infinite goodnesse all the affection that I haue had were nothing else but smoke yea those graces which he hath bestowed vpon me woulde yelde me more faulty so that my recourse is to that that he being father of mercy will be and shew him self father of so pore a sinner As concerning the rest I desire that after my deceasse my body may be buried according to the custome to abide and wait for the day of the blessed resurrection Concerning the smal portion of goods which God hathe giuen me here to dispose I doe ordaine and appoynt for my only heir my welbeloued brother Antonie Caluin only for credites sake giuing him for all his part the cuppe that I had of Monsieur de Varranes praying him therwith to content himself as I am assured he wil seing that he knoweth wel that I doe it for no cause els but to the end that that litle which I leaue may remain to his children Then I bequeath to the Colledge ten Crowns and to the purse of the pore strangers asmuch Also to Iane daughter to Charles Costan of my halfe sister to wit on the fathers side the sūme of ten Crownes Then to Samuel and Iohn sonnes to my said brother euery of thē .40 Crownes to my Neeces Anne Susan and Dorothee either of thē .30 Crownes As touching my Nephew Dauid their brother bicause he hath bene alwais light rash I giue him but .20 Crownes for his chastisement It is in effect all the goods that God hath giuē me according to my rate and estimation as well of my Bookes and moueables with vessel and all other things Notwithstanding if it amounte to more I would it wer distributed among my Nephewes and Neeces not excluding at all Dauid if God giue him grace to become more modest and staied But I beleue as touching this article there shal be no great a do namely when my dettes shall be paid wherewith I haue charged my brother vpon whōe I trust naming him executor of this present Testament with reuerend Laurent of Normandy giuing them full power and authoritye to make an Inuentorye without forme of lawe and to sell my moueables to make money to fulfill the contentes of this my will written this .25 of April .1564 So is it Iohn Caluin After that it was wrytten as before at the very instant the said renoumed Caluin did seale it with his owne seale as sone as it was wrytten And on the morowe being the .26 of April the yere aboue wrytten the said renoumed Caluin did cause me to be called againe to him being there