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	holy_a	trinity_n	2,673	5	10.3561	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33006	A form of common prayer, with thanksgiving, for the late victory by His Majesties naval forces appointed to be used in and about London on Tuesday the 14th of August, and through all England, on Thursday the 23d of August.		1666 (1666)	Wing C4121; ESTC R162	28,477	64

to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords prayer with a loud voice OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thée Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ In stead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used O Almighty God the soveraign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand We bless and magnifie thy great and glorious Name for this happy victory the whole glory whereof we do ascribe to thee who art the only giver of victory And we beseech thée give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory the advancement of thy Gospel the honour of our Soveraign and as much as in us lieth to the good of all mankind And we beséech thée give us such a sense of this great mercy as may engage us to a true thankfulness such as may appear in our lives by an humble Ioy and obedient walking before thée all our days through Iesus Christ our Lord. To whom with thée and the holy Spirit as for all thy mercies so in particular for this victory and deliverance be all glory and honour world without end Amen O Almighty God who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thée praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers where with we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beséeching thée still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The second Collect for Peace O God who art the authour of peace and lover of concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose service is perfect fréedom defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our Enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The third Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Sun Redéemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity thrée Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redéemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Qativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Iudgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thée to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to kéep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thée in righteousness and holiness

and honour are in his presence strength and gladness are in his place Give unto the Lord ye kindreds of the people give unto the Lord glory and strength Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name bring an offering and come before him worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness Fear before him all the earth the world also shall be stable that it be not moved Let the heavens be glad and let the earth rejoyce and let men say among the nations The Lord reigneth Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof let the fields rejoyce and all that is therein Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord because he cometh to judge the earth O give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever And say ye Save us O God of our salvation and gather us together and deliver us from the heathen that we may give thanks to thy holy Name and glory in thy praise Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for ever and ever and all the people said Amen and praised the Lord. ¶ After the first Lesson shall follow Te Deum Laudamus in English WE praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting To thee all angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually no cry Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble army of Martyrs praise thee The noble Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee The Father of an infinite Majesty Thine honourable true and onely Son Also the holy Ghost the Comforter Thou art the King of glory O Christ Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhor the Virgins womb When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers Thou fittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father We believe that thou shalt come to be our Iudge We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud Make them to be numbred with thy saints in glory everlasting O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage Govern them and lift them up for ever Day by day We magnifie thee And we worship thy Name ever world without end Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin O Lord have mercy upon us habe mercy upon us O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never he confounded For the second Lesson 1 Pet. II. WHerefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and enbies all evil speakings As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious To whom coming as unto a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ Wherefore it is contained in the scripture Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner stone elect precious And he that believeth on him shall not be confounded Vnto you therefore which believe he is precious but unto them which be disobedient the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner And a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence even to them which stumble at the word being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed But ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praise of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light Which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of disitation Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme Or unto governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men As frée and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God Honour all men love the brotherhood Fear God Honour the King Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not onely to the good and gentle but also to the froward For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps Who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed For ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls BLessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redéemed his people And hath raised up a mighty salvation for us in the house of his servant David As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate us To perform the mercy promised to our fore-fathers an to remember his holy covenant To perform the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham that he would give us That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life And thou Child shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways To give knowledge of salvation unto his people for the remission of their sins Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high hath visited us To give light