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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36932	A guide for the penitent, or, A modell drawn up for the help of a devout soul wounded with sin	Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.	1664 (1664)	Wing D2660; ESTC R24920	16,487	49

But for my sins against thee my God I must lay my hand upon my mouth for ever for I have nothing to return or answer But the comfort is and blessed shall be my Soul if rightly I lay hold on it that it is thou O my blessed Iesu who hast satisfied for me one drop of whose bloud is enough to satisfie for the sins of a thousand worlds And this being so will thy offended Father be so rigorous as to require the same paiment again Especially will he require it of me a poor a broken and a bankrupt Sinner Canst thou exact the utmost farthing of him who hath not a mite of his own to pay thee The Transition which the Penitent makes from the Acts of Contrition to the Acts of Resolution for amendment of life without which all sorrow for sin is in vain BUT because by thy infinite Mercy O my God thou hast satisfied for me already shall I therefore fold my Arms and sit down and doe nothing towards it Or which is worse shall I goe on Shall I continue in my Sins that Grace may abound Now God forbid No I here resolve rather to die the Death then ever wilfully to sin against thee more I do here resolve utterly to avoid the temptations and approaches towards those former sins which have hitherto so miserably betraied me I do here resolve thy holy Spirit assisting me upon all the duties of a new life to be hereafter more wary in my waies and more constant to good resolutions to love thee above all the pleasures and interests of this life and sadly to consider what an infinite loser I should be if to gain all that my corrupt heart desires I should lose thee If after all this I should be so miserably forgetfull both of my self and thee as shamefully to relapse into any of those sins which I have now repented of I do here once more resolve to abhor and loath my self for it and not to let my Conscience sleep or admit of any rest till I have with bitter Tears and a sharp reiterated Repentance obtained my pardon Having thus far made his Resolution the Penitent betakes himself to Praier AND now O thou great searcher of all Hearts who seest that I am of my self weak and mutable and no better then a Reed shaken with the winde O shew thy strength in my weakness fasten and confirm me in these good purposes and so binde them with Cords unto thine Altar that ● may never start from thee more or be any longer of that Herd whose good resolutions are as a dream in the night or if they last longer they are but as the next morning dew and as soon vanish away O give me the Resolution of thy Servant Joshua I and my house will serve the Lord. O give me the Heart of thy Servant David who so passionately makes his Protestations I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sins of unfaithfulness there shall no such cleave unto me I will walk in my house with a perfect heart I have sworn and am stedfastly purposed to keep thy righteous Judgments Lord I am not able to think one of these good thoughts without thee much less to resolve upon them But I who without thee am able to doe nothing may venture to say as thine Apostle did that in thee I am able to doe all things Lord give me the strength to doe what thou requirest and then require of me what thou pleasest Amen After these Resolutions the Penitent prepares himself with an humble Soul and bended knees to beg Pardon O The God of my life and the unexhausted Fountain of Mercy which can never be drawn dry I have now by the assistence of thy holy Spirit gone through though with weak and trembling steps the whole exercise of Repentance for I have confessed my sins and thou hast promised upon my confession of them not to impute them to me I have gone one step farther for I have repented of my sins and thou hast promised again that upon my repentance thou wilt remember them no more and because thy Holy Word hath taught me that a new life is the onely life of a true Repentance I have this day in thy fight and in the presence of all the holy Angels that attend thee in the Conversion of a Sinner made my firm resolution never to fall again into the sins which I have repented of And now what remains for a poor Penitent to doe more but humbly and earnestly to beg thy Pardon The Penitent's Praier O God the Father who canst not be thought so cruell as to make me onely to destroy me Have mercy on me O God the Son who knowing thy Father's Will didst make it thy business to come into the world to save me Have mercy on me O God the Holy Ghost who to the same end didst sanctifie me in my Baptism and haft so often since breathed holy thoughts and motions on me Have mercy on me O Holy and Blessed and Glorious Trinity whom in three Persons I adore as my one and onely true God Have mercy on me Hear me O Lord. Help me O Lord. Save me or else I perish Lord carest thou not that I perish Thou that wouldest have all men saved Thou who wouldest have none to perish And wilt thou now shew thine anger against a Worm against a Leaf against a Vapour that vanisheth before thee O remember how short my time is and deliver not my Soul into the Power of Hell For alas what profit is there in my Bloud or who shall ever give thee thanks in that bottomless pit No let me live in thy sight let me live O my God that my Soul may praise thee Forget me as I have been disobedient provoking thee to anger and regard me as I am distressed crying out to thee for help Look not upon me as I am a Sinner but consider me as I am thy Creature A Sinner I am I confess a Sinner of no ordinary strain but let not this hinder thee O my God for upon such Sinners thou gettest the greatest glory O remember for whose sake it was that thou camest from the bosome of thy Father and didst let thy self down so low as to be content to be born of thine own humble handmaid Remember for whom it was that thy tender Body was Torn and Scourged and Crucified and thy precious Bloud shed Was it not for the sins of the whole world and shall I be so narrow-hearted to my own Soul or so injurious to thy Glory as to think that in all this crowd thou hast particularly excepted me Or which is as great a dishonour to thee can I possibly imagine that thou diedst onely for Sinners of a lower kinde and leftest such as I am without remedy What had become then of him who filled Ierusalem with Bloud What of the noted Woman who had lived in a trade of Sin Nay what had become of thine own Disciple who