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
A54090	The penitent prisoner his character, carriage upon his commitment, letany, proper prayers, serious meditations, sighs, occasional ejaculations, devotion going to execution, and at the place of execution / by a friend to the souls in prison.	Friend to the souls in prison.	1675 (1675)	Wing P1236; ESTC R38008	4,435	16

THE Penitent Prisoner HIS CHARACTER Carriage upon his Commitment LETANY Proper Prayers Serious Meditations SIGHS Occasional Ejaculations Devotion going to Execution and at the place of Execution By a Friend to the Souls in Prison LONDON Printed for John Williams at the Crown in Cross Keys Court in Little Brittain 1675. The Penitent Prisoner HIS Character HE is one who although he confess himself to have been seduc't by his Lusts and intic't by evil Company yet being under restraint according to the merit of his Crime he makes a Pulpit of his Prison to Preach to him Repentance a Sermon of his shackles to teach him his Service He turns his Gaole into a Shop to traffick for Heaven and into an Exchange of all Devotions that may gain him Salvation For being entred into Prison after he hath sometime look't about him and sees nothing but thick walls strong barrs a dark room and no way to escape he begins thus to word it For conviction he knows must go before Conversion Lord ● where am I what have I done ●ow hath the iniquity of my hands and heels hamper'd me How have I drunk down iniquity like water drawn sin as with a Cart rope How like a wretch have I night and day tug'd at the Devils oare grinded at his Mill dig'd in his Mine run on his errands not only acted sin but contrived it sinned with a high hand and haughty heart Oh the bitter fruit of those things whereof I am now ashamed What gravel in my stomach do I find that stollen bread to be now which once went down so sweetly Into what a Labyrinth of misery hath the following of the motions of my vile Lusts led me How have I by my many and grievous sins dishonour'd my God sadded the Holy Angels sham'd my Christian profession damag'd my neighbour wounded my own conscience troubled my spirit and given large earnest for my everlasting ruine Methinks I hear it said in my eares as if spoken from the battlements of Heaven Let no man oppress or defraud his Brother for the Lord is the avenger of all such 1 Thes 4. 6. So Rom. 1. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men where then shall I appear being in so sad so miserable a Condition of whom may I seek for 〈◊〉 but of thee O Lord who for my sin art justly displeased yet O God most Holy O Lord most mighty O Holy and merciful Saviour deliver me not into the bitter pains of eternal death Thou knowest Lord the secrets of my heart shut not up thy merciful eares to my prayers but spare me Lord most Holy O God most mighty O Holy and merciful Saviour thou most worthy judge eternal suffer me not for any pains of death to fall from thee Look upon the wounds in thy hands and have mercy upon me the work of thy hands O give me a praying that thou maist afford me a pittying heart His Letany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon me Keep and defend me from that roaring Lion that goes about seeking whom he may devour O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon me Save and deliver me from the wrath to come O God the Holy Ghost proce●●ing from the Father and the Son have mercy upon me strengthen and comfort me in this my present calamitous condition O Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon me Remember not Lord the sins of my youth nor of my maturer growth but spare me Good Lord spare thy poor creature not worthy to be called thy Servant and be not angry with me for ever From sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil and from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver me From mispending the few moments I have to live from hardness of heart and contempt of good counsel that shall be given me Good Lord deliver me In the time of this my present distress and Tribulation in the hour of my approaching death and in the day of Judgment Good Lord deliver me I a poor Prisoner and sorrowful sinner do beseech thee to hear me O Lord That it may please thee to give me thy Grace to condemn my self that I may not be condemn'd and to judge my self that I may not be judged That I may bring forth fruits worthy of Repentance That I may take a Holy revenge on my self judging my self not worthy of a mouthful of fresh aire or a morsel of meat who have abused thy good creatures as I have done That I may not give sleep to my eyes nor slumber to my eye lids nor suffer the Temples of my head to take any rest until I have unfeignedly endeavoured to make my peace with thee That thou wouldst give me true Repentance which may appear by my making restitution as much as in me lyes to those whom I have wronged That thou wouldst forgive all my sins of what nature and quality soever and endow me with the grace of thy Holy spirit to make a sanctified use of this sad Dispensation of thy providence Son of God I beseech thee to hear me O thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World have mercy upon me O thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World Grant me thy peace Lord have mercy upon me Christ have mercy upon me Lord have mercy upon me Our Father which art in Heaven c. O Lord deal not with me after my sins Neither reward me after my iniquities O God merciful Father who despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist me in these my Prayers that I make unto thee in this my present trouble and adversity and grant that I whose conscience by sin is accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolv'd through Jesus Christ my Lord and only Saviour Amen O God whose Nature and property is eve● to have mercy and to forgive receive m● humble petitions and though I be tyed and bound with the chains of my sins Fetters worse than those of Iron that ar● upon me Yet let the pittifulness of th● great mercy loose me for the honor of Jesus Christ his sake my Mediator and Advocate Amen His Sighs O that my head were waters and my eyes a Fountain of tears that I might lament day and night the sins that I have committed against so good and so great a God so often and so hainously as I have done Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men O that as the Hart pants after the water Brooks so my soul might pant after thee O God! O that I could be ten thousand times more contrite and humble in heart than I am His Serious Meditation Is any Gaol like the Dungeon of Hell Are any Keepers like Fiends