Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	bow_n	deep_a	great_a	15	3	2.0890	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02904	Hels torments, and heavens glorie	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1601 (1601)	STC 13048.5; ESTC S2725	31,181	186

thy sinnes past and the facilitie thou hast used in committing of them do not make thee afraid why doest thou not feare at the least the majesty and omnipotencie of him against whom thou hast sinned Lift up thine eyes and consider the infinit greatnesse and omnipotencie of the Lord whom the powers of heaven do adore before whose majestie the whole compasse of the wide world lyeth prostrate in whose presence all things created are no more than chaffe caried away with the wind Consider also with thy selfe how unseemely it is that such a vile worme as thou art should have audacitie so many times to offend and provoke the wrath of so great a majestie Consider the wonderful and most terrible severitie of his justice and what horrible punishments hee hath used from time to time in the world against sin and that not onely upon particular persons but also upon citties nations kingdomes and provinces yea upon the universall world And not onely in earth but also in heaven and not onely upon straungers sinners but even upon his owne most innocent sonne our sweet Saviour Iesus Christ when hee tooke upon him to satisfie for the debt that we owed And if this severitie was used upon greene and innocent wood and that for the sins of others what then will he doe upon drie and withered wood and against those that are loden with their owne sins Now what thing can bee thought more unreasonable than that such a fraile wretch as thou art should bee so saucie and malapert as to mocke with so mightie a Lord whose hand is so heavie that in case hee should strike but one stroke upon thee he would at one blow drive thee downe headlong into the deepe bottomelesse pit of hell without remedie Consider likewise the great patience of this our mercifull Lord who hath expected thy repentaunce so long even from the time that thou didst first offend him and thinke that if after so long patience and tarrying for thee thou shalt still continue thy leaud and sinfull life abusing thus his mercy and provoking him to further indignation wrath he will then bend his bow and shake his sword and raine downe upon thee even sharpe arrowes of everlasting wrath and death Consider also the profoundnesse of his deepe judgements whereof wee read and see daily so great wonders We see how king Salomon himselfe after his so great wisdome and after those three thousand parables and most profound mysteries uttered by him was forsaken by Almightie God and suffered to fall down and adore idols We see how one of those seven first deacons of the primative church which were ful of the holy ghost became not onely an hereticke but also an arch heriticke and a father of heresies Wee see daily many starres fall downe from heaven unto earth with miserable fals and to wallow themselves in the durt and to eat the meat of swine which sate before at Gods own table and were fed with the very bread of Angels If then the just and righteous for some secret pride or negligence or els for some ingratitude of theirs be thus justly forsaken of almightie God after they have bestowed so many yeares in his service What maiest thou looke for that hast done in a manner nothing els in all thy life time but onely heaped sinnes upon sinnes and hast thereby offended almighty God most greevously Now if thou hast lived after this sort were it not reason that thou shouldest now at the length give over and cease heaping sinne upon sinne and debt upon debt and begin to pacifie the wrath of Almightie God and to disburden thy sinfull soule Were it not meet that that time which thou hast hetherto given to the world to thy flesh and to the devill should suffice and that thou shouldest bestow some little time of that which remaineth to serve him who hath given thee all that thou hast Were it not a point of wisedome after so long time and so many great injuries to feare the most terrible justice of Almightie God who the more patiently hee suffereth sinners the more hee dooth afterwards punish them with severitie and justice Were it not meet for thee to feare thy long continuance so many yeares in sinne and in the displeasure of Almightie God procuring thereby against thee such a mightie adversarie as hee is and provoking him of a mercifull loving father to become thy severe terrible judge and enemie Were it not meet to feare least that the force of evill custome may in continuance of time be turned into nature and that thy long vicious usuall manner of committing sinne may make of a vice a necessitie or little lesse Why art thou not afraid least by little and little thou maiest cast thy selfe downe headlong into the deepe pit of a reprobate sence whereinto after that a man is once faln he never maketh account of any sinne bee it never so great The Patriarke Iacob said unto Laban his father in law These fourteene years have I served thee and looked to thine affaires now it is time that I should look to mine owne and begin to attend unto the affaires of mine owne houshold Wherefore if thou hast likewise bestowed so manie yeares in the service of this world and of this fraile transitorie life were it not good reason that thou shouldest now begin to make some provision for the salvation of thy soule and for the everlasting life to come There is nothing more short nor more transitorie than the life of man and therefore providing so carefully as thou doest for all such things as bee necessarie for this life which is so short why doest thou not provide likewise somewhat for the life that is to come which life shall endure for ever and ever ❧ The conclusion of all the premisses IF now all this bee so I beseech thee even for the bitter passion of our sweet saviour Iesus Christ to remember thyselfe and consider that thou art a Christian and that thou beleevest assuredly for a most undoubted truth whatsoever the true faith instructeth thee This faith telleth thee that thou hast a judge above that seeth all the steps and motions of thy life and that certainely there shall a day come when he will require an account of thee even for every idle word This faith teacheth thee That a man is not altogether at an end when he dieth but that after this temporal life there remaineth another everlasting life and that the souls die not with the bodies but that whiles the bodie remaineth in the grave untill the generall day of judgement the soule shall enter into another new countrey and into a new world where it shall have such habitation and companie as the faith workes were which it had in this life This faith telleth thee also that both the reward of vertue and the punishment of vice is a thing so wonderfull that although the whole world were full of bookes and all creatures were writers yet