Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	endure_v	king_n	mighty_a	2,972	5	10.7808	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00440	The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories; Ecclesiastical history. English	Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.; Socrates, Scholasticus, ca. 379-ca. 440. Ecclesiastical history. English. aut; Evagrius, Scholasticus, b. 536? Ecclesiastical history. English. aut; Dorotheus, Saint, 255-362, attributed name. aut	1577 (1577)	STC 10572; ESTC S121374	989,961	618

members all had one minde and the same readinesse of fayth the celebration of the diuinitie amonge all was one Moreouer the orderly seruice of such as gouerned the Churches and publique ministration of the holy thinges appoynted of them for the purpose comely rites and ceremonies of the Churches were celebrated ●●●e with psalmodies and other songes of praise deliuered vs from aboue there with diuine and misticall ministration as the secret pledges of the Lords passion were solemnized and withall men and women of euery age with all might that in them lay with cheerfull minde and will in prayer and thankesgeuing honored God the autor of all goodnes to be short the gouernours of the Churches as many as were present with solemne Sermons euery one as much as in him lay set forth and extolled the solemne meeting and assemblies There went vp into the pulpitt one among all the rest counted very sage expert in the words of God well exercised in preaching who chose a parcell of Scripture discoursed at large as it were in the gathering together of the members and vniting of the congregations whome many learned clerkes and famous Bishops hearde with quiet and atte●ti●● eare This preacher therefore in the presence of Paulinus a Bishop that passed all other for rare and singuler gifts by whose meanes and procurement also the famous temple of Tyrus in Phoenicia was buylded with moste gorgeous furniture vttered this Sermon in such sort as followeth CAP. IIII. A solemne Sermon in prayse of the buylding of the Churches but expressly directed vnto Paulinus Bishop of Tyrus OYe friendes and Priestes of the most high God which are bewtified with holy robes and the heauenly crowne of glory with the sacred oyntment and priestly atyre of the holy ghost and thou the ornament of the newe holy temple of God which art honored of God him selfe with wisedome of auncient yeares yet hast brought to passe noble deeds and enterprises with fresh and florishing vertue to whome God him self comprehending the whole world hath graunted this great honor that thou shouldest build and repairs on earth this house vnto Christ the onely begotten and his first begotten word vnto his holy and noble spouse whome one may very wel call ether a new Beseleel chief builder of Gods tabernacle or Solomon king of a new and more mighty Ierusalem or else a new Zor●babel which hast purchaced farre greater glory vnto the temple of God then it had before and O you the sucklinges of the holy stocke of Christe the house of good literature the schoole of wisedome the honest and godly audienc● of pietye It was lawefull for vs of olde to laude God with hymnes and songes which haue he●●●● out of holy Scripture the mainelous wonders of God and the miraculous bountifulnes of the Lorde shewed towards mankind being to this ende instructed that we should say ▪ O God vve haue heard vvith our eares our fathers haue declared vnto vs the vvorkes thou hast vvrought in their dayes of olde but nowe haue we learned it not by hearing neither by reheatsall and rumor of the high arme and heauenly hande of our God and high King but by deedes and as I may so say with the eyes them selues beholding the thinges of olde to be certayne and true we may sing an mother hynme of victory and to good purpose shoute and saye like as vve haue hearde so haue vve seene in the citye of the Lorde of hosts in the citye of our God ▪ I meane in an other citye then this lately buylded and exected vnto God vvhich is the Churche of the liuing God the piller and grounde of all trueth of the which a certayne other testimony of holy Scripture thus happely reporteth Glorious thinges are spoken of thee o thou citie of God In so much as then we are gathered by the benefitt of Almighty God through the grace of the onely begotten vnto this Churche let euery one of vs here presently assembled together prayse and laude God and with all crye and saye I vvas glad vvhen they sayd vnto me vve vvill goe vp into the house of the Lorde and agayne Lorde I haue loued the bevvty of thy house and the place vvhere thine honour dvvelleth And not onely he which sitteth but also altogether with one spirite and with one minde honoring the Lorde let vs then singe and saye greate is the Lorde and vvorthy to be praysed in the citye of our God euen vpon his holy hill for he truely is greate and his house greate highe wide and bewetifull in comparison of the sonnes of men greate is the Lorde vvhiche alone doth vvonderfull thinges greate is the Lorde doing greate thinges vnsearcheable things glorious and excellent things vvhereof there is no number great changing moments and times remouing and ordayning things raysing the poore out of the dust and lifting the needy out of the myre he hath deposed the mighty from their seates and exalted the meeke out of the earth he hath filled the hungry vvith good things and hath broken the armes of the proude thus hath he confirmed the memory of the thinges rehearsed of olde not onely to the faythfull but also vnto the Infidels it is the Lorde of all the maker of the whole worlde the Almighty the moste excellent the one and the onely God which doth wonderfull and greate thinges vnto whome we obediently doe singe a newe songe euen vnto him vvhich alone doth maruelous thinges because his mercy endureth for euer vvhich smote great Kings slevv mighty Kings because his mercy endureth for euer because that vvhen vve vvere brought lovve the Lorde vvas mindefull of vs and deliuered vs from our enemies with these prayses let vs not cease to celebrate God the vniuersall father but also the seconde person author of all goodnes exhibited vnto vs the bringer of the knowledge of God the teacher of true pietye the rooter out of the wicked the dispatcher of all tyrants the gouernour of our whole life let vs whose case was lamentable honour him sounding continewally with mouth and minde I meane our Sauiour Iesu for he alone the onely most excellent sonne of the most excellent father according vnto the will of his father wherewith he loued man most willingly like a passing cunning Phisicion for the health of the pacients tooke vpon him our nature whiche laye as it were in a bottomlesse pitt of perdicion the beholding of whome in this case was very greeuous and the handling vnpleasant and of the miseries of others he heaped vnto him selfe greate miseryes he saued not onely such as were sicke with fore botches and festered woundes but also such as laye amonge the deade he him selfe by him selfe hath deliuered vs from the moste darke dungeons of death there was not so much power geuen to any other in heauen whiche coulde without offence and vndoubtedly minister the saluation of so many castwayes but he alone tooke vpon him