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	lord_n	praise_v	8,721	5	10.1829	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14556	The voyce of the Lord in the temple· Or, a most strange and wonderfull relation of Gods great power, providence, and mercy, in sending very strange sounds, fires, and a fiery ball into the church of Anthony in Cornwall neere Plimmouth, on Whitsunday last, 1640. To the scorching and astonishing of 14. severall persons who were smitten. And likewise to the great terrour of all the other people then present, being about 200. persons. The truth whereof will be maintained by the oathes of the same persons; having been examined by Richard Carew of Anthony, Esquire; and Arthur Bache, vicar of Anthony.	Carew, Richard, Sir, d. 1643?; Bache, Arthur, b. 1599 or 1600.	1640 (1640)	STC 24870; ESTC S114886	9,604	23

confused manner betweene crying and speaking their senses and speeches began to revive and within a little space they so recovered themselves as that none departed out of his place till after the taking of the bread when they were smitten they had every one of them their senses so well restored unto them that they likewise received the Cup at the same Table and all returned at the afternoone as there was great cause to give thankes unto Almighty God for so great deliverance Which appeared plainely to be farre the greater in that the same Thunder and Lightning instantly kill'd a Dogge at the feet of those who were kneeling in the Chancell to receive the Sacrament and likewise another without the Church at the Bell-free doore Master Anthony Furlong the elder had a Mare killed in the field and another horse fearefully stricken the same time with his head on one side and so continues and the ground of the same Field for the space of three or foure foot turned as vvith a Plough And likewise made seven or eight holes and rents in the walls of our Tower some on the inside some on the outside and made impressions on the stones thereof in divers places as if it had been done by the force of shot discharged out of great Ordnance so as in divers places the light might be seen through the walls Thus have beene represented to you terrible sounds even sounds containing many Thunders at once a Fiery Ball flying from Heaven to Earth Fire walking upon the Earth Brimstone kindled with fire thicke darknesse Storme and tempest The blowes and scourges of an hand from on high Astonishment hurrying and tumbling of Bodies shaking and distracting of senses spirits and hearts of men You have seen part of the Plague of Aegypt where fire mingled with Haile as here with most unusuall and overflowing Raine ran upon the ground You have seene a resemblance of Mount Sinai where were Thundrings and Lightnings and a thicke cloud and an exceeding loud voyce so that all the people in the Campe trembled Behold then in these things the terrour of the Lord And what use shall we make of this Terrour Let Moses tell us God is come to prove you that his feare may be before your faces that ye sinne not Let the Psalmist tell you Stand in awe and sinne not Let Samuel tell you as he told the Israelites after a wonderfull Thunder and raine Feare the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart but if ye shall still doe wickedly ye shall be consumed There hath been also shewed you the levelling and shooting of the Arrows of the Almighty at this place at this time and among the people you have seene the fire as it were led by his hand not onely where it did on whom it did but like a living creature turning about as in a walke And so according to the Vision of Ezekiel The living creatures ran and returned as the apparance of a flash of Lightning Behold then here the Dominion High and Supreme power of the Almighty He doth what he will in the Army of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him What dost thou He directeth the sound that goeth out of his Mouth and his Lightning unto the ends of the Earth His clouds are turned about by his counsels that they may doe whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the World in the Earth And what use shall wee make of the Knowledge of this High Dominion and Rule of the Most High Let Nebuchadnezzar humbled by this Dominion teach you I blessed said he the most High and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever and ever whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion and his Kingdome is from Generation to Generation Yea let the great King of the World teach us himselfe Looke unto me and be saved all the ends of the Earth for I am God and there is none else But for those that turne their hearts from obeying this King and will breake his bands and cast away his cords Let them know That hee will breake them with a Rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a Potters Vessell Yea let the greatest sonne of this greatest King tell them Those mine enemies which would not have me to raigne over them bring them forth and cut them in pieces Lastly you have seene flames scorching but not consuming A Ball of Fire shot and striking but not killing yea killing of Beasts and unreasonable creatures but sparing the reasonable casting downe but not destroying Men astonished and driven out of their senses yet soone restored A Communion divided and cut in pieces but healed againe and perfected Those that in the House of God received the sentence of death in the forenoone returning to the same House in the afternoone to give thanks for a kinde of resurrection from death unto life Behold here the great free and unspeakable Goodnesse and Mercy of God And what use shall we make of this Goodnesse and Mercy Let the Spirit of God in the Psalmist tell you and not tongue onely the burden and often returning sentence of his Songs O praise the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever And againe O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men And againe I will extoll thee my God O King and I will blesse thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I blesse thee and I will blesse thy Name for ever and ever Men shall speake of thy terrible Acts and I will declare thy Greatnesse They shall abundantly utter the Memory of thy great goodnes And yet again we have thought of thy Goodnesse O God in the midst of the Temple According to thy Name O God so is thy praise unto the ends of the Earth Neither let us only praise him in thoughts and words but in workes also Serve the Lord with gladnesse as well as come before his presence with singing Being delivered Let us serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Say as the children of Israel but doe also what they said and did not Who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voyce of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have heard and lived Therefore all that the Lord shall speake unto us we will heare and do it But for such as turne aside unto their crooked wayes the Lord shall leade them forth with the workers of iniquity Therefore let us sin no more lest worse things come unto us Fire and Brimstone over Constantinople Tract. De Excidio urbis inter Augustini opera Tom. 9. NOnne ante paucos annos Archadio Imperatore Connstantinopoli quod dico audierunt nonnulli forsitan noverunt sunt in hoc populo