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	psalm_n	3,889	5	9.1870	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80426	Higayon selah. Ierusalem fatall to her assailants. Discovered in a sermon before the Honorable House of commons August 29. 1649. At Margarets Westminster, upon their solemne day of thanksgiving for that signall victory over the Lord Ormond, in routing his whole army, and raising the seige of Dublin in Ireland, by the garrison thereof under the command of lieutenant Generall Jones. / By William Cooper M.A. minister of the gospel at Olaves Southwark.	Cooper, William, minister at St. Olave's Southwark.	1649 (1649)	Wing C6064; Thomason E572_4; ESTC R206160	37,133	45

his life for feare of which he threw himselfe into a pit and was never found Gallus and Valusian treading in his steps were both destroyed by Emilian a Captain In those dayes God plagued the Empire with an Epidemicall pestilence and many other heavy calamities which the Heathens laid to the Christians charge But Cyprian writeth a confutation of that and clearly proves it was their contempt of the Gospel and persecuting of the Saints caused those evils These judgements fell also upon Valerian who raised an eighth persecution against Gods people He was taken by Sapores King of Persia who made a captive of him and his body a foot-stoole treading on his neck when he went on horse-back A righteous judgement upon him who had trampled the truth and professors of it under his feet Aurelian the ninth persecuting Emperour was terrified by a Thunder-bolt from heaven and afterward slain though he seemed somewhat to relent of his cruelty Dioclesian and Maximilian raised the tenth persecution both which quitted their imperiall dignity and the latter of them slaine by the command of Constantine Maximinus was smitten of God with rottennesse and vermine as Herod was for wasting the body of Jesus Christ Famous is the death of Julian the Apostate who first subtilly then openly persecuted the Gospel he asked counsell of the heathen Oracle which was destroyed by fire from heaven to small powder he encouraged the Jewes to rebuild the Temple which was destroyed by an Earthquake fire and a mighty wind at last he was wounded and died crying out Thou Iesus of Galilee thou art too hard for me Many such instances may be added of the fatall ends of Arrian and Eutychean Persecutors But that of Phocas is very remarkable who was the first that set up Antichrist visibly by making the Bishop of Rome Universall Bishop and the Church of Rome head of all other Churches This Emperour was beheaded dismembred and his body given to the Souldiers to be burnt with fire Notable is the example of Minerius who being sent to destroy the poore Christians called Waldenses which he did by fire and sword felt the just vengeance of heaven by fire in his body was consumed with rottennesse and voided blood in stead of urine and died with great torments Charles the fifth a famous Emperour for wisdome and valour yet dashed against this rock of endevouring to destroy Protestants was himselfe driven out of his Empire that endevored to drive out the Gospel thence To step but on the other side we shall finde Henry the second and Francis the second of France taken away by death who began persecutions there Likewise the Duke of Guise a cruell persecutor dying gave breath to the poore afflicted Saints And Charles the ninth a most perfidious and bloody Prince dyed with great effusion of blood from sundry parts of his body Anno 1574. Thus will the Lord have blood for blood not sparing the effusion of Royall blood to avenge the blood Royall of his children whom he hath made Kings and Priests to himselfe through Christ Jesus Rev. 1.8 and which cost the bloud of his deare son I cannot passe by Henry the third of France who was killed by a Iacobine Munke in that very chamber where the King had been chiefe in concluding the massacre of Paris which massacre was so bloody and barbarous that the very Spaniards at the treaty of Munster told the States of the Low Countries that the Spanish Nation had never done such a Butchery against those of the Religion but abhorred such acts and that it was sufficient to declare the genius of the French I will not come down lower to instance in later times they are so infinite and so fresh your own memories I hope are stored with them as so many Courts of Records and your meditations often read them over If it be not so give me leave as your remembrancer to tell you that you ought never to forget the judgments of God written in blood legible to all the world that he will never let a wickednesse goe unpuished which is acted against his people Vse 3 Let us see the greatnesse of the mercy which we commemorate this day how God hath made Dublin a cup of trembling and a burdensome stone to her enemies in the siege The greatnesse of the mercy may be seen in these two particulars There was very much of God in it and little of man whether you regard numbers the enemy had that advantage whether his confidence whether his successes before In a word if you look on the besieged as the last that were left to be eaten that their adversaries had it in consultation to bind them back to back and throw them into the Sea that their succours were delayed and many disheartning emissaries to perswade the beleagred that no reliefe would come to them at all that therefore they should secure the Governour and deliver the Citie that then the Lord should deliver the Citie from the enemy arming a few beyond their own intentions to destroy a huge Host let the Governours of Judah say for this say the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of Hosts Consider the latitude and extent of this mercy look not upon it as within the circumference of one single Citie Nahum 3.12 divers other Forts and strong Holds followed and come on still dropping as ripe Figs into the mouth of the eater Many daughters attend the mother or Metropolis this great mercy is but the first fruits and the earnest of that which followes Look on this mercy as that which reacheth three Nations and all the true Israel of God and the Generations to come let us look on this mercy as one deadly wound to the Beast and the false Prophet a mercy though in comparison of many great ones not so great yet super-added to the quotient and catalogue addes very much to the bulk of them and to Gods glory yet let me tell you this victory and deliverance singly shines in its owne lustre without borrowing and is able to speak its own greatnesse abstracted from others Ask the broken enemy their frustrated hopes their slaughtered carcasses their great losse speakes it our great gain Ask the trembling Citizens that were even in the paws of danger and plunder and death and were delivered they will say 't is a great mercy Psalm 107.1 2. the redeemed of the Lord say so That his mercy endureth for ever What need I say more your selves that stand upon advantagious and higher ground that see further and clearer then us that know the times what Israel ought to doe that weigh circumstances and consequences in a right ballance you have declared your sense of it so high that not a greater mercy on this side Egypt hath been declared to Gods people This mercy hath made such an impression upon some of your enemies as was upon Saul when he told David Blessed be thou my son David for thou shalt