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	verse_n	7,165	5	9.1513	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03778	Great Brittaines resurrection: or the Parliaments passing bell By vvay of psalmodie, against the tryumphing of the Papists, in their seuen psalmes. And in imitation of the song of the three nobles of Israel, deliuered out of the fierie ouen of Babell. By VVilliam Hubbard, Chaplaine to the Kings Maiestie, in his Highness Tower of London. Seene and allowed.	Hubbock, William, b. 1560.	1606 (1606)	STC 13898.5; ESTC S118144	37,262	64

wither and the flourish thereof to decay And yet as it were recomforting themselues thus they seeme to prophecie In a moment canst thou crush her bones and lay her pride in the dust And The earth is infected with the wickednes of the Inhabitants and crieth vnto thee for vengeance And possibly would swallow them as it did Ch●re and his company were it not for thine elect sake Reuenging fire of Sodome and Gomor might bee iustly feared And Confirme the heart of those thy labourers endue them with strength from aboue and giue successe vnto their endeuours Againe Embolden our hearts with courage to concurre with them freely in furthering thy seruice And in another place Confirme your hearts in hope for your redemption is not farre off The yeare of visitation draweth to an end and Iubilation is at hand And Ierusalem shall be built vp againe and the second glory thereof shall be greater then the first And Righteousnes shall prosper and infidelity shall be plucked vp by the rootes God will arise as from a long slumber establish againe the arke of his sanctification And The roote which hath waxen olde vnder ground man shoote vp againe as a fresh plant by the riuer side False errour shall vanish as smoake And they which sawe it shall say Where is it become Iust iudgment holy lawes shall be restored c. Againe His tabernacle he will spred againe and dwell amongst vs as in times past And Sacred songs shall break their long silence the lamp of our Lord shall be 〈◊〉 And The resemblance of heauen shall be renued the resemblance of hell shall be destroyed England shall be called a happy Realme a blessed Country a religious people Those which knewe the former glory of Religion shall lift vp their hands for ioy to see it returned againe Those that neuer saw it shall be strucken with admitation wishing that they had sooner knowne the truth condemning their fathers which forsooke it Men shall say of it one to another heere is indeede the house of God and the gate of heauen How great diuersitie is betweene truth and falsehood deuout solemnities and counterfet ceremonies From the East point to the West men shall confesse their errors They which thought themselues wisest shall say they knew nothing Gladly shall people walke in their auncient steps of truth and equitie c. The Prince of peace will breake the exactors rod. c. No longer will he dissemble the oppression of his people He is bent to reuenge their cause The daughters of Babylon shal be cast downe and in the dust lament their ruine Proud heresie shall strike her sayle and groane as a beast crushed vnder a cart wheele Againe The omnipotent hath sworne to make her stoupe and that he will abase her haughtines Againe The memorie of nouelties shall perish with a crack as a ruinous house falling to the groūd And Hee will come as a flame that bursteth out beyond the surnace His fury shall flie forth as thunder and pich on their tops that maligne him Againe A second Cyrus hath he stirred vp confirming his Scepter for the good of his people He shal likewise bring the Infants of Sion from all quarters of their banishment Ioyfully shall they returne from forraine lands And those Countries where now they harbour shall finde succour in this I le for their necessities Againe The tempestuous night being passed a perpetuall day shall be our comfort His truth his iustice his Priests his sacrifice shall be no more taken away I haue beene the larger that the reader might see obserue the Papists expectation out of their owne many words without equiuocation But Mutatis mutandis the prophecie shal be inuerted vpon themselues as is in part alreadie Magnified be the name of God therefore Now for this my methode as it were a letanie or procession and a kinde of spirituall preambulation thorough the whole England as men doe to keepe their bounds so we to see in particular and generall how much we are bound to God wee haue excellent presidents to omit Miriams song and Deborahs which both stand vpon the resolution into particulars but in Dauid himselfe more notably Dauid the sweet singer of Israel the king of singers first Psal 136. which vsed to be sung of the Leuites in the temple In which Psalme as it were by a logicall or theologicall predicament hee beginning with the great works of GOD in generall hee after diuideth his thoughts into the works of creation and administration hee goeth from the heauens to the earth hee particularizeth in the great lights the sunne and the moone In the works of administration he exemplifieth in the Lords destroying Aegipts first borne in bringing Israel out thence in cutting sea into two parts in bringing Israel thorough the midst and not at the shore and in some shallowe place In ouerthrowing Pharao and his hoast there In leading this people thorough the Desart In smiting great kings for their sakes particularly Sihon and Og in giuing his people their land in remembring not their miserie onely but in feeding all flesh The burden of all which to euery verse is The mercy of the Lord endureth for euer That is to say Gods mercy appeared not then onely and in those particulars but for euer And that these particulars were stakings downe that they had had Gods mercy from time to time and might be sure of it for euer euen as Esay the Prophet saith Heare and your soule shall liue and I will make an euerlasting couenant with you the sure mercies of Dauid What is this else but you shall be as sure of my loue as euer Dauid was And in a neerer example Psal 148. hee rangeth and marshalleth the creatures in order with redoubling the same wordes praise him all ye his Angels praise him all his armies praise him sunne and moone praise him heauen of heauens and ye waters that be aboue the heauens let them praise c. praise ye the Lord frō the earth Dragons depthes fire hayle snow vapours winds mountaines hills beasts creeping thinges and feathered fowles Kings and all nations Princes and all Iudges of the earth young men and maydes olde men and children Let them praise the name of the Lord c and why all these For the particular mercie saith Dauid in exalting the horne of his people Euen as Esay on the other side in the impenitencie of the people contesteth heauen and earth attesteth Oxe and Asse against Israels ingratitude And hence no doubt was deduced the canticle of the three children though apocrypha yet very auncient and inserted for the worthines of it into the liturgie of the Church of England Where the three great noble men and rulers of thy Prouinces themselues personally stand forth and beginning from the generall workes of God discend to specials in heauen to Angels sunne moone and passe along the cloudes in their spirits to showers windes