Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	eye_n	lord_n	wait_v	2,901	5	9.3473	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19297	The worldlings aduenture discouering the fearefull estate of all earthwormes, and men of this world, in hazarding their pretious soules for the enioying of worldly happines / deliuered in two sermons before the worthy visitors of the right worshipfull Company of the Grocers, at the visitation of their free grammar schoole at Oundell in North-Hamptonshire, by Thomas Cooper, Batchelour in Diuinity, imployed in that businesse.	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1619 (1619)	STC 5710; ESTC S3391	41,588	88

therefore when thou hast most thou cariest thy clogge with thee if thou watchest not warily they will proue snares to entangle thee They are onely good to these that are sanctified and therefore labour first for the meate that shall endure for euer and be carefull to sanctifie them dayly vnto thee by the word praier 1 Tim. 4. 5. that so the blessing of thy God may make them vsefull vnto thee And seeing at the best they are but burdens vnto thee and thou but a steward of them ease thy selfe wisely of this but then by a bountifull communicating vnto others especially to the household of faith prepare thy soule to a dayly reckoning either by some change in this life or the day of refreshing when thou must giue vp a finall account Thus shalt thou so enioy these things as not onely to preuent the snares of Satan but to lay vp a good foundation thereby against the day of Christ. 1. Tim 6. 19. If the Lord hath yet kept thee short of that portion which he hath giuen wisely to others That thou maiest herein also be maister of thy desires learne first To submit thy will to the will of the Lord who may do with his owne what he will Is thine eye euill because his is good Consider that the least thou hast is more then thou deserue●●nd say with holy Iacob Oh Lord I am not worthy of the least of thy mercies and this shall prouoke to thankefulnes for what thou hast and teach thee to waite vpon thy God in the blessing thereof Remember that thou broughtest nothing into the world and shalt leaue all with the world and therefore hauing food and raiment therewith be thou content 1 Tim. 6. 7. 8. Consider the wisedome and goodnes of thy God that now thou maiest go lighter to heauen and hast a lesse account to make in the great day and therein blesse God for thy little because a small thing that the righteous hath is better then great riches of the vngodly Psa. 37. 9. And if yet thy desires may be enlarged for more yet bound them still with subiection to thy God set not the stock vpon it as if either thou must haue so much or else thou canst not waite on thy God in perswasiō of his loue but desire with condition as it shall turne to thy good and so what is best shal be suplied vnto thee either thou shalt haue more or that which thou hast shall giue contentment And heere it shall much auaile to order thy desires if in steed of enlarging the same thou rather restrainest them as well to be abased and emptied of what thou hast as to abound in seeking more oh how shalt thou thus maister thy greedy desires how maiest thou prepare thy selfe to euerlasting fulnes Lastly let thy rest be still vpon the prouidence of thy God who feedeth the rauens and clotheth the lillies though they neither spinne nor labour therefore And shal not he much more increase thy oile in the cruse the meale in the barrell if thou canst be faithfull a little shalt thou not see greater things thē these Thus maiest thou captiuate thy carnall affections especially if with thy small measure of outward things thou shalt compare thy portion of grace which if it be lesse thou hast more neede to raise thy affections higher if it bee more why art thou troubled for this outward want This grace shal be sufficient and so Sathan shal be excluded But alas he will not be shut out so his triumphs are too apparent his delusions too forcible how many are content for these things to trade with him to the losse of their soules how ordinarily do men transgresse for morsels of bread how willingly is the soule made a prey for the gaining of earthly things Behold the bargaine and tremble at it blesse thy God that thou hast not beene ouerraught and lamēt the misery of thy bretheren that are daily thus deceiued How commonly do men prostitute their soules for the loue of the world Shall wee discouer the delusions which preuaile hereunto They liue by Sense and not by Faith and see no better and cannot see a farre off 1. Peter 1. 9. and therefore no maruaile if they dote vpon the present and so not long able to liue by faith in the speciall prouidence of God and hope of better things no maruaile if they make a contradiction betweene these things which are indeede onely subordinate concluding that they must liue and therefore they must deceiue breake Saboth what not As if conscience to God and care of this life were contradictions we could not thriue and liue in the world and thriue to heauen also whereas indeede if we could trust God waite vpon him we might finde that godlines hath the promise of this life as well as of that which is to come Indeed if we could trust in God waite vpon him in well doing we should verily be saued we shold want nothing that is good As worldlings want faith so they want patience and therefore seeing they cannot tary the Lords leasure for the blessing of their labours therefore they will take what is at hand whatsoeuer it cost them what is this birth-right vnto them seeing they dye for hunger tell me not of my soule I must not sterue and be discredited I must be receiued when I am put out of my stewardship and therefore I see no way but to deceiue and so to prouide for my selfe Thus want of patience breeds resolued wickednesse and this exposeth the soule as a prey vnto Satan Adde we hereunto that fearefull condition whereunto worldlings are subiect that whereas they account their conscience as their greatest enemy and their credit and estimation as their chiefe friend nay as the onely Idoll whom they worship therefore seeing their thriuing in the world is that which may both maintain their credit on the one side and also either lull the conscience asleep or flatter it on the other side if prosper in the world either they haue no sence of dāger or els all is well because they prosper Ephraim saith I am rich encreased in substance and therefore they shall find no iniquity in me that were wickednes either I am senceles of euill because my heart is fatted vp with prosperty or if I am priuie of my selfe of any yet God is at peace with me I haue more then my heart can desire Is it any maruaile if now hands be strucken the bargain is made vp either I haue no leasure to thinke on my soule because the world comes so fast vpon me or my soule is safe enough seeing I haue my desire or which is common with worldlings to wish in this case so I may enioy this happines let them take heauen who list I haue my portion already and therfore I looke for no other The iustice