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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69140	VVilie beguile ye, or The worldlings gaine shevving how they hazard their pretious soules for the attaining of these vaine and transitory things, and withall teaching how to obtaine and enioy the benefits of this life: that so we may lay vp a good foundation thereby against the life to come: expressed in some sauoury and effectuall meditations and obseruations hereupon. By Thomas Cooper.; Worldlings adventure	Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.	1621 (1621)	STC 5710.3; ESTC S119004	40,870	88

affections on things aboue and labour for that gaine which hath sufficiency for it vnseparable companion seeke to bee rich in grace to aboūd in euery good worke so shall thy bloudy issue be stanched thy thirst satisfied of earthly things now thou hast drunke of that fountain thou shalt neuer thirst againe at least thou shalt so thirst as that thou shalt be satisfied Math. 5.7 To conclude this point Seeing we cannot be without these things and it pleaseth God oftentimes to cast them vpon vs here be thou wise to put thy knife to thy throat to set boūds to thy desires affections to outward things As first if riches encrease set not thy heart vpon them Psal 62.10 And that thou mayest not be bewitched by them consider that they are common blessings which the wicked for the most are partakers of in greater measure and therefore in these thou mayest be no otherwise happie then that the vilest may exceed thee heerein Remember their condition that they are slipperie and mutable and therefore no fit matter to place thy eternall happinesse on if they will not auaile thee in the day of wrath Pro. 11.8 much lesse will they secure that of constant happinesse They are burthens at the best and snares if thou close with them and 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 burthen 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 deseruest and 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 Obser 3 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 Reason 1 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 what soeuer 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 Reason 3 Adde we hereunto that