Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	father_n	holy_a	sinner_n	9,874	5	9.5686	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13949	Three small and plaine treatises 1. Of prayer or actiue 2. Of principles, or positiue 3. Resolutions, or oppositiue Diuinitie. Translated and collected out of the auncient writers for the priuate vse of a most noble ladie. By an old praebendary of the Church of Lincolne.	Williams, John, 1582-1650.	1620 (1620)	STC 24259; ESTC S102025	30,759	166

THREE SMALL AND plaine Treatises 1. Of Prayers or Actiue Diuinitie 2. Of Principles or Positiue Diuinitie 3. Resolutions or Oppositiue Diuinitie Translated and collected out of the Auncient Writers for the priuate vse of a most Noble Ladie By an old PRAEBENDARY of the Church of Lincolne CERTAINE PRAYERS AND short MEDITATIONS translated out of the Writings of S. Augustine S. Gregorie S. Bernard Ioannes Picus Mirandula Ludouicus Viues Georgius Cassander Charolus Paschalius and others for the priuate Vse of the L. M. B. Morning Prayer MY Soule fleeth vnto the Lord before the morning Watch Psal 130.6 I say before the morning Watch. O let me heare thy louing kindnesse betimes in the morning Psal 143.8 for in thee is my trust shew thou mee the way that I should walke in for I lift vp my soule vnto thee O Lord assist mee with thy holy Spirit in my prayers And let my cry come vnto thee Our Father which art c. A Prayer for Confession of sins S. Greg. Homil 33. in Iob. REceiue O Lord in the armes of thy mercie thy distressed handmaiden who in remorse and contrition returnes vnto thee from her sinnes Because the life of that sinner is not abhorred of thee which is accompanied with sighes and repentance Pardon then O Lord all my offences for thy deare Sons sake Amen A Prayer for the Morning ALmighty God Georg. Cassander Pres. Eccles our heauenly Father which hast brought me thy handmaiden to this present morning protect mee still with thy mighty power that this ensuing day I may fall into no sinne nor run into any kinde of danger but that my thoughts wordes and deedes may tend to the honor and glory of thy name and the eternall comfort and saluation of mine own soule through Iesus Christ my Lord and onely Sauiour Amen Another Viues O Most syncere and pure Light from whence this light of the day and of the Sunne fetcheth his beginning Thou which enlightenest euery man that commeth into the world Thou Light whome no night or euening can obscure but continuest euer in thy High-noone brightnesse Thou Word and Wisedome of so great a Father enlighten this morning my soule and vnderstanding that thy weake handmaiden may be this day as blinded to the Vanities of the world and quick-sighted only to those things which are pleasing vnto thee and leading to the wayes of thy Commandements Amen For the Mediation of Christ LOrd Iesus Greg. Hom. 7. in Ezech. that art not onely righteous but righteousnesse it selfe and art my Aduocate with God the Father iustifie thou me thy hand-maiden in the day of iudgement because I acknowledge and accuse my self as full of vniustice and pollution For it is not vpon any action or contrition of mine owne that my soule relies but only vpon a faith assurance and bolde confidence in thee mine Aduocate who liuest and raignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen Against Temptations GIue me thy grace O Almighty God so to vanquish Aug. Serm. 86. de verbis Domini and ouercome the lusts and temptations of this world that I may triumph with thee ouer the Diuell and his wicked angels in the world to come Amen For Piety I Humbly beseech thee O Almighty God that this desire of reading Aug. Serm. 82. and hearing thy sacred Word which by thy holy Spirit thou hast planted in my heart may by thy grace and mercie be daily renued and augmented vnto a perfect fire of zeale and deuotion to the honor of thy Name and saluation of mine owne soule in Christ Iesu Amen A Prayer for a Noble-woman Carolus Paschalius O Lord Iesus Christ that art so far from contemning Nobilitie of birth that thy Euangelists haue diligently searched out and recorded thine owne genealogie giue me thy vnworthy handmayden the grace that I abuse not by ingratitude this thy fauour and mercie But rather as it was first acquired in my Auncestors let it still be preserued in my person by my continuall seruing of thee and doing as it shall lie in my power all workes of Charity to my neighbours Giue me grace that as thou hast plac't mee in Birth and rancke so I may be found in deuotion pietie lowlinesse of minde meeknesse and a religious care of thy worship conspicuous aboue others And if it bee ●hy gracious will to make me a mother of children and a mistresse of a family let me appeare a patterne and ensample of deuotion and pietie to all that are about mee And make mee and them so to liue in thy feare that we may die in thy fauour through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour Amen A Prayer for a Wife Charolus Paschal ALmighty God which haste giuen me to be a comforter and an helper vnto my husband endue my soule with those heauenly Graces wherwith I may be most enabled to serue thee and please him Knit our mindes as well as our bodies in an indissoluble band of syncere affection Giue either of vs sanctified hearts zealous towards thee thankefull towards our Soueraigne syncere and louing one towards another Crowne withal if it be thy will these chaste intentions with thy fructifying Grace that wee may become the happy Parents of such Oliue branches as may one day aduance thy glory in this Church and Commonwealth In a word so incorporate vs both by faith in Christ vnto thy kingdom of Grace that we may at the last attaine vnto thy kingdome of glorie Amen A prayer for one attendant neere the person of a Prince Carolus Paschal ALmighty God by whose gracious prouidence it commeth that my Lord and Husband is thus employed in that neernesse of attendance vpon his Royall Maiestie giue him grace so to serue thee that hee may the better serue him and by making him thy Saint continue him his seruant Fill his mind with all wisedome knowledge and other vertues befitting his ranck and calling that he may seeme no more elected by the King then selected by thee for these employments Make him vigilant carefull and industrious in his Masters afaires Make him to accompt it his onely happinesse to serue thee his onely vertue to obserue him and all the rest as glittering vanity That after a troublesome but long life in a Kings Court his soule may bee carried by the Angels vnto thy Court where one day is better then a thousand Grant this for thy deare Sonnes sake Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Meditation Count MIRANDVLA his twelue Thoughts or weapons against all the temptations of Sinne. Thinke Io. Pici Mirandulae Doctr. Salutif 1 THe pleasure thou art tempted vnto but short and momentarie 2 And euen this is attended with loathing and anxietie 3 And yet that for this thou must loose Heauen 4 That thy life is but as a dreame and shadow 5 Thy death is suddaine and at thy doore 6 Thy time of repentance casuall and vncertaine 7 Thy