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	lord_n	redeemer_n	2,002	5	9.8210	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00011	Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto.		1640 (1640)	STC 10008; ESTC S101178	37,368	54

ENGLANDS COMPLAINT TO IESVS CHRIST AGAINST THE BISHOPS CANONS OF THE LATE SINFULL SYNOD A SEDITIOUS CONVENTICLE A PACKE OF HYpocri●ts a Sworne Confederacy a Traiterous Conspiracy against the true Religion of Christ and the Weale Publicke of the Land and consequently against the Kingdome and Crowne In this Complaint are Specified those impieties and insolencies which are most notorious Sca●tered through the Canons and Constitutions of the said Sinfull Synod And confuted by Arguments annexed hereunto Psal. 94. 20 21 c. O Lord shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth mischiefe by a Law They gather themselves together against the Soule of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood Esa. 3. 12 13. O my people they which lead thee cause thee to erre and destroy the way of thy paths The Lord standeth up to plead and standeth to judge the people Ezech. 22. 24 25 c. Thus saith the Lord Thou art the Land that is not cleansed nor rained upon in the day of indignation There is a Conspiracie of her Prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring Lion ravening the pr●y they have devoured Soules Her Priests have violated my Law they have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths Her Princes in the midst thereof are like Wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and to destroy Soules to get dishonest gaine c. Printed Anno Dom. 1640. ENGLANDS COMPLAINT TO IESVS CHRIST AGAINST THE BISHOPS CANONS OTHE hope of * Israel the Saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldest thou be as a Stranger in the Land and as a way-faring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied as a mighty man that cannot Save Yet thou ô Lord art in the midst of us and we are called by thy Name leave us not Yea ‡ ô Lord though our iniquities testifie against us yet doe thou it for thy Names sake for our backeslidings are many we have sinned against thee And ‡ we know not what to doe but our eyes are towards thee § O look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holines and of thy glory where is thy zeale and thy strength the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me Are they restrained Doubtlesse thou art our Father thou ô Lord art our Redeemer thy Name is from everlasting † O Lord our God other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy Name And now ô Lord we thy People inhabitants of this sinfull Land out of the depth of our miseries and from under the burthen of our manifold afflictions and oppressions which we worthily suffer for our iniquities from thy righteous hand● for Thou hast * tryed us and melted us in the Fornace even as silver Thou hast brought us into the net Thou hast layd affliction upon our loynes Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads So as to whom shall we goe for * healing but to thee who hast smitten us to whom for binding up but to thee who hast broken and torne us we doe therfore in this our humbled estate present our complaint before thee the ‡ Iudge of all the world yea before Thee who hast a ‡ feeling of our infirmities having been in all things tempted like as we are yet without sinne to that end that we might come boldly to the throne of Grace and obtaine mercy and find grace to helpe in time of need And although we thy People have had of long time and still have much matter of complaint unto thy Righteous Throne yet now above all other when the Throne of Iniquity frameth mischiefe as by a Law For a Synod hath been by Authority of late holden wherein such things have been concluded and confirmed as tend to the utter rooting out of all true Religion and that under the vaile of deep hypocrisie double iniquity And now ô Lord give thy People leave even to spread this whole Synod before thee as once King Ezech●●● spread the blasphemous letter of the Enemy before the L●rd And forasmuch as the said Synod hath been both called authorized and confirmed in all the Canons and Constitutions therof by the King as himselfe declareth by his own Act both before and after the said Canons wherein he professeth himselfe to be thy Deputy ô King of Kings and Lord of Lords we therfore think it our duty first to purge our selves of that staine of disloyalty and disobedience which the King chargeth us withall For they lay it to the charge of some of us at the least that we suspect our King of being perverted in a Superstitious way of Gods worship as if he intended to bring in some alteration of Religion in our Land against his sundry publicke Declartions and Sacred professions before Him whose Deputy saith he we are against all and every intention of any Popish Innovation Now for our parts we doe appeale to thy righteous judgement O searcher of all hearts whether we have been apt causelessely to suspect or surmise the least evill of our King but on the contrary have been ready to interpret all his actions in such a sense as perswading our selvs whatever things were amisse in Church or Common-weale or whatever Innovations brought in yea although under the name of Royall Authority yet the King was ignorant of them and his name therin abused by some bad Officers about him Yea how unwilling are we to this very day notwithstanding the late Synod so called and confirmed by the King to conceive the least sinister thought of him So as we are apt to thinke that those Innovations brought in since and under his Raigne have either crept in by stealth and by degrees without his knowledge or been craftily suggested as being no Innovations at all but rather renovations of the decayes of the old Religion so ●ulgarly called being induced thereunto by the ancient use thereof retained in some places of the Land since the Reformation as especially in the Ro●all Chappels and Cathedralls though not confirmed by any Law as the use of Altars Images and the like But now when we see with open eyes to our hearts grief those things to be concluded as by a Law Canons of Prelats now being made binding Laws and so confirmed by the Letter● Patents of the King for him his Heires and lawfull Successors O Lord what shall we think Nay when we see a strict Oath injoyned and imposed upon all Ministers of what style or ranke soever and upon all graduates in the Universities c. to approve and preserve the Doctrine and Discipline or Government as it stands now established in the Church of England and knowing that by publick Acts Edicts Decr●es Declarations Books c. set forth and published in the Kings Name and patronized by his speciall Authority Royall the Sanctification of thy Christian Sabbaths the Morality of thy holy Commandements