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
A25179	An Account of the execution and last dying speeches of Thomas Watson and Thomas Gourdon who were executed (the one for murthering his wife and the other for high-treason) on Kenington-Common in the county of Surry, the 19th of March, 1687 : together with a true coppy of a paper left by Tho. Watson in order to be published and recommended by him at the place of execution to the spectators as the real sense of what he further designed or intended to say or leave at his going out of this world &c. ...		1687 (1687)	Wing A288_VARIANT; ESTC R27084	7,230	4

fell to consider and meditate on sundry sacred Texts by which means I found more Consolation as thus Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will aboundantly pardon for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are my ways your ways saith the Lord. I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own Names sake and will not remember thy sins Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord Though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow Though they be as Red as Crimson they shall be as Wool but this I say Bretheren the time is short this remains that both they that have Wives be as though they had none and they that Weep as though they Weep'd not and they that Rejoyce as though they Rejoyced not and they that Buy as though they possessed not and they that use this World as not abusing it for the Fashion of this World passeth away in the sweat of thy Face faith the Lord shalt thou Eat Bread till thou return unto the Ground for out of it was thou taken for Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt return In God have I put my trust I will not be affraid what man can do unto me He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whosoever confesseth and forsaketh them shall have Mercy hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord the Lord is the true God and an everlasting King at his Wrath the Earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his indignation Go therefore and teach all Nations Baptising them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost for there are three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Jesus said unto him thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul and with all thy Mind This is the first and great Commandment and the Second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self for whosoever will save his Life shall loose it and and whosoever will loose his Life for my sake shall find it For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole World and loose his own Soul or what shall a man give in Exchange for his Soul For if a man Dye shall he Live again all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come trusting in and hoping to improve that which our Blessed Saviour said to encourage St. Peter viz. I have prayed for thee that thy Faith fail not and when thou art Comforted strengthen thy Bretheren and examine your selves whether you be in the Faith prove your own selves know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is is you except ye be in Reprobation Therefore let us keep the Feast not with Old Leaven neither with the Leaven of Mallice and Wickedness but with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth I wrought unto you in an Epistle not to accompany Fornicators but let us who are of the day be sober putting on the Brest-Plate of Faith and for an Helmet the hope of Salvation for God hath nor appointed us for Wrath but to obtain Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ but the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from Evil for I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good Fight I have finished my Course I have kep'd the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but to all them that love his appearing knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Jesus Christ and not by the works of the Law for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified I do not frustrate the Grace of God for if Righteousness comes by the Law then Christ is Dead in vain but Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us Therefore let us keep the Feast not with Old Leaven neither with the Leaven of Mallice and Wickedness but with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted wherefore I abhor my self and Repent in Dust and Ashes Look down then from Heaven and behold from the Habitation of thy Holiness and of thy Glory where is thy Zeal and thy strength and the erning of thy Bowels and of thy Mercy towards me are they restrained doubtless No for thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer thy Name is from everlasting Having well weighed and considered these things I betook my self to prayer in the following manner THE PRAYER ALmighty and Most Merciful Father Most Holy and Righteous Judge of the whole World give me a miserable and sinful Wretch leave to prostrate my self before the Throne of thy Grace and to implore that Mercy I have formerly abused and despised I am not worthy to look up to Heaven which is the Throne of thy Purity but it becomes me in the greatest Humility and Dejection of Spirit to bewail and groan under the load of my many and great sins so henious that when I reflect on them I am ready to sink into Hell and dispair of Mercy But although I am a miserable sinner yet thou art a merciful God full of Compassion and long suffering and of great Goodness To thee do I come beseeching thee for thy dear Son Christ Jesus sake to pardon all my sins whether of Omission or commission secret or open notorious or presumptious that in Thought Word or Deed I have committed against thy Divine Majesty Especially O Lord pardon my prophaning thy Holy Sabbaths when thou gavest me six days to follow my lawful Occasions in and took but one to thy self yet I have not spent it as I ought in private praying unto thee and praising of thee in Reading and Meditating of thy Holy Word and examining the state of my soul nor publickly attending upon thee in thy house to worship thee and hear thy Holy Word Preached to me to instruct me in the way to Heaven and to restrain me from sin but the precious time I have thrown away upon my Folly and vanities O Lord pardon my uncleanness for that Body which should have been the Temple of the Holy Ghost and been kept from all impurity and unchast Thoughts and Actions I have defiled by unchast