Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	ghost_n	heaven_n	miserable_a	2,279	5	9.8635	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38426	England's remembrancer setting forth the beginning of papal tyrannies, bloody persecutions, plots, and inhuman butcheries, exercised on the professors of the Gospel in England dissenting from the Church of Rome : with an account of all, or most of the martyrs that were put to death by the cruel papists in this kingdom, until the Reformation in the reign of King Edw. 6 and Queen Elizabeth : also the first rise of the writ de heretico comburendo, for burning of hereticks ...		1682 (1682)	Wing E3036; ESTC R2702	130,582	188

Paul answering in all respects that of the 1 Tim. 3. and that to Titus Chap. 1. A B●shop must be faultless as becometh a Minister of God N●r Stubborn nor ●●gry no drunkard sighter nor given to filthy lucre but Charitable a lover of Goodness sober minded righteous temperate cleaving to the truth and able teach or instruct All this he was and that in an high degree He studied much riseing at 5 of the Clock in the Morning Continuing private till 9. from which time ●o D●nner he spent in hearing suitors or minding the King Affairs I shall not goe about to give you the history of this good man's life which was ex●mpla●● not of ●ll the troubles and persecutions he in●●●ed from his Enemies the chief being Gardner the Bishop of ●enchesie● in this Kings days who alway stood by him and well perceived the Integrity of the Archbishop and the implacable hatred of his Enemies so that in his dayes he was preserved in the King● Favour and afterwards he was dear to 〈◊〉 E●●●rd and one who assisted in the Reformantio● of Religion writing his Faith in 5 books concerning the Sacrament But assoon as Queen Mary c●me to the Crown yo● m●y be sure she would ●emember what he h●d done as to ●e● Mothers divorce and was indeed his bitter Enemy tho he was very ●●rdly brought to subsc●ibe against her for the Lady Ja●● We have ●lready told you how he was had from the Tower with Bishop R●●ley and L●●mer to dispute at O●ford and the issue thereupon that he w●s condemned and where be continu●d a prison●r about 3 years they using all ways an m●nner of means to cause him to recant and sin●ing th●t force and threatning would not do they tryed flattery and fair means but he had resisted all things till a● l●st resolved they were he should be burnt upon which they degraded him and tho he told them they being but Bishops and ●e their superior they could not rightfully degrade ●im their Archbishop however saying as they were the Popes Delegates and Commissionated by the Queen they had power to do it and so they use● all their to●pish Ceremonies Bishop Bonner using him roughly and u●m●nnerly All this needed not said the Archbishop for I had fl●ng off all this gear long agoe Then being stript to his Jacot they put on him a Be●dles old gown and a Townsmans Cap and so delivered ●●m over to the s●cular power Yet for all this being extream desirous to have him recant they afresh set upon him trying all ways to allure him with promise of Life and hopes of Reward and so importunate they were night and day never ceasing to solicit● him that at last human● frailty appeared and he was overcome and they got him to sign a Recantation against his Conscience The Queen received it very gladly but bearing Revenge and malice in her heart she nevertheless resolved he should dye and for that End dispatched away Dr. Cole to preach at St. Maries at Oxford and to declare his Recantation Cranmer was now Miserable being tormented in his Conscience for what he had done and too late began to perceive the Malice of his Enemies who thirsted for his Blood Subtilly and treacherously they dealt with him not giving him any notice of his death but still put him in hopes of his Life urging him publickly to make his Recantation in St. Marys for which end they had prepared a stage in the midst of the Church to which place they led him whilst Dr. Cole mounted the Pulpit to make his Oration The Lord Williams and several other Commissioners were there with a multitude of people thinking to hear the Recantation of the Archbishop But things could not be so closely carried tho they kept all people from the Archbishop that might inform him but he began to surmise they intended to put him to Death and at last plainly perceived it when they gave him mony to distribute to the poor as he passed thorow the streets to the Church It was a lamentable spectable to the people to behold the Metropolitan and Primate of England standing with his bald head and reverend gray beard in an old tattered gown on the stage exposed to the Contempt of all men which sight made many weep especially seeing the Tears running down his Cheeks and beard As he thus stood by a pillar he lifted up his eyes and hands toward heaven and prayed privatly to himself till Dr. Cole began his sermon the first part being passed over he turned his whole discourse upon the Archbishop exhorting him to take his Death pariently and to glorifie God with his Conversion from his heresie since it had pleased God to reclaim him saying that before in his prosperity he was not worthy of Life but now since he could not Live he seemed unworthy of Death But he promised that Masses and Dirges should be said in all the Churches in Oxford for the succor of his soul if he continued to dye a good Catholick Cranmer with extream grief of mind heard out his Sermon showing by his Countenance the agitation of his spirit and when he had done and that all men expected he should have read his recantation he pulled out of his Bosom a writing which he had prepared and began to read Good people I beseech you all to pray to God for me that he may forgive me my sins and especially one which I ●ominate to you by and by then Kneeling down ●e made a most excellent prayer which being not long I shall here recite O Father of Heaven O Son of God Redeemer of the World O holy Ghost three Persons and one God have mercy upon me most wretched Catif and miserable sinner I have offended both against Heaven and Earth more than my tongue can express Whither then may I go or whither shall I fly To Heaven I may be ashamed to lift up mine eyes and in Earth I find no place of refuge or Scucor To thee therefore O Lord do I run to thee do I humble my self saying O Lord my God my sins are great yet have mercy upon me for thy great mercy The great mystery that God became Man was not wrought for little or few offences Thou didst not give thy Son O Heavenly Father unto death for small sins only but for all the greatest sins in the world so that the sinner return to thee with his whole heart as I do here at this present Wherefore have mercy on me O God whose property is always to have Mercy Have mercy upon me O Lord for thy great mercy I crave nothing for mine own merits b●t for thy names sake that it may be hallowed thereby and for thy dear Son Jesus Christ's sake And now therefore our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy name c. Then riseing up he desired he might exhort the people before his death that God might be glorified and they edified He then began an excellent Exhortation pressing them