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	holy_a	redeemer_n	2,615	5	10.3339	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63950	The golden grove, or, A manuall of daily prayers and letanies, fitted to the dayes of the week containing a short summary of what is to be believed, practised, desired : also festival hymns, according to the manner of the ancient church, composed for the use of the devout, especially of younger persons / by the author of The great exemplar.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.	1655 (1655)	Wing T336; ESTC R17298	60,024	193

upon me never let me have the affections of ●…he desperate and damned let it not be ●…ll with me when it is well with others ●…ut let thy holy Spirit so over-rule me for ever that I may pity the afflicted and be compassionate and have a fellow-feeling of my brothers sorrows and that I may as much as I can promote his good and give thee thanks for it and rejoyce with them that do rejoyce never censuring his actions curstly nor detracting from his praises spitefully nor upbraiding his infelicities maliciously but pleased in all things which thou doest or givest that I may then triumph in spirit when thy Kingdome is advanced when thy Spirit rules when thy Church is profited when thy Saints rejoyce when the devils interest is destroyed truly lovieg thee and truly loving my brother that we may all together joyn in the holy Communion of Saints both here and hereafter in the measures of grace and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For FRIDAY A Prayer against Wrath and inordinate Anger I. O Almighty Judge of Men and Angels whose anger is alwayes the minister of Justice slow but severe not lightly arising but falling heavily when it comes Give to thy servant a meek and a gentle spirit that I also may be slow to anger and easie to mercy and forgiveness Give me a wise and a constant heart that I may not be moved with every trifling mistake and inconsiderable accident in the conversation and entercourse of others never be moved to an intemperate anger for any injury that is done or offered let my anger ever be upon a just cause measured with moderation and reason expressed with charity and prudence lasting but till it hath done some good either upon my self or others II. LOrd let me be ever courteous and easie to be intreated never let me fall into a peevish or contentious spirit but follow peace with all men offering forgiveness inviting them by courtesies ready to confess my own errors apt to make amends and desirous to be reconciled Let no sickness or cross accident no imployment or weariness make me angry or ungentle and discontent or unthankful or uneasie to them that minister to me but in all things make me like unto the holy Jesus Give me the spirit of a Christian charitable humble merciful and meek useful and liberal complying with every chance angry at nothing but my own sins and grieving for the sins of others that while my passion obeys my reason and my reason is religious and my religion is pure and undefiled managed with humility and adorned with charity I may escape thy anger which I have deserved and may dwell in thy love and be thy Son and Servant for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For SATURDAY A Prayer against wea●…ness in well-doing I. O My God merciful and gracious my soul groans under the loads of its own infirmity when my spirit is willing my flesh is weak my understanding foolish and imperfect my will peevish and listless my affections wandring after strange objects my fancy wilde and unfixed all my senses minister to folly and vanity and though they were all made for Religion yet they least of all delight in that O my God pity me and hear me when I pray and make that I may pray acceptably Give me a love to Religion an unwearied spirit in the things of God Let me not relish or delight in the things of the world in sensual objects and transitory possessions but make my eyes look up to thee my soul be filled with thee my spirit ravished with thy love my understanding imployed in the meditation of thy Law all my powers and faculties ●…f soul and body wholly serving thee ●…nd delighting in such holy ministeries II. O Most gracious God what greater favour is there then that I may and what easier imployment can there be then to pray thee to be admitted into thy presence and to represent our needs and that we have our needs supplied onely for asking and desiring passionately and humbly But we rather quit our hopes of heaven then buy it at the cheapest rate of humble prayer This O God is the greatest infirmity and infelicity of man and hath an intolerable cause and is an unsufferable evil III. O Relieve my spirit with thy graciousness take from me all tediousness of spirit and give me a laboriousness that will not be tired a hope that shall never fail a desire of holiness not to be satisfied till it possesses a charity that will alwayes increase that I making Religion the business of my whole life may turn all things into Religion doing all to thy glory and by the measures of thy Word and of thy Spirit that when thou shalt call me from this deliciousness of imployment and the holy ministeries of grace I may pass into the imployment of Saints and Angels whose work it is with eternal joy and thanksgiving to sing praises to the mercies of the great Redeemer of Men and Saviour of Men and Angels Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and worship all service and thanks all Glory and Dominon for ever and ever Amen A Prayer to be said by a Maiden before she enters into the state of Marriage I. O Most glorious God and my most indulgent Lord and gracious Father who doest bless us by thy bounty pardon us by thy mercy support and guide us by thy grace and govern us sweetly by thy providence I give thee most humble and hearty thanks that ●…hou hast hitherto preserved me in my Virgin state with innocence and chastity ●…n a good name and a modest report It ●…s thy goodness alone and the blessed ●…manation of thy holy Spirit by which 〈◊〉 have been preserved and to thee I re●…urn all praise and thanks and adore and ●…ove thy goodness infinite II. ANd now O Lord since by thy dispensation and over-ruling providence I am to change my condition and enter into the holy state of Marriage which ●…hou hast sanctified by thy Institution and ●…lessed by thy Word and Promises and ●…raised up to an excellent mystery that it might represent the Union of Christ and his Church Be pleased to go along with ●…thy servant in my entring into and passing through this state that it may not be a state of temptation or sorrow by occasion of my sins or infirmities but of holiness and comfort as thou hast intended it to all that love and fear thy holy Name III. LOrd bless and preserve that dear person whom thou hast chosen to be my Husband Let his life be long and blessed comfortable and holy and let me also become a great blessing and comfort unto him a sharer in all his joyes a refreshment in all his sorrows a meet helper for him in all accidents and chances of the world Make me amiable for ever in his eyes and very dear to him Unite his heart to me in the

one think it an e●… cuse to lie in bed because he hath nothing to do when he is up for whoever hath●… Soul and hopes to save that Soul hat●… work enough to do to make his calling and election sure to serve God and to pray to reade and to meditate to repent and to amend to do good to others and to keep evil from themselves And if thou hast little to do thou ought'st to imploy the more time in laying up for●… greater Crown of Glory 4. At your opening your eyes enter upon the day with some act of piety 1. Of thanksgiving for the preservation of you the night past 2. Of the glorification of God for the works of the Creation or any thing for the honour of God 5. When you first go off from your bed solemnly and devoutly bow your head and worship the holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost 6. When you are making ready be as silent as you can and spend that time in holy thoughts there being no way left to redeem that time from loss but by meditation and short mental prayers If you choose to speak speak something of Gods praises of his goodness his mercies or his greatness Ever resolving ●…at the first fruits of thy reason and of ●…l thy faculties shall be presented to God 〈◊〉 sanctifie the whole harvest of thy conersation 7. Be not curious nor careless in your ●…abit but alwayes keep these measures 1. Be not troublesome to thy self or to others by unhandsomeness or uncleanness 2. Let it be according to your state and quality 3. Make Religion to be the difference of your habit so as to be best attired upon Holy or Festival dayes 8. In your dressing let there be ejaculations fitted to the severall actions of dressing as at washing your hands and face pray God to cleanse your Soul from sin In putting on your clothes pray him to clothe your Soul with the righteousness of your Saviour and so in all the rest For Religion must not onely be the garment of your Soul to invest it all over but it must be also as the fringes to every of your actions that something of Religion appear in every one of them besides the innocence of all of them 9. As soon as you are dressed with the first preparation of your clothes that you can decently do it kneel and say the Lords Prayer then rise from your knees and do what is necessary for you in order to your further dressing or affairs of the house which is speedily to be done and then finish your dressing according to the foregoing Rules 10. When you are dressed retire your self to your Closet and go to your usuall devotions which it is good that at the first prayers they divided were into seven actions of piety 1. An act of Adoration 2. Of Thanksgiving 3. Of Oblation 4. Of Confession 5. Of Petition 6. Of Intercession 7. Of Meditation or serious deliberate useful reading of the holy Scriptures 11. I advise that your reading should be governed by these measures 1. Let it be not of the whole Bible in order but for your devotion use the New Testament and such portions of the Old as contain the Precepts of holy life 2. The Historical and less useful part let it be read at such other times which you have of leisure from your domestick imployments 3. Those portions of Scripture which you use in your Prayers let them not be long A Chapter at once no more but then what time you can afford spend it in thinking and meditating upon the holy Precepts which you read 4. Be sure to meditate so long till you make some act of piety upon the occasion of what you meditate either that you get some new arguments against a sin or some new incouragements to vertue some spiritual strength and advantage or else some act of Prayer to God or glorification of him 5. I advise that you would reade your Chapter in the midst of your Prayers in the Morning if they be divided according to the number of the former actions because little interruptions will b●… apt to make your Prayers less tedious and your self more atte●… upon them But if you finde any other way more agreeing to yo●… spirit and disposition use your liberty without scruple 12. Before you go forth of your Closet after your Prayers are done set you self down a little while and consider wh●… you are to do that day what matter 〈◊〉 business is like to imploy you or to tem●… you and take particular resolution against that whether it be matter of wrangling or anger or covetousness or vai●… courtship or feasting and when you enter upon it remember upon what you resolved in your Closet If you are likely to have nothing extraordinary that day a general recommendation of the affai●… of that day to God in your Prayers wi●… be sufficient but if there be any thi●… foreseen that is not usual be sure to be armed for it by a hearty though a sho●… Prayer and an earnest prudent resolutio●… before-hand and then watch when th●… thing comes 13. Whosoever hath Children or Servants let him or her take care that a●… the Children and Servants of the family ●…y their Prayers before they begin their ●…ork The Lords Prayer and the Ten Commandments with the short verse at ●…he end of every Commandment which ●…he Church uses and the Creed is a very good office for them if they be not fitted ●…or more regular offies And to these al●…o it were good that some proper Prayer were apportioned and they taught it It were well if they would serve themselves of this form set down at the end of this Diary 14. Then go about the affairs of your house and proper imployment ever avoiding idlenes or too much earnestness of affection upon the things of the world Do your business prudently temperately diligently humbly charitably 15. Let there be no idle person in or about your family of beggers or unimployed Servants but finde them all work and meat call upon them carefully reprove them without reproaches or fierce railings Be a master or a mistress and a friend to them and exact of them to be faithful and diligent 16. In your Servants suffer any offence against your self rather then against God endure not that they should swear or lie or steal or be wanton or curse each other or be railers or slanderers or tell-tales and sowers of dissension in the family or amongst neighbors 17. In all your entercourse with your neighbors in the day let your affairs be wholly matter of business or civility and alwayes managed with Justice and Charity never let it be matter of curiosity or inquiry into the actions of others alwayes without censuring or rash judgement without backbiting slandering or detraction Do it not your self neither converse with them that do He or she that loves tale-bearers shall never be beloved or be innocent 18. Before dinner and supper

inquisitive after thy will pure and holy thoughts strong and religious purposes and thy grace to perform faithfully what we have promised in the day of our duty or in the day of our calamity Hear our prayers c. O teach us to despise all vanity to fight the battles of the Lord manfully against the Flesh the World and the Devil to spend our time religiously and usefully to speak gracious words to walk alwayes as in thy presence to preserve our souls and bodies in holiness fit for the habitation of the holy Spirit of God Hear our prayers c. Give us a holy and a perfect repentance a well instructed understanding regular affections a constant and a wise heart a good name a fear of thy Majesty and a love of all thy glories above all the things in the world for ever Hear our prayers c. Give us a healthful body and a clear ●…nderstanding the love of our neighbors ●…nd the peace of the Church the publick ●…fe and comfort of thy holy Word and ●…acraments a great love to all Christians ●…nd obedience to our Superiors Eccle●…astical and Civil all the dayes of our ●…ife Hear our prayers c. Give us spiritual wisdome that we may ●…iscern what is pleasing to thee and fol●…ow what belongs unto our peace and let the knowledge and love of God and of Jesus Christ our Lord be our guide and our portion all our dayes Hear our prayers c. Give unto us holy dispositions and an active industry in thy service to redeem the time mispent in vanity for thy pity sake take not vengeance of us for our sins but sanctifie our souls and bodies in this life and glorifie them hereafter Hear our prayers c. Our Father c. IV. To be added to the former Letanies according as our Devotions and time will suffer For all states of men and women especially in the Christian Church OBlessed God in mercy remember thine inheritance and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever pity poor mankinde whose portion is misery and folly shame and death But thou art our Redeemer and the lifter up of our head and under the shadow of thy wings shall be our help untill this Tyranny be overpast Have mercy upon us O God and hide not thy self from our petition Preserve O God the Catholick Church in holiness and truth in unity and peace free from persecution or glorious under it that she may for ever advance the honour our of her Lord Jesus for ever represent is Sacrifice and glorifie his Person and ●…dvance his Religion and be accepted of ●…hee in her blessed Lord that being filled with his Spirit she may partake of his ●…lory Have mercy upon us c. Give the spirit of Government and ho●…iness to all Christian Kings Princes and Governours grant that their people may obey them and they may obey thee and ●…ive in honesty and peace justice and holy Religion being Nursing Fathers to the Church Advocates for the oppressed Pa●…rons for the widows and a Sanctuary for the miserable and the fatherless that they may reign with thee for ever in the Kingdome of the Lord Jesus Have mercy upon us c. Give to thy servants the Bishops and all the Clergy the spirit of holiness and courage of patience and humility of prudence and diligence to preach and declare thy will by a holy life and wise discourses that they may minister to the good of souls and finde a glorious reward in the day of the Lord Jesus Have mercy upon us c. Give to our Relatives our Wives and Children our Friends and Benefactors our Charges our Family c. pardon and support comfort in all their sorrows strength in all their temptations the guard of Angels to preserve them from evil and the conduct of thy holy Spirit to lead them into all good that they doing their duty may feel thy mercies here and partake of thy glories hereafter Have mercy upon us c. Give to all Christian Kingdomes and Common-wealths peace and plenty health and holy Religion to all families of Religion and Nurseries of piety zeal and holiness prudence and unity peace and contentedness To all Schools of Learning quietness and industry freedome from wars and violence factions and envy Have mercy upon us c. Give to all married pairs faith and love charitable and wise compliances sweetness of society and innocence of conversation To all Virgins and Widows great love of Religion a sober and a contented spirit an unwearied attendance to devotion and ●…he offices of holiness protection to the fatherless comfort to the disconsolate pa●…tience and submission health and spiritual advantages to the sick that they may feel thy comforts for the dayes wherein they have suffered adversity Have mercy upon us c. Be thou a star and a guide to them that travel by land or sea the confidence and comfort of them that are in storms and shipwracks the strength of them that toil in the Mynes and row in the Gallies an instructer to the ignorant to them that are condemn'd to die be thou a guide unto death give chearfulness to every sad heart spiritual strength and proportionable comfort to them that are afflicted by evil spirits pity the ●…unaticks give life and salvation to all to whom thou hast given no understanding accept the stupid and the fools to mercy give liberty to prisoners redemption to captives maintenance to the poor patronage and defence to the oppressed and put a period to the iniquity and to the miseries of all mankinde Have mercy upon us c. Give unto our enemies grace and pardon charity to us and love to thee take away all anger from them and all mistakes from us all misinterpretations and jealousies bring all sinners to repentance and holiness and to all thy Saints and Servants give an increasing love and a persevering duty bring all Turks Jews and Infidels to the knowledge and confession of the Lord Jesus and a participation of all the Promises of the Gospel all the benefits of his Passion to all Hereticks give humility and ingenuity repentance of their errors and grace and power to make amends to the Church and Truth and a publick acknowledgement of a holy faith to the glory of the Lord Jesus Have mercy upon us c. Give to all Merchants faithfulness and truth to the labouring husbandman health and fair seasons of the year and reward his toil with the dew of heaven and the blessings of the earth To all Artizans give diligence in their Callings and a blessing on their labours and on their families To old men piety and perfect repentance a liberal heart and an open hand great religion and desires after heaven To young men give sobriety and chastity health and usefulness an early ●…iety and a persevering duty To all families visited with the rod of God give consclation and a holy use of the affliction and a speedy deliverance To us