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
A66607	A sermon preached before the judge at the assizes held at Nottingham, on the 19th of July, 1689 by W. Wilson ...	Wilson, W., Rector of St. Peter's Church in Nottingham.	1689 (1689)	Wing W2957; ESTC R8299	16,299	32

Rights and Liberties and above all the Encouragement of Vertue and the upholding the Protestant Interest and what now does the Lord our God require of us but to do Justice to love Meroy and to walk humbly with our God This is that Return that he expects from us for so great a Blessing that Return that in gratitude we are obliged to make and which will fully compleat our Deliverance For then will our Enemies despair of ever seeing their Designs upon us compassed when they see our Distractions healed our Animosities laid and the Hearts of English-Men united by Love and Friendship Then will their Malice find no matter to work upon nor no Party whose discontents shall furnish them with means to engage them in designs against the Interests of their Religion and their Country Then we need no more fear the Arts of Jesuites nor the Power of France For nothing can destroy England but its being crumbled into Parties and nothing will contribute more to the removing all Discontents and the extirpating that Bitterness which has of late so much shook the Foundations of our Peace as that Justice Mercy and humble walking with God that will make God a Friend to Man and every Man as a God to his Neighbour For who is he that will harm us if we be followers of that which is good Who is it that we need to fear if from the sense of the good that God has shown us we learn to walk more humbly with him and by a more serious regard to Piety engage him to be our Guardian and Protector Nay who will dare to attempt upon our Peace if they see that we dwell under the Shadow of the Almighty and see us as wise to countermine their designs by acts of Justice Mercy and Humanity as they are to prosecute them by first sowing Divisions and then exasperating them by leavening Mens Souls with a Spirit of Oppression and Violence Inhumanity and Cruelty They could never have put us into so much dread had not our own unhappy Heats prepared them Parties who for wreaking a little Spight easily as they were complemented closed in with the advantage of being countenanced at Court And there is nothing that for the future will so perfectly remove our Fears as that Justice and Mercy that will unite our Interests and reconcile our Hearts For how is it possible there should be Heats and Animosities among Men when no Man has any cause of Apprehensions from another How shall any Man converse with Disguise or Jealousy when he knows of none that will do him harm So long as Justice is the governing Principle among Men Superiours need not fear any ill from their Inferiours because this Vertue will incline them to give them all Honour and Reverence that is their due Nor need Inferiours have any dread of the Power of those above them because this Vertue joined with Mercy will dispose them to use it for their Defence And no Man need to have a Guard upon himself for fear of any Person he converses with because every Man will be kind and good-natured Then will our Seats of Judicature be reverenced And since it is impossible but such Differences will arise among the most honest and just Persons as can no otherwise be determined but in a Court of Judicature then no Man will be afraid of submitting his Cause to the Judgment of a Court when both Witnesses and Jurors do fear an Oath and give their Testimonies and their Verdicts according to Truth and Righteousness And O that in this our Day in which God by having shewn us what is good does seem to put us upon the trial whether we will do our selves good and in which from the Example of a pious and good Prince we have all the Encouragements that a People can desire to Piety Justice and Charity we would study to know these things that make so much for our Peace and happiness For the obtaining of which great Blessing may it please the God of Mercy and Love to give us the Grace and Wisdom to apply our Minds to know the import and advantage of those great Vertues of Piety Justice and Mercy which for the good he has shown us he requires of us for the Sake of his beloved Son and our gracious Mediatour and Redeemer To whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be ascribed all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS