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	son_n	9,020	5	5.5367	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41794	A marriage sermon a sermon called a vvife mistaken, or, A wife and no wife, or, Leah in stead of Rachel a sermon accused for railing against women : for maintaining polygamie many wives : for calling Iacob a hocus-pocus : a sermon laught at more than a play, by the ignorant, for many such mistakes : justified by the wife / by Tho. Grantham ...	Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664.	1641 (1641)	Wing G1553; ESTC R177616	9,043	17

or a bed of violets with a serpent but look upon Leah she is more moderate tender eyed she will be weeping in stead of scoulding Rachel will be subject to be wandering like Dina Leah is tender eyed and the winde will hurt her veniunt spectantur ut Ips● they delight to be looked upon what are these many fancies in their dressings but so many signes to invite a man to Inne there if he please whereas the Passenger else had gone on his way what does the fowler whistle for but to catch the Bird and such is the end of their enchantments Thus you see the danger of beauty there is more danger in it then in the most unruly Elements the fire hath no power of a man if he do not touch it nor the water but if a man look but upon beauty it will endanger him and it is kept with a great deale of danger and care as the Apples of the Hesperides with a watchfull Dragon But will some say why doe you maintaine bleare eyed Leah against beautifull Rachel Leahs fault was great in lying with Iacob To this I answer fornication was held no sin amongst the Gentiles and the Church of Rome holds fornicationem non vagam that if a man keep constantly to one woman it is no sinne and heer let no man be harsh against Leah for she is tender eyed and can weep teares enough to wash away her sin teares enough to wash our Saviours feet alas be not harsh against her she is blear eyed already too much weeping will make her blinde what if Leah have a blemish in the eye of her body yet her understanding the eye of her soule may be cleare and beautifull and if men consider rightly the greatest deformity and blemish in a woman is to be bleare eyed in her understanding to mistake a mans actions not to see them clearly if her husband be sociable then he is given to drunkennes if silent then he hath no discourse in him if merry not that gravity that becomes him if he put not himselfe upon hard adventures to raise his fortunes she is disquieted and if he doe and be foyled then she contemnes him give me the eye of the understanding let the other eye be as cleare as Christal if this be blemisht there is no joy For ought I know this Laba● this Idolater shall rise up against many Christians how usuall is it for many a man to make faire promises to promise a man Rachel he shall have this and that and any thing his heart can desire if he will serve them but when a man hath done all he can they will put Leah upon him some bleare eyed unhandsome thing upon which so soon as a man can but look he shall finde it to be Leah it 's plaine enough to bee seen behold it was Leah it is a hard thing for a man to get a Rachel of his Master to get any thing that hath any delight or pleasure in it great men will not part with their Rachels And still I say this Laban had more honesty and goodnes then many a Christian for although he had done Iacob a little wrong yet he had so much mildnes and Gentlenes and Gentility as he did suffer Iacob to speak to him and to tell him of it why hast thou beguiled me thus Now there are rich men if they have done a man a displeasure will not be told of it Nay if a poore man trust a rich man with money if he be not disposed to give it or is unwilling will be angry if the poore man ask it and doe him all the mischiefe that may be and what is this but like theeves that doe not onely rob a man but binde a man too and gag him that he shall not speak or like Rogues that murther a man because they shall not betray them God send me to deale with Laban with an Idolater I shall finde a man that I dare speak to I shall find a mate that will give me Leah that will give me something and cosin me of all God complained of his vinyard that when he had taken agreat deal of pains with it it brought forth wilde grapes ecce Labruscus behold wilde grapes plaine enough to be seen And heer if I should shew to the world with an Ecce the wilde grapes the Basest actions of men I make no question but men would passe the same judgement that David did upon the rich man that tooke the poor mans Lambe And heer let every man be exhorted not to deceive his servant or his kinsman or his friend Iacob for deceiving his brother his Father was paid in his own Coyn enjoyed not the blessing twenty yeers after Laban deceived him in his wife Laban for deceiving Iacob was deceived by Iacob with the rods he laid Rachel stole Labans gods for deceiving her of her husband at first Iacob deceived his Father with Goats skins and he himselfe was deceived with the blood of a Goat David cut off the lap of Sauls coat and his clothes would not keep him warme in his old age Sampsons eye lusted after a Philistine and Sampsons eye was put out Ieroboams hand reached to the Prophet and that hand withered Thus you see how God punisheth sin in the same act in the same part in the same kinde Time will not give me leave heer to shew you how many a man sleeps with Leah with some ugly deformed sin and being blinded in sin and darknesse thinks it is Rachel very beautifull and loves it entirely till the morning light of Gods grace arise and then he sees the deformity of his sin how bleare eyed it is how ill-favoured and now let every man consider how we are all servants to God and we serve him for Rachel for some pleasant thing we delight in as the Apostles dream't of a Kingdome if it please God to give us Leah in stead of Rachel to give us that which pleaseth us not so well let us be content with it and serve him on still he will at the last give us Rachel we shall be married to him in whom are all joys such as eye hath not seen nor eare heard neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive To which God of his mercy bring us to God the Father God the Sonne and God the Holy Ghost be all honour c. Exceptions taken at these words in a Sermon Malum non est nisi in bono every evill is grounded upon some good as in adultery there is congressus viri foemina naturalis there is that good of generation increase of the world In drunkennesse society but in pride there is no good by this men and Angels fell They accuse me for saying good is joyned with evill This same you may read in M. Perkins his Treatise of Predestination p. 6. 15. There is not any absolute evill saith he because their is nothing so evill but it hath some good joyned