Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	let_v	lord_n	12,952	5	4.4092	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91736	The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657. Before the honorable East-India company. By Edward Reynolds, D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1242; Thomason E934_4*; ESTC R207682	18,609	36

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romanos_fw-la magnos_fw-la feceruni_fw-la domi_fw-la industria_fw-la for_o be_v justum_fw-la imperium_fw-la animus_fw-la in_fw-la consulendo_fw-la liber_fw-la neque_fw-la libidini_fw-la neque_fw-la delicto_fw-la obnoxius_fw-la vid._n aug._n de_fw-fr civit._n dei_fw-la lib._n 5._o c._n 12._o and_o 15._o pausan._n lib._n 10._o pag._n 654._o gr._n lat._n diony_n hal._n antiquit._n lib._n 7._o p._n 419._o a_o vid._n exemplum_fw-la chaeracratis_fw-la et_fw-la chaeraphontis_fw-la apud_fw-la xenophont_n lib._n 2._o memorabil_fw-la pag_n 744_o 746._o edit._n paris_n 1625._o with_fw-mi chrysost._n in_o psal._n 131._o 1._o latius_fw-la reign_fw-la avidum_fw-la domando_fw-la spiritum_fw-la quàm_fw-la si_fw-la lybiam_fw-la remotis_fw-la gadibus_fw-la jungas_fw-la and_o uterque_fw-la polus_n serviat_fw-la uni_fw-la horat._n vid._n philip_n camerar._n hor._n subcisiv_fw-la part_n 3._o c._n 26._o lactant._n lib._n 3._o c._n 15._o hilar._n in_o psal._n 54._o august_n 83._o quaest._n qu._n 71._o omnia_fw-la mundata_fw-la facta_fw-la deputantur_fw-la quando_fw-la quicquid_fw-la non_fw-la fit_fw-la ignoscitur_fw-la aug._n ille_fw-la facit_fw-la ut_fw-la saciamus_fw-la aug._n ep._n 105._o lucretius_n de_fw-la verbis_fw-la isaiae_n serm._n 5._o aug._n de_fw-fr civit._n dei_fw-la lib._n 19_o cap._n 27._o et_fw-la contra_fw-la cresconin_n gram._n lib._n 3._o c._n 80._o chap._n 13._o 22._o a_o affuit_fw-la satan_n improbis_fw-la ●um_fw-la accusationibus_fw-la pulsans_fw-la ille_fw-la territus_fw-la et_fw-la turbatus_fw-la ait_fw-la fateor_fw-la non_fw-la sum_fw-la dignus_fw-la ego_fw-la nec_fw-la propriis_fw-la possum_fw-la meritis_fw-la regnum_fw-la obtinere_fw-la coelorum_fw-la caeterum_fw-la duplici_fw-la jure_fw-la illud_fw-la obtinens_fw-la dominus_fw-la meus_fw-la haereditate_fw-la patris_fw-la and_o merito_fw-la passionis_fw-la altero_fw-la ipse_fw-la contentus_fw-la alterum_fw-la mihi_fw-la donat_fw-la ex_fw-la cujus_fw-la dono_fw-la jure_fw-la illud_fw-la mihi_fw-la vendicans_fw-la non_fw-la confundor_fw-la guliel_n abbas_n in_fw-la vita_fw-la bern._n lib._n 1._o cap._n 12._o bene_fw-la ac_fw-la sapienter_fw-la majores_fw-la instituerunt_fw-la ut_fw-la rerum_fw-la agendarum_fw-la it_o a_o dicendi_fw-la initium_fw-la à_fw-la precationibus_fw-la capere_fw-la plin._n panegyr_n vide_fw-la pinedam_fw-la derebus_fw-la solomonis_fw-la lib._n 3._o cap._n 9_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o arat_fw-la certum_fw-la est_fw-la nos_fw-la velle_fw-la cum_fw-la volumus_fw-la sed_fw-la ille_fw-la facit_fw-la ut_fw-la velimus_fw-la etc._n etc._n aug_n de_fw-la grat._n and_o lib._n arb._n c._n 16._o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o etc._n etc._n xenoph._n de_fw-la expedit_fw-la cyri._n lib._n 3._o valer._n max._n lib._n 5._o c._n 3._o pausan._n l._n 4._o matth._n 10._o 24._o 1_o king_n 17._o 6._o luke_n 16._o 21._o jere._n 38._o 11._o job_n 2._o 8._o 2_o cor._n 11._o 33._o josh._n 2._o 6._o 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impossibile_fw-la contentum_fw-la verbo_fw-la luth._n in_o gen._n 27._o fol._n 405._o aug._n confes._n lib._n 5._o c._n 8._o bonus_fw-la deus_fw-la qui_fw-la non_fw-la tribuit_fw-la saepe_fw-la quod_fw-la volumus_fw-la ut_fw-la tribuat_fw-la quod_fw-la malimus_fw-la aug._n epist._n 34._o and_o tract._n 73._o in_o joan._n and_o tom._n 7._o lib._n de_fw-fr unitat_fw-la eccles._n c._n 19_o and_o contr._n julian_n lib._n 5._o cap._n 4._o and_o ep._n 121._o cap._n 14._o