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	lord_n	spare_v	2,870	5	9.3705	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10047	A heartie prayer, in a needfull time of trouble. The sermon preached at Theobalds, before his Maiestie, and the lords of the Priuie Councell, an houre before the death of our late soueraigne King Iames. On Sunday, March 27. / By D. Price, deane of Hereford, then in attendance, and now chaplaine in ordinarie to his Maiestie.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1625 (1625)	STC 20293; ESTC S115208	20,513	40

and cryeth out still 2. The Disciples her back-frinds they would haue her sent backe Send her away she cryeth after vs and yet shee is not retarded but continueth her calling 3. Our Sauiour answereth her and reiecteth her as not capable of any good from him I am not sent but to the lost sheepe of Israel shee a Canaanite yet neither Disciples nor Master can beat backe her Faith shee followeth and falleth downe and worshippeth and cryeth Lord helpe me 4. Our Sauiour replieth in the most bitter Phrase that euer hee vsed to any poore Suiter It is not meete to take the childrens bread and to giue it to dogs Mat. 6. The daughter possessed with a Deuill the mother accounted a dog and holy things not to be giuen to dogs this had bin enough to haue blasted her hope and rooted vp her faith and haue confounded her confidence and wounded her distressed soule and silenced her importunity yet behold she that had all these discouragements replieth and by her reply crowneth her confidence with a blessed conquest Truth Lord but the dogs eate of the crummes that fall from their Masters table She wrought a miracle vpon her Sauiour made the deafe eares to heare and the dumbe tongue to speake to tongue and eares shee cryed as Christ to the eyes of the blind Ephata bee opened heare and answer my petition and grant my request O how well pleased is the Lord with the importunity of his seruants when they cry day and night and double their ingeminated obsecrations Looke vpon blessed Hezekias his manner of Prayer Isay 37.17 Encline thine eares O Lord and heare open thine eyes O Lord and see heare and when he lay vpon his death-bed chattering like a swallow mourning like a Doue I am depriued of the residue of my yeares I said I shall not see the Lord euen the Lord in the Land of the liuing hee knew that no balme in Gilead no vnguent of the Apothecaries no skill of Physitians no fruits of the fields no flowers of the garden no mineralls of the ground Esay 38. could giue the least allay vnto his sicke and sorrowfull soule but onely the Lord whom therefore hee remembreth and sixe times in his Prayer repeateth that sacred name of the Lord. It is obserued that God himselfe doth seeme to be pleased to vse often an ingemination of the names of those he best loued in Scripture Gen. 22.11 Exod. 3.4 1 Sam 3.10 as when he called Abraham Abraham Moses Moses and Samuel Samuel in a like manner we ought to be well pleased and much delighted in the blessed remembrance and inuocation of his name And sure when the hart is full of God the tongue will not refraine to talke of him they that rarely thinke on God shew how miserable their estate of grace is If the Lord be not in our hearts wee are godlesse if in our hearts without ioy we are hopelesse If wee reioyce in him and speake not of him we are shamefully thanklesse If he be in our harts in our tongues in our ioy coldly and perfunctorily we are negligently faithlesse and therefore as wee must thinke on the Lord alwayes so speake on him often and when we pray to him doe it earnestly and zealously in faith without wauering in confidence without doubting in perseuerance without desisting crying out as Ionas Mariners Ion. 1. Wee beseech thee O Lord wee beeseech thee or as Dauid here I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee To land this point remēber that the Church hath appointed vs to pray in al time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the houre of death In all time of our tribulation we are ready to pray but in the time of our wealth and prosperity we are strangers to deuotion yet in the time of thy wealth and health remember tribulation remember in the daies of thy peace thy visitation remember thy houre of death for when ryot hath beene master of mis-rule and turned sobriety the good steward out of doore and Intemperance an vnbidden guest hath got in and defiled all the roomes of thy body Nature like a good-huswife would willingly cleanse the house and desires the helpe of Physicke as a Scauinger to make cleane the roomes but alas she findeth that sinne lyeth like a dog at the doore and death the cruell Serjeant threatens to serue an extent vpon the whole house there is no such meanes to quit thee of thy disease and of thy direfull enemy as prayer it is Dauids Antidote but thou must take it fasting and bee sure to take it warme it must bee feruent prayer and take it not onely morning and euening but take it as a continuall Cordiall and cry mightily Haue mercy haue mercy Spare me O Lord spare me O Lord I beseech thee to heare me good Lord I beseech thee to heare me And so being stedfast and vnmoueable and alwayes abounding in this worke of the Lord thou shalt finde that thy labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord. And so I haue ended my third step the manner how hee earnestly implored I will mend my pace for it is the day of our Royall Iacobs wrestling and I feare as Elisha heard the sound of Iehorams feet following the bloody messenger sent to take away his life so my heart trembleth to thinke it and my cares tingle to heare the heauie and sad approach of pale Death entring into this Kingly Palace O that we could with Elisha looke heedfully now this messenger this murtherer commeth 2. Kings 6.32 and that we could by our prayers shut the doore and hold him fast at the doore and this prayer might preuaile O Lord I beseech thee saue now O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity Send Prosperity Praeuentions of Paliticians presumptions of the foolish circumspection of the wise circumuention of the wits are all Arts Cobwebs and experience paper Castles the Silk-worms worke and the fooles wonder Prosperity is only the gift of the father of lights The old Speech is that wise men cause prosperous times But alas Policie trippeth vp sacred Wisedome for Policie and Wisedome differ as much as Scripture and Apocrypha and Policie is often as offensiue to true Wisedome as Hagar to Sarah and sometimes as iniurious as Elimas the Sorcerer was to Peter or Alexander the Copper-smith to Paul Laertius tels vs of certaine young men of Ionia Diog. Laer. de vit Philos standing on the shore agreed with certaine Fisher-men for the next draught in which there being a rich and precious peece of Plate they not agreeing whose by right it was they went to consult the Oracle the Oracle enioyned them to send it to the wisest man aliue they thereupon sent it to Thales hee disclaimed it and sent it to another who also refused it till hauing passed through many who all denyed that attribute of the wisest to belong to them at length they bring it to Solon