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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12972	Psalmes of inuocation vpon God to preserue her Maiestie and the people of this lande, from the power of our enemies. Collected and gathered togither, by Christopher Stile.; Psalmes of invocation upon God.	Stile, Christopher.	1588 (1588)	STC 23266; ESTC S105782	6,945	18

stillest the rage of the seas and makest wars to hush in all quarters thou quietest the madnesse of the people thou bringest the deuises of the heathen to nought and makest the counsels of the vngodly to be of none effect thou chastisest thy people O Lord because of their sinne and then thou saiest turne againe you children of men and whensoeuer any people doe repent them of their sins and harken vnto thy hests thou wilt put all their wickednesse out of thy remembance and wilt receiue them vnto thy mercie thou sparest all those that vnfainedly call vpon thee by true repentance through a liuely faith in thy deare sonne Iesus Christ Wherfore O good Lord we here thy beloued people according to our dueties assembled together before thy diuine maiestie in the name of our Sauiour Iesus Christ doe still humble our selues vnto thee pouring out our prayers vnto thee for our most gracious Queene our nobles magistrates gouernors for our selues and for all the people of this thy land of England acknowledging and confessing from the bottom of our harts that we haue sinned we haue committed iniquitie we haue liued vniustly we haue done vngodly in that we haue not regarded thy wholesom counsel godly admonitions and fatherly warnings which thou hast giuen vs from time to time by thy seruants the ministers of thy holy worde and sacraments though that they haue risen vp earely and late to exhort intreate and beseech vs in thy name to forsake our sinnes and be reconsiled vnto thee still wee haue followed the imaginations of our owne harts hardening our faces as an Adamant against thee and thy worde to prouoke thy great wrath and heauie displeasure against this our natiue countrie of England and against our selues If thou O Lord shouldest marke what is done amisse and consider our sins and iniquities according to our deserts it would be to our vtter ouerthrow confusion and not onely cause thee to plague vs in persecuting troubling and molesting vs by the sword of forren power stirred vp against vs by the Romish antechrist the Pope many and sundrie waies to our great trouble and cost to the disquieting of our bodies and expence of our goods by sea and land but also to strike vs with many plagues of sicknes diseases and penurie if thou shouldest consider our sinnes Wherefore O Lord our God we doe most humblie beseech thee to be good and gratious vnto vs that thou wilt vouchsafe to turne all thy displeasure from vs and to forgiue vs all our sinnes past and graunt that wee may liue better in thy obedience hereafter then hetherto we haue done And although we haue sinned O Lord yea grieuously sinned and our sinnes do witnesse against vs yet we know that thou art a righteous iudge and sparest when we deserue punishment and in the middest of thy wrath thinkest vpon mercie Spare vs therefore good Lord we beseech thee and let not thy people of England thine heritage be brought to confusion But as thou hast stood vp for vs and fought our battailes hitherto so we pray thee deare Father still be our defence and succour against all our enimies Thou art our mercifull Father through Iesus Christ for whose sake wee beseech thee to be mercifull vnto vs and forgiue vs all our sinnes and turne thy direfull anger from vs. We the people of England are thy people O Lord and thou art our God we are thy flocke and thou art our shepeheard we are thy children and thou art our Father Be merciful vnto vs thy children tender vs thy flocke and defend vs thy Englishnation Turne thy wrath vpon the nations that haue not knowne thee and that doe not call vpon thy name and turne it we pray thee vpon the Antechristians host send forth thine angel stil to scatter them as sometime thou didst in the host of Senacherib for Iudah and Hezechiah in his time Let the blast of the trumpers blowne by our Gedeon still strike a terror in the harts of the Antechristian Madianites with their combined powers and let be hard the sounding of thy host in the aire to the amasing of the Spanish Assyrians that they and theirs may be a pray for our Elizabeth and our English host or sinke them in the sea as thou didst Pharao his host in pursuing thy Israel to bring them into their seruitude that so our Elizabeth all her faithfull subiects may sing the songes of triumph to thy diuine maiestie that giuest victorie to Kinges And further we beseech thee deare Father for Iesus Christes sake that as thou hast hitherto sent vs plentie and encrease vpon the earth so giue vs a happie ingathering of the same to thy glorie and our comfort and giue vs grace by thy fauourable punishments to amend our liues and make vs thankeful good Lord for all thy goodnesse shewed vpon vs from time to time and for the discomforting of our enimies in some measure whereto we beseech thee rise vp on hie still to ride on and to fight our battels by sea and by land to the vtter ouerthrow of the Antechristian powers to the shame of al those that hate thy gospel and to thy glorie and our comfort through Iesus Christ our Sauiour to whom with thee and the holy ghost be all glorie power and dominion for euer and euer Amen FINIS C. S.