Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	grace_n	jesus_n	lord_n	11,571	5	3.7769	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08872	The cruel mother; being a true relation of the bloody murther committed by M. Cook, upon her dearly beloved child; with the causes wherefore she did it : her occasional speeches to several friends and others that came to visit her in prison, vvith the manner of her execution and demeanour there.		1670 (1670)	Wing C7420; ESTC R215647	4,145	8

in speech to every thing of good unless to the confession of the unnatural inhumane notorious material bowelless cut-throat murther Upon which at the first rather inclined to desperation at last did believe there was mercy enough and pardoning grace in the Lord Jesus Christ but she could find in her self no comfort of it though desires after it all this while so far forth as her wicked companions and fellow Prisoners did not by their graceless discourses and unseemly actions prevent she implyed in duty but she told us she could only word it and not heart it Another time told us that if she could be but once more sensible of the light of Gods countenance being revealed to her she did not care if she died the next moment which was the most honest expression that ever we heard from her For saith she the reproachful ignominious bodily death I do not fear it is my due debt I ought to pay but the death of my Soul I dread She told us a day or two after she had received some comfort but soon eclipsed and lost again by reason of melancholy vapours her intellects being much impair'd and the Devil improving the present advantage but her usual request of Ministers and the People of God was not voluntarily but as the discourse of others made way and exhausted it Thus you have an account of her quotidial and dayly temper The Sessions now beginning at Justice Hall in the Old Baily on the 21. Feb. She was there Arraigned and Cast for her life By the favour of the Bench she had a weeks time granted her to prepare for her death and to die on Wednesday the second of March in Smithfield over against Cloth-fair Gate where formerly she lived and committed that out-crying unparallel'd Murther Dr. St. a very Able and Reverend Divine was had to her on Monday before she suffered both to see how she was prepared for Death and to understand the truth as to what might be the occasion of her committing that horrid sin and that Religion might not be aspersed He demanded solemnly and seriously whether that was the occasion of it and that she would give the truth of it as a dying woman She answered no there was no such thing but being prest farther with the same motives said she did not believe her Relations to love her so well as they ought and she being under some distempers of body a week or a fortnight before and they would not seek out for help She did it out of revenge to them which she did intend to have done to her self but going up stairs with the Knife found the innocent Babe the Devil turning the temptation ●●leep in the Cradle took it out and most barbarously Cut the Throat of it it giving one shrike and lifting up the eyes to see from whom the the fatal bloody stroke came and so became the Mothers sinful Sacrifice March 1. Being the day before her Execution her Husband being gone from her most part of the Afternoon being jealous he was gone to seek her Pardon she declared to a friend that was with her That she did not desire a Pardon but if she could obtain a Pardon in Christ it was all she desired continuing very chearful all night with breathing after Christ and begging Pardon for her sins After half an hours rest which was all she took in the night her Husband asked her how it was with her she answered not so well to boast she found greater discoveries of Christ to her poor Soul then she heretofore had and was more chearful and freer to discourse of her condition this day then any day before since she came nto Prison On the day of her Execution reading Isaiah 43. ver 1. But now thus saith the Lord that created the● O Jacob and he that formed thee O Israel Fear not For I have redeemed thee I have called thee by thy name thou art mine She said to her Husband what hath the Lord Redeemed me such a sinner as 〈◊〉 am redeemed Being asked by her Husband when she was going into the Cart If she would not take her Bible with her she answered she could not boast to the world she desired a Pardon from Christ in her heart and said she freely forgave every one and desired forgivness of all that they would pray to God for her that he would forgive her Being brought to the place of Execution in Smithfield a Gibbet being Erected at Cloth fair Gate after her Prayers and Prayers made for her and many good expressions uttered by her the Executioner did his Office She being observed to lift up her hands after she was turned off so long as she was judged to have any sense left in her FINIS