Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	great_a	lord_n	spare_v	2,993	5	9.3697	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82540	The answer of the Parliament of England, to a paper, entituled, a declaration by the Kings Majesty, to his subjects of the kingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland. Printed at Edinburgh, 1650. Whereunto is annexed, copies of four letters to the King of Scotland, which were found in the Lord Loudouns cabinet. Die Veneris, 20 Septem. 1650. Ordered by the Parliament, that this answer and letters be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1598-1663.	1650 (1650)	Wing E1227; Thomason E613_2; ESTC R206510	21,416	40

himself and his Interests wholly upon God and in all matters Civil to follow the Advice of his Parliament and such as shall be intrusted by them and in all matters Ecclesiastick the Advice of the General Assembly and their Commissioners and being sensible of his duty to God and desirous to approve himself to the consciences of all his good Subjects and to stop the mouthes of his and their Enemies and Traducers doth in reference to his former Deportments and as to his Resolutions for the future Declare as follows ANSVVER THe Dispensations of Divine Providence are indeed merciful by which Princes or Governors are at any time really recovered out of the snare of evil Counsel yet when this is done by the violence of an absolute Necessity 't is seldom real or lasting and then the Mercy in it is but little to the People who will taste the bitter fruit of such dissimulations when it is too late It seems that the King of Scotland can now profess to the world he hath been in the snare of evil Counsel whilest he entertained any doubts or diffidence of the loyalty of his People of Scotland and stood at a distance from them and their Cause and was unconvinced of the righteousness of it and did not joyn in one Covenant with them nor cast himself and his Interests wholly upon God and in all matters Civil follow the advice of his Parliament and in all matters Ecclesiastick the General Assembly or the Commissioners thereof We do not deny but his former Counsels as well as himself have suffered a great change through the merciful Dispensation of Divine Providence to this Commonwealth prospering so wonderfully our Armies in Ireland as to exclude him and his Interest in a great measure from thence and preserving this Nation in Peace within it self to prevent any footing to be given to him here whereby he was reduced to the course he hath now taken to say what the Parliament and Kirk of Scotland shall put into his mouth and tell him is fit for him and his Affairs to declare or else to lose all And if Scotland do esteem it so great a mercy to have him reduced to this pure necessity of casting himself into their Arms We know to whom under God they owe the Obligation a Blessing which we confess we do not envy them and which were we secured never to be partaker of with them or by their means we should not hinder them from the free and full enjoyment of Having by fad experience found what it is to have a King though never so well beset in appearance with good men about him or to trust to his Repentances and Promises Oaths or Declarations how fair soever in shew and how strong soever laid down in words As to the Evil of the Counsel out of which its said He is recovered by this change We say That if the future Resolutions mentioned in this Declaration be the evidences whereby we are to judge of the goodness of the new Counsel we cannot but take notice That they do onely vary the means but not the end which still is evil to wit The enslaving the three Nations and do change the Instruments but not the Cause as is before and shall further be made evident and therefore we must be excused if we judge that their yong King is yet in as great a snare of evil Counsel as ever and thereupon endeavor what in us lies to keep this Nation from falling under the bad effects thereof §. 2. THough his Majesty as a dutiful Son be obliged to honor the memory of his Royal Father and have in estimation the person of his Mother yet doth he desire to be deeply humbled and afflicted in Spirit before God because of his Fathers hearkning to and following evil Counsels and his opposition to the work of Reformation and to the Solemn League and Covenant by which so much of the blood of the Lords People hath been shed in these Kingdoms and for the Idolatry of his Mother the Toleration whereof in the Kings House as it was matter of great stumbling to all the Protestant Churches so could it not but be an high provocation against him who is a jealous God visiting the sins of the Fathers upon the Children And albeit his Majesty might extenuate his former Carriages and Actions in following of the advice and walking in the way of those who are opposite to the Covenant and to the work of God and might excuse his delaying to give satisfaction to the just and necessary Desires of the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland from his education and age and evil Counsel and Company and from the strange insolent proceedings of Sectaries against his Royal Father and in reference to Religion and the ancient Government of the Kingdom of England to which he hath the undoubted Right of Succession yet knowing that he hath to do with God he doth ingeniously acknowledge all his own sins and all the sins of his Father House craving pardon and hoping for mercy and reconciliation through the blood of Jesus Christ And as he doth value the constant Addresses that were made by his People to the Throne of Grace on his behalf when he stood in opposition to the Work of God as a singular Testimony of long-suffering patience and mercy upon the Lords part and loyalty upon theirs so doth he hope and shall take it as one of the greatest tokens of their love and affection to him and to his Government That they will continue in Prayer and Supplication to God for him That the Lord who spared and preserved him to this day notwithstanding of all his own guiltiness may be at peace with him and give him to fear the Lord his God and to serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing minde all the days of his life ANSVVER THe first Testimony of the good of the New Counsels into whose hands the Scots King hath cast himself is The Repentance towards God which they advise him to make in reference to his own Sins and Sins of his Fathers House A matter in it self truly praise-worthy and the consequence whereof in the words wherein it is express'd doth in no small measure reach to the Acknowledgement of the just Hand of God upon his Father and Mother in the Banishing of the one and taking away the life of the other by the hand of Justice putting it into the hearts of those here that remained faithful to their Trust in Parliament to cause his Blood to be poured forth by whose personal Actings Authority and Commissions so much of the Blood of the Lords People hath been shed in the Three Nations as this Declaration it self acknowledges and for which therefore we have reason to bless God and admire his Providence That out of the mouth of the Son there hath in the sight of the whole World been brought forth such a Justification of the Sentence passed and Executed upon the Father But as to