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	sin_n	soul_n	9,439	5	5.2050	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79700	A form of prayer. To be used on Wednesday the 28th of May; being the fast-day appointed by proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant and Council. To seek reconciliation with Almighty God, and to implore him, that he would infatuate, and defeat the counsels of the papists our enemies; continue his mercies and the light of his Gospel to us, and our posterity; and bestow his abundant blessings upon His Sacred Majesty, and this present Parliament.	Church of Ireland.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4194U; ESTC R171348	3,738	9

A FORM OF PRAYER To be used on Wednesday the 28th of May BEING The Fast-day Appointed by Proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant and Council To seek Reconciliation with Almighty God and to implore him that he would Infatuate and Defeat the Counsels of the Papists our Enemies Continue his Mercies and the Light of his Gospel to us and our posterity and bestow his abundant Blessings upon His Sacred Majesty and this present Parliament By His Majesties Command DUBLIN Printed by Benjamin Took and John Crook Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold by Mary Crok at his Majesties Printing-house in Skinner-Row 1679. The Service shall be the same in all things with the Office appointed to be used upon Friday in every Week if it be Holiday Except where it is after herein otherwise directed ¶ He that Ministreth shall begin with these Sentences Joel II. 13. Dan. IX 9 10. Jer. X. 24. Morning PRAYER ¶ In stead of Venite Exultemus shall this Psalm following be used one verse by the Minister and another by the Clerk and People Psal LV. I HEar my prayer O God and hide not thy self from my petition 2 Take heed unto me and hear me how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed 3 The enemy crieth so and the ungodly cometh on so fast for they are minded to do me some mischief so maliciously are they set against me Psal LIX 2 O deliver me from the wicked doers and save me from the Bloud-thirsty men Psal LXIV 2. Hide me from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of wicked doers Psal LIX 3 For lo they lie waiting for my soul the mighty men are gathered against me without any offence or fault of me O Lord. Psal LXIV 3 They encourage themselves in mischief and commune among themselves how they may lay snares and say that no man shall see them Psal LXVIII 1. Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him 2 Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God Psal LXX 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that wish me evil Psa LIX 13 Consume them in thy wrath consume them that they may perish and know that it is God that ruleth in Iacob and unto the ends of the world Psa LXXIX 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the Glory of thy Name O deliver us and be merciful unto our sins for thy Names sake Psal Lxxxvi 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee Psal LIV 4. Behold God is my helper the Lord is with them that uphold my soul Psa Lxxxiv 17 Shew some token upon me for good that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Pals LXI 6. Thou shalt grant the King a long life that his years may endure throughout all generations 7. He shall dwell before God for ever O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness that they may preserve him Psal Lxxix 14 So we that are thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Proper Psalms LI. XXXII.LXXXIII.XX The first Lesson Isaiah I. The Second Lesson Luc. XIII or Acts XXIII ¶ Instead of the Collect for the Day shall be used this which followeth both in Morning and Evening Prayer and in the Communion-Service ALmighty God who of thy Great Mercy toward us hast discovered the Designs and disappointed the Attempts of those Popish Conspirators who under the pretence of Religion and thy most Holy Name had contriv'd our Destruction and labour'd by the most unjustifiable Methods of Treason and Murther and the Assassination of His Majesties Sacred Person to introduce the Tyranny of a foreign power and the Abomination of Superstitious Worship and thereby to enslave both the bodies and souls of thy servants and to extinguish the blessed light of thy holy Gospel amongst us We yield thee praise and thanks for this thine infinite goodness to us imploring thy Grace and Favour in the farther Discovery of these depths of Satan this mystery of iniquity Send forth thy Light and thy Truth and let them preserve us Protect and defend our Sovereign Lord the King Bind up his soul in the bundle of life and let no Weapon form'd against him prosper Cloth all his enemies with shame but upon Himself and His Posterity let the Crown ever flourish To this end Bless the present Parliament now Assembled and knit together the Hearts of this whole Nation as the heart of one man in the defence of our King our Laws and our Religion Teach us to know at least in this our Day the things which belong to our peace and let them not be hid from our Eyes Remove from among us the Accursed Thing those personal and those publick Guilts the cry whereof is gone up to Heaven and calls aloud for Vengeance And grant that being by true repentance reconcil'd to thee our God we may also be united by Christian Love and Charity to one another So that we walking in the paths of thy holy Law thou maist continue the Blessing thereof to us and our posterity and we All may continue to give thee Thanks for ever and shew forth thy praise from Generation to Generation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c. shall be read in this Order The Collect for Ash-wednesday The Three Collects in the Commination the Collect for XXI Sunday after Trinity The Prayer for the High Court of Parliament and this which followeth For Deliverance from the Papists our Enemies Taken out of the Office for the Fifth of November ALmighty God who hast in all ages shewed thy Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the Protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy holy and eternal Truth from the wicked Conspiracies and malicious practices of all the enemies thereof Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our enemies that delight in Bloud infatuate and defeat their Councels abate their Pride asswage their Malice and confound their Devices Strengthen the hands of our gracious King CHARLES and all that are put in Authority under him with Iudgment and Iustice to cut off all such workers of Iniquity as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction that they may

never prevail against us or triumph in the ruine of thy Church among us But that our gracious Sovereign and his Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodness protected in the same we may all duly serve theé and give thee thanks in thy holy Congregation through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Then the Prayer of S. Chrysostom At the Communion-Service The Epistle 1 Cor. X. 1. to v. 16. Or for the Epistle Joel II. 11 The day of the Lord c. to v. 19. The Gospel Matth. XXI 33. There was c. to v. 42. Or Matth. VI. 16. to v. 22. ¶ Immediatly after the Prayer For the whole state of Christs Church shall this be used GLorious and gracious God who 's Iudgments against obstinate Offenders are most severe and terrible but thy Mercies infinite to All that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto theé We sinful people of this Land do acknowledge before theé to thy Glory and our own shame that never any Nation had more Experience of thy Goodness nor yet did ever any more unthankfully abuse it When thou gavest us great and long prosperity we fed our selves to the full waxed fat and kicked against theé When thou threwest us into horrid Confusions from which we saw then little hope of arising even in the time of that distress did we trespass yet more against theé When by Miracles of Mercy thou hadst turn'd our Captivities we soon return'd to Folly to our vomit and to our wallowing in our former or greater Filthiness Even while thou hast of late appear'd for us by discovering the Plots and Contrivances of our implacable Enemies of the Romish Faction we have beén in the mean time by our sins fighting against Heaven and against theé And now we are no more worthy to be called either thy sons or thy servants whom neither thy Fear hath driven nor thy Goodness led to Repentance In Mercy awaken our drowsie Consciences Soften and subdue our hard hearts into deép contrition Pardon the many great offences of us thy servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation Remove the Evils we now lie under Avert the Iudgments which we justly fear because we most justly deserve Discover more and more the snares of Death and Popish Treachery and let us never fall into the hands of those men who 's mercies are cruel Vnite all our hearts in the profession of the true Religion which thine own right hand hath planted among us and in a holy Conversation answerable thereunto Pour out thy abundant Blessings upon our Gracious King and his great Council the present Parliament Keep him as the Apple of thine Eye hide him under the shadow of thy wings Inform his Princes after thy will and teach his Senators Wisdom And grant that all their Counsels Resolutions and Endeavours may tend to and end in the Glory of thy great Name the preservation of thy Church and true Religion among us and the security peace and prosperity of these Kingdoms All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of Iesus Christ thy Son our Saviour Amen Evening PRAYER Proper Psalms XXI XLVI LVII CXLIII The First Lesson Isaiah LVIII The Second Lesson Rom. XIII ¶ Immediate●y after the Collect Lighten our darkness shall be read in this Order The Collect for Ash-Wednesday The three Collects in the Commination and the Collect for the XXI Sunday after Trinity ¶ And after the Prayer for the High Court of Parliament shall be added that for Deliverance from the Papists our Enemies and the Prayer Glorious and gracious God c. as they are set down before in the Morning-Service FINIS