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	transgression_n	3,082	5	10.1157	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87760	King Charles his farewell Left as a legacy to his deare children; written a little before his death. Containing many excellent admonitions and directions how to demeane themselves in all estates and conditions. With his prayers in the time of his troubles.; Eikon basilike. Selections	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing K552; Thomason E1410_2; ESTC R209521	13,170	35

had given me his Blessing I took my leave Further He commanded Us all to forgive those people but never to trust them For they had been most false to him and to those that gave them power and he seared also to their own soules And desired mee not to grieve for him for he should dye a Martyr And that he doubted not but the Lord would settle his Throne upon his Son and that We should be all happier than We could have expected to have been if he had lived With many other things which at present I cannot remember ELIZABETH THe KING said to the Duke of Gloucester that He would say nothing to him but what was for the good of his soule He told him that He heard the Army intended to make him King but it was a thing not for him to take upon him if he regarded the welfare of his Soule sor he had two Brothers before him and therefore commanded him upon his Blessing never to accept of it unlesse it redounded lawfully upon him And commanded him to feare the LORD and He would provide for him Copia Vera. An Epitaph upon King CHARLES So falls that stately Cedar while it stood That was the onely glory of the Wood Great Charles thou earhly God Celestiall Man Whose life like others though it were a span Yet in that span was comprehended more Then earth hath waters or the Ocean shore Thy heavenly vertues Angels should rehearse It is a theame too high for humane Verse He that would know thee right then let him looke Vpon thy rare incomparable Booke And reade it o're which if he doe He 'le finde thee King and Priest and Prophet too And sadly see our losse and though in vaine With fruitlesse wishes call thee back again Nor shall oblivion sit upon thy Herse Though there were neither Monument nor Verse Thy sufferings and thy death let no man name It was thy glory but the Kingdomes shame J. H. A Perfect Copie of PRAYERS Used by His MAJESTIE In the time of His Sufferings Delivered to Doctor JUXON Bishop of London immediately before His Death Also a Copie of a Letter from the PRINCE A PRAYER in time of Captivitie O Powerfull and Eternall God! to whom nothing is so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemned look upon My Misery with thine eye of Mercy and let Thine infinite power vouchsafe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto Me as to Thee shall seem most convenient let not Injurie O Lord triumph over Me and let my faults by Thy hand be corrected and make not my unjust Enemies the Ministers of thy Justice But yet my God if in Thy Wisdome this be the aptest chastisement for my unexcusable transgressions if this ingratefull bondage be fittest for my over-high desires if the pride of my not enough humble heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yeeld unto Thy will and chearfully embrace what sorrow Thou wilt have me suffer Onely thus much let me crave of Thee Let my craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from Thee that by Thy goodnesse which is Thy selfe Thou wilt suffer some beame of Thy Majestie so to shine in My Minde that I who in My greatest Afflictions acknowledge it My Noblest Title to be Thy Creature may still depend confidently on Thee Let Calamity be the exercise but not the overthrow of My virtue O let not their prevailing power be to my destruction And if it be Thy will that they more and more vex Me with punishment yet O Lord never let their wickednesse have such a hand but that I may still carry a pure minde and stedfast resolution ever to serve Thee without feare or presumption yet with that humble Confidence which may best please Thee so that at the last I may come to Thy eternall Kingdome through the Merits of Thy Son our alone Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Another Prayer ALmighty and most mercifull Father looke down upon me Thy unworthy servant who here prostrate my selfe at the Foot-stool of Thy Throne of Grace but look upon me O Father through the Mediation and in the Merits of Jesus Christ in whom Thou art onely well pleased for of my selfe I am not worthy to stand before Thee or to speak with my unclean lips to Thee most holy and eternall God for as in sinne I was conceived and born so likewise I have broken all thy Commandements by my sinfull motions unclean thoughts evill words and wicked workes omitting many duties I ought to doe and committing many vices which Thou hast forbidden under pain of Thy heavy Displeasure as for my sinnes O Lord they are innumerable wherefore I stand here liable to all the miseries in this life and everlasting Torments in that to come if Thou shouldest deal with me according to my deserts I confesse O Lord that it is Thy Mercy which endureth for ever and Thy compassion which never fails which is the cause that I have not been long agoe consumed but with Thee there is mercy and plenteous Redemption in the multitude therefore of Thy mercies and by the Merits of Jesus Christ I intreat Thy Divine Majesty that Thou wouldst not enter into judgement with Thy servant nor be extreame to mark what is done amisse but be Thou mercifull unto me and wash away all my sinnes with that precious bloud that my Saviour shed for me And I beseech thee O Lord not onely to wash away all my sinnes but also to purge my heart by Thy holy Spirit from the drosse of my naturall corruption and as Thou doest adde dayes to my life so good Lord I beseech Thee to adde repentance to my dayes that when I have past this mortall life I may be partaker of Thy everlasting Kingdome through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer and Confession made in and for the times of Affliction ALmighty and most mercifull Father as it is onely Thy goodnesse that admits of Our imperfect Prayers and the knowledge that thy mercies are infinite which can give Vs any hope of Thy accepting or granting them so it is our bounden and necessary duty to confesse our sins freely unto Thee and of all men living I have most need most reason so to doe no man having been so much obliged by Thee no man more grievously offending Thee that degree of knowledge which Thou hast given Mee adding likewise to the guilt of My transgressions For was it through ignorance that I suffered innocent bloud to be shed by a false pretended way of Justice or that I permitted a wrong way of Thy Worship to be set up in Scotland and injured the Bishops in England O no but with shame and griefe I confesse that I therein followed the perswasions of worldly wisdome forsaking the Dictates of a right-informed Conscience Wherefore O Lord I have no excuse to make no hope left but in the multitude of Thy mercies for I know My repentance weak and My prayers faulty Grant therefore mercifull Father so to strengthen My repentance and amend My prayers that Thou mayest cleare the way for Thine own mercies to which O let thy Justice at last give place putting a speedy end to My deserved afflictions In the meane time give Me Patience to endure Constancie against Temptations and a discerning spirit to choose what is best for Thy Church and People which thou hast committed to My Charge Grant this O most mercifull Father for thy Sonne Jesus Christs sake our onely Saviour Amen A Prayer in time of imminent danger O Most mercifull Father though My sinnes are so many and grievous that I may rather expect the effects of thy anger than so great a deliverance as to free Me from My present great danger yet O Lord since Thy mercies are over all Thy workes and Thou never failest to relieve all those who with humble and unfeigned repentance come to Thee for succour it were to multiply not diminish My transgressions to despaire of Thy heavenly favour wherefore I humbly desire Thy Divine Majesty that Thou wilt not onely Pardon all my sinnes but also free Me out of the hands and protect Me from the malice of My cruell Enemies But if thy wrath against My hainous Offences will not otherwayes be satisfied than by suffering Me to fall under my present afflictions Thy will be done yet with humble Importunity I doe and shall never leave to implore the assistance of Thy heavenly Spirit that my cause as I am Thy Vicegerent may not suffer through my weaknesse or want of courage O Lord so strengthen and enlighten all the faculties of my minde that with clearnesse I may shew forth Thy Truth and manfully endure this bloudy Tryall that so my sufferings here may not onely glorifie Thee but likewise be a furtherance to my salvation hereafter Grant this O mercifull Father for his sake who suffered for Me even Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen FINIS A Copie of a Letter which was sent from the PRINCE to the KING Dated from the Hague Jan. 23. 1648. SIR HAving no means to come to the knowledge of your Majesties present condition but such as I receive from the Prints or which is as uncertain Report I have sent this Bearer Seamour to wait upon your Majestie and to bring me an account of it that I may withall assure your Majestie I doe not onely pray for your Majestie according to my dutie but shall alwayes be ready to doe all which shall be in my power to deserve that blessing which I now humbly beg of your Majestie upon SIR Your MAjESTIES most humble and most obedient son and servant CHARLES Hague Jan. 23. 1648. The Superscription was thus For the King