Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	hear_v	lord_n	merciful_a	2,985	5	9.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

as outward strength decayeth so let spiritual strength continually increase in him as outward comforts fade vanish let spiritual comforts appear be cleared up more and more unto him and when thou shalt be pleased to call him out of this wretch'd world make him willingly cheerfuly to yield him self up into thy hands and send thine holy angells with a commission of mercy from thy mercy-seat to translate his soul to thy heavenly glory thorow Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer to be used when we hear a Passing-Bell Toll or have any other notice of a Soul ready to depart OH Mercifull God Thou Father of all pitty and compassion open the bowels of thy Tender mercy unto this Soul that seems now ready to depart and to be now entring into the Ocean of Eternity Thou knowest O Lord the state and condition thereof and how it is disposed and prepared for a dissolution O Lord take it not out of this world untill thou hast weaned it from the world that it may have a free passage through thy mercy unto thy eternal mansions of Blessed nesse If thou knowest it may stand with thy Glory and may make for his salvation bring it back from this gate of Death and let it continue in the body and restore this person yet if it be thy blessed wil unto health and strength or if thou shalt be pleased to take this soul hence ô Lord wash it clean from iniquity by the blood of Christ and adorn it with the robe of his perfect righteousness and give it the benefit of the Intercession of thy Son Quicken repentance strengthen Faith raise up in it an holy flame of heavenly love to thee that may carry it up as a sacrifice to the throne of thy Glory Binde it up in the holy peace and Communion of thy Church by the bond of holy love and Christian charity to all thy people Grant patience and strength and spiritual comfort to convey it safe through the pangs torments of dissolution Let not the Enemy have any power to hurt it but take it into thy keeping and into the guard of thy grace and mercy Binde up Sathan and all spiritual adversaries and send thine Angels with a commission of Mercy to convey this Soul unto the habitation of thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this OGracious God be with this person in the holy operations of thy grace and in the yearning of thy tenderest mercies in the dreadfull moment when the Soul shal depart from the body conduct this thy dying creature through the valley of the shadow of death unto the Land of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this IN the midst of life we be in death of whom may wee seek for succour but of thee O Lord who for our sins art justly displeased Yet O Lord most Holy O God most mighty O Holy and mercifull Saviour remember the work of thy hands and the purchase of thy blood give not up this thy departing Creature unto the bitter pain of eternal Death Lord remember now thy great mercy and thy Bloody Sufferings and death and let thy Bowels melt in tender compassion towards this person in this great extremity Shut up Hell and open Heaven O Lord destroy not Oh Lord forsake not O Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and mercifull Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternal suffer not this person at the last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee Amen A Prayer for the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland proper for all tmes OH most Gracious God who doest Rule and Govern all things who increasest the Nations and destroyest them who enlargest them again look down I beseech thee with the eye of thy tender pitty and compassion upon these poore miserable and sinfull Kingdoms that have now lain for these many years under the load of thy heavy displeasure against them for their sins and are at this time in the mouth of so great ruin and destruction if we be not relieved by thy heavenly mercy O Lord we must all needs confess that our iniquities have been and are still very great against thee and in the very midst of the flames of thine indignation against us we have multiplied our rebellions against thee our God as if we would even bid defiance unto thine anger and dare thee to doe thy worst against us And that blood that bath been wickedly shed in these Nations cryes aloud for vengeance against us so that it were most just in thee to make the ruins of these three Kingdomes the standing monuments of thy displeasure against sinne unto all the rest of the Nations of the world But I humbly beseech thy divine Majesty to pitty a poore perishing people Hear not O Lord the cry of our sins neither heare the cry of that blood that cryes for vengeance but hear the cry of that blood that cryes for mercy even of the blood of thine own dear Son Christ Jesus That speaketh better things than the blood of Abel and hear the Cryes and the Prayers of thy people that call upon thee for Mercy O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord humble and convert us and these whole Nations unto thee O let it be thy pleasure to deliver us make hast O God to help us help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy name Oh deliver us and be mercifull to our sins for thy name sake leave us not to become a prey unto our own iniquities nor to the wicked interests of men But be thou pleased so to over-rule all the publick motions and consultations and all the confusions and distactions that are upon us or shall befall us that whatsoever men shall contrive or designe that whatsoever they shall act or enterprise all things may be drawn in by thy wisdome and thy providence to the advancement of thy glory of the Gospel and Kingdome of thy son amongst us to the restoring of a righteous and lawfull Government in the state of an holy and orderly discipline and ministry in the Church and to the establishment of all these nations in holinesse and truth in righteousnesse and peace and prosperity before thee and help us O God without the shedding of any more innocent blood and without any more bloody confusions and distractions if it be thy blessed will grant this O Lord though we be most unworthy for the worthiness and merrit of thy deare sonne and our onely Saviour Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer for the restoring of our afflicted Soveraign O Most Gracious Glorious God Thou King of Kings and Lord of Lords who hast established and ordained Kings and Princes in the world to be thy substitutes in the Rule and Government of thy people As thou hast appointed thine Ordinances of Government for the good and safety of thy people So we beseech thee be thou the Protectour of thine own ordinances and therein of thy peoples