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	trust_n	2,000	5	9.7447	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15700	An armoure of proufe very profitable, as well for princes, noble men; and gentlemen, as all other in authoritie, shewing the firme fortresse of defence, and hauen of rest in these troublesome times and perilous dayes. Made by Iohn VVoolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25974; ESTC S106615	49,980	114

ye execute not the iudgementes of man but of the Lorde and there is no iniquitie with the Lorde our God neither respecte of persons nor receyuing of reward Wherefore the Lord stablished the kingdom in his hande and the feare of the Lord fel vpon all the kingdomes of the lands that were rounde about Iudah and they durst not fighte agaynst him and straungers brought Iehosaphat presentes and giftes and the Arabians brought him flocks of sheepe and Goates and hee prospered and grewe vp an high and his kingdome florished exceedingly Amasias the xij King of Iuda hauing warre with the children of Seer hyred one hūdreth thousād men of Israel to help him in battaile but a man of god came vnto him saying O King let not the army of Israel go with thee for God hath power to helpe thee and to cast downe Wherefore the King returned those men accordyng to the saying of the Prophet with his owne people couragiously went to the Salt valey and encountered with his enimyes and slewe ten thousandes and other ten thousande dyd the children of Iuda take alyue and caryed them to the toppe of a rock and tumbled them downe headlong and they all burst to peeces Ezechias the xvj King of Iuda with an earnest zeale embrased true religion and so perfitlye serued the Lorde that after him was none like vnto him among all the Kings of Iuda neyther were there any suche before him who being meruellously tempted and 〈…〉 the huge mightie army of the Assyrians and terrified with the blasphemous speech of Rabsaces turned vnto y Lord went into the temple lay prostrate sayd O Lord our God I beseech thee saue thou vs out of their hands that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou ô lord art only god which prayer the lorde harkeneth vnto answereth thus Bicause thou hast praied vnto me cōcerning Synachereb king of Ashur I will put my hooke into his nostrels my bridle into his lips wil bring him back again the same way he came he shal not enter this citie nor shoote an arrow there nor come before it with shield nor cast a mount against it And the same night the Angel of the lord went out smote in the campe of Ashur an hundred foure score fiue thousand when they roase early in the morning behold they were all dead corpses So Synachereb King of Ashur departed returned to Niniuie And as he was in the temple worshipping of Nisroh his god Adramelech Sharezer his sonnes slew him with the sword they escaped into y lande of Ararat and Esarhaddon raigned in his steed Out of these histories I gather three obseruatiōs first that God cōmonly tempteth his chosen 〈…〉 ighty aduersaries that their faith may be more perfit thā gold tried with the fire Secōdly that if they stedfastly trust in him he blesseth their coūtrey with treasure riches replenisheth their land with great plenty of valiant soldiers Thirdly that God wil not suffer the heathenish people and irreligious nations to treade his children vnder their feete but with small powers confoundeth their ten hundred thousandes in the day of battayle My first note appereth plainly in the raign of y late Iosias and presētly in our Hester who laboring in the new building of Gods tiple good lord what a nūber of subtile and bloudy enimyes haue whet their teeth against this little Ilande on euery side but let vs not be dismaid for al the papists in Europe adioyning to thē the Turk are not able to come once to the field with ten hundred thousād mē as Zerach of Ethiopia did against Asa if they were able to passe that number haue we not legions of Angels vnder Christ his standerd against them Secondly Asa and Amazia Kings of Iuda fearing the liuing god had vnder them a florishing cōmon wealth wer able to make thre hūdred thousād fighting mē This our coūtrey of englād hath wāted no tēporal blessings since god blessed vs with his word gospel neither do any monumēts and chronicles of England make record of so many able men at one tyme as are now to bee founde in this little Eland I haue hard it reported of credible men who by commission had authoritie to make a bewe of such things that in the Countie of Deuon only there hath bin sounde fourtie thousand comely and likely men for the sield so that if euery county in Englande doe matche the same according to their proportions there is no doubt but out powers will eyther surmount or answere that lande whereof I spake afore in number of warlyke men Lastly bowsoeuer this little region hath bin stored with men of warre heretofore yet a small handfull hath ouermatched a huge hoste and most commonly if I terme it aright a thinne Garryson hath suppressed and surprised many mightie armies of their enimyes as in Eoward the third his dayes at Cressy where xix thousand English men put to flight one hundred thousande frenchmen and slew xxx thousande at Poyters wher the blacke Prince lauing but a wing of men in respect of their enimyis tooke prisoners Iohn the French King Phillippe his sonne seuen Earles besides Barons and Knightes That blacke Prince as historyes declary had the courage and harte of a Lyon they mighte aswell haue commended in him the constante fayth and assured hope of a godly and religious Captayne For seeing his power so farre vnequall to his aduersaryes and his meyny halfe sorowfull hee vttered suche voyces as all godly englishe Capitaynes in lyke case ought to expresse Well syrs sayth hee albeit we be but sewe in regarde to the multitude of our enimyes let vs not bee abashed therefore for the victory lyeth not in the multitude of the people but where it pleaseth almightie God to giue it Therefore trust in him and take English mens hartes vnto you this day for if God wil this dayes victory shal be ours and if we dye wee haue a good quarell With which wordes he anymated and encouraged his souldyers Henry the fifth hauing in all but xv thousand discomfited the flower of France at the battayle Agincourte where sixe French men men were in the fielde agaynst one Englishe man and at the ende of the battayle the nobl● Henry caused a retraite to be blown brought all his armye togither willing them to gyue thankes to God by whose almightie power they bad receyued that victory and euery one kneeling down swng Not vnto vs Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the glorye c. So that it euidently appeareth that thys noble Prince had a perfit fayth and truste in the ayde of the lord which heard his prayer and regarded his fayth and miraculously in mercy gaue him victory In the dayes of the King of famous memory Henry the eight Kyng Iames of Scotlande the fourth came into