Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	heart_n	lord_n	people_n	10,032	5	5.6539	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78367	A general epistle to all Friends who are convinced of the truth. With a word of exhortation to Friends, to be diligent in keeping their mens & womens meetings, for the service of truth; with a testimony to the same. : Also, an invitation to all that come to our meetings to hear the truth declared, no to rest in hearing, but to come into obedience thereunto, that so their souls may be saved. / By Samuel Cater.	Cater, Samuel, d. 1711.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1484; ESTC R171110	9,626	15

Christ which is great encouragement to all that love Truth and Righteousness and that do desire the prosperity of the Truth and of one another therein to keep them in the meek and quiet Spirit and take heed of striving with them that are in the opposition lest you hurt your selves and thereby burthen the tender Life in your selves in which pure tender Life you shall out-live all Opposition and that will dye and wither for all that have not Nourishment from the Root which is Christ will dye of it self which we have seen from time to time And therefore all dear Friends go on and keep your Meetings in the Name and Fear of the Lord that you may still feel his Power and Presence amongst you and then it is no matter what any say against you unto whose Power I commit you all who desires your Prosperity as my own who can and do testifie that I have been truly refreshed with the Power and Presence of the Lord both in Mens and Womens Meetings by and in which Power the Lord hath laid a necessity upon me to bear my Testimony That they are set up in the Power and Wisdom of God and blessed are they that keep them in the same and they that oppose them oppose the Work of God and will come to loss by it S. C. AND now dear People who come into our Meetings from time to time and hear the Truth declared and are convinced in your Judgments by it and your Understandings closes with it and many times your Consciences are awakened by the powerful preaching of the Word of Life in which your Hearts are tendred and the Eye of your Understandings then being opened you thereby see your selves and feel something of the Preciousness of the Truth declared but for want of bowing thereunto withal your Hearts and Souls and giving up to be led and guided thereby the Enemy prevails again whose work it is to darken the Mind and close the Eye which God by his powerful Truth begun to open whereby you may come to see the Way to Rest and then comes the Savour of the Virtue which you felt whilst you were hearing the Truth and whilst the Tenderness remained upon you to be lost whereby the Apostles words come to be fulfilled Man hearing the Word and doth it not is like unto a man beholding his natural Face in a Glass and presently goeth away and forgetteth what manner of man he was so do many that hear the Truth forget or neglect to obey the same without which no true and lasting Comfort can be enjoyed Dear People I do not write in this manner to accuse any of you or because I would have you leave coming to our Meetings no the Lord knows but to clear my Conscience as a Friend to your Souls I beseech you to lay hold of the Scepter of Gods Mercy while it is held forth unto you and come away to the Feast while the Door is open Oh! how have I seen both in City and Country some that have come to our Meetings in the time of Truth being declared their Minds bowed and their Hearts broken before the Lord so that I have been ready to conclude That surely this Man or Woman must needs cleave to the Lord with all their Hearts and obey his Truth which now they are so much affected with but it hath too often proved otherwise whereby Christ's words have been fulfilled who sayes That after the Word is received with Joy the Enemy comes and takes the Word out of their Hearts and some for the love of the World and some for fear of Persecution the good Seed that begun to put forth comes to be choaked and thereby they are made Unfruitful But the Honest receive the Seed which is the Truth into their Hearts and give up the strength of their desires unto it they are made Fruitful unto God by it and the Lord blesses them in it and gives them Peace of Conscience in this World and Assurance of Glory in the World to come which is more precious and profitable than all that can be parted withal for his sake Oh! that you therefore may come to be found Doers of the Will of God and not Hearers only is the Desire of my Soul for you all for this is the Day of your Visitation in which the Lord is calling of you and striving with you to gather you unto himself that so you may come to be made pertakers of his Everlasting Riches that fadeth not away which is the Portion I desire for your all and which is the Feast you have been often invited unto in the Name of the the Lord by his Servants and Messengers Oh! come away for the Lord hath furnished his Table and if you make Excuses and will not come unto him by turning unto his pure Light and Grace which leads unto him and obey the same unto which you have been directed by his Servants the Lord will be Displeased and you through your own Neglect will be shut out and a People the Lord will have that shall pertake of his free Mercies So dear People prize your Time whilst you have it and whilst the Lord is striving and Christ is knocking by his Convincements by his Light in your Consciences open unto him that he may come in unto your Hearts and that you by his Power may be prepared and enabled to serve the Lord whilst you are in this World that you may rest with all his Redeemed Ones when Time shall be no more here then shall my Desire be answered in writing to you in this manner which is my true Desire for you all who am Your True Friend Samuel Cater Elye Prison where I am a Sufferer for my Obedience unto the Lord under the Corrupt Wills of men because I cannot for Conscience sake disobey the Command of Jesus Christ nor joyn with the Priests in their Carnal and Dark Way of Worship the 6th Moneth 1680. 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