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	soul_n	12,525	5	5.1504	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50567	A true relation of the former faithful and long service with the present most unjust imprisonment of Anthony Mellidge, sometime called a captain; now in scorn called a Quaker.	Mellidge, Anthony.	1656 (1656)	Wing M1648; ESTC R217798	8,459	10

reason of this Priest Gibbens vvho vvith the Mayor and the Bayliff vvho did all three at last depart as they might vvith shame then vvere the many people that vvere then come in very quiet again attended to vvhat was then spoke to them by H. S. and many confessed to the Truth and departed all peaceably On the morrow Rich. Jones brought a Warrant with ones hand to it as they said that is called Justice Due but there was neither of our names in it but the name of another man So we said it was nothing to us and after many words the Major was deparring then Richard Jones said though our names were not in it yet he would have us away and he would answer it so with violent hands he pulled and thrust H. S. out of my Mothers house and brought us to an Ale house and set a Watch to keep us and thence he took us away to bring us before one called Justice Clavil so Richard Iones charged men with Horse to guard us along unto that Roger Clavil who is set to do Justice and the Priest Nicolas Gibbens came also and when we were come before him called Justice then the Priest Gibbens and also Priest Pitfild were there to lay snares for us But we acquainted him that is set to do Justice how I came and my Friend with me to visit my Mother a Widow and the Fatherless and if we had transgressed any Law we were ready to suffer But this Priest Nicolas Gibbens who with the Major and this Richard Iones had disturbed us that were peaceable before they came and after and also that there were them that were drunk that came in with or after them Richard Iones being a Beer brewer and keeps an Ale house and that the said Richard Iones was accused to his face for swearing that time he came in upon us Then Roger Clavil that should have done Justice upon these Offenders asked if we would take our Oaths that Richard Iones did swear and when he understood that we durst not go out of the Doctrine of Christ to swear then he fetched that called the Oath of abjuration to ensnare us by but we told him if it were his will to send us to prison he might do it without laying that snare for us and we said also he might offer that to the Papists of the County Now Roger Clavil took occasion against me because I had told Priest Gibbens that he was a lyer when he did lye and Roger Clavil said that though one did tell a lye he must not be called a lyer So he made a Mittimus which was afterwards interlined with false accusations and sent me to prison and also my Friend Humphrey Smith and being brought and watched in a room in an Ale house that night and people kept from us in the morning before the Sun was up Richard Iones came to hale us out of the Bed also as we were passing peaceable and silent along towards the Prison Richard Iones Rid at H. S. and stopt him and being very wroth he alighted and pulled and haled him in the dirt but H. S. spake not a word to him at that time nor some time before and when he had done what he would to us we rise up and passed on towards the prison And when we were come to Dorchester Richard Iones stayed at an Inn and let us stay with him and the rest he had to guard us and there the said the Justice Roger Clavil commanded him to search us and also to take our moneys from us mark that so afterwards he brought us to the prison where we yet remain Now let all people honestly consider with that of God in their consciences if this be ruling for God for I went but from my habitation Wife and Children to the place of my nativity it being both in one County to visit my Mother and Brethren according to the Flesh and truely I had no other end but the good both of their bodyes and souls and I did not in the least either break any Law or do or speak any thing that I know of which might be called an offence to any Creature Only that I proved the Priest a lyer and I am not only sent to prison my self but also my Friend that came in love with me and the Drunkards and Lyers and the Swearers went free A. M. These unjust Imprisonments are acted in the Protectors name contrary to his Instrument of Government Dorset from the Prison in Dorchester the 25. day of the twelfth Moneth 1656. By him that now rejoyceth in sufferings with the rest of the Lambs of Christ who is now the Teacher of him that is known to many of you by the name of ANTHONY MELLEDGE A dreadful Cry against the Oppressors HEar O ye Heads of the people and consider O ye rulers of the Nation for I am even weary with holding in the word of the Lord it is like fire in my bones and my Bowels within me are pained O wo is me because of you and the evil of your doings and the wickedness of your wayes and the continual transgression wherewith all you provoke the Lord God of Hosts surely I will write that I may be eased and declare that I may be unburdened for my burthen is too heavy for me to bear and the hand of the Lord is upon me and to you O ye men am I moved to write and to declare in the Name of the Lord against your unrighteous wayes and the evil of your doings who are lifted up on high and have forgot the day of your distress and broken Covenant with the Lord your maker and now provoke him to Jealousy day by day and are hardened in your wickedness and give not ear to the word of reproof not yet regard the warnings of the Almighty the multitude of your sins are numberless and the weight of your iniquity is great who can declare your Abominations or discover the multitude of your Treacheries against the Lord and the word of his power O who have had warning like unto you and how often have you been reproved and yet you are still double minded and seeking your own glory and extolling your selves will you not at all regard until the judgements of the Lord come upon you who are found in the way of sinners and in the paths of unrighteousness are you not found in the way of them whom the Lord cut off before you were they wicked and are you not worse had they the warning that you have had or did they see the deliverances of the Lord as you have done or did they promise both to God and man as you have done to serve the Lord and free the Land of oppression and is not the oppression and cruelty greater now then before have not even hundreds suffered Imprisonment and losse of goods if not some death it self who have not broke any known Law and hath not the Cry of the oppressed been great these two years and did not the Lord cut off the Oppressors before you and did they Imprison so many for conscience sake as you have done and will not the Lord reward you at last according to your deeds and hear the Cry of the oppressed which have even groned under your oppression these two years wherein you have turned your backs upon the Lord and set your faces against his servants and turned your sword also backward against the Lambs of Jesus Christ and your Law have you turned into a lye and made it a snare for the innocent your courts that should do Justice are corrupt your judges are light and vain and your Officers are men of sin and your Councels are not of the Lord the great power of the Devil is by you upheld and the whole Host of Antichrists are by you supported the word of the Lord God is become a ginne and a snare unto you that you may go backward and fall and now behold the Ancient of dayes will sit upon you who are of the wicked among whom the grave is found and in whom the seed lyes slain and the stone at which you stumble will even grind you to powder and once more will the Lord of Hosts overturn and bring down the high and mighty and lay low the loftiness of the terrible who are but as smoak in his sight Therefore hear ye this O ye Heads and rulers of England and if there be any yet among you who will now humble themselves before the Lord God of hosts and let righteous Judgements run down as water and righteousness with it as a mighty stream and break the yoak of the Oppressors and let the Oppressed go free let such hear while it is called to day and feele the word of power that breaks the hard heart and so return to follow the Lord God of Israel who hath the hearts of Kings and Rulers in his own hand and he respects not the persons of the mighty but whoso loveth mercy and worketh righteousness is excepted of him Written by the hand of him that hath learned to pray for his Enemies and desires the good of all your souls being a Friend to the peace of the people and all that rule for God who hath made me willing to suffer for his Names sake in outward bonds by the dark world unto whom I am known by the name of HUMPHREY SMITH