Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	holy_a	lord_n	miserable_a	3,749	5	9.4412	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07548	The custumers alphabet and primer Conteining, their creede or beliefe in the true doctrine of Christian religion. Their ten commandementes, or rules of ciuill life and conuersation, daily grace, generall confession, speciall supplication and forme of prayers. Togither with a pertinent answere to all such, as eyther in iest or in earnest, seeming doubtfull themselues, would faine perswade others, that, the bringing home of traffique must needes decay our shipping. All tending to the true and assured aduancement of his Maiesties customes, without possibility of fraude or couyn. Alwaies prouided, in reading read all, or nothing at al.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1608 (1608)	STC 17927; ESTC S114606	45,944	46

haue done the things we ought not to doe and there is no health in vs. But thou O Lord haue mercie vpon vs miserable offenders spare thou vs O Lorde which confesse our saultes and restore them that are penitent according to thy promises declared vnto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and graunt O most mercifull Father for his sake that wee may héereafter liue a godly a righteous and a sober life to the glory of thy holy Name ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Maiestie O Lord our heauenly Father high and mightie King of Kings Lord of Lords the onely Ruler of Princes Customers daily and Christian Prayers which doost from thy Throne behold all the dwellers vpon Earth wée humbly beséech thee with fauour to behold our most gracious and Soueraigne Lord King IAMES per se and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that hee may alwaies encline to thy will and walke in thy way Endue him plentifully with heauenly gyfts graunt him in health and wealth long to liue that finally after this life he may attaine to euerlasting ioy and felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ A Prayer for the Queene and Prince and other the King and Queenes Children ALmighty God which hast promised to be a Father of thine Elect and of their séede wee humbly beseech thee to blesse and preserue our gracious Queene ANNE Prince HENRIE and all the King and Queenes royall Progenie Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich thē with thy heauenly Grace prosper them with all happines and bring them to thine euerlasting kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour A Prayer for the Clergie Lords of the Counsaile all Magistrates all Nations and the Common-People ALmighty euerlasting God we most humbly beséech thée to illuminat all Bishops Pastors Ministers of the Church with the true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and liuing they may set it foorth and shew it accordingly To endue the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable PREVY-COVNSELL all the Nobility with grace Con per se wisedome and vnderstanding To blesse and keepe our Magistrates giuing them grace to execute Iustice and mainetaine Truth To giue all Nations Vnitie Peace and Concord And finally to giue vs an hart to loue and dread thée and diligently to liue after thy Commandements Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Aduocate onely Mediator Christ Iesus THe Customers of the Out-Ports prostrate Petition to the KING our Soueraigne for his Sonne the PRINCES sake to be made but as able as they are euery way willing to do their Duties that eating the Bread of good Conscience daily and freed from temptations of Obloquy and shyfts his Kingdome beeing come may still continue and his Will performed in all Places alike Forgiuing all as they would be forgiuen Conclude this their PRIMER with the sanctified words and enclude their Petition within the compasse of that effectuall Prayer which our Lord Sauiour the Sonne of GOD hath cōmaunded and taught saying OUr Father which art in heauen hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdome come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heauen Giue vs this day our daily Bread and forgiue vs our Trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs Let vs not be led into temptation but deliuer vs from euill For thine is the KINGDOME Tittle tittle tittle Est Amen the POVVER and the GLORIE for euer and euer SO BE IT Amen ¶ The Publicans humble Confession and priuate Prayer Nil sum nulla miser novi solatia Massam Humanam nisi quod tu quoque CHRISTE geris Tume sustenta fragilem tu CHRISTE guberna Fac vt sim Massae surculus Ipse tuae Magna Magnus perficit DEVS

tendes and controleable by none for hindering of their Farme I could not my good Lords out of Dutie and zeale to our Patrons safety and all your happy beeings but giue Caution heere-to-fore of the fiercenes of their Courage and desperate Carreere that such as stood so nigh them might be warnd at least to looke but to their heeles But sith like sleeping Minotaures they nowe possesse the * LONDON Center of all our great Abuses and inextricable Errors and threatning all our Trades with daily monthly and yeerely Tributes make Trafficke offer sacrifice to 1 Extortion Remphan to 2 Vsury Rymmon Let THESEVS now take heede and ARIADNE looke about her and with a smyle at least at last reuiue the Spirits of their despised Schollers whose wits haue no wills and Endeuours no Ends but how to spell and learne to read theyr Countries weale the publique Good and Soueraignes speciall Honour that Honestum and Vtile might still hold hands together A smyle I meane of fauour to th' Out-Ports of this Land aswell as that of London because though Iustice haue a quickning power PREHEMINENCE PREROGATIVE and may protect our beeings yet Grace it is relieues vs all and Mercy makes vs liue By this which hath been speld your Wisdoms now may read to what distresse and misery your Publicans are brought That beeing Men as docible in Religion as capable of Reason Free men by their birthes and of best education Men euerie vvay made happy saue in their names and callings and in nothing yet more wretched then the Places of their Functions for I meane the Out-Ports onely let London cleere it selfe are notwithstanding in worse case if worse may be then were those Brickmakers that sometimes wrought in Egypt who vvanting meanes to do their taske had notwithstanding their idle Task-Maisters whose credits had no beeing but in their disgrace cōmaunded euen by those that should attend vppon vs yea Searchers and Sinners But as the case now stands sith all make loue to Tributes catch our Functions from vs High and low Rich and poore both Noble and ignoble All catch hunt for Customes but shun the Name of Customers because our Lessons spell pure Siluer and fine Gold and yet our Names they scorne Let Iealousie be called for and let Impudency smell what Ignorance hath added and Extremity reformed in the abuses of our Schooles by spelling well the Letters Sir The Moores Epigram De faetoribus abolendis but mistaking the purpose of a graue and wittie Counsellor that sometimes gaue aduise in this very case of ours Sectile ne tetros porrum tibi spiret odores Protinus á porro fac mihi cepevores c. Least eating 1 Customer leekes saith he should cause thy breth to smell Take 2 Controller Onyons strong that sent will soone allay And if thereby the sauour seeme t' excell 3 Supervisors Garlicke be sure will driue them both away But if the stincking breath of Garlicke stay What helpes vs then 4 Farmors Tabacco no but at a word I thinke There is a thing can 5 Vndertakers Vndertake to make a viler stinke And let Experience now show and Truth be bold to speak and tell them to their faces Nota. This is meant by the myld discretion of Customers in collecting the Subsidies of Tonnage and Pondage onely For as for Customes which are so sought for and said to be cōcealed how generally soeuer theyr Name and Title runne they presuppose alwaies our Staples But our Staples beeing transplanted as the Societies that haue engrost them must giue the K and State account how they haue bestowed them and whether they be gone So by consequence our Costomes that striue to raise thēselues by seeking our disgrace That God did put and place as much Profit and Pleasure I say Profit as Pleasure harts-ease and honour in the quiet endeuours of Customers so long as they were trusted through Mercy Loyaltie and Loue as the deuill is able apt and wont to mingle care and comber losse and shame in the turbulent vndertakings of Extremitie by Extortion and Shyfts And thus at last the world may see and all men vnderstand in our Disgrace the KINGS great losse and Kingdoms greater wrong For besides that both our Customes with our Staples are gone or conuaid out of sight the ground of all our woes that wee can no wayes mend our Coyne and our Exchange beeing turnd into Vsury by Subiects like to Kings or like to Princes fellowes our Marchants by Societies call all men Enterlopers that are not of their Sects or linckt with them together Our Arts engrost by men of diuers Trades Our Trades doe meete in Companies our Companies at Halls and our Halls become Monopolies of Freedome tyde to London where all our Crafts Mysteries are so layd vp together that outrunning all the prudence wisedom of the Land Brewers made free of Bakers Bakers free of Grocers Grocers free of Fishmongers Fishmongers free of Goldsmithes and all men free of Coynage that only serues for Kings men liue by Trades they neuer learnd nor seeke to vnderstand By meanes whereof all our Creekes seeke to one Riuer all our Riuers run to one Port all our Ports ioyne to one Towne all our Townes make but one Citty and all our Citties but Suburbes to one vast vnweldy and disorderlie Babell of buildings which the worlde calls London and London likewise cōtracted in it selfe is made a Forrest of shyfts and Wildernes of sinne Where Trafficke liues confind and being possest by Rats and Mice Trafficke possest with Spirits and spirits of the Ayre of whom as of Harpies may truly now be said Tristius haud istis Monstrum nec saeuior vlla Pestis et ira Deûm stygijs sese extulit vndis No monsters like to these may hap nor curse frō God befall Nor from the pit of hell arise Searching wayters wayting Searchers to plague the Realme withall Is so by fits tormented both by water and by Land That how to helpe her now we doe not vnderstand But though fayth be frayle and all our credit gone yet dooth our vowes compell vs still by fasting and by prayer to doe our best Endeuours For faultes there are no doubt euer were and euer will be many PERFECTION knowes no residence but Heauen And if we say we haue no sinne there is no Truth within vs. Wherfore we wish and pray all those that reade this ALPHABET PRIMER to ioyne with our Deuotions and with pure harts and humble voyce to the Throne of GOD and his heauenly Grace to pray but in this manner saying after mee Customers generall Confession ALmighty and most mercifull Father wee haue erred and strayed from thy wayes like lost shéepe we haue followed too much the deuices and desires of our owne harts wee haue offended against thy holy Lawes wee haue left vndoone the things we should do and we