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	spare_v	2,096	5	9.7701	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

wil permitte doubte not / but his merciful hande shal releaf vs in moste vrgent necessite extreme tribulaciō Therefore such men as teacheth vs / that necessarely it is not required that we vnderstād not what we pray / because God knoweth what we nede wold also teach vs / that neither we honor God nor yet referre / or geue vnto hī thākes for benefites receiued / for howe shall we honor and prayse hī / whose goodnes liberalite we know not / how shal we know / oneles we receiue / and sometime haue experiens And howe shall we know that we haue receiued / onlesse we know verely what we haue asked The seconde thinge to be obserued in perfit prayer is / that standing in the presens of God / we be found such as beryes to his holy law reuerence / Prou. 18. earnestly repēting our iniquite passed and intēding to leade a new lyfe / for otherwise in vayne are all our prayers / as it is written / who withdrawes his ear / that he wil not hear the lawe of God / his oration or prayer shal be abhominable And also ye shall multeply your prayers / I shal not heare / because your handes are full of bloude / that is off all crueltie and mischeuous workes And the sprete of God appeareth by the mouthe of the blynde / Ioh. 9. whome Iesus Christ doth illuminate by these wordes / we knowe that God heareth no synners / that is such as glories / do continew in iniquites ¶ Whē sinners are not hard of God SO that of necessite true repētaūce most nedes be had / passe before perfitte prayer / or syncere inuocaciō of gods name And vnto these two presidēces must be annexed the thride which is the directiō of our selfs in godes presence Vtterly refusing castīg of own iustice with all cogitaciōs opinion therof / that nothinge proceding of our selfes / that we should be harde / for all suche as auaunce / boast or depende any thing vpon their own iustice / from the presence of his mercye / repellith holdeth with the hygh proude pharesey And therfore the moste holy men / we fynde in praiers most deiected hūble Psal 79. Dauid sayeth o Lorde our sauiour help vs / for the glory of thy own name deliuer vs / be mercifull vnto oure synnes for thy owne name Remēber not oure olde iniquities / but hast thou o Lorde / let thy mercy preuent vs. Ieremie sayeth yf oure iniquities beare testimoni against vs / do thou accordyng to thy owne name And behold I say / thou art crabbid / O Lorde / because we haue synned / are replenished with all wickednes Esay 64 And oure iustice is like a filthy clothe c. But now O Lord / thou art our father / we are claye / thou arte the worke mā / we the workemāship of thy hādes Daniel 9 Be not crabid O Lord / remember not our iniquities for euer And Daniel greatly cōmēdid of God / maketh in his prayer most hūble cōfessiō in these wordes / we be sinners / haue offeded / we haue done vngodly / fallē frō thy cōmaūdemēt / but not in our own righteousnes make we our prayers before the / but thy most rych great mercy brīg we forth for vs. O Lord heare / Lord be merciful / spare vs Lord / attēd / helpe cease not my God / euē for thy names sake / do it for thy people thy citie called after thy name Behold / that in these prayers is no mēciō of their own iustice / their owne satisfaction / or their owne merites / but most humble confession / procedinge frō a sorowfull and penitent harte / hauing nothinge wherupon it might depende / but the mercy of God alone / who had promised to be their God that is their help / cōfort / defendor / deliuerer as he hath also don to vs by Iesus Crist in tyme of tribulacion Note And therfore / they / dispayrid not / but after knowlege of ther Sinnes / callid for mercy obtayned thesame / wherfore it is playne / that suche men as in theyr prayrs / haue respecte to any vertue / proceding of them selffe / thinkinge therby theyr prayrs to be accepted / neuer prayd aright ¶ What fastinge almoses dedes are without praye ANd albeit to feruent prayer be Ioynyd / fastinge / waking and almos dede / yet are none of these the cause / that God dothe except our prayrs but they are spurres which suffer vs not to vary / but make vs more able to continew in prayr / Psal 38.86 which the mercy of God dothe accepte But here maye it be obiectid / Dauid praythe / kepe mi lyfe o Lorde for I am holy / o Lorde here my iustice and suffer me not to be confoundid / 4. reg 20 and Ezechius remēbre Lorde I beseche the / that I haue walked righteously before the / and that I haue wrought that which is good in thy sight These wordes are not spokē of mē glorious / neither yet trusting in ther owne workes Note we But here in they testefy them selfes to be the sonnes of God by regeneraciō / to whom he promisid alwayes to be merciful / at al tims to hear theyr praiers ¶ The cause of ther boldnes was Iesus Crist ANd so theyr wordes springe a wontyd / constante and feruent faythe / surely beleuinge that as God of hys infinitie mercy / had callid them to his knowlege / not sufferinge them to walke after theyr owne natural wickednes / but partly had through them to confirme them to his holy lawe / and that for the promised sedes sake / so mighte he not leaue them destitute or comfort / consolacion and defence / in so great and extreme necessite And so theyr iustice a leage they not to glory therof / or to put trust therin / but to confyrme and strengthen them selfes in Godes promyses / and this consolation I wolde wyshe to al Christians in theyr prayers / a testimony of good conscience to assure them of Godes promises / but to obtayne what they aske must depende vpon his mercy / al opinion and through of our own iustice layd aside And more ouer Dauid in the wordes aboue compareth hym selfe with Kinge Saule / and with the rest of his enemies / who wrōgfully did persecute hym / desyiringe of God that they preuayle not agaynste hym as who saye iniustlye doo they persecute me therfore according to my innocensi defende me / for otherwyse he confessith him self moost greuously to haue offendid God / as in the precident places he clearly testifieth ¶ Ipocrisie is not alowid with god THirdly in prayer is to obserued / that what we aske of God / that we moste ernistly desier / the same knowleginge vs to be indigent voyde therof / and that God allone may graunte the peticion of our hartes mark

scriptures are not written in vayne / but too certefye vs / that God of hys natiue goodnes will metigate by our prayers offered by Iesus Christ / although he hath threatened to punish or presently by punishing / which he doth testefye by his owne wordes saying Ierem. 18 Yf I haue propheried against any nacion or people / that thei shal be destroyed And yf they repent of theyr iniquitie / it shall repent me of the euel / which I haue spoken agaynst them ●a●enes in praier This I write lamenting the great couldnes of men / which vnder so longe scorgis of God / is nothing kyndled to prayer by repentaunce / but carkese slepe in weked lyfe / euen as though their continuante warres / vrgent famyne / cotidian plagues off pestilence / and other contagious insolent and straunge maladis / were not the present signes of Gods wrath prouoked by our iniquite ¶ A plague threatned too Englande O Englande / A plague threatened to Englāde let thy intestiue batteries domesticall murther / prouoke the to purety of lyfe / according to the worde / whiche openly hath bene proclaymed in the / other wise the cuppe of the Lordes wrathe / thou shalt shortly drinke of The multitude shall not escape / but shall drynke the dregges / and haue the cuppe broken vpon their heades / The godlye punisshed for iudgement beginninge in the house of the Lorde / commonly the least offendor is fyrst punished / to prouoke the more weked too repentaunce But O Lorde / infinite mercye / yf thou shalt punishe / make not consumacion / but cut awaye the proude luxuriant braūches / which beare no fruyte / and preserue the cōmon wealths / of suche as geue succour herber / to thy contempned messengers / which lōge haue suffred exile in deserte / so be it FINIS ¶ Here after foloweth a Confession OMnipotent and euerlasting God father of our LORDE Iesus Chryste whoo be thy eternall prouidence / disposes kyngdoms / as beste seameth to thy wysdom / we acknowledge and confesse thy iudgemētes to be righteous in that thou hast taken frō vs / for our ingratitude and for a businge of thy most holy worde / our natiue Kyng earthlye comforter / iustly maye thou poure forth vpon vs the vttermoste of thy plagues / for that we haue not knowen the dayes and tyme of oure mercifull visitacion / we haue contempned thy worde / and dispised thy mercies / we haue trāsgressed thy lawes / for deceytfully haue we wroughte euery man / with oure neyghbours oppressiō and violēce we haue not abhorred / charitie / hath not apeared amonge vs as oure profession requireth / we haue littel regarded the voyces of thy prophetes / thy threatninges we haue estemed vanytie and wynd / so that in vs / as of our selfs restes / nothinge worthy of thy mercies / for all are founde frutles / euē the princes with the prophetes / as wythered trees apt and mete too be burnt in the fyre of thy eternall displeasure But o Lord / behold thy own mercy goodnes / that thou may purdge and remoue the moste fylthye borden / of oure moste horrible offences / let thy loue ouercome the seueritie of thy iudgemētes / euen as it did in geuing to the world thy onely sonne Iesus / when all mankynde was lost / and no obediēce was lefte in Adam nor in his sede Regenerate our hartes o Lorde by the strength of the holy ghoste / conuert thou vs / and we shall be conuerted / worke thou in vs vnfayned repentāce / and moue thou oure hartes too obey thy holy lawes Beholde our trobles and apparant destruction / and staye the sworde of thy vengeaunce before it deuoure vs. Place aboue vs o Lorde for thy great mercies sake / such a head with suche rulers and maiestrates as feareth thy name / and willeth the glory of Christ Iesus to spred Take not from vs the light of thy Euangely / and suffer thou no papistrie to preuaile in this realme Illuminate the harte off our soueraigne lady quene Marie / with prignant giftes of thy holy ghoste And inflame the hartes of her coūsayl / with thy trew feare and loue / represse thou the pryde of those that wolde rebelle And remoue frome all hartes the contēpte of the worde / let not our enemies reioyce at our destruction / but loke thou too the honor of thy owne name o Lorde / and let thy Gospell be preached with boldines in this realme / if thy iustice must punish / then punish our bodies with the rodde of thy mercy But o Lorde let vs neuer reuolte / nor turne backe to Idolatrie agayne Mytigate the hartes of those that persecute vs / let vs not faynt vnder the crosse of oure sauiour / but assist vs with the holy ghoste / euen to the ende Here after foloweth the Table of this boke A. A confession of Christes moste sacred Euangely / vpon the death of that moste verteous moste famous kyng Edward the .vi. fo xvi A plague threatened to Englande fo xvi A poynted places to praye in maye not be neglected fo xv Aungels maye not be mediators fo x. Agaynste suche as wolde haue mediators too Iesus Christ fo xij B. Better it is to obey God then man fo xiij By whome we must praye fo ix C. Corporall thinges fo xij Comforte to the afflicted fo xiiij D. Dayly bread fo vi F. Fleshe striueth agaynste the sprete fo xiiij For whō at what tyme we should fo xvi G. Gods sentence may be chaunged fo xvi God deliuereth hys chosen from fo vi H. How the sprete maketh intercession fo iij. I. Iesus Christ / God man is mediator fo x. Impedimentes commeth of the weakenes off the fleshe fo xiiij Intercession to sainctes fo x. Ipocrisie is not alowed with God fo v L. Let euery man iudge hys owne hart fo iij. N. Not to pray is synne most odious fo vij O. Obedience of Christ fo xi Obseruacion in godly prayer fo ix Of necessite we must haue a mediator fo ix R. Reddines of God to heare synners fo vij S. Sporris stire vs to prayer fo vi T. Turkes and Iewes / fo ix The hope to obtayn our peticions / should depende vpon the promises of God fo vij The cause of theyr boldnes was Iesus fo v. The peticion of the sprete fo xiiij W. What prayer is fo ij Who prayeth not in tribulation fo vi When synners are not harde of God fo iiij Why we shoulde praye / and also vnderstande what we do praye fo iii. What fasting / almose dedes are fo v. When we be not herde fo x. What is to be gathered in the name fo xv Who maketh other mediatours then Ihesus Christ taketh ouer from hym fo xi What shoulde be prayed for fo xiij When and for whom we should praye fo xv Why God differreth or prolongeth to graūt vs oure peticion fo xiij Where constaunte prayer is / there is graunted peticion fo vij Who prayeth not fo iij. What is to be obserued in prayer fo ij ¶ Here endeth the Table GOD IS MY HELPER