Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	magnify_v	2,538	5	10.8447	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90167	Orders and rules appointed by the last will and testament of Sir Thomas Holt, knight and baronet to be observed in the electing, and after the election, of the ten poore persons inhabiting in his almshouse at Aston Juxta Birmingham in the county of Warwick, with the assent and assistance of Dame Anne Holt, the relict of the said Sir Thomas Holt, and of Sir Robert Holt baronet, his grand-son, and his heires males.	Holt, Thomas, Sir, 1570 or 71-1654.; Holt, Robert, Sir.; Holt, Anne.	1656 (1656)	Wing O396aA; ESTC R42531	10,608	24

Dutie What a wearinesse it is Even to Will well hath not been present with us and how then to perform that which is good O Lord we know not being only wise to do evill and doing that with both hands earnestly Thus have we provoked Thee to anger most bitterly therefore maist thou justly leave our blood upon us for who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry though we know not the Power of thy Wrath Thou maist justly make us feel it But remember O Lord thy tender Mercies and thy Loving kindnesses for they have been ever of Did and hath the Lord forgotten to be Gracious hath He in anger shut up his tender Mercies For thy Names sake O Lord pardon our iniquities though they are great Is any thing too hard for the Lord and the Power of his Goodnesse Oh let thy Mercy then so rejoyce against Iudgement that our Soules may ever rejoyce in thy Mercy Hast thou not said O Lord that where Sinne aboundeth Grace may much more abound Magnifie then Thine own abounding Grace in being Gracious to us of Sinners chiefe as we know more in Our selves then we do or can know of Others And if our own Hearts condemne us Thou art greater then our hearts and knowest all things Yea thou hast set our iniquities before thee and our secret sins in the light of Thy Countenance But remember thy words unto thy Servants wherein thou hast made us to hope that Thou wilt forgive our Iniquitie and remember our Sinne no more And hath the Lord said and shall he not do it or hath he spoken and shall He not make it good Remember Him also and His precious Merits in whom thou sayst thou art well pleased that for this End was he born and for this cause came He into the World that He might bear our Griefes and carry our Sorrows that He might make his Soul an offering for Sinne and did not thy Wisdome provide satisfaction to thy Iustice therein didst not Thou lay help upon One that was Mightie and able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him Yea was not he made unto us Wisdome and Righteousnesse and Sanctification as well as Redemption Oh then as thou madest Him to be Sinne for us who knew no Sinne so let us be made the Righteousnesse of God in Him And as thou sparedst not thine own Sonne but deliverest Him up for us all how shalt thou not with Him also freely give us all things How shall not our God also supply all our Needs according to his Riches We were cast upon thee from the Wombe and have ever since lived only on thy Goodnesse and thy good things as the Earth is full of thy Riches Now therefore when we are Old and Gray-headed O God forsake us not but as thou art good and dost good so be not thou thy self weary in well-doing remember thou hast said the goodnesse of God endureth continually And do Good in thy good pleasure unto Sion our Hearts desire and Prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved But be more peculiarly gracious unto this Nation this Land of our Nativitie And for his sake whom thou gavest to be a healing of the Nations heal our breaches let all those that rule over Men be just ruling in the feare of God And be so with thine owne immediate servants that do thy worke in thy House that it may prosper in their hands And shew Lord that thou art a God of the Valleyes as well as of the Mountains that though the Lord be high yet He hath respect unto the Lowly and Lowest in Condition Right the Wronged comfort the Sadded supply the Impoverished support the Weakned heal the Diseased Thus Lord be thou All to All that thou mayest be faithfully owned and thankfull acknowledged to be All in All. And being thou Lord condemnest all unthankfulnesse placing the unthankfull amongst the most unholy We give thee thanks for the Founder of this Place the nourisher of our persons Sir Thomas Holt Knt. and Baronet Blessed be the Lord God who did put such a thing as this into his noble Heart and did turn it as a river of water to refresh us Blessed be the Lord who remembred us in our low estate who as thou workest in all both to will and to doe of thy good pleasure didst work in him to Will so Charitably and to Doe so bountifully And blesse we pray thee all his surviving and succeeding Relations those especially whose Pietie hath so imployed his Charitie and improved his good Intentions into great Actions for our good As thy Mercy is from everlasting to everlasting and thy Righteousnesse unto Childrens Children so Lord whilst the name of the Wicked doth rott let His name live in Them and let their Names stand written in the Book of life for ever after him And now we praise thy Name O Lord for the refreshment and ensafement of us the night past and for the enlargement of thy goodnesse towards us so far of this present day Remember still thine own good word that the Lord will command his loving kindnesse in the day time as thou art graciously pleased to adde another day unto our lives so adde other mercies unto our dayes especially putting such Grace into our hearts that we may seek first the Kingdome of God and his Righteousnesse that so all other things may be added unto us And then put thy fear in our hearts that we may never depart from from thee but rather be so in the feare of the Lord all the day long that by it we may depart from all evill And that we may not fall from thee by any impatience under thy just Hand by any unbeliefe in thy Mercy or by any temptation from the enemie of our soules to any evill or from any Duty uphold us Lord with thy free Spirit And being we know not what to pray for as we ought let the same Holy Spirit help our infirmities in praying for all as thy deer Sonne our Saviour in whom thou art a God that hearest Prayer hath himself taught us to pray saying Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evill for Thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Evening Prayer Give ear unto our Prayers O God and hide not thy Self from our Supplications Hear thou in Heaven thy Dwelling Place and when Thou hearest forgive Let our Prayers be set before thee as Incense and the lifting up of our hands as the Evening Sacrifice MOst Holy and most Dreadfull Lord God with whom is terrible Majesty so that even the purest of the Heavenly Angels tremble before it and cover their faces as even them thou