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	soul_n	14,434	5	5.5092	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29401	A Breif [sic] account of many memorable passages of the life & death of the Earle of Shaftsbury ... who departed this life the 21st day of December, 1683 ...		1683 (1683)	Wing B4503; ESTC R17676	6,304	10

labouring under such extream pains and diseases during the Earls imprisonment many made it their business to detract and villify him and it was their mode to drink his health at an hepenstring and call him Tony Tapskin and King of Poland After the Earls Tryal it is reported he Arrested one Baines one of the witnesses for a Conspiracy also several others but being not suffred to have his Tryal against them in London and Midlesex he remitted the same till another oportunity Thus have we given a brief account of the most remarkable things relating this great Peer to this time after which he lived very private at his house in Aldersgate street till the beginning of the month of November when t is reported he left England and landed at Brill in Holland where he was nobly entertained by the States and as some say hath put into their stock a considerable summ of mony But amongst the rest let us take cognizance of his deportment in the time of his seeming affliction he was little or nothing dismaid at the contrary current which opposed the stream of his aspiring mind which was a generous and magnanimous spirit in him for indeed he was as much befriended by unexpected favours abroad as afflicted by domestick troubles in his own native soil his reception in Holland was unquestionably very kind as doubtless was appertinent to a person of his parts It is not to be doubted but the many transactions happening in his time had recorded him there as well as in other Countries for a Polititian and so was he received by them His deportment there was such that he obliged all that came near him indulged all that knew him and at this death left no man without an obligation of a memento It was much to be taken notice of that during the time of his ilness he rather seemed to be of better composure in mind than ordinary as seeming to imbrace his malady with a kind of welcome that might transmute his soul into that endless happiness which he had been so long labouring for he seemed to covet after that continual blessing which alone makes happy and rejoyc'd at his approching change Oh happy is that man who like an undaunted Champion can boldly look upon the pale messenger of grim death without terrour when no astonishment comes to amaze the drooping sences but on the contrary if silled with comfort at the perfect assurance of a better state by the help and assistance of a blessed change no peace like a quiet mind no comfort like the peace of conscience nor no conquest like the victory over sin thrice happy is that man whom the thoughts of death cannot terrify then let us all labour so to live here that we may assure our selves of an inheritance hereafter that shall furnish our souls with joys everlasting that have no end But when he perceived that his fatal hour was most certainly appreaching with a most heavenly frame he prepared himself to meet with that unwelcome messenger taking great and particular care of his Menial servants that will imprint a memorial in their now bleeding hearts so having setled affairs in his house according to his own mind and Will he recommended his soul to him that gave it in these following words and manner O Most gracious and merciful Lord God who out of thy infinite mercy and goodness hast preserved and protected me through an Ocean of trouble and perplexity yea and brought me out of a labarinth of danger which without thine assistance I could never have waded through and now since by thy mercy I am made sensible of thy unspeakable Love so me in this my last hour I beseech thee with an unfeigned desire to have mercy upon my immortal soul and let thine Angel conduct it to the Throne of thine everlasting happiness Lord preserve and keep my Severaign Leige Charles the II. King of the Land of my Nativity protect that poor Nation now in a tottering condition from the yoke and burthen of Popish tyranny that the Gospel may flourish in the dominions thereof Lord strengthen me in this hour of tribulation that I may cheerfully pass through the dark passage which leads to thy never fading light Amen FINIS