Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	lord_n	psal_n	wait_v	2,295	5	9.4116	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93187	God save the King: or, A sermon preach'd at Lyme-Regis May 18. 1660. at the solemn proclamation of his most Excellent Majesty Charles the II. by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith. / By Ames Short M.A. minister there.	Short, Ames, 1615 or 16-1697.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3526; Thomason E1919_2; ESTC R203570	29,855	112

stile themselves The Royal party Doubtless he wanted not some who like Rehoboams young and heady Councellors gave him advice to take this course And it must be confess'd that some attempts have been made to this end but having found by constant experience that all endeavors this way have proved abortive and unsuccessfull by reason of the indiscretion of some and the treachery of others he hath at last rejected all Councels tending to force and violence and wisely resolved upon a contrary course And this in a juncture of time when he had the greatest hopes of assistance not only from Allies and Friends abroad but also from his most loyal and dutiful Subjects at home wherein he hath exactly troden in the steps of his truly Heroick and prudent Grandfather Henry the 4. King of France and Navarre who after he had fought many Battels and obtained as many signal Victories chose to obtain the possession of his Crown of France by treaty and capitulation rather than to endeavour the recovery of it by making use of further force and violence And in this respect also he hath shewed himself to be every way as wise as Rehoboam by his contrary practice discovered himself to be weak and foolish 3. By casting himself upon his Parliament in order to his own and the settlement of his Dominions By which Act he hath in a manner told them that he is willing to be or doe what his best and wisest Subjects shall thinke best and most honorable for him in order to the settlement of his Dominions in safety peace honor and by this also he hath shewed himselfe a truely wise and prudent Prince for by this means he hath and will engage the hearts of his conscientious Subjects to become his servants for ever As Rehoboam would certainely have done had he put in execution the Counsell of the old experienced men 1 Kings 12.7 Constant experience sheweth us that Princes gaine more by complying than they do by contesting with their Subjects That by gratifying them in smaller they win upon them in greater matters this Solomons old experienced Counsellors did very well understand and therefore advised Rehoboam to comply with his Subjects and to abate something of the rigour of his fathers Government And this also was well understood by Queen Elizabeth the wonder both of her age and sex for masculine wisdome and valour who by gratifying her Subjects just demands in Parliament became in a manner the sole and absolute Mistris both of her Subjects hearts hands and purses And this was it which made her so formidable to her Enemies and so great a comfort and support to her Allies and freinds Let no man therefore thinke our Prince imprudent in casting himselfe upon his Parliament for termes of settlement it being the most prudential course in the world to make him both a great and happy Prince 4. He hath shewed himselfe a wise and prudent Prince in resolving upon the reformation and settlement of the Church by consent of Parliament according to the advice of a select Assembly of pious and learned Divines Which indeed is the most proper and most prudentiall meanes in the world to discover and reforme those damnable Heresies and to make up those Church-destroying divisions that are crept in amongst us Who are more likely to discover the minde of God and to finde out wayes and meanes of reconciling differences and divisions amongst Brethren than godly and learned Divines whose whole work and business it is to study the minde and will of God Besides this is that means that God himself hath appointed for the curing of these evils as Acts 15. doth appear where we finde the Apostles and Elders did assemble themselves in a Synod to this very end Now by all this it appears that our Prince is a wise and prudent and so by consequence a hopeful Prince 5. If your view him well with an impartial eye you shal finde him to be an exceeding Patient and long-fuffering Prince a vertue so necessary that without it a Prince cannot mannage the affairs of his Kingdome And in this Princely vertue also he far outshines if not all yet the most of his Predecessors his most Royal Father only excepted And no wonder seeing he hath been from his Youth accustomed to the yoke and inured to affliction Now his eminency in this Princely vertue doth evidently appear 1. In bearing his great and extraordinary afflictions and the persecutions of his enemies and unkindnesses of his pretended friends in foreign parts 1. Without murmurring 2. Without fainting In respect of murmuring for any thing I have heard he was like David dumh and opened not his mouth because he knew his suffering was the Lords doing Psal 39.9 And he was so far from fainting under them that he rather gathered strength and courage by being accustomed to the bearing of them 2. This princely vertue appears eminently in him by his waiting upon God in his greatest straits with hope and confidence of his goodness and mercy to bring about his Restitution to Rule and Government in his own way and time In which respect it seems he had taken up the Churches resolution Mic. 7.9 10. I will beare the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him untill he plead my cause and execute judgement for me he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousness 3. This princely vertue shines forth apparently in him by his declining the use of unlawful means and by his resolution in a way of dependence upon God to persist in the use of all lawfull meanes to recover his right Had he been impatient he would have cast off the use of all meanes like that impious and impatient King we read of 2 King 6.33 Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer Or else he would have turn'd aside to the use of sinful unlawful means had he not been a patient Prince he would have been in danger of changing his religion in hopes to gain his earthly Crowns though by so doing he had lost an Eternal Crown 4. That he is a long suffering Prince appeareth also 1. In that he hath not been provoked and moved to Acts of revenge by all those wrongs and injuries that have been done him If reports be true when some of those English Souldiers that were in direct opposition against him were taken by the Spaniard and put into his hand to be disposed of as he thought good instead of revenging himselfe upon them he fed and cloathed them 2. In that he still retaines his princely and paternall affections to his Subjects notwithstanding all the provocations wherewith he hath been provoked 4. If againe you look upon him with an unprejudiced eye you shall finde him to be a very sober and moderate Prince And that 1. In his passions 2. In his affections The moderation of his passions appears by his endeavors to allay and