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	soul_n	vex_v	2,562	5	11.2017	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62015	To the nobility and gentry lawyers and physicians, sea-men & trades-men, magistrates subordinate and supreme, &c. By Tho. Swadlin D.D.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing S6229A; ESTC R220646	17,046	127

the whole world thus From pestilence famine and war from earth-quakes inundations and great fires from the plagues of immoderate rains and droughts from corrupting winds and blastings from thunder lightning and tempests from epidemicall and sharp diseases and from suddain death Deliver the whole world good Lord From private interpretations of Scriptures from innovations in holy things from strange doctrines from doating about questions from heresies schisms and scandals publick and private Deliver thy whole Church good Lord From the Priesthood of Micah and Jeroboam from the combination of Judas Iscariot and Simon Magus from the doctrins of the unstable and the unlearned from the pride of novices and from people that strive with the Priest Deliver this Church good Lord From forain invasion and civil insurrection from displacing good Magistrates and exalting bad from the massacre of Athaliah and from the bloodinesse of Herod Deliver this nation good Lord From the Anarchy of Corah and Dathan from the tyranny of Ashur and Achab from the dangerous counsil of Achitopel and the foolish counsil of Zoan from the Statutes of Omri and the Judgements of Jesabel from the floods of Belial and from the plagues of Peor Deliver the state of this Nation good Lord From the pride of the Amorite from the envy of the Hittite from the anger of the Perizzite from the gluttony of the Gergashite from the wantonnesse of the Hivite from the worldlinesse of the Cananite and lukewarmnesse of the Jebusite Deliver this City good Lord for Jesus Christ his sake Amen In whose blessed name and words c. To the condemned to dye YOur time is short therefore my discourse to you shall not be long not many dayes betwixt you and death and therefore not many words lest I keep you from the thought of death I dare not be so unchristian as to think you prepare not your selves for the last fatal stroak and therefore one onely prayer for you from me if you have not a better from others for your selves O God! most powerfull yet most pitifull by thy Power preserve them that are appointed to dye and redeem them from the sentence of death which is past upon them if it may stand with thy Goodnesse But if thy Providence hath appointed this time for their period and this way for their dissolution yet by thy pity save their souls from eternal death and grant them all those graces which are necessary for their salvation Remember not their ignorances Forget the sins of their youth and Forgive the sins of their age Give them a sight of all their sins Give them a sense of all their sins and true repentance to bewail them Give them a sight of all thy Promises Give them a sense of all thy Promises and true faith to apply them Suffer not their Ghostly enemies to assault them to any present desperation for their former presumptions against thy Justice Send thy holy Angels to take their souls as they did the soul of Lazarus and carry them into Abrahams bosome and let thy everlasting Gates be open to receive them for his sake who by overcoming the sharpnesse hath opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Beleevers Make keep their senses intire their understandings right their penitence unfeigned their hope well grounded their faith firm and their charity perfect Give them ô give them a quiet and joyfull departure by carrying their eyes back unto Jesus who died for them and forward to those Joyes which are purchased for them by the life and death of Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed Name and words I further call upon thee as he hath taught me saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. Or if any sin lies heavy upon thy soul and thou canst not have those assistances thou desirest then confess thy sins and comfort thy soul in this or such a kind of Devotion as this Behold ô God! I was conceived in sin Psal 51. and brought forth in iniquity and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour was conceived by the Holy Ghost Luc. 1. and born in innocency not for himself but me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have discoursed with the Devil Gen. 3. and at his temptations have tasted the forbidden fruit and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour wrestled with and overcame the Devil for me Mat. 4. for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But I have committed all sin and kept the poyson of Asps under my lips Psal and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour did no sin 1 Petr. neither was any guile found in his lips for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have fulfilled the will of the flesh too Psal and done no good and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I hope to have Because my Saviour fulfilled thy will Joh. and did all good for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But I have defiled my body Gen. as Onan by Pollution if not as Judah by Fornication Gen. if not as David by Adultery 1 Sam. 11. if not as Ammon by Incest if not as the Sodomites by Bestiality and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviour offered his Body to the knife of Luc. 2. Circumcision to the water of Baptisme Mat. 3. to the Curse of the Tree to the Death of the Crosse and all this to expiate the sins of my body for which Philip 2. My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But mine hands have been lifted up against Heaven and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours hands in Heaven are as upon the Crosse they were stretched out to embrace me for which My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord But my feet my very feet have been swift to shed the blood of Revenge and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours feet were nail'd to shed the blood of Attonement for me for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my heart my inmost and remotest heart hath been filled with evil imaginations and that continually and therefore I dare not but continue to pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because my Saviours Heart was pierced to offer up the blood of satisfaction for the sins of my heart for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But my soul my once most precious soul I have defaced by all manner of ungodlinesse and therefore I pray God he mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I yet

hope to have Because my Saviours soul descended victoriously to trample upon the enemies of my soul for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But yet in my Body I can see nothing but wounds in my soul nothing but soars in my life nothing but sins and therefore I pray God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy I yet hope to have Because in my Jesus I see balme enough to cure my wounds in thy Christ I see unction enough to heale my soares In his life obedience and in that obedience merit enough to pardon my sins In his death patience and in that patience redemption enough to save my soul In his blood innocence and in that innocence satisfaction enough to cure my wounds to heal my sears to pardon my sins to save my soul in his Descent Humility in his Resurrection and Ascension Hope in his Intercession Comfort for he is now at thy right hand to make intercession for me and for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord But yet but yet I have trampled that blood under foot I have crucified my Jesus afresh and therefore dare not but pray afresh God be mercifull to me a sinner But yet but yet but yet I am the greatest sinner upon the face of the whole Earth for who or what man or devil durst to doe what I have done I have broke all thy commandements I have broken all my vows for better obedience and that even to this moment of my life the very last moment of my life and therefore will pray so long as life doth last God be mercifull to me a sinner And mercy yet I hope to have Because that saying which is worthy of all acceptation is believed by me and I desire I may believe it to the very last minute Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners even my self the chiefest of sinners for which My soul doth magnifie thee ô Lord And now most gracious God! I beseech thee to accept of my resolutions and to accomplish them in my true though weak and late endeavours and look upon me nor as I am in my self but as I am in thy Sen washed washed in his Baptism as well from my actuall trangressions I have committed since as from my original corruption I stood guilty of before I was baptized look upon me ô my God! as I am in thy Son clothed clothed with his righteousnesse for his love clothed himself with the imputation of my wickednesse and doth not thy gift of faith cloth me with the imputation of his righteousnesse I doe believe the one That he came into the world and I desire to believe the other That he came into the world to save me for I am a sinner the chief of sinners look upon me ô my God! as I am in thy Son healed healed by his stripes for the bled to save the whole Body the Church and of that body I am a member and doe not ô God! doe not suffer any member of thy Sons body to perish look upon me ô my God! as I am in thy Son reconciled and at peac with thee Rom 5.1 for being just fied by faith I have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Look upon me so ô God! and thy baptism shall cleanse me cleanse me as well from future filth as from passed guilt look upon me so ô God! and thy other blessed Sacrament which I have now or shall by and by receive received shall preserve me unto everlasting life otherwise I dare not look upon thee but in the Face of Jesus Christ and otherwise I beseech thee look not upon me but through the merits of Jesus Christ in whose blessed name and presence I promise thee new and better obedience if I live and for whose blessed sake and merits I beg thy assistance that I may have victory over sin victory over the commanding power of it and never again obey it in the lusts of my mortal body while I live nor never despaire under the condemning guilt of it when I dye but now while I live and then when I dye be cured of all the stings I have received from the fiery Serpents of the World the Devil and mine own flesh by fixing the eyes of my faith upon the true brasen Serpent Jesus Christ Amen In whose blessed name and words I conclude my prayer and life in that most perfect form of prayer which he hath taught me in his holy Gospel saying when yee pray say Our Father which art in Heaven c. To my Benefactors YOu are blessed men so the Psalmist tells you Psal 41.1 Blessed is the man that considers the poor and needy So my saviour tels you Come ye blessed of my Father For yee gave me meat when I was hungry Mat 25. ye visited me when I was in p●ison So St. Paul tells you It is a better thing to give than to receive Such blessed men I have hitherto met with in my hunger in my thirst in my mprisonment in my nakednesse Their blessednesse hath blessed me and they have made themselves more blessed by the law of beneficence which is they forget their charity But I may not make my self cursed by forgetting my duety in the law of gratitude No I will remember my Duty by remembring God not to forget their labor of love because they have not forgot to doe good to them that are in bonds and particularly to my self the worst and unworthiest of the rest To you my Benefactors I say Be not weary of well doing You shall reap if you faint not To God I pray Reward them seven-fold ô God! with Grace and Plenty here with Glory and Eternity hereafter From Him I assure you of both if you add but your own Faith to the Devotion of your Beadsman with whom Vindicta oneri Gratia in quaestu habetur FINIS

the Gentlemen of the Law MY Calling is lawful I question it not no wise man doth question it or if any man doth question it yet God being the antient Law-maker and the eternal Law giver would soon decide it and determine my Calling to be lawful All my fear is whether I use not my lawful Calling unlawfully That I may not I propose these Cases of Conscience to my s●●f Whether Gods glory or mine own gain moved me to make choice of this Calling Whether I take Fees in right or wrong Causes Whether I afford a Tenth or a Tantamount of my abundant Fees to the relief of the poor And when these are resolved I acknowledge it my duty as it is every mans duty to pray God to direct me in my lawful Calling and so I doe O most just and righteous God! who to preserve Peace amongst men and to prevent men from wronging one another hast ordained the Profession of the Law and hast appointed me to that Profession I beseech thee give me grace so to execute my Profession that I may doe right to all men sanctifie my Tongue that my words be not deceiptful and sanctifie my Heart that equity not opulency be the chiefest mark I aime at keep my Hands from taking Fees to plead in or maintain an unjust cause and when I shall take a Fee in a just Cause and doe not deserve it either by my neglect or multiplicity of other Imployments give me grace to restore it While I am busied to obtain earthly Goods for my Clrents let me not forget to make Thee my Advocate for obtaining the Eternal good of mine own Soul In all my pleading before an earthly Judge give me grace to remember that great and last day when I and all men besides must appear before Thee the Judge of Heaven and Earth And because then not subtle words but a pure heart a good conscience and not a full purse shall speed so direct me by thy Spirit in this Calling of the Law that in my whole Practice I may endeavour to execute Justice and maintain Truth and then receive as thou hast promised to them that walk uprightly glory and immortality Ps 80 11. through the merits of Him that is the Advocate of Sinners and the propitiation for our sins Jesus Christ the righteous Amen In whose most blessed name and words c. The Lawyers Character NO wife man sees him but he thinks upon his Estate and is glad there are such men without whom themselves cannot live in peace nor their Estates be secure None but fools grudge at their abundance since by their diligence we possesse such abundance as we have tranquillously Be as rich as you can so you be honest and though your Law cannot yet the Gospel will find a way to cut off the entayl of difficulty to Heaven from Riches Else Vae vobis The Physicians Devotion NO man that hath pulse in his Body or pastion in his heart or brain in his head or urine in his bladder but will confesse the lawfulness of my Profession or if any man be so mad or malicious yet Asa's preposterousness in seeking to the Physician before the Divine and Hezechias his application of a Figg to his Plague-sore will confute him and tel the whole world That the Physicians Profession is lawful and honourable because not a wise man sees him but he thinks of death not a fool but sends for him in sicknesse and therefore a happy man he is in the mean time that is welcome to fools in extremity and to wise men at every opportunity He is indeed as happy as any man living if he ascribe not too much to second causes If he make God his as God hath made him other mens Physician If he shew God his tears as he looks upon his Patients urine he may then as well prognosticate his own health as his Patients death The sight of him shall ever put me in mind of death that I may not be afraid of death when I cannot have the sight of him the Physician To whom I propose this one Case of Conscience Whether his Prescriptions and Aimes are more for his Patients recovery or his own Gains And then let him pray thus or otherwise as it pleaseth him O most wise most powerfull and most gracious God! who hast created Man for thy self and service and all other things for the service of Man and amongst men hast or ●ained several Professions and amongst them the Profession of Physick to repair the Health and to recover the Sicknesse of Men The seech thee to give me grace to remember that I must one day answer for what I doe all the dayes of my life and therefore withall I beseech thee for a blessing upon all those Prescriptions I shall direct for my Patients and to trust in and expect onely from thee the First cause a vertuous operation upon the second cause for the good and benefit of my Patients and as I feel for the evennesse or unevennesse of their pulse I may keep the pulse of mine own soul in an even and just temper before thee that as I behold their urines thou mayest behold my tears that as I prescribe their Diets I may alwaies keep a temperate Diet my self and so keep my body under that my soul may continually have recourse to Thee until thou take me to thy self through Jesus Christ Amen In whose most blessed Name and words c. Physician his Character HE is Natures best friend as alwaies following her dictates and directions He is a good friend to Grace for when he sees Nature spent he bids his Patient send for the Divine nor doe I blame him for it that he puts Divinity after Physick since I know Men are more sensible of flesh and blood than they are of soul and spirit nor doe you blame me if I highly prise that piece of Apocrypha Honora Medicum honore debito The Sea-mans Devotion THat my Calling is lawfull honourable ancient Noahs Ark Genes Davids wonder in the deep Psal Solomons sending ships to Ophir for Gold and St. Act 27. Pauls escaping danger at Sea by the help of the Shipmaster Pilots and Mariners doe abundantly satisfie and confirm Yet before I goe to Sea I shall propose to my self this Case of Conscience Whether I have taken this Calling by the direction of my Parents the guidance of Providence or the love of money and desire of seeing Fashions And being resolved I am lawfully called I pray O God! who hast appointed me to goe down into the Sea in ships and to doe my businesse in great waters Have mercy upon me O God! who doest whatsoever I thou pleasest in Heaven in Earth and in all deep places Have mercy upon me O God! I am now ready to commit my self unto the waters I am now floating upon the bottomlesse Sea and that my sins may not goe along with me nor provoke thee to vex me with thy storms Have