Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	miserable_a	offence_n	sinner_n	4,012	5	10.4369	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68991	The hauen of hope containing godlie praiers and meditations for diuers purposes. Gathered by R.A.	Allin, Ralph.	1585 (1585)	STC 376.3; ESTC S115873	28,164	222

pit of desperation and from thence to the lake of condemnation for nothing els is a man able to deserue of himselfe except he haue a stedfast faith in thy promises and beleeue that which thou hast spoken in thy holie word which is the entrie that leadeth vs vnto saluation I besech thee oh my sweet Sauiour for thy manifold and great mercies sake to deliuer me and all those that think to be saued by faith in thee from the doctrine of that antichrist that man of sin the Pope of Rome that I may leaue to studie of any thing sauing that which may be to thy glorie and praise the health of mine owne soul and the profit of my brethren to thee therefore with the Father and the holie Ghost be all honor power praise and dominion both now and euer Amen A praier to be made by those that be sicke MOst mercifull Father which doest chastise euery child that thou receiuest I beseech thee for thy great mercie sake giue me grace patiently to beare this thy fatherly correction which thou dost so fauorably lay vpon me and Lord I beseech thee giue me grace that I do not for this thy louing visitation through the imbecillitie and weaknes of the flesh fall away from thee but that I may constantly and patiently abide the same vntill it shall please thy fatherly goodnes to send a remedie for the same knowing this that whosoeuer doth not patiently suffer with thee the crosse of tribulation in this world shall neuer reigne with thee in the world to come in the place which thou hast prepared for thy elected children And like as thou O Lord dost know the weaknes of my wicked nature to be such and so great that of my selfe I am not able to endure this thy gentle and louing chastisement therefore most fatherly hast thou promised that thou wilt neuer lay more correction vpon thy children than they are able to beare therefore most louing father I beseech thee giue me grace stedfastly to stick vnto this thy sweet promise so that my aduersarie the diuell with his subtilitie be neuer able to withdraw my mind frō thee but as he knoweth me to be weake of my selfe so is he busie with all his might to tempt me that I might fal away from thee my good God and from thy sweet promises in my sauiour Iesus Christ and so to make my soule a pray for himselfe From whose diuelish temptations deliuer me the father the Sonne and the holie Ghost Amen A praier to be said when one traueleth on his iournie ETernall and most louing father like as this world is nothing els but a continuall pilgrimage and that a man while he is in this world doth nothing els but still labour and trauell to gather vnto himselfe worldlie riches and promotion and the more he hath the more he still desireth so that heer he doth neuer thinke himselfe satisfied yea he is euen as a bottomles bag that will neuer be filled be there neuer so much put into it euen so good Lord I beseech thee giue me grace to haue such an earnest desire vnto thee that I may continually all the daies of my life trauell and labor to obtain thee knowing this that whosoeuer obtaineth thee hath all things whosoeuer hath al the world without thee hath nothing For as the scripture saith What doth it preuaile a man if he win the whole world and in the end lose his owne soule If a man oh Lord take such care and thought for these transitorie riches vaine pleasures and delights which are heer this day and gone the next how much more ought we to trauell study and labor for those riches and pleasures which neuer shall decay But this is the dulnes and blockishnes of our corrupt wicked nature which is daily readie to throwe vs into the lake of destruction there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Frō the which place of torments deliuer vs the Father the Sonne the holie Ghost Amen A praier for a yoong man MOst mercifull father which keepest and preseruest all those of what estate degree or calling soeuer they be that vnfeinedly and with a liuely faith do call vpon thee therefore good father I beseech thee according to thy woonted mercie and goodnes preserue me which am a miserable sinner and haue most greeuously offended thy maiestie both in thought word and deed and am altogither vnable of my selfe to make any satisfaction for mine offences but only to flie vnto thee by praier and to call on thee in the name of thy welbeloued sonne our Sauior Iesus Christ in whom only thou art well pleased as thine Euangelist Saint Matthew testifieth in these words And a voice came frō heauen saieng This is my welbeloued son in whom I am well pleased heare him Heerby may I see oh most mercifull father the great loue that thou bearest vnto this thy welbeloued sonne our only Sauiour redeemer therefore in his name I am bold to come and present my selfe before thy mercie seate beseeching thee of thine infinite goodnes to blot out of thy remembrance al my offences and to renew a right spirit within me And Lord I beseech thee giue me grace that I being a yoong man may so spend the residue of my daies heer vpon earth as it may both tend to the glorie of thy holie name and the health of my soule And furthermore I beseech thee good father strengthen me with thy holie spirit that I may remaine stedfast and vnmoouable hoping for the reward of the faithfull martyrs which endure and continue vnto the end as Moises writeth of thy seruant Lot And the angell said vnto Lot Escape for thy life looke not behind thee neither tarie thou in al the plaine escape into the mountaines least thou be destroied willing him to flie from the iudgments of God and not to be sorie to depart from that fruitfull countrie For such is the qualitie of our corrupt nature that when we are in this world we are verie loth to depart from it seeing the earthlie pleasures so great esteeming them of more value than all the ioies of the life to come oh good Lord what a wretchednes is this that men will no better seeke for the saluation of their soules but altogither for the vaine pleasures of this life O Lord I beseech thee thrust this worldlie care out of my mind and let the care of heauenlie things take such deepe roote in my hart that it may euermore endure and continue so long as this earthlie life doth last Another notable example of continuance do I find in thy faithfull seruant Iob in these words And the Lord said vnto sathan Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob how none is like him in the earth An vpright a iust man and one that feareth God and escheweth euill for yet he continueth in his vprightnes although thou moouedst me against him to destroy him with out a cause Heere O Lord

was the grace of thy holie spirit heer was the gift of continuance vnto the end who although he had lost all worldlie pleasures yet would he neuer start from the obedience of thy holie will yea although sathan that ancient enimie of all mankind sought all the meanes that he could deuise to plague the carcase of poore Iob yet did he remaine constant vnto the end for all the trouble and persecutions that he abode If it be thy will good father I pray thee to imprint this gratious gift of cōtinuance in my hart that whatsoeuer crosse or tribulation I suffer I may patiently abide the same for as our Sauiour Christ saith He that taketh not his crosse and followeth me is not woorthie of me And againe He that will saue his life shall lose it and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it Oh vnhappie man that will seeke to saue his life in this world and lose it in the life to come and thrise happie is he that loseth his life in this world for our Sauiour Christ his sake for he surely shall find it in the world to come in ioies euerlasting which neither eie hath seene nor eare hath heard neither hath it entered into the hart of man vnto the which ioies Lord for thy mercie sake bring vs and for thy deere sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ his sake to whome with thee and the holie Ghost be all honor glorie for euermore Amen A praier for an old man ALmightie GOD which-art the helper of all those that call to thee for succour I beseech thee to come neer vnto me and heare the voice of my crieng which haue liued long on earth and that very wickedly euen from my youth vnto this my crooked age I haue still continued in blindnes and ignorance yea and that wilfully neither seeking to attaine vnto sight nor knowledge whereby I might see into thy holie word and therby perceiue mine owne wickednes and sin and to get knowledge therby to vnderstand thy holie commandements that I might through faith in thee seek to obserue the same But now O Lord I come vnto thee which neuer despisest the sighing of a contrite hart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful which neuer stoppest thine eare at the crie of a penitent sinner nor withdrawest thy hande from helping of such as be in need which callest sinners to repentance when it pleaseth thee euen at all times and ages some at the first hower some at the third some at the ninth and some at the eleuenth of the which late number oh Lord thorough thine inestimable goodnes and mercie I am one who haue spent the greatest part of the time of my life in sloth wantonnes and in all maner of vncleanes and wickednes euen til now that I am readie to put one foot into the graue that is euen till the eleuenth hower or the verie latest time of my life And had it not beene for the multitude of thy mercies I might haue proceeded forward in all kind of wickednes and sin euen as I begun but thou oh mercifull father which wilt not the death of a sinner but rather that hee should repent and turne from his wickednes and that his sin might be done away Euen to thee oh Lord God belongeth mercy and forgiuenes And thou it is oh Lord that wilt bring mercie and forgiuenes of sins to as many as faithfully in thy deere son Iesus Christ do call to thee for mercie in time before it be too late yea while it is said to day To day if yee will heare my voice harden not your harts as in the prouocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernes And heerin I beseech thee good father to forgiue me all the sins of my youth which are as the sands of the sea in number good Lord cast them into the bottome of the sea where they neuer may be seen with eies nor stand in iudgment against me And also good Lord I beseech thee to clense me from all my secret sins and cast them from the light of thy countenance Lord I beseech thee direct me with thy holie spirit that I may remaine thy faithfull seruant vnto the end thorough Iesus Christ our Lord Amen A praier for a maiden VNto thee oh Lord GOD belongeth mercy and forgiuenes of sinnes and the gift of a godlie and vertuous life therefore oh Lord I do at this time present my selfe before thy diuine maiestie beseeching thee not to looke vpon me neither harken vnto me according to mine owne merits or worthines but in the merits of thy deer sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ requiring thee for his sake to be mercifull vnto me and forgiue me all my sins that are past and giue me grace that hence forward I may no more so greeuously offend thy maiestie as I haue done both in thought word and deed but that I may henceforth lead a godlie and christian life folowing the example of Marie Magdalen out of whom our Sauiour Christ cast seuen diuels who in the beginning was a great and a greeuous sinner but in the end confessing hir wickednes and sin obtained free remission at thy hands and became a new woman leading hir life in holines and righteousnes and as the euangelist Luke witnesseth when our Sauiour Christ entred into the house of one of the Pharisies to dine with him behold a woman in the citie which was a sinner when she knew that Iesus sate at the table in the pharisies house she brought a boxe of ointment and she stood at his feet behind him weping began to wash his feet with tears did wipe them with the haires of hir head and kissed his feete and annointed them with the ointment shewing the great humilitie and reuerence which she bare vnto our Sauiour Good father I besech thee giue me such a contrite hart as had this Marie Magdalene that I may so bewaile my sins while I remaine heere on earth that when I depart from this vale of miserie I may remaine with thee in ioies euerlasting to the which place bring vs the Father the Sonne and the holie Ghost Amen A praier to be said of all true and faithfull subiects desiring almightie God to blesse and keepe the Queenes most excellent Maiestie GOD which art the author and giuer of all goodnes sparest not to bestowe plentifully on al those that faithfully aske it of thee I beseech thee therfore good father giue me thy grace that I may keepe my selfe vnder the obedience of thy seruant my souereigne Queene that I may loue hir and obey hir lawes as thou oh Lord hast commanded euery subiect and the Apostle Paule writing to the Romans saith Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordeined of God For he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue vnto