Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	pardon_v	sin_n	transgression_n	2,321	5	9.8948	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78962	His Majesties prayers which he used in time of his sufferings. Delivered to Doctor Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death, with his severall speeches to his children, (viz.) the Duke of Glocester, and the Lady Elizabeth. And a letter from the Prince to the King his father.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1649 (1649)	Wing C2539; Thomason E1317_2; ESTC R209047	4,184	16

HIS Majesties PRAYERS Which He used in time of h●● SUFFERINGS Delivered To Doctor Juxon Bishop 〈◊〉 London immediately before his Death With his severall Speeches to hi● Children Viz. the Duke of Glocester and the Lady Elizabeth And A Letter from the Prince to th● King his Father Aprill 16 Printed at London Anno. Dom. 1649. A Prayer in time of Captivity O Powerfull and Eternall God! to whom nothing is so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemned look upon My misery with thine eye of Mercy let thy infinite power vouch-safe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto Me as to thee shall seeme most convenient let not injurie O Lord triumph over Me and let My faults by thy hand be corrected and make not My unjust Enemies be Ministers of thy Justice But yet My God if in thy wisedome this be the aptest chastisement for My unexcusable transgressions if this ingratfull bondage the fittest for My over-high desires if the pride of My not enough humbled heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto Thy will and cheerfully imbrace what sorrow Thou wilt have Me suffer Onely thus much let Me crave of Thee let My craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from Thee that by Thy goodnesse which is Thy selfe Thou wilt suffer some beame of Thy Majesty so to shine in My minde that I who in My greatest afflictions acknowledge it My Noblest Title to be thy Creature may still depend confidently on Thee Let Calamity be the exercise but not the overthrow of My vertue O let not their prevailing power be to my destruction And if it be Thy will that they more and more vex Me with punishment yet O Lord never let their wickednesse have such a hand but that I may still carry a pure mind and stedfast resolution ever to serve Thee without feare or presumption yet with that humble confidence which may best please Thee so that at the last I may come to Thy eternall Kindome through the Merits of thy Son our alone Saviour Iesus Christ Amen Another PRAYER ALmighty and most mercifull Father looke down upon Me Thy unworthy servant who here prostrare My selfe at the Foot-stool of Thy Throne of Grace but looke upon Me O Father through the Meditation and in the Merits of Jesus Christ in whom thou art onely well pleased for of my selfe I am not worthy to stand before Thee or to speak with my uncleane lips to Thee most holy and eternall God for as in sin I was conceived and borne so likewise I have broken all thy Commandments by My sinfull motions unclean thoughts evill words and wicked works omiting many duties I ought todo committing many vices which thou hast forbiden under pain of thy heavy displeasure as for My sins O Lord they are innumerable wherefore I stand here liable to all the miseries in this life and everlasting torments in that to come if Thou shouldest deale with Me according to My deserts I confesse O Lord that it is thy mercy which endureth for ever and Thy compassion which never fails which is the cause that I have not been long ago consumed but with Thee there is mercy and plenteous Redemption in the multitude therfore of Thy mercies and by the merits of Jesus Christ I intreat Thy divine Majestie that thou wouldst not enter into judgement with Thy servant nor be extreame to mark what is done amisse but be thou mercifull unto Me and wash away all My sins with that precious bloud that My Saviour shed for Me. And I beseech Thee O Lord not only to wash away all My sins but also to purge My heart by thy holy Spirit from the drosse of My naturall corruption and as thou dost adde daies to My life so good Lord I beseech thee to adde repentance to my dayes that when I have past this mortall life I may be partaker of thy everlasting Kingdome through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer by Confession made in and for the time of affliction ALmighty and most mercifull Father as it is only Thy goodnesse that admits of our imperfect Prayers and the knowledge that Thy mercies are infinite which can give us any hope of thy accepting or granting them so it is our bounden and necessary duty to confesse our sinnes freely unto Thee and of all men living I have most need most reason so to do no man having bin so much obliged by Thee no man more grievously offending Thee that degree of knowledge which thou hast given Me adding likewise to the guilt of My transgressions For was it through ignorance that I suffered innocent bloud to be shed by a false pretended way of justice or that I permitted a wrong way of Thy worship to be set up in Scotland And injured the Bishops in England O no but with shame and griefe I confesse that I therein followed the perswasions of worldly wisedome forsaking the dictates of a right informed Conscience Wherefore O Lord I have no excuse to make no hope left but in the multitude of thy mercies for I know My repentance is weake and My prayers faulty Grant therefore mercifull Father so to strengthen My repentance and amend My prayers that Thou mayest cleare the way for Thine owne mercies to which O let thy Justice at last give place putting a speedy end to My deserved afflictions In the mean time give Me patience to endure Constancy against temptations and a discerning Spirit to choose what is best for Thy Church and people which Thou hast committed to My Charge Grant this O most mercifull Father for Thy Son Jesus Christs sake our only Saviour Amen A Prayer in time of iminent Danger O Most mercifull Father though My sins are so many and grievous that I may rather expect the effects of Thy anger than so great a deliverance as to free Me from My present great dangers yet ô Lord since Thy mercies are over all thy works and thou never failest to relieve all those who with humble and unfained repentance come to Thee for succour it were to multiply not diminish My transgressions to dispair of thy heavenly favour wherefore I humbly desire Thy Divine Majesty that Thou wilt not onely pardon all My sins but also free me out of the hands and protect Me from the malice of My cruell Enemies But if thy wrath against My hanious offences will not otherwaies be satisfied then by suffering Me to fall under my present afflictions Thy will be done yet with humble importunity I do and shall ever leave to implore the assistance of thy heavenly Spirit that My cause as I am Thy Vicegerent may not suffer through my weaknesse want of courage O Lord so strengthen and enlighten all the faculties of My minde that with clearness I may shew forth thy Truth and manfully endure this bloudy Tryall that so My sufferings here may not only glorifie Thee but likewise be a furtherance to