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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84987	A full relation concerning the wonderfull and wholsome fountain· At first discovered in Germany, two miles from the city of Halberstadt, by a certaine youth upon the fifth of March 1646. as he was comming from schoole. And now dispersed into fifteen severall springs. With a specification of those persons, which (as certaine letters do informe) through Gods assistance and blessing, were in a very short time cured by use of these waters. A list of the diseases, how long the diseased had them, with the place of their birth and abode. And the forme of the prayer, which daily after the sermon, and set houres of devotion is usually said.		1646 (1646)	Wing F2355; Thomason E357_9; ESTC R201150	12,780	24

the Minister after this manner following The Prayer which is usually said at the Fountaine of Hornhausen ALmighty God mercifull Father wee thy weake diseased infirme and miserable children doe appeare here with sad afflicted and distressed countenances before thy most holy throne of Grace bowing the knees of our hearts acknowledging and lamenting our manifold enormous sinnes and transgressions wherewith we have sinned against thee O most righteous God provoked thy wrath which is like the burning and consuming fire and drawne upon our selves all sorts of judgements and plagues so that thou hast not onely visited us with the Sword Persecution Dearth and other punishments but also hast chastened handled and afflicted our bodyes with severall Diseases Sores and Infirmities and thereby hast fulfilled wherewith thou hast threatned us in thy Word long agoe that whosoever sinneth against his Creatour shall fall into the hands of the Physitian Now Lord mee must confesse that wee have not onely justly deserved all these but yet farre greater and heavier judgements yea withall that thou also in the middest of thy wrath and indignation dost shew mercy for if thou wouldest have dealt with us after our deserts thou mightest have totally consumed and destroyed us in our sins without giving us any respight for our repentance whereas thou hast bin pleased not onely to prolong our dayes that we might repent of our sinful wicked course of life but also as a loving Father to chastise and humble us with thy Fatherly rod of diseases and infirmities like as a temporall Father doth chastise his sonnes that thereby wee might be induced and seaed up to repentance For our great calamitie and misery doth compell us to draw nigh unto thee Wherefore we come and call upon thee O Lord in our distresses and in our offlictions wee lift up our voyce and powre out our supplications before thee Pardon us O Lord pardon us our sinnes Have mercy upon us and blot out all our transgressions and forgive our secret sinnes for the love of thy Deare Sonne Jesus Christ And because our weaknesses and infirmities are not hidden before thy eyes yea thy beloved Sonne our Lord and Saviour hath assumed upon himselfe and borne our weaknesses and infirmities to the end that hee might shew mercy and helpe to those that were afflicted Wee beseech Thee therefore O mercifull Father have mercy and compassion on our misery Take to heart our manifold afflictions infirmities and diseases O Lord Jesus Christ true God that knowest our distresse and miserie ease us of our heavy burthen which thou hast borne thy selfe And whereas thou as being the true Physician of soules removest and curest not onely the sicknesse of soules fo●giveest sinnes and cleansest and washest our filth and pollution in the wholsome Fountaine of the blood and grace of Iesus Christ but also thou onely canst heale the infirmities of our bodyes to which effect thou hast infused thy wonderfull vertues and heavenly oparations into the Elements Minerals Herbes Flowers and other Plants wherewith thou removest all sorts of sicknesses as thou hast healed by the meanes of a lump of figgs the venemous and mortall boyle of King Hezekiah Wee therefore beseech Thee O heavenly Father to magnifie thy mercy also in us by granting us thy grace that according to thy Fatherly and good pleasure since thou knowest alone what is for our best this wholsome Fountaine which thou hast opened and discovered unto us poore and unworthy sinners out of thy meere grace may powre unto us a powerfull and gracious helpe and remedy for the recovery of our health Lord thou art Hee that hast life and death health and sicknesse in thy hands that killest and makest alive againe and bringest men alone to the grave and destruction and sayest remaine the children of men Wherefore it is nothing to thee to helpe us here thy unworthy creatures And as thou prolongd'st the life of King Hezekiah even when hee was at deaths doore As thou restoredst the sight to him that was borne blind with clay made of spittle and sendest him to wash himselfe in the Poole of Siloam As thou healedst Peters Mother in law lying sick of a Feaver by touching onely her hand As thou helpedst the Woman that was troubled with the bloudy issue by touching the Seame of thy garment Yea as thou hast miraculously restored health and strength to many others So it may please thee to sanctifie and blesse by thy infinite bounty and mercifulnesse the vse of this Water unto us that if it be thy holy will our Infirmities and diseases may thereby be healed and removed As the water of Jordan served for the healing of Naamans Leprosie and conduced to the recovery of his health So be pleased O good Lord to grant the same wholsome vertue and power to this Water Many such blind lame and other infirme bodies were gathered together at the Poole of Bethesda which waited on till the water was moved by the Angell that then they might descend into it and bee healed O Lord looke likewise in thy mercy upon this infirme and weake multitude of people waiting for thy helpe and blessing O that it may please thee to move also this water through thy Divine power that it may likewise have the same vertue and operation with us to the restoring of our health Thou commandest us Lord in thy Word that if any man be sicke or infirme hee shall call upon thee and then thou wilt heare him according to his faith and give thy blessing to the meanes and remedies he shall apply Now behold O Lord wee are here prostrate in thy fight with our faithfull prayers and supplications not relying upon our righteousnesse and holinesse but trusting to thy great mercy that thou wilt heare us according to thy promise Yea Lord thou dost testifie thy selfe that hee that aske●h shall receive he that seeketh shall find and to him that knocketh shall be opened Wherefore wee beseech thee for our health grant us the same by thy grace Wee seeke thee as our Physitian be gratious and propitious unto us Wee knocke with our unanimous prayer and fervent supplications at the doore of thy heavenly throne till they penetrate through the cloudes O Lord open thy doore of grace and heare us from Heaven whether we lift up our eyes and hands Let our faces not be confounded for if thou shouldst reject us who would receive us if thou shouldest abandon and forsake us who would helpe us Yet if thou hast decreed in thy eternall and unchangeable decree and will that these infirmities and weaknesses shall lie longer upon us Thy will be done O Lord and give us patience that wee may not murmur against it nor envy others that are healed but submit our selves with all obedience to thy good pleasure and having our confidence and trust put in thy mercy and grace may say with Job O Lord although thou shouldest kill us yet wee will put our trust in thee Wee are sure thou