Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	world_n	year_n	youth_n	19	3	7.3459	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00023	A looking glasse of mortalitie. Not verie pleasant at the first view to many men, but yet most necessarie, profitable and commodious for all sorts of people, of what estate dignity, or calling soeuer they be. : With an Exhortation to good life annexed: wherein are treated all such things as appertaine vnto a Christian to do, from the beginning of his conuersion, vntill the end of his perfection. / Made by I.B..	I. B.	1599 (1599)	STC 1041.3; ESTC S124171	41,847	174

treasures which Almighty God offereth vnto thee and do now lie hidden from thine eyes O miseraable is the day of thy natiuity much more miserable the day of thy death for so much as that shall be the beginning of thy euerlasting damnation Mar. 14. ô how much better had it bene for thee neuer to haue bin borne The wicked Christians shall be punished in hell more grieuously for their wicked liues more then the infi●els if thou shall be damned in the most horvible tormē● of he fire for euer euer How much better had it bene for thee neuer to haue beene baptized if throughthe abusing thereof by thy wicked life thy damnation shal be therby the greater for if the light of reason onely sufficeth to make the heathen Philosophers inexcusable because they knowing God in some degree did not glorifie him nor serue him as the Apostle sayth how much lesse shall he be excused that hath receiued the light of faith and the water of Baptisme and doth often receiue the representation of the Lords body and euery day heareth his word preached Rom. ●1 if he doe nothing more then these pagan Philosophers haue done Now what other thing may we inferre of the premises but briefely to conclude that there is none other vnderstanding none other wisedome none other counsell in the worlde but that setting aside al the impedimēts combersome dangerous wayes of this life we solow only that true and certaine way whereby true peace and euerlasting life is obtained hereunto we are called by reason by wisedome by lawe by heauen by earth by hell and by the life death iustice and mercie of Almightie God Hereunto we are also inuited very notably by the holy Ghost Eccles 6. speaking by the mouth of Ecclesiasticus in this wise My sonne bearken to instruction euen from the first yeares of thy youth and in thy latter daies thou shalt enjoy the sweete fruite of wisedome approch vnto it as one that ploweth and soweth and with patience expect the fruitfull encrease which it shall yeeld vnto thee The paines that thou shall take shall be but little and the benefits that thou shalt quickly enioy shall be great May sonne hearken to my words and neglect not my counsell which I shall giue put thy feet willinglyinto her fetters and thy necke into her chaines bowe downe thy shoulders and carry her vpon thee and be not displeased with her bonds approch neere vnto her with all thy heart and follow her wayes with all thy strength seeke for her with all diligence and shee will discouer her selfe vnto thee and after that thou hast found her neuer forsake her for by her shalt thou findrest in thy latter daies and that which before seemed painefull will afterwardes become pleasant vnto thee and her fetters shal be a defence of thy strength and foundation of vertue and her chaine shall be arobe of glorie for in her is the very beauty of life her both are the very bonds of health Hitherto are the words of E●clesiasticus wherby thou maist in some degree vnderstād how great the beauty the delight the liberty and riches of true wisedome are which is vertue it felse and the knowledge of Almighty God whereof we do intreate But is al this be not sufficient to mollifie thy heart lift vp thine eyes fixe thy mind not vppon the water of the world which vanish away but vppon the Lord who died for our sins there stan deth he with his feet nailed fast looking for thee with his armes spread abroad to receiue thee and with his head bowing downe to giue thee as to another prodigal son new kisses of peace attonement from thence he calleth thee if thou couldest here him with many callings and cries hearken therefore ô my Christian brother and consider this well with thy selfe that if his prayer bee not heard that hearkneth not vnto the cries of the poore how much lesse shall he bee heard that maketh him self deaffe to such cries as these are Wherfore now determine with thy selfe to hearken vnto these cries be fully resolued to change thy sinfull life to liue a new life and so shalt thou at the last possesse the ioyes which neuer shall end FINIS CONSTANTIA ET LABORE

to al those that haue ●●tained her and he that shall haue her in continuall possessiō●all be blessed Keepe there●●re O my sonne the lawes of ●●mightie God and his coun●●ls for they shall be as life to ●●y soule and sweetnesse to ●●y taste then shalt thou walke ●●fely in thy wayes thy feet ●all not find any stumbling ●ockes if thou sleepe thou ●alt haue no cause to feare ●thou take thy rest thy sleepe ●all be quiet Now this is good Christian ●other the sweetnesse and ●uietnesse of the way of the Godly but the wayes of the ●icked are farre different as the holie Scriptures do ded● vnto vs the paths and 〈◊〉 of the wicked faith Ei●●stieus are full of bramb●● and at the end of their iou●● are prepared for thē hell 〈◊〉 nesie and paine Doest 〈◊〉 thinke it then a good exth●● to forsake the wayes of mightie God for the w●● of the world sith there 〈◊〉 great difference betweene ● one and the ether not 〈◊〉 in the end of the way but ● in all the steppes of the sam● what madnesse can be g●●●ter then to chuse rather ●● one torment to gaine anot●● theē with one rest to gaine 〈◊〉 ther rest And that thou●● more clearely perceiue the 〈◊〉 cellencie of this lest and wh●● a number of benefits are p●sently incident thereunto beseech thee hearken attentiuely what euen Almightic God himselfe hath promised by his Prophet Esay to the obseruers of his Law in a maner in these wordes as diuerse interpreters do expound them when thou shalt do faith he such such things which I haue commanded thee to do then shal forthwith appeare vnto thee the dawning of the cleare day that is the Sunne of iustice which shal driue away all thine errors and miseries then shalt thou beginne to enioy true and perfect saluation and all thy former sinnes shall be blotted out of Gods remembraunce and the glorie of the Lord shall compasse thee round about then shalt thou call vppon the name of the Lord and he will surely heare thee thou shalt call and he will say behold I am here present and readie to graunt thee whatsoeue● thou shalt haue neede of the in the midst of the darknes tribulations and vexations of th●● life the light of Gods fauour shal shine vpō thee which shal● comfort thee and thy darkne●● shall be as the noone day for the Lord wil so ordain that the very calamities withall eue● the very falls of thy sinnes past shall be an occasion vnto thee of thy greater felicitie he w● giue thee alwayes true peace and quietnesse in thy soule and in the time of famine dearth he will sende thee plentie and aboundance and thy boner shal be deliuered from death and from the euerlasting fires and thou shalt be like a garden of pleasure and like a fountaine of water that neuer ceaseth running of thee will hee make a building which laye for many yeares before desolate in such sort that it shall stande stedfastly and endure with sure foundations from generation to generations And if thou shalt take pains in sanctifying my Saboths not in spending them in leude exercises nor yet in fulfilling thy owne will against mine but shalt obserue withal diligence and care all such things as I haue commaunded thee this day then shalt thou take delight in the Lord whose delights excell all the delights in the world and I will lift thee vp aboue the heights of the earth that is vnto a most happie state of life whereunto all the treasures of fortune or of humaine nature can not reach Finally I will giue thee afterwardes plentie and abundance of that precious inheritance which I haue promised vnto Iacob thy father which is the felicitie of glorie for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it All these in a manner bee the wordes of Almightie God by the Prophet Esay Nowe these are the benefites which Almightie God hath promised to his seruaunts and albeit some of them be for the time to come yet are some of them to bee presently receiued in this life as that newe light and shining from heauen that sacietie and aboundance of all good things and assured confidence trust in Almightie God that deuine assistance in all our prayers and petition made vnto him that peace and tranquillitie of conscience that protection and prouidēce of Almightie God that garden of delights which is the verdure and beautie of grace that fountaine which neuer wanteth water which is the prouision sufficiencie of things Thus heauenly delights do excel all the delights of the world and that eleuation of spirite whereunto no strength or power of nature is able to aspire All these are the gracious gifts and fauours which Almightie God hath promised to his seruaunt in this life They all are his workes of his mercie effectes of his grace testimonies of his loue and blessings which hee of his fatherly prouidence sheweth towardes them vppon euery one of which there is so much to be sayd that the breuity of this volume will not suffer me to treate particularly of euery point but to be short all these benefits doe the godly enioy both in this present life and in the life to come of all these are the vngodly depriued both in the one life and in the other Whereby thou maist easily perceiue what difference there is betweene the one son and the other seeing the one is so rich and the other so poore and needy for if thou ponder well all these words before declared and do likewise consider the state and conditious both of the good and the wicked thou shalt find that the one sort are in the fauour of Almighty God and the other in his displeasure the one be his friends The difference betweene the state of th● good th● wi●ked and the other his enemies the one be in light and the other be in darknesse the one do enioy the company of Angels the other the filthy pleasures and delights of finne the one are truely free and Lords ouer themselues and the other are become bond-slaues vnto Sathan and vnto their lustes and appetites the one are ioyfull with the witnesse of a good conscience and the other except they bee vtterly blinded are continually bitten with the worme of conscience euermore gnawing one them the one in tribulations stand stedfastly in their proper place and the other like light chaffe are carried vp downe with euery blast of wind the one stand secure firme with the anker of hope and the other are vnstable and euermore yeelding vnto the assaults of fortune the prayers of the one are acceptable and liking vnto God and the prayers of the other are abhorred and accursed the death of the one is quiet peaceable precious in the sight of God the death of the other is vnquiet painefull and troubled with a thousand frights and terrours To conclude the one liue like childrē vnder the