<OL TYPE="1"><LI>mercy: kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help them<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of men towards men: to exercise the virtue of mercy, show one's self merciful<LI>of God towards men: in general providence; the mercy and clemency of God in providing and offering to men salvation by Christ<LI>the mercy of Christ, whereby at his return to judgment he will bless true Christians with eternal life</OL></OL>