Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	know_v	name_n	2,610	5	5.0560	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09697	A fearefull example, shewed vpon a periured person Who on the 14, of this present moneth of May being condemned for periury, in the honourable Court of Starre Chamber: did there desperatly stabbe himselfe. Containing a notable warning to all common baylors.		1591 (1591)	STC 19965; ESTC S119186	1,950	6

¶ The fearefull example of God showed on a periured Person who at the Starre Chamber receiuing sentence in that case prouided disperately stabbed himselfe on Friday being the 14. of May. 1591. WHerunto should I liken this generation Why whereunto should I liken this generation but vnto that generation in our Sauiours time vpon the earth whome he the onely wisdome compareth vnto Children playing in the streets to whom their fellowes crye We haue piped vnto you and you haue not daunced we haue mounrned vnto you and ye haue not wept yea to this generation we may againe say as he to that Woe be to thee hard harted people woe be to thee obdurat nation for if the wonders had been shown in Tire and Sidon which haue beene showen in thee they would long since haue repented in Sackecloth and ashes How many of our fellowes or rather fathers whome we ought to follow haue cheerefully sung foorth the eternall rest of their soules by the witnes of their vpright consciences hauing liu'd christianly and left ioyfullye this Tabernacle whose remouing from vs but few regarde veryfying the wisemans woords The righteous dyeth and no man considereth in his hart it is too lamentable to remember How many againe haue in their miserable examples mourned vnto vs some perishing bewitcht through Poperie by treasons poison of their own preparations hauing through the omnipotencie of him that shadowes his annointed the edge of their own Swoords turned to their own throats others for barbarous murders and impious fellonies other through subbornacions forgeries periuries brought to infamous yet deserued reproches so that numberlesse is the number of these miserable mourners whose example can nothing terrifie this peruerse age The iudgements of God before time hath beene stretched largelye out against the rabble of the wicked and against periurie he hath in all ages and at this day showen deserued vengeance For vpon Friday being the 14. of May in this case he affoorded a manifest example at the Starre Chamber on a desperate periured person named Iohn Pitcher who being with his consort found guilty of periurye was adiudged to loose his eares vpon the Pillories at Westminster and London For the circumstance that the worlde maye note their merite it was thus A prisoner arested for a lawfull debt the action being two thousand markes he was driuen to produce especiall bayle that is two men of good account this Pitcher and his companion attired the one Gentleman like the other Merchant like being hired to baile the prisoner turned their names and places of their dwelling this Pitcher calling himselfe Maister Downes deposed that he was ten pounds in the Q. Bookes and of good woorship in his Country the Gentleman indeed whose name he challenged being well knowne to be of no lesse estate heereby they baile the prisoner defeate the Creditor themselues beeing of no esteeme and leauing a copper Chaine for one of golde they embraced likewise the Diuell for God yet he that punisheth such dissemblers brought foorth these two counterfeites who appearing before the right honourable the Lord Chauncellor the Lord Archbishop his grace of Caunterburye the two Lord cheefe Iustices and the rest of that Court had sentence as is aforesaide and commaundement was giuen to the warden of the Fleete foorthwith to see the execution doone but as they were carrying from the Starre Chamber euen hard at the doore this desperate Pitcher drew out his knife and giuing himself two wounds in the brest fell downe wherevpon the Lord Chauncellor and the rest graciously commaunded his wounds should be searched which he obstinatelye refused therefore their honors appointed a diuine to be sent him for his soules comfort and that he should be forcibly held while his wounds were searched for his bodies health O defexiles charitie O honourable and christian pitie But beholde the iust iudgement of God vpon this party the better to make his odious offēce seene manifest to be apparent to many other he made his owne consciente witnes against him that he was woorthy of death when with his own hands he attempted to strike the fatall strokes that might suddenly haue shortned his own life and this he chose rather to perfourm by the perswasion of his owne conscience then to sustaine the shame which the Law hath iustly awarded for so detestable an offēce And yet contrarye to the expectation of himselfe or those that were eye witnesses of this fearfull example his wounds being afterward searched and drest were not found deadly but recouerable so that he is now reasonably amended and remaineth close prisoner in the Fleete with his other companion vntil such time as it shal please her Maiesties most honourable Counsell to commaund execution according to their former iudgements Which is appointed to be doone foorth with Now if this mournefull act might moue the rest of this generation who sell the innocent for siluer and the righteous for a reward conuerting iustice into woormewood and iudgement into gall happy were they that brought these euill ones to light and happy this fearfull example for all Petyfoggers Suborners Knights of the Posts and all the vncleane kennell of vnchristened periurers who by swearing and forswearing bragging and out countenancing abuse the Iustices oppresse their poore Clients and for a little peece of Siluer like Iudas sinne in betraying the innocent sinne in betraying of their own soules sinne in despairing of Gods grace or presuming of his goodnes or cōtemning his iudgements whose hart O Lord conuert or according to thy promise teare them as a hungrye Lyon dooth his praye for they shame not to saye thou art like them because of thy Long suffering Amen Lord Iesu come quickly FINIS