Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	die_v	life_n	5,110	5	5.0778	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63832	Memoires of the life and death of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, late justice of the peace for Middlesex, who was barbarously murthered by the papists, upon the first discovery of the horrid plot together with a full account of the strange discovery of the murther, the tryal of the murtherers, and the sham-plot of the papists to charge the murther of Sir Edm. Godfrey upon himself, detected.	Tuke, Richard, fl. 1672.	1682 (1682)	Wing T3227; ESTC R40676	44,126	162

Courages of true Romans of the new Stamp denying the Crime they Suffered for with that their formal Evasion of being Innocent as the Child unborn that is as no body A Child unborn may be a Non ens Had it been as a Sucking Child I question whether their dying Consciences could so well have dispensed with the Expression But what other might be expected from Consciences so charmed as theirs was by the Sophisticating Juggles of their Superiours ty'd up by so many Oaths and Sacraments to conceal that truth which by the divulging must necessarily turn to the Scandal of the Romish Church whose principles will rather admit the blame and punishment of a Crime than the shame of it And that there were some designs contrived to oblige them to such a prophane concealment in so solemn a case as dying I can give it no fitter an Epithet is evident by one notorious Circumstance That when Hill and Green were Hang'd and dead Captain Richardson the Keeper of Newgate with several others saw the Executioner amongst other things take a Paper out of Hill's Pocket purporting to be the form of the Speech that he should use to the People at the Gallows which being penn'd in a singular way of expression I shall take leave to insert Verbatim as followeth I Am come now to the fatal place where I must end my Life and I hope with that Courage that may become my Innocence I must now appear before the great Judge who knows all things and Judges rightly and I hope it will be happy for me a Sinner that I am thus wrongfully put to Death I call God Angels and Men to Witness that I am wholly Ignorant of the Manner Cause or Time of the Death of Justice Godfrey although on that account by the Malice of wicked men brought to this shameful death which I hope will give me a speedy passage to Eternal Life In this hope I dye chearfully because of mine Innocence and the benefit of the precious wounds of my blessed Saviour by whose Merits I hope for Salvation I dye a Roman Catholick desiring all such to Pray for me And I beseech God in his Justice to discover this horrid Murther with the Contrivers thereof that my Innocence may appear And though from my Heart I forgive my Accusers Yet I Cite all such as have a hand in this bloody Contrivance before the great Tribunal of Gods Justice to answer for the wrong they have done the Innocent and particularly the Lord Chief Justice and the Brothers of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey with Jury Witnesses and all their Partakers Oh Lord bless and Preserve his Majesty and be merciful to this poor Nation and lay not Innocent Blood to its Charge Dying words ought to have their just allowances of credit as supposing men if ever they dare speak the truth will do it then when they are within an immediate prospect of a sudden appearance before the Omn●●ient and righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth to answer for what they have said and done But when the truth has been once determined as in this case by no less than a Cloud of Witnesses some of them unknown to the other yet all of them harmoniously agreeing in the particular circumstances of the Fact and the Fact it self sufficiently proved on all hands by persons that prosess such a Religion as gives no allowances to lying or dissimulation When on the other hand the truth so proved shall be denyed by persons instructed in such false principles as these to deny the truth when the secular Interest of their Idoliz'd as well as Idolatrous Church shall be indanger'd by it to invert the moral nature of good and evil and to account those actions and things good vertuous and meritorious which in their own nature besides the express commands of Gods Word are wicked and sinful No wonder if such persons upon such principles should deny or conceal the truth especially when they can make such unhappy distinctions betwixt the form and reality of a Fact as to deny the crime of Murther when they know themselves to be guilty of killing a person killing in their sence being sometimes no more Murder than it was for the Priests of old to kill a Sacrifice or for the Jews to slaughter the reprobated Amalekites they arrogating to themselves the same dominion over the lives and properties of Hereticks as we are accounted by them that the Jews that priviledged people of old had over the execrated Pagan Nations so that in their sence Killing is no Murder Upon which considerations it 〈◊〉 easie for any impartial man to judge how much credit such dying attestations may admit of against such clear and undeniable proofs as were brought against them And it is more than probable that the words of the aforesaid Paper were not Hill's own words but dictated for him in that form by those of his party that were afraid of a Confession and durst not trust the reputation of their cause to the hazard of any unwary expressions that the consternation of death might extort from him Wherefore otherwise might not a verbal expression of his Innocency if he were minded to declare it be lookt upon as more credible from one in his dying circumstances than a set and Studyed form of Speech calculated for the purpose But they feared either the terrors of death would force him to a plain Confession or that the power of truth fortified with such awful Sentiments would over-bear his Tongue in some circumstance or at least that he would not deny the Fact so resolutely and in such a taking manner as might fix a Suspicion and odium upon the Witnesses Judge and Jury in the minds of the People which was the great thing they aimed at No doubt therefore this form of what he should say at his Execution was drawn up for him by some of the Religion that every word might be according to their mind and to the purposes of their designs how remote soever it were to his thoughts or the truth And no Wonder it is that they should instruct their Proselytes to make Speeches just as they say Prayers resting in the Opere Operato without any understanding or attention or consent of mind to the words they use when a bare doing or a bare saying can excuse an intention To conclude It is evident that the words were framed by another for him to Con by heart and not of his own doing by this undenyable circumstance that he never had Pen Ink nor Paper all the while he was in Newgate and his Wife being Examined about it testified that it was not of his hand-writing nor did she ever see it before or know how he came by it yet he began his Speech with these very Words and repeated as much thereof as his memory under such confused circumstances would serve him to do In the Speech it self we may observe the great Charity of the Author of it whoever he were in citing all such