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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	believe_v	faith_n	propound_v	3,192	5	10.4974	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84037	The last speeches and confession of the Lord Maguire: the Irish rebell, that was hanged at Tyburne, and drawne, and quartered on Thursday last, the 20th. of February, 1644. With all the questions that were put to him, and his severall answers. And the coppies of those letters, and other papers which he then had in his hands and made use of, that were afterwards delivered to Sheriffe Gibbs. And his directory from the Romish priests that gave him notice by the said papers to know them, in passing to Tiburne with him; also his severall absolutions secretly given him, and all other passages at his death. Printed and published according to order.	Enniskillen, Connor Maguire, Baron of, 1616-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing E3128A; Thomason E270_19; ESTC R212340	9,841	21

of Execution Most loving Sir MY Master his Coach shall wait on you infallibly That day your friend William shall go by the Coach all the way upon a red horse with a white hat and in a gray jacket We may see what need there is that the Officers of Prisons that looke to the Prisons be purged and then you cannot choose by the grace of God but to know the Coach of two whitish gray horses and then you may doe or shew that token only as to lift up to your face your hand nodding or inclining down your head and there shall go two or three divers Coaches for the same purpose and bee sure to have plenary Physicke as you desire I send you this holy stone by the vertue whereof you may gaine a plenary Physicke in saying any certain prayer I beseech you deare Sir be of good courage for you shall not want any thing for that happie journey and offer you your selfe wholly for him who did the same for you Pray earnestly for your Country and for your own sonnes that God may prosper them I do humbly intreat you to pray for me Yours own poore afflicted servant Your poore Gray This was in the margin of the Letter as it were a postscript You shall do well to send your letters to morrow to that young man that comes to me and the wooden Crosse that I have sent there of late I beseech you send me word whether the Reliquary that came along with those two Crosses was your or your companions * Macmohan Hugh These words following were in an Irish Character Mo mhile beannacht chugad a mhic mhanma In English My thousand blessings unto you son of my soule This following was in a paper in Latin being as it seems the advice of his Confessour to him which is here translated BEloved son in Christ believe almighty God who governes all the world by his eternall providence hath appointed this way to thy salvation and this manner of death though he could have brought thee to the land of blesse by another way knew this to be more expedient Therefore my son thou shouldest suffer this glorious kinde of death which thy God hath ordained for thee with an elevated mind yea thou shouldest desire it certainly this kind of death is a great mercy of God Is it not a speciall gift of God to have a certaine time of sorrow and repentance for offences committed O with how great a desire did the Kingly Prophet David wish that he might know the length of his dayes expostulating thus with God Make me O Lord to know my end and the number of my days This kind of death is granted to many Psal 36. who rather with a perverse mind with an improvident death falt to suffer everlasting punishment David being weary of the miseries and dangers of the present life said Woe is me because my pilgrimage is prolonged as if the time of his banishment seemed long besides Paul sayes O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death Rom. 7. And out of a desire of living in the land of the living he said I desire to be dissolved Plil 1. and to bee with Christ Therefore my Lord beare this death which now hangs over your head with a quiet mind● for Christ died for you therefore fervently meditate with the eyes of your heart upon this bitter death of Christ and his torments See These Lines following were written on the back-side of the paper part of it being before come and no more brought by him then what is here his kingdome shall move thee and sar into thy hands I commend my spirit Thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of Truth Thou hast created me oh my God Thou hast redeemed me O most holy Father I am all thine let thy will be done in me illuminate mine eyes that I may never sleep in death Thou shalt invocate blessed Mary for thy helper saying Mary the Mother of grace the Mother of mercy do thou protect us from the enemy and receive us in the houre of death thou shalt invocate also Saint Michael the Archangell and the Angell thy keeper and the holy Patrons And lastly all the Saints that they may intercede for thee and helpe thee with their prayers and merits thou shalt also recite these words O Lord Jesus Christ I believe that thou art my God and my Redeemer and I firmely believe whatsoever the holy catholike Church propounds to be believed and professe that I will live and die in this faith It grieves me that I have offended so great goodnesse and it grieves mee that I can grieve no more for my offences committed against thee my Creatour and Saviour in thought word and deed and by omission and I humbly beseech thee to pardon me by thy bloud which thou hast powred out for my salvation and if I have forgot any thing which hath offended thy Majesty or do not know it I desire to know it and repent of it And in the meane time I ask forgivenesse of all and likewise for thy sake doe from my heart passe by all offences whereby others have offended me Also I pray them to forgive me if I have detained any thing from any man my heires shal make restitution to them to whom ought is due CRede dilecte in Christo fili Deum optimum maximum qui mundum hunc universum aeterna quadam mentis provisione moderatur hanc salutis turewam hunc modu moriendi statuisse qui quidem quamvis te ad foelicitatis patriam alio tramite ducere potuisset magis hoc tibi expedire praecognovit Ergo mi fili hoc genus gloriosum mo●tis quod Dominus Deus sic tibi ordinavit erecto animo perferas quinetiam cxoptes Certe hujusmodi mors magnum Der beneficium est nonne speciase donum Dei est habere certum tempus dolendi poenitendi de offensis commissis contra suam divinam Majestatem O quanto desiderio expostulavit sibi dari certum notum vitae suae spatium regius Propheta David expostulans a Deo sic Notum fac mihi Domine finem meum numerum drerum meorum Hoc genus mortis enim quāplurimis est concessum qui perverso potius animo improvisa morte ceciderunt poenas daturi sempiternas David pertaesus miserias pericula praesentis vitae dicebat Heu mihi quia incolatus meus prolongatus est quasi longum illi videretur tempus cxilii Beatus Paulus dicebat Infelix ego quis me liberabit à corpore mortis hujus Et ex desiderio vivendi in terra viventium dicebat Cupio dissolui esse cum Christo Ideo mi Domine hanc mortem quae tibi jam imminet aquo animo pro Christo acerbiter pro te mortuo seras Hanc amariffimam Christi mortem tormenta caeteras oculis tui cordis serventer meditare Vide These Lines