Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	hand_n	soul_n	5,920	5	4.8872	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30330	A collection of several tracts and discourses written in the years 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685 by Gilbert Burnet ; to which are added, a letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret power, the history of the power treason, with a vindication of the proceedings thereupon, an impartial consideration of the five Jesuits dying speeches, who were executed for the Popish Plot, 1679.; Selections. 1685	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5770; ESTC R214762	83,014	140

their Consultation to her She and her Party were now pressed with time therefore the execution of their Design could be no longer delayed than the next Night So the Council met and resolved that not only the Persons of Quality of the Religion should be killed but that every one of what condition soever that were of that Profession should be Massacred It was debated long whether the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde should perish with the rest for the Duke of Guise his Party had a great mind to destroy the whole Family of Bourbon but as for the King of Navarre it was thought contrary to the Laws of Nations of Hospitality and of Nature to murder a King that had come under trust to the Court and was now so nearly allied to the King and was guilty of no Crime but what he had from his Education So it was resolved he should be spared and made change his Religion But for the Prince of Conde he was naturally fierce and that temper joined with the memory of his Father made them less inclined to save him Only the Duke of Nevers who had married his Wifes Sister interposed vigorously for him and undertook that he should become a good Catholick and a faithful Subject And he prevailed tho with great difficulty that he should be spared But for the rest it was agreed on to raise the Town of Paris and set them upon them who were inflamed into such a rage against that Party that they knew it would be an easy work to engage them in any sort of Cruely against them The conduct of it was committed to the Duke of Guise who undertook it very chearfully He did first communicate it to the Guards and ordered them to keep a strict Watch both about the Louvre and the places where the Admiral and his Friends were lodged that none might escape then he desired the Provost or Major of Paris and the chief Magistrates and Officers of the City would meet at Midnight in the Town-house where they should receive their Orders They met accordingly and it was intimated to them that the King was now resolved to destroy the Hereticks who had so long distracted his Kingdom that therefore every one should go to his Quarter and have all People in readiness with the greatest secrecy that might be and that they should have many Torches and Flambeaus ready to light out at their Windows The Sign should be a white Linnen Sleeve on their left Arm and a white Cross in their Caps and at the tolling of the great Bell of the Palace which should be done near the break of Day they should light their Torches and march The King in the mean while was under great irresolution The horror of the Fact the infamy that would follow it and the danger he might be in if it either miscarried or were not fully executed could not but fill him with Confusion But the Queen who had overcome all the impressions of Tenderness and Pity that are natural to her Sex hearing of it came to him and studied to confirm him in his former resolutions representing to him all the trouble they had given him in the former Wars and that he might expect yet worse if he would let go this opportunity of securing the quiet of his whole Reign She knew how to work upon him so well that in end she prevailed and the King swore deeply he would go through with it Upon that she being impatient and fearing a new turn in the Kings Thoughts made the Bell of St. Germans be tolled which was the warning for tolling that in the Palace This fatal Signal was given the Morning of the 24th of August St. Bartholomews day being Sunday and was followed with a general Rising of the whole City of Paris The March of Souldiers the noise of their Arms and the lightning of so many Torches awakened the poor Protestants who now saw visibly that their ruine was both near and inevitable Some of them went out to the Streets and asked what the matter might be of so great a Concourse and so many Torches and armed Men at such an hour Some answered as they had been instructed to say till all things should be ready that there was to be a Mock-Siege of a Fort in the Louvre for the Kings Diversion So they went forward to satisfy their Curiosity but quickly found it was a real Massacre and not a Mock-Siege that was intended and they were the first Sacrifices of that bloody Festivity There were now about threescore thousand Men brought together The Duke of Guise with his Uncle Aumale resolved first to satisfie their revenge on the Admiral and therefore went to his Gate where Cosseins kept guard on design to betray him the more effectually He called to open the Gate which being done they killed the Porter and broke into the Court But the King of Navarr's Swisses barricado'd the next Gate and made some resistance This dismal noise awakened the Admiral who at first apprehended it might be some Tumult of the Populace which he hoped the King's Guards would easily disperse But when he perceived it encreased then he saw he was to be destroyed So he took his Night-Gown and got up Those that were about him were amazed at the constancy of his mind his Minister Merlin prayed and when that was ended He said to those that were about him I see now what this will end in but I am prepared to meet Death which I have often looked for but was never afraid of I account my self happy since it is so near me having in this my Death through the Grace of God the hope of Eternal Life I need no more the help of Men therefore farewel my Friends and try how you can save your selves that you be not involved in my ruin lest by my death I make more Widows than one I have help enough in the presence of God into whose hands I commit my Soul which is soon to be discharged out of this Body All this he spoke without the least commotion or appearance of fear Then those about him left him and got up to the Roof of the House By that time the Murderers had brook in and seven of them being all in Armour came into his Chamber Besme that had been one of the Duke of Guises Grooms advanced towards him to whom he said Young Man you ought to reverence my gray Hairs but you cannot shorten my Life much They all stood a while amazed at such undaunted courage and so composed a behaviour which as one of them told Thuanus was the most extraordinary thing that ever he saw his whole Life Besme did first thrust him into the Belly and then cut him over the Face at which he fell and the others struck at him till he was quite dead The Duke of Guise being below in the Court heard the noise and called to them to throw him out at the Window which Besme and another did