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A25179 An Account of the execution and last dying speeches of Thomas Watson and Thomas Gourdon who were executed (the one for murthering his wife and the other for high-treason) on Kenington-Common in the county of Surry, the 19th of March, 1687 : together with a true coppy of a paper left by Tho. Watson in order to be published and recommended by him at the place of execution to the spectators as the real sense of what he further designed or intended to say or leave at his going out of this world &c. ... 1687 (1687) Wing A288_VARIANT; ESTC R27084 7,230 4

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Desires and uncleanness O Lord pardon all those sins and irregular Actions by which I entered into Debts further than my necessity required or I was able to pay Let not my Creditors suffer by my sins Lord reward all their Kindnesses into their Bosomes and make them recompence where I cannot Lord I beseech thee pay my Debts in Blessings to them and theirs Lord pardon all my Rashness and Passion for when I should have been meek gentle humble and merciful patiently bearing all the injuries done unto me as my Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ did alas I have for one inconsiderable word broak into open Rage and Passion harbouring mischief in my heart nay at last they brought me to the inhumane and cruel Murther even of her that ought to have been as dear unto me as my own Life although she was unkind to me I ought to have loved her instructing reproving and restraining her with all meekness and gentleness and long suffering praying for her and not to have been rash and passionate against her moreover wickedly to destroy her and as much as in me lay to raise out the very Image of God Deliver me O Lord from Blood Guiltiness thou that art my Saviour and my Tongue shall sing of thy Righteousness wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sins Turn thy Face from my sins and blot out all my misdoings make me a new heart and renew a right spirit within me the Remembrance of my sins is grievous the Burthen of them intollerable O Lord I beseech thee give me a due sense of my sins the baseness and vileness of all my doings and misdeeds that I may hate them worse than that Death I expect shortly to suffer Give me a Godly sorrow that may work Repentance never to be repented of Give me unfeigned purposes of amendment of Life though I may justly think they are too late to find Acceptance with thee therefore with fear and a great sense of my own unworthiness with a sorrowful heart and true sence of my sins I look up unto thee for Mercy that had Mercy on the Penitent Thief at the last hour thou that art Mercy it self give me some small hopes of Mercy good Lord cast me not quite out of thy sight for Jesus Christ's sa●e who gave himself for us to redeem us from all Iniquities I confess 't is a beginning of Mercy and an earnest I have to hope for more that hast made me sensible of my sins to a degree of hating them and to resolve against them that I have a love and desire to a Godly Life I confess thou had'st just cause to leave me to my self and permit me to commit so horrid a Fact O Lord I know thou canst bring good out of evil and I beseech thee to let this be a means of bringing me to Repentance and then I shall have infinite cause to Bless thee for suffering of Justice to take hold of me and put a stop to my further sinning against thee let me take shame to my self by open confessing my Crime and earnestly admonishing all to be warned by my Example to cease betimes to do evil and learn to do well O! that I might Glorifie thee in my Latter End till I receive my deserved punishment give me Grace to spend my time bewailing my sins in and humbling my self before thee for them and hating them with a perfect hatred and in calling other Offendors to Repentance I beseech thee to inable me thus to spend my time Grant me to tast of thy Mercy and take from me the fear of Death Give me Grace to work out my Salvation with fear and trembling to use all diligence to make my Calling and Election sure so that when my Soul is seperated from my Body that thou Blessed Jesus wilt receive it into thy Protection and have Mercy upon me O Lord God according to thy loving kindness according to thy tender Mercys blot out my Transgressions wash me throughly from mine Iniquity and cleanse me from my sins for I acknowledge my Transgressions and my Sins are ever before me against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou might be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest for behold I was shapen in Iniquitie and in sin my Mother concieved me but thou shalt make me to know wisdom Purge me with Hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than Snow Make me to hear of joy and gladness that the Bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce hide thy Face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me cast me not away from thy presents and take not thy Holy Spirit from me restore unto me the joy of thy Salvation and uphold me with thy Spirit then will I teach Transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness O God thou God of my Salvation and my Tongue shall sing aloud of thy Righteousness O Lord open thou my Lips and my Mouth shall shew forth thy Praises for thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it thee thou delightest not in Burnt-Offerings the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and contrite heart O God Thou wilt not dispise do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion Build thou the walls of Jerusalem let me make my Calling and Election sure and when my soul departeth from my body then O Blessed Lord receive it into the hands of thy Mercy These and whatsoever else thou seest needful for me I Beg in the Name and for the sake of Jesus Christ concluding these my imperfect Prayers in saying as he himself hath Taught us Our Father c. Written by me Thomas VVatson with my own Hand in the Marshalsea Prison And is my desire it may be made publick WE the Persons who have subscribed the Papers mentioned to be left by Thomas VVatson do testifie of our own Knowledge that they were Written by the said Thomas VVatson and signed with his own Hand it being his desire they should be Printed and Published Joshua Ettry Jonah Bullock Judith Granger This may be Printed R. M. March the 21st 1687. London Printed by D. Mallet for G. P. MDCLXXXVII