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	nature_n	soul_n	10,684	5	5.3166	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29147	Bradshaw's ghost being a dialogue between the said ghost, and an apparition of the late King Charles : wherein are laid down severall transactions that did occur in the many passages of his life, never known before.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4164; ESTC R18791	5,858	14

fitting Precepts for a State to be ruled by this man hammering in his head how to bring that to passe which he so egregiously afterward effected by a counterfeit of zeal gained an opinion of godly and under that notion his intended villainies passed the vote without any serious examination How he did court you into a trap your selfe I believe is too sensible and because he could not himself he undermin'd your most intimate friends to betray you what force could at that time have manacled you if you had not run into Caresbrook Goal and there too he was like to have been out-witted for had you in that personall Treaty granted at first what you conceded and yielded to at last you had taken Time by the fore-lock and in all probability had still been King but Post est occasio calva which he knowing and not willing to hazzard his designe any more gets you into his clutches Ch. But was it his intention at that time to use me as he did afterwards Br. Yes truly was it for then was the High Court of Justice a framing and my selfe at last after much debating chosen President thereof Ch. But how did you think to look me your King in the face with what spirit were you possessed or what inducements had you to move you thereto Br. I knew an act of that height must be carried on with that undaunted courage and when my sentence was past and you laid aside I knew honour and wealth would both attend me Ch. But what should you have done if I had pleaded as you urged me Why the thing had been still the same Cromwell himselfe said there was a fatal necessity that either You or He must die Nec Caesar superiorem nec Pompeius pacem he joyn'd both humors in his own person for he could brook neither superior nor equal All things now thus fitted and resolved on I endeavoured to still my conscience into a beliefe of the legality of my fact and to that purpose I did light on a passage that pleased me and the more for that it was out of our own Chronicles the passage was this In a Parliament time there was a certain head of Wax made by Negromancy as it was reported which head at an hour appointed to speak uttered these words following at three times and then ceased to speak any more the words are these First The Head shall be cut off 2. The Head shall be lift up aloft And 3. The feet shall be lift up aloft above the Head This happened in the time of that Parliament that was called The mercilesse Parliament not long before that which was called The Parliament that wrought wonders By this thing was my wickednesse heightened and I so confirm'd in my audaciousnesse that I counted it a small matter to imbrew my hands in the sacred bloud of my King After that fatall businesse I began to lord it over my brethren and forgot the turfe from whence I sprang thus continuing for some time at last I was arrested by conscience sera venit sed certa venit vindicta Oh the terrors of a guilty conscience how oft in ghastly visions have my thoughts presented before me your headless person whose springs of bloud have threatned an innundation both to my soul and body then have I weighed the calm though provok'd Majesty that sate on your brow scorning fear and disdaining the terrors of an enforced death rather then make a breach o●those principles wherein God and Nature had tutore you then is my soul torn in peices with amazement and feels in it self the everlasting torments of a reprobated soul and to add to my griefs and heap up the measure of my woes I was casheired out of imployments and by him for whom I had ventured so much and even hazarded that soul which was once purchased at a dearer rate Ch. Why were you turned out of office what might be the reason and who the person or persons that so either disaffected or feared you Br. Even the same that I formerly spoke of Cromwel and his crew of bloodsuckers for afterwards when his devilish ambition aspired to grasp the Scepter into his single hand and I was consulted with how the same might with most applause be brought about I declared and told him freely that if he had such a thought to usurp the government he and by his means we had committed the most horrid Treason that ever was heard of to which he answered his resolution was fixed and he would go through what ever hapned and so he did for shortly after he thrust out of doors those Quacksalvers of State which for 14 yeers before had sate and hatched nothing but mischief and from henceforwards I was discarded and he played absolutely Rex and now began a grand dispute between Liberty and Tyranny almost as hot as in your time for they are incompatible and cannot meet together or if they do they last not every one seeks his own perfection which depending upon the destruction of another they seek it there It seems strange to the People that they should be free and yet serve but is more strange ●o the Tyrant that he should be chief Lord and not ●ommand for whilst by violence Liberty is taken away it enforceth withal a violent Government for to ●ive quietly it behoves either to be totally free or totally tied to servitude Now Noll according to old Nick's rule of ingratitude having pulled down the steps by which he rose was at first followed by many because he conferred on them authority but before his end he was hated by them because he incesed them by bereaving them of it he would not endure the Parliament which himself called and because they took him as a Companion whom they accepted as their Prince he would make them slaves whom he took for assistant Officers thus they grew into factions till at last after one of his Daughters had died frantick and another lived Pockified himself in a furious storm and tempest of wind was hurried away whether to Heaven or to Hell I will not judge though probably the latter place was best deserved Ch. 'T is an approved rule among moral men Turpe est doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum my raign was thought bad though like Solomons it abounded in gold and goodness but my Successors little finger was heavier then my loins Coldius accusat gracchos catilina Cethegum I was accused for evil Councellors but these like Catiline made a conjuration against the Common-wealth and caroused to its confusion in boles of blood O Tempora O Mores but what succeeded after him Br. The people yet contriving in their frenzy set up an Idol after their own imagination The people gave their eare-rings ecce evenit vitatus iste Squire Dicke mounts the Stage but like a young player danted with that he was not accustomed he forgets his part and so after a little pause and a turn or two with a general hiss exit leaving his stink behind him Ch. Why was He forced to relinquish his ill gotten rule and to retain to a private life Br. Yea verily and a good shift too he had Hobsons choice so or nothing and after him returnes the many headed Hydra endeavouring with the Beare to lick themselves into a model and to that purpose enter Hieronimo with the good Old Cause like the man in the Moon with a bundle of bushes at his back Ch. The Good Old Cause what was that bid those Phaeton-like drivers return to the first principles they had before their rebellion Br. Alas no such matter but now as they formerly Martyred you now they were to drive out another and here I became useful again now I was looked upon saluted exalted and Offices bestowed upon me once more I made my felf cock-sure but see how fickle is our fortune and how vain are our hopes even in the height of our rising we were suddainly overthrown and all our greatness vanisht into ayr And as to the thing called the Good Old Cause it is no other then the Quarrel at first begun with you and now newnamed nicknamed or indeed rather rebaptised but it was not long reverenced either for its age or goodness but like an old Almanack laid aside as useless and this was it that broke my heart the ayr of a Common-wealth with the profit arising thereby might have lengthned my life but to see Mars triumphant and yet our selves casheired would it not even vex a Saint I took pleasure in nothing not in Deanes and Chapters Lands though enriched by them nor in my high-builded nest whereby I trample on Churches for for the Cause the Good Old Cause my heart did bleed and what with that the loss of my employments and the certainty of never enjoying the like again made me like Achitophel retire and die and oh that now I might find that so much controverted Purgatory but ah ex inferno nulla est redemptio I had not ever grace enough to repent and therefore now must my Ghost wander restless up and down for in hell I find no company the fact that I did was so unparralleld that it is with me as the Preacher said once it was with the Jesuites there was a little Hell prepared for them on purpose lest they should breed confusion among all the rest so I find there is not onely a little Hell but peculiar torments for such heaven-daring regicides for Pluto himself is afraid to be condemned and unthroned if I might be admitted at large in Hell Ch. Then stay thou there foul fiend when men see A time to murther Kings they 'l send for thee The End