Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	life_n	spirit_n	4,419	5	5.0185	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00810	The bloudy booke, or, The tragicall and desperate end of Sir Iohn Fites (alias) Fitz		1605 (1605)	STC 10930; ESTC S105621	14,005	43

mynd what he had done how greeuouslie he had offended his maker in committing so detestable murthers as also in laying vyolente handes vpon himselfe and withall persvvading him to repent and be content to vse al the best meanes that might be for his recouerie not to continue in his wicked cours But all was one with him he would not liue but die only being desired to aske mercie at Gods hand for his offences which humbly he did he said that he was sorrie for the death of the poore man whom so desperatly he had murdered and whose wife he had so greeuouslie wounded likewise leuing 3. wretched infants vpon the mothers hands And being asked whether he would wilingly giue any thing vnto the poore woman in recompence of the losse of her husband hee was contented to bestowe vpon her an hundred pounds But whither he had any thing in his owne power to giue that knowe not I. For I think if anie thing be giuen it must proceed from his friends goodwils and pitty but so it should be and not otherwise He would oftentimes after he was wounded crie out vpon sir William Courneyes men whose daughter he married that they were come to apprehend him and that they would blow him vp with their gunpouder all which questionlesse proceeded from the guiltinesse of his owne conscience for the wrongs he had doone and being once demanded wherefore he killed the poor man It was not I said he that didde it but one of my followers which thing is note-worthy He left behind him a daughter whose wardship was presently obtained by an honourable Earle Thus gastly death hauing seized vpon his corporall body we will commit his soul for albeit his sinnes were great yet are the mercies of God infinitely greater into the hāds of the Almighty for charitye iudgeth the best and hopeth the beste in whose kingdome there is nothing but peace In the view of these his murthers there little needeth anye paraphrase since euerie man that thoroghly considereth of the facts themselues cannot but in themselues finde them to be most hainous before God most odious before men This therefore is the report of his desperat courses in his life time who as he cannot be any blot at all vnto other his vertuous and wel-deseruing frends so no question he is no more a griefe vnto other then a fearefull example vnto all his wicked associates Obseruations gathered out of the former discourse MAny and diuers things are in this precedent lamentable discourse worthie most deepe consideration and may serue the true vse of all such stories to put vs in mind of our duties towards God for we should not read only to know but learn to know that thereby we follow the good and shun the euill the Prince and Countrey and our selues As namely the eager desire that Sathan hath to increase his kingdome The watchfulnesse and warinesse that we ought to haue that wee come not within his clawes The wretched estate of a desperate mind The horror and trembling of a guiltie Conscience which pursueth a mans owne selfe when no man else doeth The desperate courses of vnbrideled follie The griefe of friends for so hard an hap The astonnishment of Associates in committing of mischiefe The mallice of Sathan in tempting vnto euill The wofull estate of two Widdowes the one in hauing a husband that was no more comfort vnto her whiles he liued and yeilded so great cause of sorrow being dead the other that so suddenly and vnexspectedlie had her dearest husband the one half of hir life by such fatall meanes taken from her The pittifull estate of three Infants left vpon the mothers hands hauing verie small meanes to maintaine them The great libertie that power and might if God guid not the hart giueth vnto the performance of euill The blindnesse of our sinfull nature that wil neuer let vs see into our riotous liues vntill wee bee carried awaie with a full streame of wickednesse The obduracie and hardnes of a mans hart envred and acustomed vnto sin How apt to follow the worser parte how hardly framed to good Drunkenes and fleshly lustes the effects that follow thē Euill companions and lewd retainers the discommodities and dangers thereof Our forwarnesse in pursuing euill and slacknesse vnto good The manye miseries that we fall headlong into for want of due consideration The temporall crosses that god sendeth vpon his children to trie their patience What the friendship of man is and how soone turned into hate Gods iudgements vpon the Wicked His loue vnto the godlie And lastly to close vp this discours a generall warning vnto all to put them in mind to amend their wicked liues mispent to turne vnto the Lorde whiles they haue time and to call for mercie before the gate of mercy be shut that repenting of the euill past they may leade their liues more carefully more purely and more holilie hereafter that so dying a godlie death they may make a blessed ende Which that it may so be the Lord of his mercy grant vnto vs all a sufficient measure of his holy spirite Amen FINIS