Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	glory_n	life_n	7,443	5	4.5617	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25482	Annotations vpon the Earle of Straffords Conclvsion, the twelfth of Aprill, 1641		1641 (1641)	Wing A3245; ESTC R11925	5,545	9

And by telling what is and what is not shewes how to avoid it r He that having power in his hands so far endevours the ruining of the Cōmon-wealth as he thinks may stand with his owne safety it is just to judge him a Traitour to his countrey though true to himselfe And let us not bee ambitious to bee more wise and learned in the killing Arts then our fore-fathers were ſ It is but equall that he should have judgement without mercy that shewed no mercy It is now full 200. and 40. yeares since ever any man was touched for this alleaged cryme to this beights before my selfe we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the World abroad ſ Never since your time of promotion though it is hoped when you are gone we shall do so againe Let us rest contented with that which our Fathers left us and not awake those fleecy Lyons to our owne destructions t So let all the enemies of God and their country perish by raking up a few musty records that have layen so many ages by the walls quite forgotten and neglected t Ill maners being forth good lawes Which it seemes were made in a good time and kept to a good heare to rid us of so rotten a member that many ages cannot paralell May your Lordships be Nobly pleased to adde this to those other misfortunes befallen mee for my sinnes not for my Treasons that a president should not bee derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular case bee so looked on as you doe though you wound me in my interest in the Common-wealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speake for the Common-wealth yet in this particular I indeed speake for it and the inconveniences and mischiefes that will heavily fall upon us u It is pitty but you should die whilst you are in so good a mind now you are againe turned Common-wealths-man which you were once before lest you alter as you have done for as it is in the 1. of Henry the fourth no man will after know what to doe or say for feare u And to that passe we were come againe of late by your meanes till God set us free Doe not put my Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of state that men of wisedome honour and vertue x Had you had the last it would have preserved the two first but your want of honesty hath made your wisdome foolishnesse and your honour ignominie may not with cheerefulnesse and safety be imploye a for the publike x You meane against it if 〈…〉 you weigh and measure them by graine 〈…〉 and scruples y Your pressures have indeed beene heavier then to deserve to bee weighed with so light weights the publike affaires by 〈◊〉 the Kingdome will bee laid waste and 〈◊〉 no man will meddle with them tha● 〈◊〉 hath honours issues or any fortunes to lose z Before you wished you might not bee made a president but wee cannot have a better it will but produce this effect that men of your mischievous minde will for your sake refuse preferment and imployment 〈…〉 My Lords I have now troubled you longe● then I should have done were it not for the interest of those deare pledges a Saint in heaven hat● left me I should be loath my Lords there he stopped What I forfeit for my selfe it is nothing b●● that my indiscretion should forfeit for my child●●● it even woundeth me deepe to the very soule You will pardon my infirmity something 〈◊〉 should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it passe And now my Lords I have bin by the blessi●●… of Almighty God taught that the afflictions 〈◊〉 this life present are not to bee compared to 〈◊〉 eternall weight of glory that shall be revealed 〈◊〉 us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquility o● mind I doe submit my selfe freely and cleare●● to your Lordships judgements and whether tha● righteous judgement shal be to life or death Te Deum Laudamus te Dominum Confitemur FINIS