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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	grace_n	life_n	reign_v	4,565	5	9.3210	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28857	Boteler's case being an impartial narrative of the tryal, & penitent behaviour of Master UUilliam Boteler, executed September 10th at Chelmsford, about the murder of Capt. Wade : with the substance of a sermon preached on that occasion, and his last speech faithfully taken.	Boteler, William, d. 1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing B3805; ESTC R43063	16,063	48

may judge how happy a frame of spirit he was under let him peruse the following Engagement or Covenant drawn up by Mr. Boteler himself soon after his condemnation and found in his own Hand-writing in his Book The Original remaining in the hands of a worthy Minister Chaplain to a Noble Lord whence this is faithfully copied Mr. Boteler's solemn Covenant with God private-lately drawn up by himself and found in his own Manuscript OH most dreadful God for the Passion of thy Son I beseech thee accept of thy poor Prodigal now prostrating himself at thy door I have fallen from thee by mine Iniquities and am by Nature the Son of Death and a thousand-fold more the Child of Hell by my wicked practises but of thine infinite Grace thou hast promised Mercy to me in Christ if I will turn to thee with all my Heart Therefore upon the Call of thy Gospel I am now come in and throwing down my Weapons submit my self to thy Mercy And because thou requirest as the conditions of my peace with Thee that I should put away my Idols and be at defiance with all thine Enemies whom I acknowledge I have wickedly sided with against thee I do here from the bottom of my heart renounce them all firmly covenanting with thee not to allow my self in any known sin but conscientiously to use all means that I know thou hast prescribed for the death and utter destruction of all my Corruptions And whereas I have formerly inordinately and Idolatrously let out all my Affections upon the World I do here resign my heart to thee that madest it humbly protesting before thy glorious Majesty that this is the firm resolution of my heart and that I do unfeignedly desire Grace from thee That when thou shalt call me thereunto I may practise this my Resolution through thy Assistance to forsake all that is dear unto me in this World rather than to turn from thee to the ways of sin and that I may watch against all its Temptations whether of Prosperity or Adversity lest they should withdraw my heart from thee Beseeching thee also to help me against the Temptations of Satan to whose wicked suggestions I resolve by thy Grace never to yield my self a servant and because my own Righteousness is but as filthy rags I renounce all confidence therein and acknowledge that I am of my self a hopeless helpless undone Creature without righteousness or strength And for as much as Thou hast of thy bottomless Mercy offered most graciously to me wretched sinner to be again through Christ my God if I would accept of Thee I call Heaven and Earth to record this day That I do here solemnly avouch Thee for the Lord my God and with all possible veneration bowing the neck of my Soul under the feet of thy Sacred Majesty I do here take thee the Lord Jehovah Father Son and Holy Ghost for my Portion and chief Good and do give up my self Body and Soul for thy Servant promising and vowing to serve thee in Holiness and Righteousness all the days of my life and since thou hast the Lord Jesus Christ the only means of coming unto thee I do here upon the bended knees of my Soul accept of him as the only new and living way by which sinners may have access to thee and do here solemnly joyn my self in Marriage-covenant to him Oh! blessed Jesus I come to thee hungry and hard bested poor and wretched miserable blind and naked a most loathsome polluted wretch a guilty condemned Malefactor unworthy for ever to wash the feet of the Servants of my Lord much more to be married to the King of Glory but since such is thine unparallel'd love I do here with all my power accept thee and do take thee for my Lord and Husband for all times and conditions to love honour and obey thee before all others and this to death I embrace thee in all thy Offices I do renounce my own worthiness and do here own thee to be the Lord my Righteousness I renounce my own wisdom and do here take thee for my only Guide I renounce my own Will and take thy Will for my Law And since thou hast told me I must suffer if I will reign I do here covenant to take my Lot as it falls with thee and by thy Grace assisting to run all hazards with thee verily confiding That neither life nor death shall part between thee and me And because thou hast been pleased to give me thy holy Laws as Rules of my Life and the ways in which I should walk to thy Kingdom I do here willingly put my neck under thy Yoke and set my shoulder to thy Burthen and subscribing to all thy Laws as holy just and good I solemnly take them as the Rule of Words Thoughts and Actions promising that though my flesh contradict and Rebel yet I will endeavour to order and govern my whole life according to thy Directions and will not allow my self in the neglect of any thing that I know to be my duty Only because through the frailty of my flesh I am subject to many failings I am bold humbly to protest that unallowed miscarriages contrary to the settled bent and resolution of my heart shall not make void this Covenant for so thou hast said Now Almighty Searcher of all hearts thou knowest that I make this Covenant with thee this day without any known Guile or Reservation beseeching thee that if thou espyest any flaw or falshood therein thou wouldst discover it to me and help me to do it aright And now Glory be to thee O God the Father whom I shall be bold from this day forwards to look upon as my God and Father that ever thou shouldst find out such a way for the Recovery of undone Sinners Glory be to thee O God the Son who hast loved me and washed me from my Sinns with thine own blood and art now become my Saviour and Redeemer Glory be to thee O God the Holy Ghost who by the finger of thy Almighty Power hast turned about my heart from Sin to God O dreadful Jehovah the Lord Omnipotent Father Son and Holy-Ghost Thou art now become my Covenant-Friend Amen So be it And the Covenant which I have made on Earth let it be Ratified in Heaven Will. Boteler HAving thus by sincere Repentance a lively Faith and hearty Endeavors to work out his salvation with fear and trembling secured his Eternal interests his Affections were wholly set on things above so as to be little solicitous for or about his Temporal concerns for though several of his Friends did strenuously endeavour to obtain a Pardon or at least further Reprieve yet he appeared freely willing to pay the forfeiture of his Life often sighing out his Cupis dissolvi and expressing a Godly jealousy over his own Heart lest it should start back again to Vanity But at last the fatal day is prefixt for his Execution viz. Munday the 10 th of September the