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A87789 The sufferers legacy to surviving sinners[;] or, Edmund Kirk's dying advice to young men vvrote by his own hand in Newgate, and delivered to his friend with a desire the same might be published, on Friday the 11th of June, 1684. Being the day on which he was executed at Tyburn, for murthering his wife. Kirk, Edmund, d. 1684. 1684 (1684) Wing K625; ESTC R230361 5,154 2

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THE Sufferers LEGACY to Surviving Sinners OR Edmund Kirk's Dying Advice to Young Men VVrote by his own Hand in Newgate and delivered to his Friend with a desire the same might be Published on Friday the 11th of June 1684. Being the day on which he was Executed at Tyburn for Murthering his Wife Dear Country Men I Cannot but be very sensible under the condition into which my Crimes have justly involved me how little I deserve your pity But yet as I am now come to the last period of my Life and going before another Tribunal to answer for what I have here don amiss before the great Judge of Heaven and Earth I hope you 'l so far lay by your just animosities against me as to give me a hearing nor can I think of any way so proper to improve the few Minutes I have yet by the mercy of the Almighty spared me as in setting down the steps and degrees by which iniquity hath taken hold of me that the sad fate I am now to suffer as the due and regular Consequence thereof may be a warning to others not only to avoid such gross and heinous Crimes for which I now stand Condemned but also those lesser and more remote Evils which were the forerunners hereunto Let him that stands take heed least he Falls the best do need this Caution and had I not thought my self two secure and trusted to my own strength more then the grace and assistance of the Almighty this Condition had never been mine I thank God I was born of good Parents whose kind instructions and Pious Counsel I rebelliously neglected Which neglect as I am in the first place humbly to beg God and their Pardons for so must I acknowledge that I firmly believe the same to have a great influence on my present fate for as the Command hath said Honour thy Father and Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God hath given thee So I cannot but Judge that the shortning of mine hath been in some Degree or Measure for this my Crime nor is it less than the greatest aggravation of what I am to suffer next to that of offending my God that in this scandalous and Ignominious Death I am justly Condemned unto I have brought shame upon my Family and doubled the pains on my Mother that bore me this tho it was the Sin of my Youth yet where I began to Transgress I thought fit to Confess Therefore Young-Men Young-Men as ye love your Immortal Souls and expect to live happily here and enjoy Everlasting Bliss hereafter be not Disobedient to your Parents but learn by my Example to avoid this Crime which was the beginning of those many I have been since Guilty of In the next place I would use the advice of Solomon in the 12th of Eccle. and the 11th Verse remember now thy ●●eator in the Dayes of thy Youth while the Evil Days come ●ot nor the Years draw nigh wherein thou shalt say I have no Pleasure in them With me alas the now is almost past over wherein I ought to have remembred my Creator and the hours are upon me in which I have no Pleasure no Comfort or Content in the revolution of my former mispence of those Seasons and Opportunities that God gave me but a sad and Doleful remembrance how often I have refused the offers of Grace and despitefully rejected the motions of God's Holy Spirit which Day by Day was as a Remembrancer under my Pillow to rouse and stir me up from a Careless and Sleepy Security in the state of Wickedness and Sensuality which I then lay But all in vain Sin had Possession of me and with her inticeing Dalliances and Bewitching Allurements which were then as a sweet and grateful Morsel in my Mouth but now as bitter as the pangs of Death it Self Betrayed me and Hurried me from one Degree of Bad to another till I had accomplished the last course of Iniquity for which I now Groan But tho God's just Judgment hath deprived me of my Opportunity to Serve him as I ought and left me but a few Minutes to make my Peace with his offended Majesty yet to you that survive a Day and Time is offer'd if you improve it Your now is at present but how long it may last before the Night cometh upon you wherein you can do no Work is in the Breast alone of God Almighty who will not be Delayed or put off when the World and the Devil hath had the first and best of your Youth and Strength with the Lees and remainders of old Age and Impotence It is not enough to give over Sin when old Years incapacitate thee for commission thereof this thou owest to thy Imbecility and Weakness and canst not discern whether 't is thy will or want of Power that makes thee then leave off 't is in the midst of thy Youth when thy Blood Boyls and thy Jovial Spirits are in Fermentation that thou must put a stop to thy Carieres of Sin and Vanity and seek and serve thy Creator Had I taken this Advice I had never left my God and consequently had never been left by him but so it is that the great Deceiver of Souls if he can but make us put off or quench our Young Desires to the Things of God and our own Souls in which there is only true and lasting Pleasure to be obtained he lays before us in all her Gaudy Embellishments and enticeing Braveries the Lust and Vanities of this naither World with which we are as it were Spirited and Stolen away from the Land of true Enjoyment to drudge in the Mines of Slavery and Infelicity and yet as if there were no better Life we go on Contentedly and like Born Bond-slaves sing at the Oar and think our selves Happy But dear Country-Men look to it be times and let my Fate be your Example Time was when I had as great a delight in Vanity as the most Debauched amongst you The Day was lost in my apprehension in which I met no Jovial Companion to Drink or Carouse away my Hours the Night misspent that was not Improved in the Embraces and Dalliances of some Dalilah The Sentence came dully and insipidly from my Lips that was not Graced with an Oath and I looked on my self with shame when I let slip an Injury without a Revenge But could you stand in my Place and feel the Pangs that I bare or hear the Rebukes that my Conscience gives me You would say as I do that if I had ten Thousand Worlds at my disposal I would give them all for a quiet Conscience and a sight of Forgiveness with God Almighty through the Blood of my dear Redeemer Christ Jesus You would then say that the Pleasures of Sin were as Thorns and Briers in your Sides the Debauches and Excess of Company the worst of all Pains and Trouble the Embraces of your Beloved and Endeared Harlots Vanity and Vexation of Spirit