Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	sin_n	soul_n	sting_n	5,285	5	11.5055	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02487	The happy sinner: or, The penitent malefactor. Being the prayers and last words of one Richard Cromwel (some time a souldier and chyrurgion in the late D. of Monmouth's Army, and since of their present Majesties) who was executed at Leichfield for murder, on the 3d. day of July, 1691. Wherein are not only contained his prayers ... but also his last speech ... And also, his legacy to his county, of choyce, physical, and chyrurgical receipts ...	Cromwel, Richard, d. 1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing C7035; ESTC R171606	6,296	11

The Happy Sinner OR The Penitent Malefactor BEING The Prayers and Last Words of one Richard Cromwel some Time a Souldier and Chyrurgion in the Late D. of Monmouth's Army and since of Their Present Majesties who was Executed at Leichfield for Murder on the 3d. day of July 1691. Wherein are not only contained his Prayers drawn up by his own hand which with a little Variation may fitly be used by most Christian People but also his Last Speech which is a very Pious and Godly Exhortation to all Christian People to forsake Sin and Wickedness and to turn to GOD before He overtake them with His Just Judgments for their Wickedness AND ALSO His LEGACY to his County of Choyce Physical and Chyrurgical Receipts viz. I. A Balsome for Wounds Bruises Pains Aches Stiches and Sprains II. A very Extraordinary Receipt for the Worms III. Two several Receipts for that Tormenting Distemper the Wind Collick IV. A Cure for all Colds or C●●ghs New or Old V. A Purge for the Head which Cures ●●…ost Pains and helps the Eye-sight VI. A General Purge c●rrying off all Flegme Choller Melancholly from a●l parts of the Body ●hereby Curing or preventing many Diseases VII A most Excellent Plaister for all Pain● And Lastly Directions to make Two ●●veral Waters for the Eyes with the Last of which he Cured a Boy in Leichfield that had been Blind Three Years TOGETHER With a Strange and Wonderful Account of Three Ravens Flying against the Walls of his Chamber which he esteemed as sent by God to give him Notice of his Approaching Death Licensed and Entred according to Order London Printed for R. Clavell at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church Yard and are to be Sold by Mich. Johnson Bookseller in Leichfield 1691. A PRAYER Applyed to my Present State and Condition being Condemned to Dye the 23d of April VOuchsafe O thou God of all Mercy and Compassion to look with Pity upon the most woful Case of a poor Wretch ready by the Sword of Justice to be cut off as unworthy to live amonst Men and like also without thy speedy Favour to be shut out of Heaven and to have my part in the second Death Truth it is O Lord that all this though it be grievous yet it is no more than my desert and touching that bodily Death whereto I am adjudged I must confess it to be thy Mercy and Goodness towards me that I have been found out by the eye of the Magistrate and stopped by the Power of Authority from going on in further Evil I beseech thee that my death may be both a Chastisement to me and an Advertisement to others to contain themselves within the Bonds of true Obedience but now concerning my Soul which is now e're long to appear before the Tribunal Seat of thy great Majesty I humbly pray thee to be merciful thereunto I cannot but acknowledge that if thou give me my due Recompence I must be thrust into that dreadful place of infinite and eternal Torment which thou hast prepared for the Wicked the Burning whereof is Fire and much Wood and thy Breath like a River of Brimstone doth kindle neither see I in my self or in any Creature any means or possibility to escape fearful unto me hath been the Face of an Earthly Judge and the Sentence of Death to be inflicted upon this my House of Clay hath made my Heart to quake What then will become of me when I shall be Arraigned before thee at whose rebuking the very Foundations of the Earth are discovered and before whom no man living can be justified Thou O Lord knowest all mine Iniquities they are sealed up with thee as in a bag they are all noted in thy Registers although I have many times sought for the covering of my evil ways to hide my self in the darkness of the Night supposing that no Eye should see me yet thou hast still compassed my Paths and been accustomed to all my ways there hath not been a Thought in my Heart or a Word in my Tongue but thou hast wholly known it often have I said in my heart God will not regard he hath forgotten he hideth away his face and will never see I shall never be moved nor be in danger thy Word I never delighted to hear I hated Knowledge I would none of thy Counsel I sought to dam up the Mouth of my Conscience that it might not Check me when my Friends admonished me I hated and scorned their Reproof then it was a pastime to me to do naughtily Wickedness was sweet in my Mouth and would not be perswaded to forsake it justly therefore O Lord hast thou overtaken me and made me eat the Fruit of my own way bringing me to be a Spectacle of the World to dye as one of the Fools of the People yet O gracious God there is Mercy with thee and that thou art very ready to forgive be favourable I entreat thee to me a most unworthy Sinner Manasses being put in Fetters and bound in Chains prayed unto thee and humbled himself greatly before thee in his Tribulation and thou wast entreated of him the Woman of Canaan whom thou termedst to be no better than a Dog yet thou didst afford her some Crumbs of Mercy and didst cause it to be unto her as she desired the Thief at his Execution confessed his sins and prayed to be remembred in thy Kingdom and thou didst promise him an Entrance into Paradice O Lord Are not these things written for my Learning that I through the Comfort of these Examples might have hope Hath thy Word spoken it in vain That at what time soever a Sinner sigheth unto thee thou wilt put all his Wickedness from before thee Shall I think that thou wilt call me being laden with my Sins to come unto thee and when I come will not accept me Make me I pray thee to see the depth of my Sins my self And grant also that those which see my End and know mine evil ways may have some Evidence of my Repentance and may learn of me to beware of the deceitfulness of Sin Enable me to look with the Eye of my Faith upon my Crucified Saviour casting my self wholly upon him and desiring by him to be hidden from thy Wrath give me some Tast of thy Love and some inward and secret Pledge of thy being reconciled to me for his sake strengthen me against the fear of Death that albeit I have every way just Cause to tremble at it it being both the desert of my Offences to men and the Wages of my Sins against thee yet having some Assurance in my Soul that the sting thereof is plucked out I may embrace it in my Bosome and entertain it as an end appointed for my Misery and as a Means to bring me unto Happiness Thus O Lord with fullness of my desire out of the bottom of this Misery and Shame which I am fallen into to fly unto thy Mercy and to be shrowded under the shadow of