Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	king_n	warwick_n	4,634	5	11.6699	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54501	A dying fathers last legacy to an onely child, or, Mr. Hugh Peter's advice to his daughter written by his own hand, during his late imprisonment in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his death.	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1697; ESTC R32303	33,960	130

Losse and Sense Are the great things charg'd on thee here To reade and minde and minde my Dear From him who grieves he hath no more But Words to leave Christ be thy Store 33. And because I know not how the door of Oportunity may stand open or shut the Day drawing near of Tryal I shall give you an account of my Self and dealings that if possible you may wipe off some Dirt or be the more content to carry it in which I shall mainly apply my self to these late troubles I was the Son of considerable Parents from Foy in Cornwall my Father a Merchant his Ancestors driven thither from Antwerp for Religion I mean the Reformed my Mother of the same Town of a very ancient Family the Name Treffey of Place or the Place in that Town of which I would not boast These lived in very great abundance their Losses at Sea grew very great in the midst of which Losses my elder Brother being at Oxford I was sent to Cambridge and that Estate I had by an Uncle I left with my Mother and lived at the University and a little from thence about eight years took my Degree of Master of Arts where I spent some years vainly enough being but 14 years old when thither I came my Tutor died I was expos'd to my shifts Coming from thence at London God struck me with the sense of my sinful estate by a Sermon I heard under Pauls which was about 40 years since which Text was The burden of Dumah or Idumea and stuck fast This made me to go into Essex And after being quieted by another Sermon in that Country and the Love and Labours of Mr. Thomas Hooker I there Preacht there married with a good Gentlewoman till I went to London to ripen my Studies not intending to preach at all where I attended Dr Gouge Sibs and Davenports Ministry with others and I hope with some profit But in short time was forced to preach by importunity of Friends having had a Licence from Dr. Mountain B. of London before and to Sepulchers I was brought by a very strange providence for preaching before at another place and a young man receiving some good would not be satisfied but I must preach at Sepulchers once monthly for the good of his Friends in which he got his end if I might not shew vanity and he allowed Thirty pounds per Annum to that Lecture but his person unknown to me he was a Chandler and dyed a good man and Member of Parliament At this Lecture the Resort grew so great that it contracted envie and anger Though I believe above an hundred every week were perswaded from sin to Christ I wish I may not be judged for saying so There was six or seven thousand Hearers and the Circumstances fit for such good work But I am tender there I had some trouble who could not conform to all and went to Holland where I was five or six years not without the presence of God in my Work But many of my Acquaintance going for New-England had engaged me to come to them when they sent which accordingly I did And truly my reason for my self and others to go was meerly not to offend Authority in that difference of Judgment and had not the Book for Encouragement of Sports on the Sabbath come forth many had staid That good man my dear firm Friend Mr. White of Dorchester and Bishop Lake occasioned yea founded that Work and much in reference to the Indians of which we did not fail to attempt with good success to many of their souls through God's blessing See Bishop Lake's Sermon 1 King 8.37 who profest to Mr. White of Dorchester he would go himself with us but for his age for which we had the late Kings gracious Patent Licence and Encouragement There I continued seven years till sent hither by the Plantation to mediate for ease in Customes and Excise the Country being poor and a tender Plant of their own setting and manuring But coming hither found the Nation imbroiled in those Civil Discontents Jars and Wars and here was forced to stay though I had nothing to support me but the Parliaments Promises And not being able in a short time to compass my Errand studied with a constant purpose of Returning and went with the first to Ireland most of your London Godly Ministers being engaged in Person Purse and Preaching in this Trouble I thought Ireland the clearest Work and had the Pay of a Preacher then and afterward as I could get it I was not here at Edge-hill nor the Bishop of Canterburies troubles or death Upon my Return was staid again from going home by the Earl of Warwick my Patron then by the Earl of Essex afterwards by the Parliament who at last gave me an Estate now taken away I had access to the King about my new-New-England business he used me civilly I in requital offered my poor thoughts three times for his safety I never had hand in contriving or acting his Death as I am scandalized but the contrary to my mean power I was never in any Councils or Cabal at any time I hated it and had no stow●ge for Counsel thinking all Government should lie open to all nor had penny from any General but lived in debt as now I am nor had means for my Expences what I had others shared in I confesse I did what I did strenuously though with a weak head being over-laid with my own and others troubles never was angry with any of the King's Party no● any of them for being so though the Parliament-Authority lawfull and never studied it much have not had my hand in any man● bloud but saved many in Lif● and Estate The Parliament i● 1644 gave me the Bishops Book valued at 140 l. which I intende● for New England being a part 〈◊〉 his private Library which wi●● all mine own I have often offere● for 150 l. the mistake about the●● was and is great for they nev●● were so considerable And the●● were my gettings who never ai●ed to be rich nor ever had mea● to reach it The Changes gr●● as you see a Commonwealth found but thus altered I staid so long at White-hall contented with any good Government that would keep things together till the breach of that they call Richards Parliament and then I removed and never returned more but fell sick long and in trouble ever since never was summoned but once by the Council which was in April about Books of which lying sick I craved of the President of the Council to excuse me who sent unto me he had and I gave him an account of the Books but hearing that my Estate was gone and I indebted was private and did purpose so to live and so to die having a resolution which I kept never to meddle with State-matters but either here or in New-England to spend my old age in looking into my Grave and Eternity and never had to do with any