Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	bow_v	earth_n	knee_n	3,628	5	9.5783	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53246	The Oglin of traytors including the illegal tryall of His Late Maiesty : with a catalogue of their names that sat as judges and consented to the judgment : with His Majesties reasons against their usurped power and his late speech : to which is now added the severall depositions of the pretended witnesses as it is printed in the French coppy : with the whole proceedings against Colonel J. Penruddock of Compton in Wilts and his speech before he dyed : as also the speech of the resolved gentleman, Mr. Hugo Grove of Chissenbury, Esquire, who was beheaded the same day, not before printed.		1660 (1660)	Wing O188; ESTC R28744	59,070	192

thine and mine and how knowest thou O woman whether thou hast not saved thy husband Let those considerations raise thy spirit I beseech thee and that for Gods sake and mine Though I ly among the children of men which are set on fire against me yet under the shadow of the Almighties wings I will hide my selfe till this tyranny be overpast The greatest conflict I have had in this extremitie was my parting with thee the next encounter is to be with Death and my Saviour hath so pulled out the sting thereof that I hope to assault it without fear Though the Armes of men have been too hard for me yet I am now listing my selfe under the conducct of my Soveraign and an Army of Martyrs that the gates of hell cannot prevaile against My dear I have now another subject to think on therefore you must excuse the imperfections you finde here I have formerly given you directions concerning my children to which I shall refer you May the blessing of Almighty God be upon thee and them and may there not want a man of my name to be ready to be a sacrifice in this cause of God and his Church so long as the Sun and Moon shall endure I shall now close up all with desiring you to give a testimony for me to the world that I die with so much Charity as to forgive all my enemies I will joyn them in my last prayers for my friends Amongst which you and my children are for my sake obliged to pay a perpetuall acknowledgment to Mr Rolles and his Lady and my cousin Mr Sebastine Isack for their great sollicitations on my behalf If I should forget this City of Exeter for their civilities to my own selfe in particular and indeed to all of us I should leave a reproach behind me I will give them thanke at my death and I hope you and yours will do it when I am dead My dear heart I once more bid the adieu and with as much love and sincerity as can be imagined subscribe my selfe Thy dying and loving Husband John Penruddock Exon May 7 and the last year and day of my date being the year of my Saviour 1655. The speech of the Honourable Colonell Penruddock the greatest part whereof he delivered upon the Scaffold in Exon Castle the 16. day of May 1655. the whole he left with a Gent. and friend of his written with his own hand which is as followeth Together with the manner of his being beheaded As he was ascending the Scaffold baring his knees and humbly bowing him himselfe he used these words This I hope will prove to be like Jacobs ladder though the feet of it rest on earth yet I doubt not but the top of it reacheth to Heaven When he came upon the Scaffold he said O wreteched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God who hath given me victory though our Lord Jesus Christ Then with a bundance of Christian chearfullnesse he spake to the people as followeth GENTLEMEN IT hath ever been the custome of all persons whatsoever when they come to die to give some satisfaction to the world whether they be guilty of the fact of which they stand charged The crime for which I am now to die is Loyalty but in this age called high Treason I cannot deny but that I was at South-moulton in this County but whether my being there or my action there amount to so high a crime as high Treason I leave to the world and the Law to judge Truly if I were conscious to my self of any base ends that I had in this under taking I would not be so jurious to my own soul or disingenuous to you as to make a publick acknowledgement thereof I suppose that divers persons according as they are by their severall intrests relation biassed give their opinions to the world concerning us I conceive it impossible therefore so to express my self in this particular as not to expose both my judgement and reputation to the censure of many which I shall leave behind me Because I will not put others therefore upon a breach of charity concerning me or my actions I have thought fit to decline all discourses which may give them a capacity either to injure themselves or me My Tryall was publick and my severall examinations I believe will be produced when I am in my grave I will refer you therefore to the first which I am sure some of you heard and to the later which many of you in good time may see Had Captain Crook done himself and us that right which a Gentleman and a Souldier ought to have done I had not now been here The man I forgive with all my heart but truly Gent his protesting against those Articles he himself with so many protestations and importunities put upon us hath drawn so much dishonour and blood upon his own head that I fear some heavy judgement will pursue him Though he hath been false to us I pray God that I doe not prove a true prophet to him Nay I must say more that coming on the road to Exon he the said Captain Crook told me Sir Joseph Wagstaffe was a gallent Gentleman and that he was sorry that he was not taken with us that then he might have had the benefit of our Articles but now said he I have beset all the Country for him so that he cannot escape but must be hanged He also questioned me as I passed through Salisbury from London whether he had given me conditions Which I endeavoring to make appear to Major Butler he interrupted me and unwillingly confessed it saying I profered him four hundred pounds to performe his Articles which had been a strange profer of mine had I not really conditioned with him And I told him then having found him unworthy I would have given him five hundred pounds believing him to be mercenary To make it further appear I injure him not by styling him unworthy after these Articles were given he profered to pistol me if I did not perswade another house to yield which then were boldly resisting To which my servent Iohn Biby now a prisoner replyed I hope you will not be so unworthy as to break the Law of Arms. Thus much I am obliged to say to the honour of the Souldery that they have been so far from breaking any Articles given to others that they have rather bettered them then otherwise It is now our misfortune to be made presidents and examples together but I will not do the Protectour so much injury as to load him with this dishonour since I have been informed that he would have made our conditions good if Crook that gave them had not abjur'd them This is not a time for me to inlarge upon any subject since I am now become the Subject of death But since the Articles were drawn by my hand I thought my selfe obliged to a particular Justification of them