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
A90439	The triall of the honourable Colonel Iohn Penruddock of Compton in Wiltshire, and his speech: vvhich he delivered the day before he was beheaded in the castle of Exon, being the 16. day of May 1655. to a gent. whom he desired to publish them after his death. Together with his prayer upon the scaffold, and the last letter he received from his vertuous lady, with his answer to the same. Also the speech of that piously resolved gent. Hugh Grove of Chisenbury in the parish of Enford, and County of Wilts, Esq; beheaded there the same day.	Penruddock, John, 1619-1655.; Grove, Hugh, d. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing P1431; Thomason E845_7; ESTC R207278	15,459	19

is too late to tell you what I have or rather have not done for you how turned out of doores because I came to beg mercy the Lord lay not your bloud to their charge I would fain discourse longer with you but dare not Passion begins to drown my Reason and will rob me of my devoire which is all I have left to serve you Adieu therefore ten thousand times my dearest dear and since I must never see you more take this prayer May your Faith be so strengthened that your Constancy may continue and then I know heaven will receive you whither grief and love will in a short time I hope translate My dear Your sad but constant wife even to love your ashes when dead Arundel Penruddock May the 3. 11 a clock at night Your children beg your blessing and present their duties to you The last letter from the honourable Colonel Penruddock in answer to his vertuous Lady MY DEAREST HEART I Even now received thy farewell letter each word whereof represents unto me a most lively Embleme of your affection drawn with thy own hand in water colours to the figure of a deaths head My dear I embrace it as coming first from God and then from Man for what is there done in the City that the Lord hath not permitted I look upon every line of thine as so many threads twisted together into that of my life which being now woven my meditations tell me will make a fit remnant for my winding-sheet Upon the reading thereof I may say with the Prophet I should have utterly fainted but that I believe verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living As this is mine my dear so let it be thy consolation When I think what a wife and what children I go from and look no further I begin to cry O wretched man that I am But when my thoughts soar higher and fix themselves upon those things which are above where I shall find God my Creatour to my Father and his Son my Redeemer to my Brother for so they have vouchsafed to term themselves then I say aside those relations and do of all love my dear desire thee not to look towards my grave where my Body lies but toward the heaven where I hope my Soul shall gain a Mansion in my Fathers house I do stedfastly believe that God hath heard the prayers of my friends and thine and mine and how knowest thou O woman whether thou hast not saved thy husband Let those considerations raise thy spirits 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 self 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 Armies of men have been too hard for me yet I am now listing my self under the conduct of my Sovereign and an Army of Martyrs that the gates of hell cannot prevail against My dear I have now another subject to think on therefore you must excuse the imperfections you find here I have formerly given you directions concerning my children to which I shall referre 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 acknowledgement To Mr Rolles and his Lady and my cousin Mr * Nota bene Mr Sebastine Isack although he seemed very sollicitous for Col. Penruddock in his life since his death hath been very unworthy to his memory contrary to his promise to the said Col. in his life and hath done contrary to the will of the dead the trust reposed in him the principles of honour and much unbecoming a Gent. Sebastine Isack for their great sollicitations on my behalf If I should forget this City of Exeter for their civilities to my own self in particular indeed to all of us I should leave a reproach behind me I will give them thanks at my death and I hope you and yours will do it when I am dead My dear heart I once more bid thee adieu and with as much love and sincerity as can be imagined I subscribe my self Thy dying and loving Husband Jo. Penruddock Exon May 7. and the * Note when this letter was writ Colonel Penruddock did not know other then that he was to die the same day 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 himself 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 wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God who hath given me victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Then with abundance of Christian chearfulnesse 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 calld high Treason I cannot deny but I was at South-moulton in this County but whether my being there or my actions there amount to so high a crime as high Treason I leave to the world to the Law to judge Truly if I were conscious to my self of any base ends that I had in this undertaking I would not be so injurious to my own soul or disingenuous to you as not to make a publick acknowledgement thereof I suppose that divers persons according as they are biassed by their severall interests and relations give their opinions to the world concerning us I conceive it impossible therefore so to expresse my self in this particular as not to expose both my judgement and reputation to the censure of many which I shall