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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	earl_n	viscount_n	17,931	5	11.9058	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30380	The libertine overthrown, or, A mirror for atheists wherein they may clearly see their prodigious follies, vast extravagancies, notorious impieties and absurdities : containing a compendious account of the ... life and ... death of that the whole ... abstracted from the remarks of the Right Reverend D. Gilbert Burnet ... and the Reverend Mr. Parsons ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Parsons, Robert, 1647-1714.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5826; ESTC T18235	9,455	16

The Libertine Overthrown Or a MIRROR for Atheists Wherein they may clearly see their Prodigious Follies Vast Extravagancies Notorious Impieties and Absurdities Containing a Compendious Account of the Egregious Vicious Life and Eminently and Sincerely Penitent Death Of that Great States-Man Eminent Poet and Learned Scholar JOHN Earl of ROCHESTER Who deparrted this Life the 26th of July MDCLXXX Wherein is briefly recited not only his Disputes and Arguments against God and Religion as the same were used in Conferences with Divines and at several Atheistical Meetings but also the chief of his notorious Pranks such as his turning Mountebank his Disguising himself in the Shapes of Beggars his Amours Revels c. To all which is added The plain manner of his wonderful Conversion which was by hearing read the 53d Chapter of Isaiah his Christian deportment and Godly Expressions during his last Sickness as also his Dying Remonstrance left in Writing and signed and attested by Eminent Witnesses The whole for the use of the meanest Capacities abstracted from the Remarks of the Right Reverend D. Gilbert Burnet now Bishop of Sarum and the Reverend Mr. Parsons Chaplain to Ann Countess of Rochester Licens'd according to Order London Printed and Sold by J. Bradford without Bishopsgate A Mirror for Atheists THE daily growth of Impiety and Athe●●● amongst the meaner sort obliges me to publ●shing the ensuing compendious Abstr●●● wherein will appear the emptiness shallowness and significany of the greatest and wisest Arguments aga●●● the Being of an Omnipotent Jehovah in hand● of which I shall transcribe the Remarkable Pass●●● of the Life of John Earl of Rochester a Great M●●● a greater Sinner but at the last by divine Mercy a 〈◊〉 Eminent and Zealous Penitent One who had for ●●veral Years made it his Business to argue against 〈◊〉 and Religion and plac'd his Bliss and Happiness 〈◊〉 summum bonum in carnal Pleasures and sensual 〈◊〉 lights but to be methodical I shall give a short deser●●tion of his Birth Parentage and Education As for his Family on both sides from wh● he was descended they were some of the 〈◊〉 famous in their Generations His Grandfat●●● was that Excellent and truly great Man 〈◊〉 Lord Wilmot Viscount Athlone in Ireland 〈◊〉 his Father who inherited the same Title 〈◊〉 Greatness was by his late Majesty King 〈◊〉 the I. created Baron of Adderburg in Oxfords●●●● and by King Charles the II. the Earl of Roches●●● His Mother of whom many worthy things 〈◊〉 be spoken was the Relict of Sir Francis 〈◊〉 Lee of Ditchly in the County of Oxford Baron 〈◊〉 Daughter of that Generous and Honourable ●entleman Sir John St. Johns of Lyddiard in the ●ounty of Wilts Baronet He was Born in April 1648. And as for his E●ucation it was in Wadham-College in Oxford un●er the care of that Wise and Excellent Gover●our Dr. Blanford the late Right Reverend Bishop 〈◊〉 Worcester there it was he laid a good Founda●●on of Learning and Study tho he afterwards ●uilt upon that foundation Hay and Stubble ●●ere he first suck'd from the Breasts of his Mother ●●e University those perfections of Wit Elo●●ence and Poetry which afterwards by his own ●●rrupt Stomach or some ill juices after were 〈◊〉 into Poyson to himself and others Leaving the University he betook himself to ●ravel from which he return'd in the 18th Year 〈◊〉 his Age and appear'd at Court with as great ●dvantages as most ever had greatly signalizing 〈◊〉 Valour at Sea in the Year 65. when he went ●ith the Earl of Sandwich c. He had so entirely 〈◊〉 down the Intemperance that was growing on 〈◊〉 before his Travels that at his Return he ha●●d nothing more But falling into Company that 〈◊〉 these Excesses he was tho not without ●●fficulty and by many Steps brought back to it ●●ain And the Natural Heat of his Fancy being ●●flamed by Wine made him so extravagantly ●●easant that many to be diverted more by that ●umour studied to engage him deeper and deeper 〈◊〉 Intemperance which at length did so entirely ●●bdue him that as he told the Reverend Dr. ●●rnet now Bishop of Sarum for five Years to●●ther he was continually Drunk not all the while under the visible Effects of it but his Bloo● was so inflamed that he was not in all that time cool enough to be perfect Master of himself Thi● led him to say and do many wild and unaccountable things There were two Principles in hi● Natural temper that being heightened by tha● Heat carried him to great Excesses a violen● love of Pleasure and a disposition to extravagant Mirth The one involved him in great sensuality the other led him to many odd Adve●tures and Frolicks in which he was oft in hazar● of his Life The one being the same Irregula● Appetite in his Mind that the other was in hi● Body which made him think nothing divertin● that was not extravagant And tho' in col● Blood he was a generous and good Natured Man yet he would go far in his Heats after any thin● that might turn to a Jest or matter of Diversion And so he came to bend his Wit and divert hi● Studies and Endeavours to support and strenghten these ill Principles both in himself and others An accident fell out after this which confirm'● him more in these Courses I shall relate it in th● very Words of the Reverend D. Burnet Whe● he went to Sea in the Year 1665. there happened to be in the same Ship with him Mr. Mou●tague and another Gentleman of Quality these two the former especially seemed perswade● that they should never return into England Mr. Mountague said he was sure of it the othe● was not so positive The Earl of Rochester an● the last of these entered into a formal Engagement not without Ceremonies of Religion tha● if either of them died he should appear an● give the other Notice of a future state if there was any But Mr. Mountague would not enter into the Bond. When the day came that they thought to have taken the Dutch Fleet in the Port of Bergen Mr. Mountague though he had such strong Presage in his Mind of his approaching Death yet he generously staid all while in the the greatest Danger The other Gentleman signaliz'd his Courage in a most undaunted manner till near the end of the Action when he fell on a sudden into such a trembling that he could scarce stand and Mr. Mountague going to him to hold him up as they were in each others Arms a Cannon Ball killed him out-right and carried away Mr. Mountague's Belly so that he Died within an Hour after The Earl of Rochester says the Doctor told me that these presages had in their Minds made some Impression on him that there were separated Beings and that the Soul either by a Sagacity or some secret Notice communicated to it had a sort of Divination But that Gentleman never appearing was a great Snare to him during the rest of his Life As to the Supream Being he