Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	12,106	5	9.9774	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00021	A letter vvritten out of England to an English gentleman remaining at Padua containing a true report of a strange conspiracie, contriued betweene Edward Squire, lately executed for the same treason as actor, and Richard Walpoole a Iesuite, as deuiser and suborner against the person of the Queenes Maiestie.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1599 (1599)	STC 10017; ESTC S101177	7,493	16

that her Maiesties going abroad held as the Viper was vpon S. Pauls hand and shaked off without hurt so this done was in Iuly in the heate of the yeere when the poores and veines were openest to receiue any maligne vapor or tincture if her Maiestie by any accident had layd her hand vpon the place And as the Heathenish people at that time did argue and conclud● thereupon that S. Paul was a God so wee may christianly inferre that it was Gods doing and power who hath defended his Handmaid and seruant by his secret and more then naturall influence and preseruatiue from so actuall mortall a danger speaking by these signes to all her disloyall Subiects and ambitious enemies That as he hath done great things by her past ordinarie discourse of reason so he hath done and will doe as great things for her beyond the course of his ordinarie prouidence For surely if a man consider how many times her life hath bene sought and assailed since the beginning of her raigne by violence by poisoning by supersticious Votaries by ambicious Vndertakers by singular Conspirators by Conspirators combined speaking of those that haue bene reuealed besides a number no doubt of the like which haue groueled in darkenesse and neuer came to light hee will not find the like reflexion of Gods fauour in any Soueraigne Prince that hath reigned But in the meane time you see the strange mysteries of the Iesuites doctrine that haue mingled heauen and hel and lift vp the hands of Subiects against the anointed of God arming them with the inuisible armour of Scriptures Sacraments Vowes Prayers and Blessings against their naturall Soueraigns Wherein there is great difference betweene the spirite that wrought in Dauid and this that worketh in them For Dauid when relation was made to him by one that thought he had done Saul the last good office how Saul had fallen vpon his owne sword in battell and being in the anguish of death and carefull not to fall aliue in the handes of the Philistims a people vncircumcised desired this soldiour to make an ende of him who did so and was therefore by Dauid adiudged to die because hee dared to lay his hands vpon the anointed of the Lord and yet was Saul a king forsaken and abandoned of God he had taken his mortall wound before so as this soldiour tooke from him his paine and not his life and it was to a good ende least a heathenish people should reproch the name of God by insulting vpon the person of Saul And surely for my part I doe wonder that Princes doe not concurre in loosing these bands and suppressing this Sect which maketh a traffique of their sacred liues concluding and contracting for them with these blinded Votaries in the secrecie of confessions and shrifts For I doe not see that Pirates whom the Ciuilians account to be Publici hostes societatis humanae and therefore Princes bound as they affirme though they be otherwise in no league one with an other yea and though they be enemies to ioyne in the suppressing extirpation of them are any such disturbers of humane societie as these are Neither doe I thinke that the order of the Templers that was put down throughout Christendome in a fewe weekes were euer offenders in so high a degree And I find somewhat strange that the bishop of Rome if it were but to auoyd the aspersion of so great a slander and imputation to that Religion should not purge out this leauen so strange and odious But to returne within fiue or sixe dayes after this fact committed Squire went to Sea in the Erles owne ship and belike as Tacitus sayth Ferox scelerum quia prima prouenerant taking the remaine of the same poison with him in a little pot in his portmantue when the Earle was at Sea betweene Faial and S● Michael he bestowed it vpon the pommels of a chaire of wood where the Earle vsed to dine and sup but thankes be to God nothing came of it neither Now let me acquaint you a little with the maner of detecting of this matter which God did likewise strangely bring about Squire slept now in securitie for although he failed of successe yet he tooke himselfe to be out of danger thinking because it was carried betweene his Confessour and him it could neuer be reuealed But his Confessour whom it imported not so much to keepe it secret as it did Squire tickled belike with the ioy that he had such an iron in the fire imparted it for his owne glory to some principall of the fugitiues there This raised a great expectation in them of some effect to insue When time passed and nothing came of it they made construction of it that Squire had beene false to them One of the more passionate of them inueyeth bitterly against Squire telles how he was trusted and how he had vndone the cause and the better to be reuenged on him is content that one that they let slip hither as if he had fled from them should giue information of this matter not with the circumstances but generally against Squire partly to win himselfe credit partly to wrecke themselues on Squire And this fellow because hee would be thought to do the better seruice would not bring this in his mouth but in a letter which he pretended to haue stolne out of one of their Studies This letter compared with another letter that the same man brought as written from a seuerall person both which letters had one and the same busie knot to both names is suspected to be counterfeited it is so found Heereupon it is collected that this was but an engine against Squire and that he was an honest man Yet because it was a tender matter Squire was sent for and examined For a time he denieth after he commeth to some circumstances which concurring with the others tale it gaue it to be vnderstood that there was somewhat true and that all was not an inuention against him Holde was taken of that and thereupon Squire not knowing how farre his Confessor had broken trust with him by good perswasion and Gods good working disclosed all without any rigour in the world ●ut vpon a second aduise being a man of a very good reach finding that it had bene his wisest way to haue confessed the whole plot and subornation which was knowen to Wallpoole and there to haue stopt and not to haue tolde of the putting of i● in execution which was onely knowne to himselfe and which indeede was wonne from him by good following hee endeuoured at his arraignment to haue distinguished and auowching the first part to haue retracted the second pretending that although he vndertooke it yet he had not any purpose to performe it Whereupon one of the Commissioners being wel acquainted with all the particular circumstances did set before him the absurditie of his deniall against his former confession which was voluntarie particular and needlesse otherwise then in conscience of trueth vpon which speech hee being stricken with remorse and conuicted in himselfe acknowledged and iustified the trueth of his former confession in the hearing of all the standers by Thus Sir I haue interteined you with a discourse which I thinke in reading will affect you diuersly as it did me in writing But in the ende I thinke wee shall ioyne in congratulating for our good deliuerance and desiring of God the continuance of her Maiestie in whom our good dayes do consist