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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	king_n	year_n	21,787	5	5.0128	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51609	Murther revealed, or, A voyce from the grave faithfully relating the deplorable death of Dr. John Hewit, late of St. Gregories London, with severall queries propounded to the consciences of his bloody tryers / by a true Englishman.	True Englishman.; Hewit, John, 1614-1658.	1659 (1659)	Wing M3087; ESTC R27118	16,669	18

so slender and small grounds adjudg'd me to dye by taking advantage of such simple ignorance as I was in And it is the mere to be observed because I had at the begining of my pleading engaged their Honors no advantage should be taken against me to my prejudice that in as much as I understood nothing of the Law And having heard that a man in the nicity of the Law might be lost in the severity thereof meerly for speaking a word out of simple ignorance I made it my prayer to them that no advantage might be taken against me to the prejucice of my person And here was to me a seeming consent and promise for the President told me there should be no advantage taken against me and upon these considerations I am afraid there was two great uncharitableness in some But I pray God sin give them from the very bottom of my said and I desire that even those that shed my blood may have the blood of the God of mercy shed for them And now having given you the occasion of my coming hither it is si● I should give you somewhat as concerning my selfe as I am a Christian and as I am a Clergy-man First as I am a Christian I thank God I was baptized to the Holy Church so I was baptized to be a member of the holy Catholique Church that is the Church of England which I dare say for purity of Doctrine and orderly Disciplane till a sad reformation had spoiled the face of the Church and made it a querie w●ether it were a Church or no I say It was mode purely Divine and Apostolical than any other Doctrine or Church in the Christian World whether National or Clastical or Congregational And I must tell you That as I am a member of this Church so I am a member of the holy Catholique Church and shall give a most just confession of my faith both negatively and affirmatively Negatively I am so a member of the holy Catholique Church that I abhor all Secis Schisms Sedition and Tyranny in Religion Affirmatively so That as I hold communion with so I love and honour all Christians in the world that love the same Lord JESUS in sincerity and call on his Name agreeing with those truths that are absolutely necessary and clearly demonstrated in the word of God both in the Old and New Testament though in charily dissenting from some others that are not necessary And I as I am thus a Christian I hope for salvation through the merits of Christ JESUS his blood I rely on his merits I trust to for the salvation of my own soul though to this Faith good Works are necessary not meritorious in us but onely made meritorious by Christ his death by his all-sufficiency by his satisfaction and his righteousnesse they become meritorious but in us they are no other than as desired rags And truly as I am a man be of the Church so I told you I was a member of this Community and so pleaded so the Liberties and Priviledges thereof In must now answer somthing I am aspersed withall in the World They talk of somthing of a Plot and a Treasonable designe and that I had a great interest in the knowledge and practise thereof and that for the saving my life I would have discovered and betrayed I cannot toll what I hope my conversation hath not been such here in this City where I have been a long time very well known as to make one imagine I should intermeddle in such an action and goe so contrary to the practise of my profession and I hope there are none so uncharitable towards me as to beleive I had a knowledge of that designe which is reported I abhor Here I must come to particulars for a Plot of having a designe upon the City of London for the firing of it I so much t●emble at the thought of the thing that should have been done as they say for the carrying on of such a designe if my heart deceive me not had I known it I so much abhor the thing unfainedly from my heart and as a dying man I am confident I should have been the first discoverer of it Nor ever had I correspondency or meetings with such persons as would have carryed on such a designe It is said likewise I entertained the Earl the Marquess of Ormond To my remembrance I never saw the face of that honourable Person in my life It is said One Lords day I did preach at Saint Gregories and the next Lords day I was at Brussels or Bruges and kist the Kings hand and brought I cannot tell what Orders and Instructions from him This I shall say For these three years last past together I have not been sixty miles from this City of London and I think it is somewhat further to either of those places than threescore miles It is said that I kept correspondence with one Mallory and Bishop They are persons I have heard of their names but never in all my life to my knowledge saw their faces and to my knowledge I doe not know they know me nor doe I know them at all but only as I have heard of their names And whosoever else hath suggested such things against me I know not but the Lord God forgive them who is just and mercifull His Highnesse was pleased to tell me I was like a flaming Torch in the midst of a sh●ate of Corn He meaning I being a publick Preacher was able to set the City on fire by sedition and combustions and promoting designes Here truly I do say and have it from many of those that are Judges of the High Court by which I was condemned that upon examination of the business they have not found me a medler at all in these affaires And truly I must needs say therefore That it was a very uncharitable act in them who ever they were that brought such accusation against me and irritated his Highnesse against me which first obstructed my liberty next brought to the Bar as a Traitor which now commands me to satisfie them with my blood but I will not say it was malice it might be zeal but it was rash zeal which caused me to be sentenced to this place The God of Mercy pardon and forgive them all And truly as I am a member of the Church and as a member of the Community where on behalfe I have been speaking I cannot but doe as our Saviour himselfe did for his Disciples when he was to be taken from them he blessed them and ascended up to Heaven My trust is in the mercy of the Most High I shall not miscarry and however my dayes are shortned by this unexpected doom and shall be brought unamely to the grave I cannot goe without my prayers for a blessing upon all the people of this Land and cannot but blesse them all in the name of God and beseech God to blesse them in all their wayes and his blessing be upon