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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	father_n	jesus_n	name_n	18,388	5	5.2426	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85779	The speech of Collonel Hugh Grove, upon the scaffold at Exceter, on Munday last, immediately before his head was severed from his body. With his prayer a little before death, and his declaration and protest to the people, touching a [brace] a [sic] loyal heart, a faithful conscience, a bloody scaffold, and a fatal axe. / Taken by an impartial hand, and transmitted to the press, to the end, it might be printed, published, and dispierced, throughout the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland.	Grove, Hugh, d. 1655.	1655 (1655)	Wing G2246; Thomason E838_10; ESTC R207437	3,815	8

Lord grant that with the Eye of Faith you may now see the heavens opened and Jesus Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive you into his Arms of Mercy for 't is the unspeakable joy of a Believer that at the hour of death his soul hath an immediate passage from this earthly Tabernacle to that Region of endless Glory yea to the presence of God himself in whose presence is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore Col. Sir Blessed be God who hath endued me with such a Spirit that witnesseth unto me that Christ is become a Jesus unto me the Author and Finisher of my Salvation who himself was brought to a violent death by the Redemption of Mankind This is all Sir that I have to say onely I desire you to joyn with me in prayer and kneeling down prayed thus O Most blessed Lord I thy poor and unworthy servant come unto thee presumeing in thy infinite mercy and the merits of Jesus Christ who sits upon the Throne I come flying from that of Justice to that of mercy and tenderness for his sake which shed his blood for sinners that he would take compassion upon me that he would look upon me as one that has redeemed me and shed his blood for me that he would look upon me as one who now calls and hopes to be saved by his Alsufficient merits For his sake glorious God have compassion on me in the freeness of thy infinite mercy that when this sinful soul of mine shal depart out of this frail Carcass of Clay I may be carryed into thy everlasting Glory O Lord my God and my Redeemer hear me take pitty upon me take pitty upon me gracious Father and so deal with with my soul that by thy precious merits I may attain to thy joy and bliss O Lord remember me for thy Names sake and receive me into thy own bound of mercy O Lord I trust in thee let me not be confounded but grant me a mansion in my fathers house O hear me sweet Jesus even for thy own goodness mercy and truth O glorious God O blessed Father O holy Redeemer O gracious Comforter O holy and blessed Trinity I do render up my soul into thy hands and commit it with the Mediation of my Redeemer praising thee for all thy dispensations that it has pleased thee to confer upon me and even for this praise honour and thanks from this time forth for evermore Having ended his prayer he prepared himself for the fatal stroke and pulling off his Doublet and putting on his Cap the Minister again spakes Now now Sir lift up your eyes unto Jesus Christ and cast your self into the everlasting Arms of your gracious Redeemer Col. Sir I thank you to Paradise am I now going And laying his head over the Block to try it the Minister concluded with these words Jesus the Son of David have mercy upon you Then rising up and taking his leave of his friends and acquaintance saluting them with a courteous valediction casting his eyes up and fixing them very intentively upon Heaven said When I say Lord Jesus receive me Executioner do thine Office th●n kissing the Ax he laid down and with as much undanted yet Christian courage as possible could be in man did he expose his throat to the fatal Ax his life to the Executioner and commended his soul into the hands of a faithful and merciful Creator through the meritorious passion of a gracious Redeemer and upon giving the sign at one blow his head was severed from his shoulders which was taken up by his friends and with his body put into a Coffin and carryed away FINIS