Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	heart_n	know_v	3,560	5	3.6423	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52275	The penitent recognition of Joseph's brethren a sermon occasion'd by Elizabeth Ridgeway, who for the petit treason of poysoning her husband, was, on March 24, 1683/4, according to the sentence of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Street ... burnt at Leicester ... : to which is prefixed a full relation of the womans fact, tryal, carriage, and death / by John Newton ...	Newton, John, 1637 or 8-1711.	1684 (1684)	Wing N1073; ESTC R8090	19,299	40

then yet lay upon a Bed in her Fathers House She further added that there was a man who both before and after her Marriage did sollicit her very much for her Love and who to make way to his ends came on Sunday in Church-time to her house and having put some poyson into a dish slipt away that she wittingly at her Husbands return home put Broth to the Poyson and gave it to her Husband to his destruction That she had seen the face of this man that day in the next Room to her that I should see him at her Execution for his Countenance would bewray his Guilt That he had lived at Ibstock and now lives with a Gentleman at Hinckly His Name she would by no means declare as being under a Vow or Oath to the contrary I discovered to her the wickedness of such an Oath and that it could no ways bind her to such an Hellish Concealment When I had said all I could I was constrained to leave her without any further satisfaction touching this pretended Person On Sunday she with the other Condemned Persons was again brought to Church Morning and Evening After Evening Sermon she declared to a Gentlewoman that whereas before she was resolved that all the world should not have perswaded her to confess the very truth She upon hearing the Sermon the substance whereof is hereto annexed declared an inviolable purpose to be free and sincere in her Confession to me I went up to her Chamber and yet found her not so forward to such Confession Soon after her Father and the Gentlewoman who had heard her make the Promise went up to challenge her therewith She laughing in their Faces told them that All she had said touching the man of Hinckly was a mere fiction and that there was no such man in being but that she her self alone and without the confederacy or privity of any other creature had poysoned her Husband Nor did she express any desire of seeing me that Night as I could then hear I began to suspect she was distracted and so went home And I should have continued under that suspicion but that at her request sent first by her Brother and afterwards by her Father I coming to her some hours before Execution found her in a temper that spoke no such disorder of mind For she then in contemplation of approaching Death and Judgment did with many tears confirm her last Confession She further told us that three years before upon some discontent she had bought other poyson with a purpose to make away her self which happening about the time of her mothers death occasions some surmises touching the same as also some whispers of the death of another young man and two little Children As to the last Poyson she said she bought it for her self being frustrated of her expectations in her marriage For she could not love her Husband as she ought and took further prejudice against him because of a debt of twenty pounds which his Sister demanded of him soon after his marriage and which was as much as ever he had pretended to be worth But above a week before her Husbands death she converted her despair into revenge and so took the first opportunity for sending of him out of the world This she constantly asserted with seeming remorse and sorrow until her very death which she underwent without much apparent consternation and yet with much seeming contrition ☞ And this last declaration she did earnestly intreat me to make known as the real Truth for the preventing all false reports that might be further raised and for the rectifying of all mistakes which by means of her self or others had been already spread abroad If the real importunity of divers of my worthy Friends had not after a sort inforced the Publication of this confused tedious story the very request of the dying Criminal being so well grounded might have induced me thereto especially when thereby I do but consult my own ease For now I can refer many to this Print who would otherwise be exacting frequent relations of the matter of me by word or writing I know that to some inconsiderate Persons the Story may appear less agreeable for the Lamentable Form as well as Matter of it it containing divers uncertainties and contradictions about horrid Poysoning Nevertheless through the use of ordinary discretion out of such malignant Poyson much soveraign Medicine may be compounded To give you a few Instances amongst many that your own Reason may collect Hence 1. His Majesties Justice is vindicated from the imputation of Partiality which some have wickedly endeavoured to fix thereupon by suggesting that the woman was dealt the more harshly with for her supposed private Opinion or Inclination 2. If Virtue and Goodness be not always the Results of a careful Education how may we dread the wickedness of our Children that may ensue upon our utter neglect or evil example 3. The Parents who are openly repayed in the disobedience of a Child should do well humbly to reflect upon the provocation they may have given to God and the encouragement they have occasioned to their Child by any visible opposition they have made to the Sovereign Father of their Country or by any manifest disregard they have any ways shewed to their Spiritual Mother the Church 4. If the Sentiments of Religion formed in Youth be once subdued or suppressed no wonder if the blackest of wickednesses draw on one another Such as Disobedience to Parents Dissimulation with all men Treachery and Cruelty to Neighbours and Lovers Bloody and Treasonous Practices against Parents and Husbands 5. An Hypocrite that will not stick at the Commission of the blackest crimes at the check of Conscience will sometimes refuse to acknowledge the same for the Credit of a Party 6. The words of condemned Criminals are not to be rashly believed especially where Concealment is founded upon a mistaken religious consideration And this may reach beyond the present Subject to many that have suffered condign punishment for their Treasons for these five years last past 7. There want not some Persons of all perswasions who perfectly abhor and heartily endeavour the discovery of all wickedness in their own Adherents and Relations 8. All young People are warned Against all forsaking their Parents and Guides of their Youth and leaning to their own understanding and gratifying their own sensual and vain Inclination especially in affairs of Marriage Against all wicked affectation of first Captivating and then Rejecting the Affections of others Against all making of rash and unwarrantable Promises of Marriage as without Leave so without Love Against all unjust breaking of such Promises when they are once made and may in time be lawfully performed Lastly Some Persons are prodigiously hardened through the deceitfulness of Sin Their iniquity becomes an unsearchable mystery to themselves and others Their Heart becomes deceitful above measure and desperately wicked who can know it Some further useful remarks apposite to