Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	body_n	death_n	wage_n	3,957	5	10.8789	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86212	A vindication of Thomas Henshaw Esquire, sometimes Major in the French Kings service. In justification of himself against the aspersions throwne vpon him. Concerning a pretended plott for which John Gerharde Esquire, and Peter Vovvell gent: were murthered on the 10.th of August, 1654.	Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700.	1654 (1654)	Wing H1483; Thomason E812_17; ESTC R207637	3,830	7

still growing thirst must bee allayed with such as is remaining Our Saviour observed of the great binders of Burthens that for a pretence They made long Prayers whilest they devoured Widowes houses But our Pharisie was at prayers or seeking the Lord whilest hee gave order for the Murthering his Sovereigne Tantum religio poterat suadere malorum and Widowing three whole Nations And having thus bereaved them of their Crowne and glorious Head hee hath made them a false visard like his owne hands and heart forged out of rusty Iron And what is yet more grievous their Children are constrained to bow downe before this monster Idoll as the Indians worship the Divell for feare of harme Now notwithstanding his persecuting my Friends his dealing with base People and consulting with Wizards for the finding me out and his offers of summes of money larger then the Fee-simple of his owne rightfull Inheritance How highly hee thirsts for blood And how dearly his draughts cost the Nation Alexander ia who lived in the Mewes received 100. l. and hath a yearly Pension promised him for inventing then discovering this pretended Plott Yet by Divine providence my Soul is escaped as a Bird from the snare of the fowler But not from his unjust lippes and deceitfull tongue for when hee could not reach my Person to gratifie his most inveterate malice with my blood hee struck at my reputation and by his Practices he made Mr. Gerhard my friend whose memory I shall ever Honour dye in a beliefe that I was in his custody and perswaded him as hee hath almost the whole world to credit that I was the Author of all his owne invented lyes To which to give a better glosse hee hath varnished them with his usuall tincture Blood For which colour he was wilfully bent the innocent Gentleman should find such justice as his mercy commonly distributes And hee hath so exquisite an art of Brewing then spreading the black issue of his braine with Circumstances and appearances of Truth that many of my intimate Friends have been induced to doubt my Loyaltie Insomuch that I should have appeared in defence of my honour and justification of my selfe if we might have had legall tryall But it had been madness to indulge the luxurious malice of my Enemies with that blood which I am obliged to preserve for the service of my King and Country When the measure of his Iniquities is full vengeance will overtake him In the meane time as God set a marke on Caine the first so hee hath set a guard on Cromwell the greatest Murtherer J cannot but pittie the common Souldiers who share largely in his guilt but yet continue poore and in slaverie to him as Witches to the Divell At the great day of reckoning when inquisition shall be made for Blood it will not excuse them to say they were Commanded for their hands support the Murtherers and all their mischiefes And though now they are ingenious to delude themselves they will then know that there is no drop of blood spilt from which the Soules of those farre remote aswell as of those present receives not a staine I pray God their eyes may at length bee opened that they may not longer hazard their precious Soules in the service of Sinne and Sathan for the wages is death and that death Eternall Feare not those that can Kill the body but not hurt the soule but feare him that can bring both Body and Soule to destruction And they that truly serve and feare him will not for the vaine hopes of the fraile world bee disloyall to the best King in it For whom I shall ever pray that God will guide and Protect him and give me one day a possibilitie of testifying to the world that I am as much as any man living his true and faithfull Subject of which God Almighty raise him sufficient numbers FINIS Printed at the SPAVV MDCLIV