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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	13,963	5	5.3517	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11810	A briefe and true relation of the murther of Mr. Thomas Scott preacher of Gods word and Batchelor of Diuinitie. Committed by Iohn Lambert souldier of the garrison of Vtricke, the 18. of Iune. 1626. With his examination, confession, and execution.		1628 (1628)	STC 22106; ESTC S103203	5,059	16

the deed so that his life might be spared And yet euen at the very instant of his torture would not bee perswaded but that his heauens and his Soueraigne who daily and hourely had termed him one of heauens worthies and heauens elect and many the like epithites would free him and not suffer him to bee hurt but found the contrary Afterwards he confessed further that hee entended often to haue acquainted Master Scott with these temptations to haue reuealed the same but considering that by some meanes or other it might be knowne and for which the souldiers would haue raised iests mocked and leered him there with he therefore held his resolution And moreouer vpon the racke and afterwards being charged that he was hired to doe this deed and desired that he would reveale the truth who they were that had set him on in this action Hee very seriously protested that although he had serued the en emie for the space of three moneths or thereabouts vnder a Scotch Captaine before Bergenvp Zome the time of that siege and afterwards a while in garrison in Flanders yet he himselfe was neuer any Papist And that hee was not set on nor hired by any Priest Iesuit or other whatsoeuer But that the spirit had perswaded him of the iniuries as is aforesaid and that hee could haue no rest vntill that fact was performed He affirmed likewise that hee neuer missed the hearing of Master Scotts Sermons and that very often hee had heard him preach vnto his good content with delight and comfort The same wednesday was Master Scott buried in Vtricht after a very honourable manner accompanied with all the Ministers Elders and Deacons of the severall Congregations with the Deputies of the States of the Prouince and most of the Magistrates of the towne in mourning cloakes with a traine of Burgers and the Commanders Captaines Officers and Souldiers of the Garrisons the like hath not beene seene nor knowne in Vtricht with a generall lamentation of all men for the losse of so worthy a man The day following the Councell of Warre assembled to determine the sentence who there a greed that the offender should bee Raiebracht that is to haue his bones broken vpon a wheele and so to be set vp by the ordinarie place of Iustice which when Lambert vnderstood with an earnest desire he intreated that his body might bee buried Vpon this his intreatie that sentence was altered and it was resolued that the next day his right hand should be cut off and nailed to the gallowes then he to be hanged and his dead body to bee laid vpon a wheele without any buriall The same euening the Preacher and other godly men being sent vnto him to giue him warning and to prepare him for death They found him as vncapable of instruction and as full of his fond and imaginarie conceits as before Then likewise affirming that his Soueraigne who daily and hourely appeared vnto him as the spirit of the late Queene Elizabeth in the Queene of Bohemia the spirit of his Soueraigne King Iames and of his Excellency the late Prince of Orange by whom he was intituled one of Heauens Worthies Heauens Elect c. And from these vaine fantasies he could not bee brought neither by threatning of his temporall death nor of his soules damnation hereafter Hee continued in this obstinacie and obduratenesse 09 notwithstanding whatsoeuer promises or threatnings could bee spoken vnto him concerning his saluation or damnation In all other discourses whereof there were sundry both in English and in good French he was very sensible able enough prompt and held a good formalitie therein to the admiration of many that were sent and heard him At the place of execution there was no alteration in him His right hand was first cut off and nailed to the gallowes And after that the Preacher had exhorted him and prayed with him he was hanged And very seldome hath it beene seene that a man should liue so long as he did hanging though the Executioner did the best he could to helpe to rid him out of his paine FINIS A Funerall Elegie vpon the vntimely and much bewailed death of that reverend Preacher of Gods Word Mr. THOMAS SCOTT slaine vpon Sunday the 18. of Iune 1626. Stilo veteri SVch is hells rage against Gods sonnes Gods Saints Such good mens wrongs such are their paines and plaints Whilest they liue here Such wicked mens despight Against Gods Word that Word of power and might They ioyne with hell their bodies here to slay Who ioyne with God to save their soules for aye They stop their breath who pray to Gods good Spirit To breath into their soules Christs sauing merit With swords deviding their two darling twinnes Who with Gods Word divide their soules and sinnes Witnesse this corps this sacrificed Saint Whom none of crime none could of wrong attaint Yet on Gods day vpon Gods Word attending By cursed hands his blessed daies had ending Another MAns life ' s a warfare wayfare Ah good man Thou foundst it true Thy words thy writings can Witnesse to all inflamed with true Zeale To God to Church to King to Commonweale Armed with valor to thine eternall praise Thou warr ' dst against the monsters of our daies Oppos ' d great gyants sinnes great sinners hence Warr ' d against thee and wronged thy innocence From Warre to wayfare thou did ' st runne thy race In warlike lands disposing time and place To Gods great glory and the Churches good Till hellish hands exhausted thy hearts blood Well t' was Gods will who had decreed it best To call thee from thy labor to his rest Then farewell father mounted from mortall eyne Such was thy life I wish my soule with thine Certificate THe Souldier named Iohn Lambert the Preachers name was Mr. Thomas Scott watching his opportunity murthered him and publikely examined at Vtricht on the racke and after made this vaine ridiculous relation That the spirit his Mistris the heauens elect the favorite to Q Elizabeth the late Queene of England whose spirit transmigrated into her Maiesty the Queene of Bohemia which Q. of Bohemia so fauored him that she entended to receiue him into her seruice ●nd considering with himselfe why he was not entertained into her service a spirit suggested to him that M. Scott hindred him and vntill such time as the said M. Scott was killed he should not bee entertained into his Maiesties seruice Whereupon he was resolued to kill him He confessed also that he was neuer hired or induced by the perswasions of any Priest Iesuit or any other person to attempt this bloody act He was twice racked whipped on the racke At which time of his racking and whipping and at other times of his priuate and publike examinations yea euen to his death he continued in his foresaid confession avouching and solemnely protesting on his hope of saluation the naked whole truth of his said confession That this was the summe and substance of his confession we whose names are hereunder written doe faithfully and in the word of truth sincerely witnesse testifie Ieremiah Elborough Pastor of the English Church at Vtricht who was present at his Confession vpon the racke and at his death I whose name is here vnderwritten Commander of the right Honorable the Lord Viscount Wimbledon his foot Company was likewise at the said Lamberts Confession both before and at his death who on the racke protested as is aboue written This is truth Hv HANKINSON