Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45671	A true copy of a letter, Writen by Mr. Harrison, in Newgate, to a near relation, after his condemnation for the murther of Doctor Clinch.	Harrison, Henry, d. 1692.	1692 (1692)	Wing H893; ESTC R218622	1,312	1

A True Copy of a Letter WRITEN BY Mr. HARRISON In Newgate to a near Relation after his Condemnation for the Murther of Doctor Clinch Dear Cosen NOW accept of my hearty Thanks for all your Services and loving Kindnesses and God Allmighty reward you I am now preparing my self for another World and do heartily forgive all my Enemies There was Four of my Witnesses that did not appear one Mr. White and his Wife Mrs. Fairelace and the Maid where I was that Night Let not God lay my Blood to their Charge and God forgive all those that swore falcely against me And whether before my Execution or after God is pleased to do it but I am sure he will Reveal it and when it is brought to light the World then will know my Wrongs In the mean time I resigne my Soul and Body to him who is a just God and by this means will bring me to himself This Affliction is a great one and more than human Nature can bear but I trust in him that he will not lay more on me than he will give me the Grace of his holy Spirit to undergo And indeed I look upon it as a Fatherly Chastisement for whom he loves he doth chastise For if I had my Deserts he might have taken me off in the midst of all my Sins and have rewarded me with the Punishment of the everlasting Prison Hell prepared for all impenitent Sinners But I hope he will give me the Grace of his holy Spirit to repent my self of all my Sins which I have and do and shall with a humble lowly and obedient Heart and not in the least cloke or dissemble them before my heavenly Father who gave up his only begoten Son to dy for Sinners and me the greatest And I hope he will give me the Grace to follow his Example who was falsly Accused Condemned and suffered a shameful Death upon the Cross I being now falsly to suffer a shamful Death At which time I sincerely and heartily beg of him to support me which I trust in God he will Humbly beging Pardon and confessing the Sins I have been guilty of Now I have Two Things to beg of you for Christ his sake The First is That you will take it from me a dying Man without the least Hopes of Pardon here from any mortal Man That I am Innocent Clear and Free In Thought Word and Deed of this bloody barbarous unheard of and inhuman Murther for which I do suffer surely knowing and certainly believing no Salvation can be had from the Almighty God the Searcher of Hearts That at the Houre of Death dies with a Ly in his Mouth Therefore I desire your Prayers for me being Innocent and all other good Christians Prayers That God Almighty will be pleased to bring to light this bloody Deed not when we would have him but at his one appointed time not our Will but his own be done The other is That you would be pleased to speak to your Minister or any other Divine you know to visit me and get him to come as soon as you can and let me see you for I have desired that no body may come at me but your self and Cozen William and some Divines being I will not now discourse any Persons relating to worldly Affairs but what may tend for the Salvation of my poor Soul So recommending you to god I rest The most wronged Man the most unhappy Man as to this World yet one of the most happy Men through Christ my Saviour in whom I trust for my eternal Salvation HENRY HARRISON London Printed for Randal Tayler near Stationers Hall