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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	find_v	heart_n	lord_n	5,269	5	3.7260	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05951	Because that to many people, I have seemed to falsify my word and promise,	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1693 (1693)	Wing S5108; ESTC R228917	4,306	5

〈◊〉 that to many People I have seemed to falsify my Word and Promise which I made 〈◊〉 my being discharged out of Bethelem Hospital whereupon I am now liable to the Im●…ation of a Lyar and Deceiver which lies as a very great Prejudice against the Things I ●…ve heretofore written and Published to the World I shall therefore here add the very 〈◊〉 thereof Together with what is here observed thereon To the Right Honourable Daniel Earl of N. Principal Secretary of State 〈◊〉 Humble PETITION of Richard Stafford a Prisoner in Bethlehem Hospital SHEWETH THAT your Petitioner hath been detained here for almost these eight Months By an Order of the Board of Green Cloth for disturbing Their Majesties Houshold at Kensington By my delivery of certain Books there on Nov. 3. 1691. for which this my Act of Inadvertency I am heartily sorry And I do hereby with all due Respectfulness and Humility beg Their Majesties ●…on for what Offence I have hereby given to them And seeing that by so long and tedious Imprisonment ●…e been and am still detained and kept from the publick Worship and Service of Almighty God As 〈◊〉 from the Comforts and Ends of Humane Life My humble Prayer is therefore unto your Lordship ●…t you would intercede with Her Majesty That She would be Graciously pleased out of Her Princely Fa●…r and upon this my Acknowledgment and future Resolution to give Command or Direction for my ●…ease and Discharge out of this House of Confinement and Shame and to grant me my former Liberty ●…d Freedom which last Words tho they were not expressed yet they were intended in my Mind And 〈◊〉 I do hereby promise before God and upon the Word of a Christian man That I will never any more ●…ne within the Gates of VVhite-Hall or Kensington Court Nor will I Write and Publish any thing more against ●…e Government as it is at present Established Adding this withal That if ever I should Transgress or Vio●…e in the least particular against what I do here declare and faithfully promise I would then willingly sub●…t to be Immur'd up here or else-where during Life Or to be proceeded againgst in a Regular and Le●…d way with the utmost severity according as your Righteousness and Wisdom shall think fit But my mentions being now Real and Unfeigned as above-specified I do hope that I may for this once partake of ●oyal Mercy And that your Lordship would be pleased io Represent and make this known is the most earn 〈◊〉 Desire and Supplication of Your most Obedient Servant And Humble Petitioner Richard Stafford These Words To be Immur'd up here or else where during Life I did like the eloquent Orator me●… Isu 3. 3. put in to make this my Petition more Persuasive But not with an intent to concluded 〈◊〉 to be dealt withal accordingly This Petition was carried and presented unto him On June 20. Upon which the day following 〈◊〉 following Order was sent and directed unto Sir VVilliam Turner and to the other Governours of 〈◊〉 Hospital June 21. 1692. Gentlemen The Queen is willing to discharge Mr. Richard Stafford out of Bethlehem Hospital to deliver him up to his Father Your Humble Servant N. BY this General phrase of delivering me up to my Father there was no such Grant of my former ●…ty and Freedom Upon which my solemn Promise was founded But not laying so much stress on that then besides If a Promise is as it were forced and extorted as it w●… with me by Grievous foregoing Bondage and Oppression in putting me down into a low dark narrow and 〈◊〉 Room for seven Weeks and three days And so in like manner in the former Times of Usurpation Their 〈◊〉 did weary out Judge Jenkins by long Imprisonment By which they forced him to sign a Paper 〈◊〉 he did much more acknowledge their Government that then was than I have done as to the present 〈◊〉 form of Petition Or if the matter of a Promise is unlawful as here it is to hinder the Word of th●… and to stop that free course thereof which it ought to have In both these cases it ceases to oblige As 〈◊〉 yet more clearly understood from the Contents of the following Letter which was delivered in and 〈◊〉 the Penny-post on July 29 last past and directed to him at Cleveland House near St. James but superscribed To the Right Honourable Daniel Earl of N. Principal Secretary of State and t●… other Members of the Privy Council Richard Stafford a Scribe of Jesus Christ sendeth Greeting THese are to acquaint Your Lordships and the present Rules That I have had very great Tr●… and Remorse of Conscience being afraid and sensible That I have offended God in an high de●… for that Petition which I sent unto Your Lordship on the 19th of June last past Wherein I did pra●… my discharge out of Bethlebem Hospital and you were pleased to send an Order accordingly for it the following which though it was an Act of great Goodness in your self to be instrumental towards the e●…ing of it and it was and is still very acceptable unto me And I do hereby resent it with all due Tha●…ness Yet the terms upon which I did desire it were in me sinful and unbecoming such an One who is employ●… the ministration of the word of the Lord unto the Inhabitants of the Earth For whereas rather from the dic●… of some other than from mine own Sentiments I did there set forth and promise that what I had done as to 〈◊〉 occasion of my Commitment was in me an Act of Inadvertency And that I would write and publish no 〈◊〉 against the Government as it is at present Established I do not write against Government in the Gene●… but against Sin Iniquity and Transgression in the present Governours That aforementioned dropped was as it were forced from me by Humane Infirmity and out of my impatient desire of Release from that 〈◊〉 and tedious Imprisonment under which I did groan But now upon my serious and innermost Thought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Truth acknowledge so And I learn from the Example of Jeremiah That when through the fore●… Harrassing and Persecution of Men He came to this Resolution Then I said which implies some●… an outward Promise I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his Name But his 〈◊〉 was in mine Heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could ●…y Jer. 20. 9. In like-manner I since finding such strong Impulses of this Nature upon my Spirit and by 〈◊〉 may be further gathered from Numbers 30. 2. Seeing that the Spirit of God in my Heart did at the ●ime disallow what I did herein as He did at the very same moment to the Spirit of my Mind Not 〈◊〉 of those Vows or Bonds wherewith I have seemed to tie my self shall stand and the Lord shall forgive 〈◊〉 because his Spirit did disallow what I did herein as he