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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	heart_n	lord_n	word_n	16,070	5	4.2011	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02487	The happy sinner: or, The penitent malefactor. Being the prayers and last words of one Richard Cromwel (some time a souldier and chyrurgion in the late D. of Monmouth's Army, and since of their present Majesties) who was executed at Leichfield for murder, on the 3d. day of July, 1691. Wherein are not only contained his prayers ... but also his last speech ... And also, his legacy to his county, of choyce, physical, and chyrurgical receipts ...	Cromwel, Richard, d. 1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing C7035; ESTC R171606	6,296	11

thy Grace I Commend my self my Soul and my Body into thy hands praying thee not to cast him which hath no Hope but onely in thee and that alone in and by Jesus Christ my onely Lord and Saviour Amen Amen Isaiah 53 Ver. 3. O My beloved Saviour wast thou despised and rejected of men and shall I not learn to despise and reject my self that I may be like to thee approved to thee and received by thee wast thou a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief who knewest no sin and shall I who came into the world with sin look to go out of the world without sorrow didst thou so patiently bear the griefs and carry the sorrows that were due for my sins and shall not I patiently bear the griefs and carry the sorrows that are due for mine own sins how could I have sorrows if I had not sins and why should I not have patience now I must have sorrows wast thou stricken and smitten of God and afflicted who wast his only begotten and most dearly Beloved Son and shall I look to escape the Scourge who heretofore have been his Enemy and still am his undutifull and unworthy servant His Speech to the People at his Execution Good People IT would much comfort my afflicted soul if at this my last farewell to the world I could say any thing that may be for the benefit as to instructions for Sobriety Holiness Justice and Charity You have them so plentiful poured out upon you by the Reverend Dean and Ministers of this place that have most Christianly assisted me in my afflictions that it will be your condemnation not to observe and Obey them and your impieties under such plentifull means of Holiness will be utterly inexcusable As for my own sins were I to live ever so long I could not sufficiently confess and Lament for them But I hope the pardon hath this day been sealed unto me in the Holy Sacrament which I have received as to the Crime for which I suffer I here declare in the presence of God before whom I am instantly to appear that I am so far innocent as not to have given him the wound of which it is said he dyed on Nay I can farther add in the presence of God that I had no design to kill him or any other person whatsoever I did not so much as see or touch him and consider these are the Words of a dying Man I cannot in Charity Omit to put those in mind of their uncharitableness who so far thirsted after my blood as to hinder means used to save it and who by Unchristian informations have prevented that Gracious Mercy which otherwise I might have obtained This mercy they have obstructed as I hear say not only uncharitably but unjustly by laying the most wicked falsehood to my charge That is that I should threaten If I got my pardon to be the death of Mr. Wright or his Wife I call God to witness that this wickedness was never in my thoughts and I pray God forgive them who have raised this false report Another unmerciful slander which some have Thrown upon Me and that since my condemnation I have been guilty of Uncleaness with Women I do not come hither to justifie my life God knows it hath been too wicked But I bless God since I was a prisoner and condemn'd I have had an abhorrence of all such wickedness God forgive them God forgive them and grant them True Repentance for what they have done Lord lay not my Blood nor their hindering of the means used to save it to their charge But that which hath given me no small Trouble is that I hear the Reverend and good Dean Dr. Addison who hath been so carefull of my soul and willing to save my life hath been misrepresented above for so doing by those whom nothing could satisfie but my death I am now going to appear before that God before whom you must also shortly appear and as I desire forgiveness at his hands so I humbly forgive all God bless their present Majesties and preserve the Church of England with the Reverend Dean and Ministers of this place and all who have been Charitable to me with all others And so I humbly beg Gods pardon for all my sins for the sake of Christ in whose name I recommend my Soul to his Mercy I beseech all the world to forgive me in whatsoever I have offended them whether by thought word or deed I do from the bottom of my heart forgive all those who have any way injured me And lastly I beseech you all good people to pray for me to the last Moment of my Life Lord Jesus receive my Spirit How far this unhappy Man was guilty of the Crime he dyed for is too late to dispute 'T is indeed certain a Man was Kil'd but whether by this person or the Switz's his companion is now the query since this that Suffered denyed it to the last it may serve to inform those who are strangers to the thing into whose hands this small book may come that the matter appeared so on Tryal that the jury found cause to acquit the Forraigner and bring this person in guilty but as in most cases of this Nature different men have different Sentiments so there were some and of good quality too who so far concern'd themselves on his behalf as to endeavour his Reprieve which had they not thought him an Object deserving Pitty and his case a little hard we may reasonably conclude they would not have appeared therein It may not be improper to add the rather because it is a thing much talked of here where the thing was done that though the prisoner had about six days notice to prepare for his death yet because there had been such means used for His Reprieve he was not wholly without hopes of life till the day before when he being upon his Knees in his Chamber three Ravens light upon the prison and after making a very great noise there they took wing again but immediately returning they flew with great violence against the walls of the Room where he was and there being a little hole or window against which place this person was Kneeling one of the Ravens hanging on the wall by her Claws put in her head thereat and with so much feirceness that it was thought had the hole been big enough she would have flown in at him This at first a little frighted him but afterwards considering that that God that had made all creatures had still the command over them and remembring that the Raven is esteemed by most persons a kind of foreteller of death he really accounted them so to himself and looked upon them as Messengers sent by Providence to take off his hopes of life and warn him of his approaching end So he esteemed them as sent by God and from that time laid by all Hopes of a Reprieve This was not only told by himself but will be