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spirit_n	holy_a	jesus_n	soul_n	6,864	5	4.6434	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51989	The two noble converts, or, The Earl of Marlborough and the Earl of Rochester their dying requests and remonstrance to the atheists and debauchees of this age.	Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, 1618-1665. Letter to Sir H.P.; Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680. Remonstrance.	1680 (1680)	Wing M689; ESTC R764	1,838	1

The two Noble Converts OR THE Earl of MARLBOROUGH and the Earl of ROCHESTER Their Dying Requests and Remonstrance To the ATHEISTS and DEBAUCHEES of this Age. The Earl of Marlborough's Letter to Sir H. P. a little before the Sea-Fight in 1665. SIR I Believe the goodness of your Nature and the friendship you have always born me will receive with kindness the last office of your Friend I am in health enough of Body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in Mind This I premise that you may be satisfied that what I write proceeds not from any phantastick terrour of Mind but from a sober resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my Death than mine Example God of his Mercy pardon the badness of it in my life-time may do you harm I will not speak ought of the Vanity of this World your own Age and Experience will save that labour But there is a certain thing that goeth up and down the World called Religion dressed and pretended phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil dealing loseth not its Being The great good God hath not left it without a Witness more or less sooner or later in every Man's Bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding of those inextricable disquisitions and entanglements our own frail Reason would perplex us withal God in his infinite Mercy hath given us his Holy Word in which as there are many things hard to be understood so there is enough plain and easy to quiet our Minds and direct us concerning our future Being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite Mercy pardon me the dreadful Fault But when I retired my self from the noise and deceitful Vanity of the World I found no true comfort in any other resolution than what I had from thence I commend from the bottom of my Heart the same to your I hope happy use Dear Sir H. let us be more generous than to believe we die as the Beasts that perish but with a Christian Manly Brave Resolution look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you further The only great God and holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your Life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays Your true Friend MARLBOROUGH Old James near the Coast of Holland April 24. 1665. The Reader if he please may see more Instances of the like nature in a Book called Fair Warnings to a careless World The Earl of Rochester's Remonstrance Signed with his own Hand a little before his Death FOr the benefit of all those whom I may have drawn into Sin by my Example and Encouragement I leave to the World this my last Declaration which I deliver in the presence of the great God who knows the secrets of all Hearts and before whom I am now appearing to be judged That from the bottom of my Soul I detest and abhor the whole course of my former wicked Life that I think I can never sufficiently admire the goodness of God who has given me a true sense of my pernicious Opinions and vile Practices by which I have hitherto lived without Hope and without God in the World have been an Open Enemy to Jesus Christ doing the utmost despite to the Holy Spirit of Grace And that the greatest testimony of my Charity to such is to warn them in the Name of God and as they regard the welfare of their Immortal Souls no more to deny his Being or his Providence or despise his Goodness no more to make a mock of Sin or contemn the pure and excellent Religion of my ever blessed Redeemer through whose Merits alone I one of the Greatest of Sinners do yet hope for Mercy and Forgiveness Amen Declared and sign'd in the Presence of Anne Rochester Robert Parsons June 19. 1680. J. ROCHESTER Besides which take one memorable Saying of his on his Death-Bed One day at an Atheistical Meeting at a Person of Quality's I undertook to manage the Cause and was the principal Disputant against God and Piety and for my performances received the Applause of the whole Company upon which my Mind was terribly struck and I immediately replied thus to my self Good God! that a Man that walks upright that sees the wonderful Works of God and has the use of his Senses and Reason should use them to the defying of his Creator But though this was a good beginning towards my Conversion to find my Conscience touch'd for my Sins yet it went off again nay all my Life long I had a secret value and reverence for an honest Man and lov'd Morality in others But I had form'd an odd Scheme of Religion to my self which would salve all that God or Conscience might force upon me yet I was not ever well reconciled to the business of Christianity nor had that reverence for the Gospel of Christ as I ought to have With several other like Expressions which may be seen in the Sermon preached at his Funeral LONDON Printed by J. D. and sold by Randal Taylor 1680.