Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A75331	The several arguments at lavv of Col. Eusebius Andrewe at his tryal, before John Bradshaw, president of the pretended high court of justice shewing the illegality of their proceedings, and passing sentence of death against him. Published by Francis Buckley, Gent. who was assistant to Mr. Andrewe in the time of his imprisonment, and an eye witness to all the said most bloody and execrable proceedings.	Andrews, Eusebius, d. 1650.; Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3117A; ESTC R231612	53,671	79

his absolution and consider how much gain it should be to you though you lose all the world so your Soul may be saved The God of all goodness in mercy look upon you direct you by his Wisdom guide you by his Counsell comfort and sanctifie you by his holy Spririt that alone shall make you wise unto Salvation and lead you through all the miseries of a perplexed life and untimely death to that glory which is beyond my expression and your apprehension is the daily prayer of your real partaker in all your sufferings August 17. 1650. Mr. Andrewe his answer to the aforesaid Letter Friend YOur words sent to me were such and so seasonable that I have given them the same entertainment and lodging as becomes me to afford to Apples of Gold with pictures of Silver and if I be after my decollation dissected you may find them in my heart where your self have always held a Mansion If fear were absolutely a necessary passion by which to denote a man I must as yet be accounted amongst some other species of animality there being not a scruple in the whole frame of my mind and body of so tenuous a Composure The fear of Isaac hath banisht all other dreadings I look upon death as upon that rod in the hand of God with which he would not have corrected me if less correction had not been unprevailing and which he doth now exercise upon me because he is resolved not to let me be less then a son beloved and I am content to bear the stripes and kiss the Instrument I am sorry that my rod is bound together with the sin of my betrayer and wish him repentance that when the Rod comes to be burn'd he suffer not in the flame I shall not need to say I forgive either him or my Judges having already forgotten them in all my prayers excepted I am proud and covetous to be released from the double imprisonment I lie under of the flesh and bonds and am ready for the opportunity to make my escape though in a fiery Chariot All things betwixt me and God are removed from my sight and I see him clearly without reflection upon my accusers and Judges and submit cheerfully to his fatherly dispensation and judgment It is Gods mercy that I was not long since consumed for an earlier death in my heats and follies had not proved less then a total consumption of all which now will become precious in despight of ignominious Death or attending nauseous Corruption My betrayer wanted only Judas his subject to make his sin as great being transcendent to his in the circumstance and I wish him Peters tears to wash away Judas guilt and to avoid Judas his punishment by Peters repentance My Judges have done me no wrong they have a law for their warrant and my confession for their evidence neither have capacity to be Chancellors in matters of life let them go free and the Law-makers and inforcers of it for their errors of constituting them before the padling in blood grow too customary to be thought a sin worthy their confession or sorrow which I desire for the sakes of their souls and the lives of the oppressed and indeed proscribed Free-Christians of the Nation The Fathers Plea of Innocence I cannot make but I can say and bless God that I can say Veri penitence est pene innocence I have erred and cannot say I have voluntarily returned but I am graciously brought home as a lost sheep not to be eternally slaughtered but put again amongst the flock to be kept safe under the staff as well as the rod for the great shepherd of my soul Christ Jesus I dare not tell you I have not sinned you are a witness against me if I had none within me but I can tell you what my faith dictates to me and Gods holy Spirit assures me that the Lord hath put away my iniquity I am already sensible and that in a measure unexpressable of Gods goodness to me who as he will be glorified upon me on earth so he hath given me an earnest of my future glory in heaven by the sweet perfume he hath cast upon my name amongst the people and the Christian-like compassion he hath begotten for me amongst all men who have yet an eye of expectation upon his return in mercy to this poor distressed Nation and oppressed People The God of all goodness hath in mercy looked upon me directed me counsel'd me comforted me and sanctified my affliction to me and I am ready to fall into his mercifull hands as soon as the heavy hand of the Executioner shall have given a Nunc dimittis to Tower August 19. 1650. Your old and constant Friend EUSEBIUS ANDREWE The last speech of Colonel EUSEBIUS ANDREWE on the Scaffold on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. THe Lieutenant of the Tower delivering the Colonel to the Sheriff said he had brought him thus far on his journey The Col. replied I hope I shall neyther tyre in the way nor go out of it When he came on the Scaffold kissing the Block he said I hope there is no more but this block between me and heaven After he had been some while on the Scaffold he spake to the people as followeth Christian Gentlemen and good people your business hither this day is to fee a sad Spectacle a man brought in a moment to be unmann'd cut off in the prime of his years taken from further opportunity of doing service to himself his friends the Common-wealth or especially to God It seldom happens but upon very great cause and though truly if my general known course of life were enquired into I may modestly say there is such a moral honesty as some may be so forward as to expostulate why this great judgment is fallen upon me But know I am able to give them and my self an answer and out of this brest to give a better account of my Judgment and Execution then my Judges themselves or you It 's Gods just displeasure towards me for my sins long unrepented of many judgments withstood and mercies slighted therefore doth my gracious father chastise me with this correction that he may not lose me and I pray you assist me with your prayers that this rod may not be fruitless That when under his rod I have laid down my life by his staff I may be comforted and received into Glory I am very confident by what I have heard since my sentence there is more exceptions made against the proceedings against men then ever I made my Tryers had a Law and the validity of that Law is indisputable for me to say against it or to make a question of it I should but shame my self and my discretion In the strictness of the Law something is done by me that is applyable to some clause therein by which I stand condemned the means by which I was brought under that interpretation of that which was not in my self intended maliciously being testimony