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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	holy_a	lord_n	son_n	13,150	5	5.2455	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13960	The fierie tryall of Gods saints as a counter-poyze to I.W. priest his English Martyrologie. And the detestable ends of popish traytors. ...		1611 (1611)	STC 24269; ESTC S106306	40,636	90

Councellor 2. Because none can haue a better sence and feeling of anothers griefe then he that hath felt the like Afflictions Your Honour hath been by Sathans instruments threatned with vnavoydable Death But God who hithervnto hath still defende you and yet are those who were sayd to haue vowed the enterprize tearmed good men by those that in the libell seemed but God forbid that euer the saftie or ouerthrowe of the State should rest in their power to dislike of the powder treason therefore I doubt not but your Honour will defend the poore in a iust cause if neede so require against the rage and furie of the wicked and mightie 3. In regard the cause your person excepted is Secundum quid all one for which your Honour hath been reuiled mis-iudged slaundered and menaced with mine for which happely I also may vndergoe the like Namely The Conscionable seruice of my Soueraigne in my meane but contented place 4. Yours Honours owne Position That that seruant whose faith and zeale in the seruice of his King stands in awe of enemies eyther for power or enuie is not worthy of protection warranteth that these my meane but daring-loyall indeauours in behalfe of my Soueraigne shall finde fauour with your Honour 5. Because true Nobilitie which were it not that I speake vnto your Honor I would say were seated in your breast neuer respecteth the person of any man but the qualities affections endowments and intentions of the mind and therefore myne owne priuitie to my owne thoughts which telleth me and that vppon good grounds that your Honor deserueth well of the State in Generall and doth loue it and are generally in a recyprocall manner of them beloued doth also assure me in particular that nothing which is vertuous can from a good affection be commended vnto so Honorable a Patron and suffer shipwrack by Contempt Your Honor hath elsewhere spoken in your owne person That you would glory more to be alwaies found his Maiesties honest and humble subiect then absolutely to command in any other calling euen so I the weakest of many thousands desire nothing more pardon herein Noble Lord my ambition then that I may be able to performe some seruice vnto God my Prince Country and the furtherance of the Gospell and in them vnto your Honourable selfe And herein Right Honorable Lord namely in Desire to do good the poorest subiect his Maiestie hath absit inuidia Dicto may equallize his greatest Peere for the Loue Faith zeale of the one may be as great firme deuout as the other the difference consisting onely in outward meanes to approoue them in both The God of all power and might who exalted the Father of so honorable a sonne to be Lord high Treasurer vnto so worthy a Queene and the sonne of so honorable a father to beare the same office vnder so Gracious a King on earth the same God for his sonnes sake through the Grace of his holy spirit bind vp the sonne as I hope already he hath done the Father in the bundle of his Saints that after your long and faithfull Seruice to your earthly Prince with the father Sonne and Holy Spirit you may enioy the true Treasure of eternall happines in the Kingdome of Heauen Amen Amen Your Honors in all humble seruice TO THE WELL affected and loyall hearted Reader AS to the spirit and soule of man nothing internally then a good conscience can bee more comfortable so externally then a good report from others nothing can be more precious And as for the first euery one that will enjoye it must himselfe alone by the vprightnesse of his owne actions assure it vnto himselfe in the sincerity of his own heart so for the secōd as it depends not vpō ones selfe alone but vpon the tongues and reports of others euery Christian by the rules of his profession is chargeable to his power to seeke the preseruation thereof towards others whome hee knoweth to be wronged This being graunted as it cannot be denyed if euery priuate mans good name so neerely touch him as that for the preseruation thereof wee are all of vs to others reciprocally bound and by law diuine obliged How much more strictly then are all faithful subiects tyed as much as in them lyeth to maintaine the good name honour and reputation of their lawfull Soueraignes by traytors rebels And antichristians so vniustly jmpiously and jmpudently taxed both in words and writings For as his Majestie is our King by God appoynted to rule ouer his Brittish and Irish Israell both in Church and common wealth and as in dignity he is nulli secundus nay more for that may seeme to admit an equall Primus inter omnes without a mate highest euen so the blemish of good name honour and reputation in his Majestie is of all others most dishonourable most scandalous as his Majesty is of all others most eminent most conspicuous and therefore by euery good subiect as occasion offereth it selfe pro viribus to be maintained If a naturall father haue a bad name though vndeseruedly yet is that in the worlds eye that cannot iudge thereof but by report a scandall vnto the children Our King is more for he is not onely Pater familiae a father of a priuate family but he is Pater patriae a father of our Country nay more he is Pater multorum gentium regnorum a father of many Kingdomes England Scotland France and Ireland and which is most hee is a good Christian Christianae fidei Defensor the chiefe Champion for defence of Christian faith through whose sides the enemy seeketh to wound the whole Church of Christ and to lay aspersions of bloud and tyrany vpon all such as with him professe the gospell of Christ The consideration whereof as also a feruent desire to doe my Country some publique seruice in helping as much as in me lyeth to stop the mouths of our common aduersaries the Papists whose lauish tongs haue spit out aboundance of venome and their pennes stung like Scorpions not onely our late most gracious and woorthy Queene Elizabeth of euer-blessed memorie for the many vnspeakeable blessings that God with and through her bestowed vpon this and other Kingdomes But also our present Soueraigne Lord and King with both their state Ministers by charging them as falsely so maliciously with cruelty breach of promise bloud and bloudy persecution for conscience hath mooued mee to jmploye the best talent of my small ability to convince them of jmpudent and lying malicious slaunders and reproachfull vntruths First in a few following lynes directed vnto all Romish fauorites clearing my present gracious Soueraigne of breach of promise with Recusants for toleration of Popery wherein also I haue touched the ground of that slaunder with the occasion and Authors thereof with some other matters of speciall moment Secondly in a tabular computation by a comparatiue collection of all such Martyrs as were burned in Queene Maries days with all such Priests Iesuites