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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	devil_n	faith_n	2,565	5	5.9598	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93579	Fearefull newes from Coventry, or, A true relation and lamentable story of one Thomas Holt of Coventry a musitian: who through covetousnesse and immoderate love of money, sold himselfe to the devill, with whom he had made a contract for certaine yeares. And also of his most lamentable end and death, on the 16, day of February. 1641. To the terror and amazement of the inhabitants thereabouts. writen [sic] by Lawrence Southerne of Coventrey.	Southerne, Lawrence.	1642 (1642)	Wing S4753; Thomason E146_3; ESTC R19040	4,072	9

●EAREFVLL NEVVES FROM COVENTRY OR A true Relation and Lamentable Story of one Thomas Holt of Coventrey a Musitian VVho through Covetousnesse and Immoderate love of money sold himselfe to the Devill with whom he had made a contract for certaine yeares And also of his most Lamentable end and death on the 16. day of February 1641. To the terror and Amazement of the Inhabitants thereabouts writen by Lawrence Southerne of Coventrey London Printed for Iohn Thomas 1642. A True and Lamentable story of one Thomas Holt of Coventrey Musitian who through Covetuousnesse and immoderate love of money sold himselfe to the Devill and also of his most lamentable end on the 16. of February 1641. MArke Gentle Reader for thine owne good and the comfort of thy soule the damnable effects of Covetuousnesse and distrust of Gods never failing providence This man the sad subject of this little treatice was a Musitian in Coventry whom for his skill in his Art and profession few or none could compare with him by which he gained not onely the love of many Gentlemen thereabouts but also a competent estate to himselfe God moreover to enlarge his blessings if grace had caused him so to thinke of it gave him nineteene children which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of the Prophet David doth manifest to be great blessings for saith he in the Psalmes Loe children the fruit of the wombe are a blessing and an inheritance that comes from the Lord But hee to the contrary thought them to be curses and distrusting Gods providence thought that he who doth and is able to provide for all the creatures on the face of the Earth yea and feedes the young Ravens that call upon him was not able or if he could yet he would not afford meanes to maintaine and provide for those children which he had given but indeed as it is so it wil be an infallible truth that infidelitie miserable beliefe are the grand and sole ringleaders to damnation and to these he joyned Covetuousnesse which indeed is a root upon which many greate sinnes are branches for hee that will be suddenly rich must enter into divers tentations The first which is Infidelitie and so misbeliefe that if wee beleeve any thing yet we beleeve not what we ought to beleeve because wee want the ground of it which is faith Now the want of this faith makes us that wee cannot apprehend that saying which God once said to Abr●ham in the 17 of Gen. verse 1. where hee saith I am the Almightie God and therefore all su●fici●nt but what followes thou must saith God if thou wilt have me to bee all sufficient unto thee walke before me and ●●●erfell T is true this persection was in Abraham because he had faith to bel●●●● Gods promises but how can this perfection be in him who can neither beleeve God nor his promises but before speake any more of this I shall thinke it fit to say some thing of the damnable contract between the Devill the wretched subject of my discourse the truth whereof is too apparent and indeede I could wish that no such truth had caused me to set a pen to paper and to condole that late and yet too soone and by him ever to be lamented hard unfortunate and gracelesse act is now too late but that every Christian who is yet alive that shall chance to take a perusuall hereof I have endeavored to relate a Reall truth and no more as iust information hath beene given me It hath plainely appeared both by his wife and other creadible neibours that upon the 16 of February Last past which to their sorrow and losse some of them are forst to Iustifie there arose a mightie and tempestuous wind from morning till night by reason whereof some had their houses blowne downe others their reeks of come and hay served in like manner and inconclution many had losse and wrong the very day this wretched man perceiuing his time to bee but short and almost drawne to a period day too his cost to soone beeing spent and night approaching he repaires to his death bed his wife with him allso wherein long he had not continued but he called his wife desiring her to fetch him Pen Incke and paper professing that he must not delay but forthwith make his last will and testament His wife wondring at this his suddaine and unexpected resolution halfe amazed and suppossed it had beene rather in jest then earnest she seemed to procrastinate and delay the time but hee absolute in his determination urged her forthwith to dispatch saying that by and by a man would come and knocke at his dore to speake with him but saith he denie me and say I am not at home his Wife to sulfill his desire not knowing the event or the cause that moued him there unto went to fetch him those things he asked for which being no sooner brought but before he could make use of them the unwellcome messenger he last speake of came and knocked at his doore I am quoth he now I doubt prevented the man is come bnfore I can dispatch the thinge I meant to have done but howsoever deney me if it be possible Downe then went his Wife from her Husband to the doore unto which when she came she found a man and a handsome man as she thought who said to her thus woeman where is thy husband the woeman replyed Sir he is not now at home Nay woeman quoth he deney him not for that is in vaine for I know that he is now in bed and I must and will speake with him The woman unwilling to with stand a knowne truth gave him leaue to enter the house and shewed him where her husband was unto which place when he came thir was straight some private conference betwixt them the woman his wife then present pondering in hir mind the cause of such sad and solatery passages she perceiued to be betwene them at last this infernall feind after their damnable discourse ended changed his assumed shape and appeared to the woman what indeed he was the woman at hir husbands end being almost driuen to hir wits end ran downe the staires to call hir neighbours about her but before shee or they came the man by that murthering feind the devill was at once robed of his life heere and much to bedoubted of his life heareafter and at the returne of his wife and neighboures they found this miserable Caitife dead in his bed with his neck broken to the terrour of the beholders he had in his life time a Chest wherin he would never suffer neither his wife nor any child he had to looke in which after his death was opened and found filled to the topp with Gould as they thought but being once touched it fell to dust I speake not here of the number of yeares that the Devill gave him to live because to none but him selfe it was Knowne I might say something of his course of