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death_n	die_v	king_n	lord_n	5,768	5	3.5541	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40678	Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F2451; ESTC R7395	42,203	158

thousand of active and designing Traytors these poor men might in the violent multitude be hurried on not only beyond their intentions but even against their resolutions Such as are sensible with sorrow that their well intending simplicity hath been imposed on abused and deluded by the subtilty of others may comfort and content themselves in the sincerity of their own Soules God no doubt hath already forgiven them and therefore men ought to revoke their uncharitable censures of them And yet Divine Iustice will have its full tale of intended stripes taking so many off from the back of the Deceived and laying them on the shoulders of the Deceivers XXI No RECORD to REMAINE I Never did read nor can learn from any that ever Queen Elizabeth had any Ship-Royal which in the Name thereof carried the Memorial of any particular Conquest she got either by land or by water Yet was she as victorious as any Prince in her Age and which is mainly material her conquests were mostly atchieved against forreign Enemies The Ships of Her Navy had onely honest and wholesom Names the Endeavour the Boneadventure the Return the Unity c. Some of our modern Ships carry a very great Burthen in their names I mean the Memorial of some fatal Fights in the Civil Wars in our own Nation and the Conquerours ought not to take much joy as the Conquered must take grief in the remembrance thereof I am utterly against the rebaptizing of Christians but I am for the redipping of Ships that not only some inoffensive but ingratiating Names may be put upon them the Vnity the Reconciliation the Agreement the Concord and healing Titles I speak more like a Book-man than a Sea-man and others to that purpose XXII All for the present THere is a pernicious humour of a Catching Nature wherewith the mouths of many and hearts of more are infected Some there are that are so covetous to see the settlement of Church and State according to their own desires that If it be not done in our dayes say they we care not whether it be done at all or no Such mens souls live in a Lane having weak heads and narrow hearts their Faith being little and charity less being all for themselves and nothing for posterity These men living in India would prove ill Common-Wealthsmen and would lay no foundation for Porcellana or China-dishes because despairing to reap benefit thereby as not ripened to perfection in a hundred years Oh! give me that good mans gracious temper who earnestly desired the prosperity of the Church whatsoever became of himself whose verses I will offer to translate Seu me terra tegit seu vastum contegit aequor Exoptata piis-saecula fausta precor Buried in earth or drownd i' th Maine Eat up by Worms or fishes I pray the Pious may obtain For happy times their wishes And if we our selvs with aged * Barzillai be superannuated to behold the happy establishment of Church and state may we dying in * Faith though not having received the promises bequeath the certain reversions of our Chimhams I mean the next generation which shall rise up after us XXIII Courtesy gaineth I Have heard the Royall Party would I could say without any cause complained of that they have not Charity enough for Converts who came off unto them from the opposite side Who though they express a sence of and sorrow for their mistakes and have given Testimony though perchance not so plain and publick as others expected of their sincerity yet still they are suspected as unsound and such as frown not on look but asquint at them This hath done much mischief and retarded the return of many to their side For had these their Van-Curriers been but kindly entertained possibly ere now their whole Army had came over unto us Which now are disheartned by the cold welcome of these Converts Let this fault be mended for the future that such Proselytes may meet with nothing to discourage all things to comfort and content them Let us give them not onely the right hand of fellowship but even the upper-hand of Superiority One asked a Mother who had brought up many Children to a marriageable age what Arts she used to breed up so numerous an issue None other said she save onely I alwaies made the most of the youngest Let the Benjamins ever be Darlings and the last-borne whose eyes were newest opened with the sight of their errours be treated with the greatest affection XXIV Moderation ARTHUR PLANTAGENET Viscount Lisle natural Son to King Edward the Fourth and which is the greatest honour to his Memory direct Ancestor in the fifth Degree to the Right Honourable most Renowned Lord General GEORGE MONK was for a fault of his Servants intending to betray Calis to the King of France committed to the Tower by King Henry the eight where well knowing the fury and fiercenesse of that King he daily expected death But the innocence of this Lord appearing after much search the King sent him a rich Ring off his own Finger with so comfortable words that at the hearing therof a sudden joy * overcharged his heart whereof he dyed that night so fatal was not onely the anger but the love of that King England for this many years hath bin in a languishing condition whose case hath been so much the sadder than this Lords was because conscious of a great guilt whereby she hath justly incurred Gods displeasure If God of his goodnesse should be pleased to restore her to his favour may he also give her moderation safely to digest and concoct her own happinesse that she may not runne from one Extreame to another and excessive joy prove more destructive unto her then grief hath been hitherto XXV Preparative TWilight is a great blessing of God to mankind for should our eyes be instantly posted out of darknesse into light out of mid-night into morning so sudden a surprisal would blind us God therefore of his goodnesse hath made the intermediate twilight to prepare our eyes for the reception of the light Such is his dealing with our English Nation We were lately in the mid-night of misery It was questionable whether the Law should first draw up the Will and Testament of dying Divinitie or Divinitie first make a Funeral Sermon for expiring Law Violence stood ready to invade our Property Heresies and Schismes to oppresse Religion Blessed be God we are now brought into a better condition yea we are past the Equilibrium the Beame beginning to break on the better side and our hopes to have the Mastery of our despaires God grant this twilight may prove Crepusculum matutinum fore running the rising of the SUN and increase of our happinesse XXVI Revenge with a witnesse FRederick * the second Emperour of Germany being at Piza in Italy and distressed for want of money to pay his Army sent for Petrus De Vineis an able man who formerly had been his Secretary but whose eyes