Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	believe_v	confess_v	word_n	2,673	5	4.4820	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39910	A discourse concerning God's judgements resolving many weighty questions and cases relating to them. Preached (for the substance of it) at Old Swinford in Worcester-shire: and now publish'd to accompany the annexed narrative, concerning the man whose hands and legs lately rotted off: in the neighbouring parish of Kings-Swinford, in Staffordshire; penned by another author. / by Simon Ford ...	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.; Illingworth, James, d. 1693. A just narrative or account of the man whose hands and legs rotted off.	1678 (1678)	Wing F1484; ESTC R28411	53,261	98

from their Master a considerable quantity of Iron delivered it to a third person who promised to conceal it from their Master but being all brought before the Right Honorable the Lord Ward of Dudley-Castle upon examination severally they accused each other and confessed the whole By which means there was found concealed as Tho. Gibbons saith 26 pound of old Iron besides more that was wrought up new Waggon-Nails ends of Bars c. Upon their Confession the Lord Ward sent them to the House of Correction about October 14. 1675. But the other Apprentice being dangerously sick there and this John Duncalf pretending at least to be sick also they two were set at liberty the week foll●●●ng After which time this said John Duncalf 〈◊〉 to ☞ come again to his former service say●●● he would never set his feet in Kings-Swinford whilst he lived but offering and engaging to pay to his Master each other by which means this young man who was then full twenty years of age and at more liberty than formerly whilst an Apprentice gave himself up to licentious courses viz. as he confessed to me April 26.1677 to Idleness Stealing Lying Cursing Swearing Drunkenness and Vncleanness with Women Which last he said was not by committing actual Fornication or Adultery but in the thoughts of his heart and by lascivious words and gestures whereby he had endeavoured to tempt them to lewdness in divers places I must therefore here clear my self and him from an unjust rumour and report common as I am informed in the Country hereabouts which many people yet believe viz. That he confessed some things to me which he desired might be concealed whilst he lived as that he had committed a Rape upon a young person and afterward murdered her That he was guilty of Buggery or lying with Beasts c. I do therefore openly declare to all that these were groundless rumors or reports and I do assure them he never desired me to conceal any thing he said or confessed to me nor did he ever speak to me of any such things as these which some have reported and others believed But the faults above-mentioned seemed to lie as an heavy burden upon his Conscience when he judged Gods hand was severely chastizing him for them and all his other impieties among which his constant profaneness had not been the least in that although he could both read and write yet he had as he said to me a long time neglected all manner of Service and Worship of God as well on the Lords day as other days and that both in private and publick It is said he stole many things to supply his growing necessities which his idleness and intemperance brought upon him chiefly Bibles and the rather because they would soonest be bought by others About January the 6th 1676 7 coming to the house of Humphrey Babb living at the Grange-mill about three miles from Wolverhampton he begged of Margaret the said Humphrey's Wife Victuals and small drink The Woman having formerly known him and compassionating his present condition gave him freely such as she had but whilst she stooped to draw drink for him he stole her Bible as he confessed to her afterwards This Bible he sold for three shillings to a Maid of John Downings who lives near the Heath-Forge not far from the place where he stole it By which means not long after Humphrey Babb's Wife heard of her Bible demanded it of the Maid that bought it and making her some allowance toward what she paid for it received it again long before either of them saw him or heard what was become of him But this being noised in the Country thereabouts one Henry Evans told his Father Thomas Evans commonly called Painter who lives near Henly or Himley they both knew him what John Duncalf had done at which the said John Duncalf when he heard of it was very angry and gave out threatning words against the young man but being charged with it by them he did not only deny it with some fierceness but execrated and cursed himself wishing his hands might rot off if that were true as the said Thomas Evans testifies and John Bennet his Keeper saith he often heard him say to Gentlemen that visited him in his sickness that he did so curse himself upon that occasion to Thomas Evans And this he acknowledged of his own accord to me and many others several times when he seemed most serious and in earnest That he so cursed himself and that immediately upon the execration or cursing of himself he had an inward horror or trembling upon him a dread and fear of the Divine Majesty and Justice of God which fear and working of his Conscience continued more or less many days after When I asked him upon this ingenious acknowledgment why he did not confess his wickedness and endeavour that the Bible might be restored to the owner his answer was That the Devil and his own heart would not suffer him Yet this he acknowledged to me That within a few days after that execration his flesh began to look black at the wrists of his hands and so continued divers weeks before it did sensibly rot He went then and wrought with one Thomas Osborn a Joyner in Dudley and as Osborn saith continued with him about a fortnight Shrovetuesday being the last day as he well remembers and that it was the last work that ever he did which I cannot wonder at considering what this poor man said to me concerning himself in reference to that time viz. After I had cursed my self about the Bible I wrought with a Joyner at Dudley but at that time I had a fear and trembling upon me which frequently troubled me and made me have no great mind to work and so feeling my self weak and faint and fearing an Ague or Fever I went towards my acquaintance but in the way finding I was unable to go any further I laid my self down in a Barn at Parton-Hall as I remember belonging to Sir Walter Wroteseley and there continued two days and nights before I was found some say he said at other times from Tuesday night to Friday morning Being found he was kept at the charge of the Parish of Tettenhal in which Parton-Hall stands until the next monthly meeting of the Justices of the Peace who March 27. 1677. by examination finding Kings-Swinford to have been the last place of his settlement made an order he should be carried thither and maintained by that Parish There he was received March 28. and John Bennet appointed to take care of him first in a Barn belonging to the three Crowns an Inn standing on the Road between Wolverhampton and Kidderminster and after one fortnight removed by the Overseers for the Poor to the dwelling house of the said John Bennet his Keeper in Wall-Heath-side His flesh at first began to rise in great lumps or knots at the wrists of his hands and at his knees as his Keeper tells me and after a