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A63959 The Dying speeches, letters and prayers &c. of those eminent Protestants who suffered in the west of England (and elsewhere) under the cruel sentence of the late Lord Chancellour, then Lord Chief Justice Jefferys : with an account of their undaunted courage at the barr, and afterwards : with the most remarkable circumstances that attended their execution : never before published. 1689 (1689) Wing T3372A; Wing D2956_CANCELLED; ESTC R42261 33,759 40

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of Angels and the Spirits of Just men made perfect all fastned together with indissolvable and uninterrupted Chains of most pure Love and all continually wrapt up in and transported with the highest Admiration of Gods Love his infinite and incomprehensible excellencies and perfections singing Hallelujahs to him without ceasing and triumphing in his praise for ever and ever The Consideration also that I know so little of these sublime profound and divine misteries of the most glorious mystery of Salvation by Jesus Christ that I am so uncapable to fathom the depth of the Providences of God whose ways are in the Sea and whose paths are in the deep waters and whose footsteps are not known and particularly in the late stupendious and amazing one and that I am so ignorant of the Nature of Angels and Spirits with their Offices and Operations and of their high and glorious excellencies and that I am so little acquainted with the Nature of my own Soul as at present dwelling in and united to my Body and as disunited and separated from it how without corporeal Organs it shall most vivaciously and vigorously perform all its proper Functions and Offices and more than ever strongly and indefatigably serve the Lord Jesus most fervently and abundantly love him and delight in him every way much more obtain the supream and highest end of its Creation and being and this makes me much more willing to dye that I may have the knowledg hereof with innumerable other things that I am now either ignorant of or do but imperfectly know and so be made happy by a plenitude of fulness of enjoying intellectual Pleasures which are of all other most suitable sweet and satisfactory to immortal Souls And also I see that he that departs from Iniquity makes himself a prey and so many plunging themselves into the ways of Iniquity lest they should accounted odious and vile which makes them so much degenerate not only from Christianity but from Humanity it self as if they were scarce the excrement of either contemning even that most Noble Generous Heroick Spirit that dwelt in many Heathens who accounted it most honourable and glorious to contend for their Rights and Liberties yea to suffer Death and the worst of Deaths in Defence of the same and judge them accursed and most execrable in the World that do so and not only so but for their own profit and advantage have many of them inslaved their posterity by it and are most industrious and laborious most fierce and furious to destroy them whereby they are become as unnatural as Children that seek the ruine of their Parents that begot them and brought them forth or them that lay violent hands upon themselves dashing out their own Brains cutting their own Throats hanging and drawing themselves ripping up their own Bellies tearing out their own Bowels they being in diffirent sences Children and Members of that Body politick they design and attempt the Destruction of and when I know not how long the Duration and Continuance of these things shall be or a Conclusion or End by God shall be put thereto who by Divine and Unerring Wisdom governs the World why shall my Soul be unwilling to take it's flight into the unseen and eternal World where no sullied sordid or impious thing most incongruous and unbecoming Nature shall be seen and found and where I shall behold no narrow conclusive contracted Soul there habitually preferring their private before a publick good but all most unanimously and equally center in one common universal good and where the sighs and groans and cryes of the afflicted and persecuted shall be heard no more for ever I earnestly exhort all most highly to prize and value Time and diligently improve it for Eternity to be wise seriously and seasonably to consider of their latter End for by the Irrepealable and Irreversable Law of Heaven we must all dye yet we know not how where or when live with your Souls full of solicitude and care with a most deep concernedness and most diligent Industriousness whilst you have time and opportunity and the means of Grace Health and Strength make sure of these two great things viz. 1. What Merits for you a Right and Title to Eternal Life and Glory and the future unchangeable Blessedness as the Redeemers most precious Blood and Righteousness that thereby a real Application and Imputation may be unto you by sincere believing 2. That that which makes you qualified Subjects for it is the great work of Regeneration wrought in your Souls being renewed in the Spirit of your Minds the Divine Nature being imprest upon them repairing of the depraved Image of God in you that being transformed into his own likeness thereby in the World you may mind and savour more the things of the Spirit than the things of the Flesh Celestial and Heavenly more than Terrestial and Earthly Superiour more than Inferiour things And therewith have a Holy Life and Conversation conjoyned that results and springs from the same as Fruit from the Root and Acts from the Habits Let all in order thereto seriously consider these few Texts of sacred Scripture let them predominantly possess you let them be deeply and Indelibly Transcribed upon your Souls let them be assimulated thereunto and made the written Epistles the lively Pictures thereof Mat. 5. 8 20. Blessed be the pure in Heart for they shall see God. v. 20. For I say unto you except your Righoeousness exceed the Righteousness of Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven John 3. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10 11. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God c. Gal. 5. 19 20 to 23. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery c. Jam. 1. 18. Of his own Will hegat he us with the Word of Truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his Creatures 1 Pet. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant Mercy hath begotten us again to a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Vers. 13. Wherefore gird up the loyns of your Minds c. Colos. 3. 1 2. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things that are above set your affections on things above not c. Gal. 5. 24. And they that are Christs have Crucified the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts c. Eph. 2. 1. And you hath he quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins Rev. 20. 6. Blessed and Holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection on such the second Death hath no Power Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no Condemnation c. 1 Pet. 1. 15. But as he that hath called you is holy so be ye c. V. 23. Being born again not