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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47895	Notes upon Stephen College grounded principally upon his own declarations and confessions, and freely submitted to publique censure / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing L1281; ESTC R7200	31,704	54

other than what he Pretended to be and it comes all to a Case as to the Truth of his Profession whether ye take him the One way or the Other There may be Another Note upon it which is that he would give to understand by This Profession that he had always Liv'd and that now he Dy'd the same sort of Protestant which is a Point-Blank-Contradiction to that which now follows Upon the Sheriffs Desiring him for the satisfaction of the World to declare what Church he meant whether Presbyterian or Independent or the Church of England or what His answer was Good Mr. Sheriff for your satisfaction for Twenty years and above I was under the Presbyterian Ministry till His Majesties Restauration Then I was Conformable to the Church of England when that was Restor'd and so continu'd till such time as I saw Persecution upon the Dissenting People and undue things done in their Meeting-Places Then I went among them to know what kind of People those were and I take God to Witness since that time I have used their Meetings viz. the Presbyterians others very seldom and the Church of England Last Speech By this it appears that College was a Presbyterian before the Late Rebellion as well as quite thorough it He saies nothing what brought him over to the Church of England at last but that it was the Persecution of the Dissenters that carried him off again And yet he told us but just before that he was of That Reformation which was Freest from Superstition and Idolatry though there was nothing of that we see in this Pretended Cause of his Relapse The Remainder of this Paragraph is Mysterious and Perplext and there is too much Reason to fear that it was Intricated on purpose that he might be Vnderstood one way and Mean another But however if there be any thing to be made out of it at all it is that he dy'd of the Presbyterian Persuasion I would not force any thing to Discredit the words of a Dying man but if any man can reconcile this Passage either to it self or with several other Expressions of his in Prison some two or three days before his death they will do him a Kind and a Charitable Office for I must confess I cannot bring them to any sort of Consistence A matter of two or three days before his Execution two Divines of eminent Piety and Worth gave the Prisoner a Visit and among other Discourses suitable to his Condition and the occasion It was ask'd him Q. What Church are ye of A. Of the Church of England Q. As by Law Establish'd A. No I am not Q. How d' ye mean the Church of England then A Presbyterian A. No. Q. An Independent A. No. Q. An Anabaptist A. No. Q. A Quaker A. No. Q. Where 's that Church in Christendom then that you will own your self a Member of A. That 's to my self I will not tell ye And he gave at another time his Reason for 't If it were known saith he what Church I am of my faults would be laid upon my whole Church How does this agree now with his Profession at the Place of Execution Or where shall we find that Individuum Vagum of Colleges Protestant There were some Circumstances concerning my Lady Rochester of which hereafter and others grounded upon the Information of a Somerset-shire Gentleman that have prevail'd upon many People to take him for a Papist which Information runs thus That the Informant Lodging at the House of one P. a Victualler in Wich-street in Michaelmas Term 1677. there came into the Room where he was upon a Sunday in the Evening a certain Person who was called by the name of College and sitting down there enter'd into a discourse concerning the Lord of Rochester whereupon the Informant told College that he heard the Lady Rochester was turn'd Papist who thereupon demanded what he meant by a Papist to which he answer'd One that maintain'd the Tenents of the Church of Rome mentioning some of them as Purgatory Prayers to Saints c. whereupon the other undertook to defend the said Tenents and with great Vehemence told him that he would bring him Books the next day that should overthrow all Arguments to the contrary And told him farther that his name was Gollege and not College and that he had wrought for my Lord of Rochester at Eumore But the Informant never saw him before nor since only his Landlord told him that he was a Joyner and liv'd at the back-side of his House Colleges Answer to this Point was that he believ'd this might be his Brother who was a Ioyner by Trade and dy'd a Papist in October 1678. He wrote his name Gollege Lodg'd near Wich street and as he conceiv'd had done work for my Lord Rochester at Eumore which seems to have been the ground of that mistake Beside that College had several times Confess'd that he had strong and frequent Impulses on his spirit against Popery Insomuch that if he did but see any book in defence of it he would prefently set all his work aside to get it answer'd declaring himself also against it at the place of Execution in these words I do with all my soul and did ever since I knew what Religion was Abhor and Detest the Church of Rome as Pernicious and Destructive of Humane Society I shall leave it now to the Readers choice whether a Papist or not Although for my part I am strongly persuaded of the Negative but what kind of Protestant to make of him we are yet to seek We shall see next how he stood affected to the Church of England but so as to separate his Opinions from his Practices which are reserv'd for another place He received his Sentence Aug. 18. and Suffer'd upon the 31. In this Interim the Bishop of Oxford provided all that was possible for his Relief and Consolation with infinite Compassion and Honour appointing several eminent Pious and Learned Divines to Administer unto him in his Distress The Reverend Dr. Marshal went to him first who being call'd away by bus'ness Dr. Hall supply'd his place from whose hand he receiv'd the Blessed Sacrament soon after his Sentence but his Devotion-duties were still distracted with some interjected Excursions of his own and he was heard to say that as he did not disdain the Prayers of the Church so he did not delight in such Prayers neither could he joyn heartily with those that did not pray by the Spirit It was observed by one of these Reverend Gentlemen that assisted him that when he came to the Prayers for the King Queen and the Bishops instead of Amen he said Lord have mercy upon them though he joyn'd in an Amen to all the rest Two days before his Execution one of them desir'd him to prepare himself for the Holy Eucharist to whom he return'd this Answer It is no more than a Shell and Form of your own making as if I eat a piece of Bread and