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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51609	Murther revealed, or, A voyce from the grave faithfully relating the deplorable death of Dr. John Hewit, late of St. Gregories London, with severall queries propounded to the consciences of his bloody tryers / by a true Englishman.	True Englishman.; Hewit, John, 1614-1658.	1659 (1659)	Wing M3087; ESTC R27118	16,669	18

MVRTHER REVEALED OR A Voyce from the Grave FAITHFULLY Relating the Deplorable DEATH OF Dr. John Hewit LATE OF St. GREGORIES LONDON WITH SEVERALL QUERIES PROPOUNDED To the Consciences OF HIS BLOODY TRYERS By a true ENGLISH-MAN LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1659. THE INTRODUCTION GOD who ruleth his whole Creation by the omnipotency of his owne will wisely appoints for every man his portion to some riches and honour to others health and to others sufferings and afflictions that so in every thing he may glorifie himselfe and be all in all which lead us unto him whose bitter portion puts a period instead of a comma to those still flowing lessons that flowed from him who living in the Church was beloved and now being dead is lamented by her and yet lives in many hearts in Caracters of sorrow and teares which sends sighs to his memory that so often remembred them to sigh that so they might flye from the wrath to come and not fear what he hath chearfully undergone even the wages of sin which is death but whether divine justice inflicted that on him for the sins of his soule he not deserving life or for the sins of the Age amongst whom he was too good is a controversy shall not finde a result in me for I shall wright impartially and it is God who will judge righteously The Substance of Dr. Hewit's Tryall DOctor John Hewit being apprehended for a Conspirator against the present Power and Authority was on Tuesday the first of June brought before the high Court of Justice to answer to an Inditement of high Treason then and there exhibited against him his Plea being demanded he moved the Court not to respect his ignorance but to excuse it least taking advantages by the niceties of the Laws they might bereave him of those benefits the Law allowed him or over-power his Innocency This was not denyed but his request reaching farther to desire to hear the Commission of the Court read which he alledged was reasonable and that he conceived it to be his just right to know the validity of that Authority by which they sat and whether according to Law they were Compitent Judges in his Case further urging that those being matters of Law he therefore desired to have the liberty to advise with Councel in these and other the like Cause which did highly concern him this being denyed he urged further that he conceived it to be his right as an English-man to be tryed by a Jury and the Judges of his Highnesse Corts to whom and to the common Law he did appeale but being could there could be no appeale from them to any Court except to a Parliament because no other Court is above them All those differences to the Judges of the Courts of Judicature or to his Highnesse Councel against that if they or any of them would give it under their hand that his Tryall was according to Law he would submit but that not being granted as tending to the dishonour of that Court to appeale to any other Court or Persons the Dr. declared how in his owne opinion he stood bound in conscience and duty not to submit to that power meaning the Court of whose Authority according to Law he was not convinced his not pleading being recorded upon his default he was taken from the Bar where on June the 2d. lie received his Sentence as a Traitor to be hanged drawne and quarter'd which he received without the least dejection of spirit His Carriage and Discourses in Prison A Friend of his a while after telling him he were glad to heare he received his Sentence without disturbance he replyes at that present I had this Meditation my Lord and Master were made to carry his Crosse and I the meanest of his Servants should be carryed to my Crosse The time drawing near of his death which was Saturday June the fifth the Sentence was altered his head being to be severed from his Body on Tower-Hill on Tuesday the eigh●h of the same Moneth The Lords day he implyed for the most part in earnest seeking God by prayer that so through those sorrows and teares he might purchase the fruition of joys and pleasures most glorious pure and perpetuall The rest of the day being the afternoon he past away in discourse with some friends who came to condole his condition who deported himselfe with that chearfullnesse that they nor he need to metigate sorrow and as the feare of death was not tedious to him to imbrase charity bids us conclude he did it to put on a better Life This afternoon too passages are observeable The first whil'st the Doctor was discourseing with some Friends a Woman got accidentally to his Chamber doore and in a seeming mallincollinesse drew neare him and laid her hat at his Feet saying I can never be at quiet when the godly are to suffer The next the Gard being releived he turned to them that were departing and with a chearfull deportment and humble carriage saith faire well my deare friends and in all this time seemed so little to be moved at his Imprisonment that as the walls confinde his body so meeknesse imprisoned his passions On munday morning his Lady came to visit him but with how little pleasure or content I leave it to them imagined who contemplatively can make her sorrow their one now she must not onely take her leave for a day but resolve to see him no more in the flesh and indeed to me it seemes impossible to distinguish which was the greatest weight of sorrow to her spirit that he must suffer an untimely death and be no more or that she must take her last farewell of him and so she have him dead to her whil'st alive but since providence compels them to part here Imagen for I cannot expresse their affectionate farewels with teares till they meet where joys are compleater perpetual This being past he makes it his only work to put of this and to prepare for a better life in which D. Wild added to his indeavours his pious assistance the day being spent Dr. Wilde left him not without the beames and light of a friends prayers and the dayes glory together but kept him company all that night thereby to make day in his soule thought it were night in the World Immediately after came Dr. Reynolds Mr. Carill Mr. Manton Mr. Bates and others with whose discourse they were so affected that that evening they took Coach on Lud-gate Hill and went down to white-Hall to beg his life of his Highnesse the Lord Protector but that were not granted His demeanour on the Scaffold ON Tuesday morning the time of execution drawing neigh they spent that part which gave them leisure to prepare for that great work to dye which time being come Dr. Wilde Dr. Warmitry and Deane Reves accompanyed him to the place of Execution and on the way they tell him he was goeing to solemnize a marriage wherein he must look death in the face