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A67695	The last discourse of the Right Honble the Lord Warestoune, as he delivered it upon the scafford at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, July 22. 1663. being immediately before his death Whereunto is added a short narration of his carriage during the time of his imprisonment, but more especially at his death: all which is very comfortable and refreshing to all those that take pleasure in the dust of Zion, and favour the stones of our Lord's broken-down building amongst us. By a Favourer of the Covenant and work of reformation.	Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord, 1611-1663.	1664 (1664)	Wing W984; ESTC R222558	17,646	20

The LAST DISCOURSE Of the Right Hon ble the Lord Warestoune As he delivered it upon the Scaffold at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh Iuly 22. 1663. being immediatly before his Death Whereunto is added a short Narration of his Carriage during the time of his Imprisonment but more especially at his Death All which is very comfortable and refreshing to all those that take pleasure in the dust of ZION and favour the Stones of our Lord 's broken-down Building amongst us By a Favourer of the Covenant and Work of Reformation Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no evil for thou art with me Psal. 23. 4. I say unto you my friends Be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do but I will forewarn you whom you shall fear Fear Him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell yea I say unto you Fear Him Luke 12. 4 5. c. And they stoned Stephen calling upon God Acts 7. 59. And devout men carried Stephen to his Burial and made great lamentation for him Acts 8. 2. Printed in the Year 1664. Here followeth a short Narration of the Lord VVareston's Carriage before and after the delivery of his last Discourse upon the Scaffold at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh Iuly 22. 1663. HIs Carriage all the time from his coming from London was most convincingly Christian full of tenderness of spirit and meekness towards all so that all who were in his company both in the Ship and at other times asserted they were never in the company of a more godly sincere fervent seeker of God and one that was most sensible of the least tenderness exercised towards himself Before he came out of the Ship he prayed for a blessing upon his Majesty and upon State and Kirk When landed at Leith he enquired for the Ministers of Edinburgh To which it was answered They are all silenced and put out of the Town Well said he their silence does preach and truly Mr. Douglas c. might have preached either before State or Kirk During the whole time of his Imprisonment the Lord keeped him in a most spiritual tender frame even to the conviction of some that hated him formerly The great thing he most desired was gracious through-bearing which he said was onely to be had through the supply of the Spirit and intercession of the Saints and the thing he most feared was fainting in the hour of tryal and for that cause did earnestly desire that prayer might be fervently put up to God for him which was indeed done in all parts of the Land which had its good success in God's own way When he received his Sentence he did receive it with exceeding great meekness to the admiration of all desiring the best blessings of Heaven to be upon his Majesty and upon State and Kirk whatever befel himself and that God would give his Majesty true and faithfull Counsellours c. The nearer he was to his death he was the more quieted in his mind which had been discomposed by Poison and the drawing of threescore ounces of blood the Physicians intending hereby to distract him or make him an ideot fool The night before his death he sleeped very sweetly and in the morning was very full of comfort uttering many sweet expressions as to his assurance of being cloathed with a long white Robe before night and of getting a new Song of the Lambs praise put in his mouth He dined very chearfully hoping to sup in Heaven and to drink the next cup fresh and new in his Father's Kingdom Thereafter he was alone till the time of his being brought forth As he was led from the Prison the streets being very full of people bemoaning that sad sight he cryed Your prayers your prayers As he was conveyed by the Cross to the Scaffold there was a great noise made by the Guards beating off the people and battering with their Partizens over his head which was somewhat terrible to Spectators yet not to him for the Lord kept him very composed so that he never did so much as once look about to them but walked forwards with them very peaceably as a Lamb led to the slaughter and coming chearfully to the North-side of the Scaffold spake to the people after this manner I entreat you be pleased to quiet your selves a little till this dying man deliver his last words among you Likewise he desired his Auditors not to be offended that he was necessitate to make some use of his Paper for the help of his memory which had been fully wasted with long sickness and the malice of Physicians who had taken threescore ounces of blood from him at one time and had given him bad Physick so called he the Poyson that was given to him thereafter Then did he begin this following Discourse which he delivered with very much undaunted courage audaucity and quiet of mind without the least appearance of distemper but as chearful as ever he had been at any time formerly when giving any publick Testimony to the Truth with which singular piece of honour the Lord had often dignified him The last SPEECH and TESTIMONY of the Right Honourable the Lord WARESTOUNE as he delivered it at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh Iuly 22. 1663. immediately before his Death RIght Honourable much honoured and beloved Auditors and Spectators That which I intended and prepared to have spoken at this time and in this condition immediately before my death if it should be so ordered that this should be my lot is not at present in my power being taken from me when apprehended but I hope the Lord shall preserve it to bear my Testimony more fully and clearly than now I can in this condition having my memory much destroyed through much sore and long sickness melancholy and the excessive drawing of my blood yet I bless the Lord that notwithstanding all these fore-mentioned distempers I am in any capacity to leave this weak and short Testimony 1. I desire in the first place to confess my sins so far as is proper to this place and case and to acknowledge God's Mercies and to express my repentance of the one and my faith of the other through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ our gracious Redeemer and Mediator I confess that my natural temper hath been hasty and passionate and that in my manner of going about and prosecuting of the best pieces of work and service to the Lord and to my Generation I have been subject to my excesses of heat and thereby to some precipitations which hath no doubt offended standers-by and lookers-on and exposed both me the work to their mistakes wherby the beauty of that Work hath been much obscured Neither have I in following the Lord's Work his Good Work been altogether free of self-seeking to the grief of my own conscience which hath made me oftentimes to cry out with the Apostle

of his slain Witnesses together with what our Lords slain Witnesses have asserted for the time to come concerning his reviving of his now languishing dying Work is very encouraging to exercise patience and not to faint while meeting with dark and tempestuous dispensations and first consider what our Lords first honourable slain Witness spake at his death viz. These times will be either times of great suffering or great sinning and they that will be free of sinning shall not escape suffering and they that will shun suffering shall not escape sinning there is a Dilemma in the matter sin or suffer And truly for my own part I may think it a mercy that I have been so hardly dealt with for if I had met with more favour as others have I might have sinned as others have done and as more will yet do if the Lord do not prevent And is not this sadly evidenced O what dreadful defection and apostatizing from the Truth since that day Have not many confirmed that Prophecy against themselves Psal. 2. 2 3. breaking the Lord's bonds and casting away his cords Have not many since that day notwithstanding the sealing of these Truths by the blood of his Witnesses declared that God's blessed Work was but a Rebellious Combination and this they have subscribed with their hands howbeit it was a precious mean of prospering the Father's pleasure in the hand of our Lord Jesus Christ and of his seeing the fruit of the sore travel of his soul to his great comfort Isa. 53. 10 11. If it had been but a combination of men could so many souls have been converted while it was on foot Nay blessed be our God he hath put it out of doubt among us by making his Son's Kingdom flourish more in its time than ever since the Apostles dayes Our Lord hath said Ioh. 5. The works that I do bear witness of me It 's dangerous calling the work of the holy Ghost a Combination of men and his operation upon souls the fruit of Rebellion it is the sin against the holy Ghost to say he casteth out Devils through Beelzebub Mat. 12.24 31. and calling the effects and fruits of Reformation the effects of an unlawful Combination comes near to this sin Now this work this blessed work is condemned and the Covenant that opened the door thereunto is abjured by many whereby they have renounced their share and interest in the Covenant and Work of Reformation and of what too-look they seemed to have unto the comforts attending or following upon the same which is a dreadful business for our Covenant is nothing else but a solemn express declaration of our being satisfied with the Covenant of Grace and that upon the conditions whereupon the Lord offers it unto us 2. our formal express national acceptation thereof upon these terms and 3. our promising and engaging by his grace to fulfill these conditions under the hazard of forfeiting and losing our interest in that Covenant and all its blessings priviledges and advantages And howbeit a chief and main Article in the Covenant of Grace by the Lord 's engaging to make us fulfill our part of that Covenant yet he never tenders mercy to us but upon condition of our taking and owning him for our God Head and Lord in Jesus Christ and that we will worship him according to his own appointment in his Word and if you compare our Covenant with the Duties God requires of his New-Testament Church ye shall find nothing whereunto we are obliged in it but that which God requires of us as the conditions upon which he is content to agree with us in the Covenant of Grace and therfore quaeritor which to me is no question whether to abjure the Covenant that binds us to fulfill the conditions of the Covenant of Grace be not indeed to abjure upon the matter the Covenant of Grace it self seing they say they will not fulfil the conditions thereof O horrid desperate work they have quitted their share of all the comforts attending this Covenant for time and eternity for this is no such breach as is committed through weakness ignorance c. this is a clear deliberate formal express up-giving with him and to make all sure they have given under their hands that they judge themselves obliged not to keep the same and have given him assurance that he needs expect no better at their hands hereafter for they declare they judge all such Promises and Engagements to serve him utterly unlawful and this is their last answer to him as the desperate result of all the pains he hath taken on them Now as this part of this honourable Witnesse's discourse is accomplished so I hope shall the rest in due time as to what he said for encouragement to the Lords People 2. Faithful Mr. Guthrie who had much of the Lord's mind in his lifetime gave very great ground of comfort to them that lament after the Lord he will yet again revive his Work in Britain and Ireland by the power of His Spirit for he hath not cast away his People c. and the Lord seemed to confirm this from Heaven 3. This blessed Witness gave also much ground of encouragement and it will be the more comfortable if we consider that he did it as a duty whereunto he was pressed in soul viz. to comfort the Lord's People in the assurance of his appearing for his Word his work his C●use his Covenant and that in such a way by such means and instruments with such antecedents concurrences and effects as shall wonderfully comfort his People c. see pag. 7. Now may not this threefold Witness together with the consideration of the Lord 's guiding the last ●ealing and Scaffold-discourses of his Witnesses encourage the Lord's People to exercise patience in waiting for him who will fulfill his Word for in Mount-Zion and in Ierusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said Ioel 2. 32. And here I cannot pass by an expression of this Witness in a Letter formerly mentioned pag. 12. viz. Shall we not account the taking and renewing of the Covenant in the years 1580 81 90 and again 1638 and then again 1643 and 48 as good as a threefold Proclamation of the Lords even so I take her even so I take her into an indissolvable Match and this threefold Proclamation is sealed by a threefold witness who confirmed and subscrived the same with their blood venturing upon death and eternity with all chearfulness and tranquility of soul owning and avowing the same and truly they were known to have more of God's mind and had nearer access unto him than all their opposers Certainly this must be a very good Cause that giveth so much quiet peace and joy to the owners thereof at death for they are ravished and transported with inexpressible joy that ever they were made instrumental for God in carrying on that Work and helped of him to suffer for the same And upon the other hand the work that 's now carried on in the Church must be very bad for the owners of it dare not own it at death but are discouraged when they cannot mend their folly some of them have cryed out on death-bed O do you think there may be mercy for abjuring the Covenant for ten thousand worlds I would not endure that one hour which I endure night and day if I could shun it c. they would gladly die in Covenant with God though they will not live so Good Lord keep all his People and me also from owning that cause in our life which we dare not own at death yea and which the very owners thereof would disown at death and no wonder for they dare not look God in the face The good Lord give repentance speedily to any of them he minds to save that they may come out of that dangerous desperate and soul-destroying condition wherein they cannot expect to be saved FINIS Let the Reader take notice that these faithful Witnesses very heartily prayed for the Kings Maiesty his succession pressing also Loyalty upon us who still have held that to be our duty according to the Covenant our Confession of Faith is a sufficient proof of the Covenant parties esteem of Monarchical Government Yea that in the person of our dread Sovereign as Gods Ordinance and may sufficiently clear them of all false Calumnies cast on them by the Prelates who have still laboured to make themselves great by begetting a misunderstanding betwixt his Majesty and his best subjects ERRATA Page 8. line 24 read unfriends P. 16. l. 7. r. Mr. George c. P. 15. l. 21 r. but what