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A25378	The last speech of Col. Eusebius Andrews, sometimes a lawyer of Lincolns-Inne, at the time of his execution on the scaffold at Tower-hill, Thursday the 22 of August, 1650 with several questions propounded to him by Doctor Swadling, and his answer thereunto.	Andrews, Eusebius, d. 1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing A3117; ESTC R15663	5,132	10

THE LAST SPEECH OF Col. Eusebius Andrews SOMETIMES A Lawyer of LINCOLNS-INNE AT The time of his Execution on the Scaffold at Tower-hill Thursday the 22 of August 1650 WITH Several questions propounded to him by Doctor Swadling and his answer thereunto Licensed Entred and published according to Order LONDON Printed by JOHN CLOVVES 1650. THE LAST SPEECH OF Col. Eusebius Andrewes AS soon as he came upon the Scaffold kissing the block he said I hope there is no more but this block between me and Heaven and to the Leiutenant of the Tower he said I hope I shall neither tire in my way nor go out of it After he had been a good while upon the Scaffold turning to the rail he speaks to the people as followeth Christian Gentlemen and People Your business hither to day is to see a sad spectacle a man to be in a moment unman'd and cut off in the prime of his years taken from further opportunities of doing good either to himself his friends the Commonwealth or especially to GOD It seldom happens but upon very good cause And though truly if my general known course of life were but inquired into I may modestly say there is such a moral honesty upon it as some may be so sawey as to expostulate why this great judgement is fall'n upon me but know I am able to give them and my self an answer and out of this breast to give a better accompt of my Judgement and Execution then my Judgers themselves or you are able to give It is Gods wrath upon me for sins long unrepented of many judgements withstood and mercies slighted therefore God hath whipped me by his severe rod of correction that he might not loose me I pray joyn with me in prayer that it may not be a fruitless rod that when by this rod I have laid down my life by this staffe I may be comforted and received into glory I am very confident by what I have heard since my sentence there is more exception made against proceedings against me then I ever made My Tryers had a Law and the value of that Law is indisputable and for me to make a question of it I should but shame my self and my d●scretion In the strictness of that Law something is done by me that is applicable to some clause therein by which I stand condemnable the means where by I was brought under that interpretation of that which was not in my self intended maliciously being testimony given by persons whom I pit●y so false yet so positive that I cannot condemn my Judges for passing sentence against me according to legal justice for equity lieth higher breasts As for my accusers or rather betrayers I pitty and am sorry for them they have committed Judas his crime but I wish and pray for them Peters tears that by Peters repentance they may escape Judas his punishment and I wish other people so happy they may be taken up betimes before they have drunk more blood of Christian men possibly less deserving then my self It is true there have been several addresses made for mercy and I will put the obstruction of it upon nothing more then upon my own sin and seeing God sees it fit I having not glorified him in my life I might do it in my death which I am content to do I profess in the face of God particular malice to any one of the State or Parliament to do them a bodily injury I had none For the cause in which I had a great while waded I must needs say my engagement or continuance in it hath laid no scruple upon my Conscience it was on principles of Law the knowledge whereof I profess and on principalls of Religion my judgment satisfied and Conscience rectified that I have pursued those wayes for which I bless God I find no blackness upon my Conscience nor have I put it into the bead-roll of my sins I will not presume to deside controversies I desire God to honour himself in prospering that side that hath right with it and that you may enjoy peace and plenty when I shall enjoy peace and plenty beyond all you possess here in my conversation in the world I do not know where I have an enemy with cause or that there is such a person to whom I have a regret but if there by any whom I cannot recollect under the notion of Christian men I parden them as freely as if I had named them by name I freely forgive them being in free peace with all the world as I desire God for Christs sake to be at peace with me For the business of death it is a sad sentence in it self if men consult with flesh and blood But truly without boasting I say it or if I do bo●st I boast in the Lord I have not to this minute had one consultation with the flesh about the blow of the Axe or one thought of the Axe more then as my Passe-port to glory I take it for an honour and I owe thankfulness to those under whose power I am that they have sent me hither to a place however of punishment yet of some honour to die a death somewhat worthy of my blood answerable to my birth and qualification and this courtesie of theirs hath much helped towards the pacification of my mind I shall desire God that those Gentlemen in that sad beadrol to be tried by the High Court of Justice that they may find that really there that is nominall in the Act an High Court of Justice a Court of high Justice high in its righteousness though not in its severity no more clouded with the testimony of such as sell blood for profit Father forgive them and forgive me as I forgive them I desire you now that you would pray for me and not give over praying till the hour of death not till the minute of death for the hour is come already that as I have a very great load of sins so I may have the wings of your prayers to help those Angels that are to convey my soul to Heaven and I doubt not but I shall there see my Saviour my gallant Master the King of England another Mr. whom I much honoured my Lord Capel hoping this day to see Christ in the presence of the Father the King in the presence of him my Lord Capel in the presence of them all and my self there to rejoyce with all other Saints and Angels for evermore Dr. Swadling he being upon the Scaffold spake as followeth unto the Collonel You have this morning in the prsence of a few given some accompt of your Religion and under general notions or words have given an accompt of your faith charity and repentance To those on the scaffold If you please to hear the same questions asked here you shall that it may be a general testimony to you all that he died in the favour of God To the Colonel Now Sir I begin to deal with you do you