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A30964	The speeches and prayers of John Barkstead, John Okey, and Miles Corbet together with severa[l] passages at the time of their execution at Tyiburn [sic], the nineteenth of April, 1662, with some due and sober animadversions of the said speeches.; Selections. 1662	Barkstead, John, d. 1662.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.; Okey, John, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B816; ESTC R305	18,945	39

for my unworthy walking for my not being more zealous for God and his People and for many other Iniquities for which I desire to adjudge my self and acquit the Lord. I thank God I have peace within through the riches of his Grace that hath dyed for me applying himself to the Sheriffs you see we have had many troubles and much blood hath been shed and there was a vacancy as to a Single Person a great while how it then was time shewed The Nation earnestly desired him who now Raignes which I wish with my Soul may raigne gloriously for ever And now the Nation hath that mercy so greatly desired I wish they may make a right improvement of it and walk in some measure answerable to so great a Mercy I would beg this as the last boon of a dying man that as they have received a mercy so exceeding great they would walk worthy of it by a fruitful improvement and for you Gentlemen turning to the Life Guard and others I beg that you would Pray more and Swear less were you beyond Sea as I lately have been and saw and heard what report England hath notwithstanding they have received the mercy they so much longed for it would make your hair stand on end and your Hearts to tremble to think what would be the issue if it be true that Prophaneness is grown to such a height as I hear it is this Nation cannot stand three years to an end I desire it may flourish an hundred fold more then ever it did As England hath had more Glory and Honour than any other Nation so I desire that Peace and Plenty may abound that every man may studie in his place to fear God and Honour the King and to walk in some measure answerable to those mercies they now enjoy that having the mercy they so much desired every man may walk worthy of the Gospel that Righteousness and Peace may flourish in the midst of them I would not offend you therefore I shall forbear to say what otherwise I would For the Indictment I would have abhorred it if there had not been a face of Authority I have Peace as to that and to all other my sins through the rich Grace of God The cause we took up the sword for was for Righteousness Justice and Equity I am afraid the blood that hath been shed hath not those returns for which the War was begun I leave this to all my Bretheren that they would wait in their places and see the Salvation of God rather then deliver themselves by any indirect means If his Majesty had given me my life or had I come in with the rest of the Members I would have lived quietly and rather suffered then done any thing against the known Law I would rather have suffered then taken indirect waies If it may stand for Gods Glory He will deliver his People The way to be delivered is to waite and see the Salvation of God I declare this I am for Magistracy and Ministry notwithstanding it hath been reported otherwise I shall conclude all with this that it is my hearty desire that Justice and Judgment may run through our Streets as a mighty stream and that God would scatter them that delight in war Miles Corbet I hope I shall not speak any thing that may give any just offence one standing by said speak a loud the Prisoner replied would God I could We are now dying men and I declare in the presence of the great God to whome we are now going that I desire to speak without feate as touching that that we are come to suffer for both in levying the Warr and that particularly for which we suffer Had it not been done by Authority it had been abominable The Authority it was done by was the Parliament I desire not to dispute that Authority seing it may give offence yet the Nation was governed by it other Nations owned it the word is upon my heart men may judge and they may make it no Law God is our judge and he will judge this Cause and our case God is a Law-maker he is our King and he will save us he will judge the Cause of his people and I hope the minds of sober men will wait for that day Then applying himself to the Sheriffs Mr. Sheriffs concerning that which was layed upon us that we are against Magistracy and Ministery I desire to declare it to be our judgements that we are for both I desire his Majesty that now is as he rules from God may rule for God be a countenancer of those that do well and a discountenancer of those that do ill countenance the true Religion the professors of it there have Sects and Heresies risen in our days but God hath appeared against them much light hath broken forth in this Nation and doth break forth Religi-is more profest here then in any other Nation besides My desire and prayer is that the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may have a free course in this Nation and may be glorified by the lives of men For the particular way that I have walked in and which I declare in my judgement and believe in my Conscience to be the nearest to the word of God is the Congregational way VVe are taking our leaves of you we shall see your faces no more I begg upon the knees of my soul that as you profess Religion you would walk worthy of the same profession VVhen I hear of that profaneness that doth abound I tremble to think what will become of England The Lord stop the progress of Popery and Superstition that we may love the Gospel and the true professors thereof more and more that God may love us and we one another more For my own part if there were any here whom I knew I had wronged I would aske them pardon if I knew them I have been in all the Parliaments in the late Kings Reigne being called thither I thought it my Duty to Act for God and my Country according to my Conscience VVhen I was first called to serve in Parliament I had an Estate I spent it in the service of the Parliament For this for which we are to Dye I was no contriver of it when the business was motioned I spoke against it but being past in Parliament I thought it my Duty to obey I never did sit in that which was called the High Court of Justice but once I do not come hither to Justifie that neither would I speak that which may offend others I never bought any Kings or Bishops Lands I thought I had enough at least I was content with it that I might serve God and my Country was that I aimed at It is the honour of Protestants to be obedient to known Laws I have little to say more only as I came a long I observed the tongues of some to be against me I pray God forgive them Others exprest their Love to my Soul

Col. Okey said in Scripture language Whose Asse or Oxe have I taken But he reckoned without his Host whom hath not he by assisting the Rebellion plundered and undone So far are they from making amends or acknowledging their publique injustice in spoyles and rapines of his Majesties good Subjects that they expostulate even concerning private injuries Such as devour Widows Houses and make long Prayers But let the Vae passe One thing also is very observable they agree almost to a word in speeches and prayer as to the sense and dye of the Congregational perswasion yet before this time at Constant and irreconcileable feud each of the 3. to other like Pilate and Herod they will joyn and unite in this Crime against the King though severed all along before and persevere unanimous in that In sum Posterity will never believe men could die at this rate who have seen and occasioned so much misery to this Nation by that onely fatal Treason against the Kings Life if any Machiavel of them can ascribe any other Cause for our late Confusions somewhat might be said in the behalf of this obstinacie but when they themselves confesse the ill consequences thereof and the effect best shews the Cause and yet slubber over and hide their iniquity what shall any rational man think of the estate of these men but leaving that to the supreme Judgment let us Consider what they have said a little neerer and we shall find the Imposture It is an unwelcome undertaking to any man to dispute with Dead mens words because it approaches the vanity of fighting with shadows and from whence no result or agreement can be expected or satisfaction given or received and besides it may be an imputation of in humanity But because in these fore-going Papers there is nothing new and nothing more to be looked from of any of those people for it is evident they are agreed in their Opinions at their Execution as they were at the Sentence of his Majesty This was thought not only requisite nor uncharitable to the memory of these men but a bounden duty to the Justice of the Laws as well as to the Divine Vengeance who signally triumphs in these mens ends to shew to the world the most parrallel Example of Achitophel in that the Counsells of these men against the King and for their own safety like their words here following are of no faith security or credit Some Due and Sober ANIMADVERSIONS ON THESE SPEECHES IT is not the meaning of this Postill or observations of these persons Speeches to make dirt of their dust by aspersing them or laying to their charge any more then what their own Confession hath implicitely declared but to solve those riddles and ambiguity of Expression which is used throughout these dying and their funeral Orations Whether it be the fate of these men as it was of those of Babel to be confounded in their language as they here ta their Death which will be evident by the ensuing Notes or to be divided in their minds as before the King 's most miraculous Restitution was most apparent or to be joyned together in their end persisting in the same hardnesse of heart and strange scelerate combination of not expressely acknowledging their guilt concerning the King let the Reader judge by what hath already passed in their History of Life and Death and what is added thereunto in the death of these men For just as the war began with a riddle so in these Boūtefe us and great abbettors of it doth it expire Nay the very doubtful Oracle of the Times for King and Parliment is here brought into credit again and according to that equivocation the whole drift of their Speeches is guided that Satan may shew and assert the Scripture to his advandage that Rebellion is worse than witchcraft Not any person of those Regicides hath yet come to the point when the whole world hath proclaimed it the greatest villany in the world nay when themselves especially these had here by circumlocution and about-ways said as much witness that of Corbats It is the Honour of Protestants to be obedient to the known Laws as amounts to it But either through the extreme wickedness and impiet● of the fact of which for their pre●en●ed S●●ctit● they must not acknowl●●ge themselves as ●f themselves guilty as Hypocrime is one of the Devil 's longest possessions or else out of infatuation and just judgement of God upon them that as they have so desperately and wilfully sinned they should as foolishly persist in it it so happens that none have given that Glory to God and justice to the world as to acknowledge any thing in that heinous matter save their pretended ignorance and that too by way of excuse to men who are subject to frailty and therefore with whom it may pass for a plea but not to the avenger of blood whom they have thought to illude with the same defence If this appears not to all men from the precedent and this late Execution of the same Complices in that Guilt more particularly in this last the Animadvertor thinks that the crime hath a Curse upon it like that of Cains to wander still in uncertainty to be a reprobate flagitiousness which yet none must or can wound or strike though still it be as odious as ever For herein in these Speeches as first of Colonel Okey we shall find words able to Condemn a Parliament partaker but for the very first years guilt of the War they are these I leave this to all my Brethren that they would wait in their places and see the Salvation of God rather than deliver themselves by any indirect means If his Majesty had given me my life or had I come in with the rest of the members I would have lived quietly and rather suffered any thing then done any thing against the known LAW I would have rather have suffered then taken any indirect ways Will not the world wonder to hear such words If these Speeches should be Printed in Forraign Countries they would never be able to distinguish or understand the meaning The known Law of England is not like their Good Old Cause that varied every day and was tuned by I know not what instruments Every man knew his Duty and Station by that and nothing but Poverty and Pride instructed men to forsake them Out of his own mouth this is enough where the Law is quoted to as much benefit to him and his Party as the Devil once did the Scripture That they agree in this mistaken though well applyed point I will not here cite all Colonel Okey's passages to this matter but reserve them till anon See Master Corbet Many Sects and Heresies have risen in our days and God hath appeared against them I desire his Majesty that now rules as he rules from God so he may rule for God When the business the King's Murder was mentioned I spake against it What Contradictions are here He appears to