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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77386	A Brief account of the behaviour, &c.	Axtel, Daniel, d. 1660.; Carew, John, d. 1660.; Cook, John, d. 1660.; Hacker, Francis, d. 1660.; Harrison, Thomas, 1609-1660.; Jones, John, d. 1660.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.; Scott, Thomas, d. 1660.; Scrope, Adrian, d. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4503A; ESTC R42468	26,747	41

Destruction of the Laws and Properties of Mankind therefore I shall speak a few Words unto that And if indeed we were such we were fit to be turned out of the World as some Men think they should do God good Service in sending such poor Creatures quickly from hence There is no such thing I desire to bear Witnesses to the true MAGISTRACY that MAGISTRACY that is in the Word of the Lord And that true Ministry which Ministry is a Ministry from the Anointing that doth bear Witness to the Lord Jesus and hath his Holy Spirit That Testimony I desire to bear and that Testimony I desire to stand faithful in with Integrity to the Lord Jesus as King of Saints and King of Nations And therefore it is I say to have a Magistracy as at the first and Counsellors as at the beginning Men fearing God and hating Covetousness and that Ministry as doth Preach the Everlasting Gospel Here Mr. Sheriff interrupted him saying 'T is desired that you spend the rest of your Time in preparing your self Another said You spend your self Sir in this Discourse Another said It Rains Then Mr. Carew said I will pray Mr. Carew his Prayer O Most Holy and most Glorious and Blessed God the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of all Glory the God of the Spirits of all Flesh unto thee unto thee doth my Soul desire to come through the New and Living Way even through Christ my Righteousness and in him and through him to he offered up by the Eternal Spirit a Living and Acceptable Sacrifice in which thy Soul delighteth O Lord thou knowest my Frame and thou knowest my Life and what a Passage this is and what a wonderful Thing it is to enter into Glory and what a wonderful Thing it is to stand before thee and to stand in thy Presence O Father Father let my Soul be filled with thy Joy and with Peace in Believing O let my Heart be in Heaven while my Body is here and O let me be joined unto the Lord through thine own Spirit before this Separation be O Lord thou only art able to take hold of my Heart and Spirit poor Creatures may speak Words to thee but Oh! It is thine own Power and it is thine own Spirit that must take hold of the Heart it is thine own Spirit that must carry through all and it hath been thy Spirit Blessed be thy Name that hath carried me through many Trials and many Temptations and many Difficulties that thy poor Worm hath met with in this Pilgrimage for many Years O Blessed be thy Name for all the Goodness and for all thy Grace and for all thy Presence that hath been with thy poor Creature far and near Oh! Blessed be thy Name that thou hast kept me in any Measure Faithful unto thee and made me willing to lay down my Life for thy Righteous Work and Cause O Lord Bless Bless thy poor People O Comfort them in this Day Pour out Sevenfold of thy Spirit for what thou dost take away in any of thy Servants for thy Holy Name 's sake O let the Cause and Kingdom of Christ be Dear and Precious in thy Sight and Live always Lord little do these poor Creatures know or these Nations know what a Controversie thou hast with them O that thou wouldest be pleased Graciously to spare this People spare thy People however And let them that love Zion and favour thy Righteous Cause be glad for Ever and Ever O now Father be Dear to me do thou receive my Spirits take me into thine own Glory take me into thine own Glory let me know it is my Portion let me know there is a Crown in the Hand of Christ prepared for my Soul O Blessed Lord thou hast honoured thy poor Creature and brought him hitherto O reward all the Labours of Love in any to him in Bonds or Death and give them a double Reward into their own Bosoms Reward it so to them and theirs Blessed be thy Name that thou hast brought thy poor one hither to suffer in thy Cause And O Lord let thy Spirit be poured forth upon the Nations until the whole Earth be filled with the Knowledge of thy Glory And that Christ Jesus may have all the Honour and Praise and Glory and Dominion for Ever and Ever Amen I am so exceeding Dry that my Tongue is ready to stick to my Mouth but I would fain speak a little more Oh Blessed be God! Oh! How many are the Refreshments I have had from the Presence of my God and Father sweet and secret Communion betwixt him and my Soul to Day And for that my Soul hath seen of his Riches and Kindness O that I might be more like Christ For I have been very unlike to Jesus Christ very unlike to my Father But I shall leave all that is unlike Christ behind and all his own Workmanship he will purifie and perfect through this Passage into Glory O my Dear Father receive my Soul O make this Passage sweet for now I am coming to thee Lord help Lord spirit me fill me with thy Spirit let me be ever with thee let me know what it is to have thee at my Right Hand that I may not be moved that in my Soul going out of the Flesh I may be let into the Presence of God and into the Arm of Jesus Christ Oh! That my Soul may be breathed forth into the Arms of God into the Bosom of Jesus Christ through the Anointing of the Spirit A Friend that stood by said It is expected you should speak something to the Matter of your Suffering the Under-Sheriff said 'T is not to be suffered What are you that you put on Men to speak What are you Sir Mr. Carew said Farewel my Dear Friends Farewel the Lord keep you Faithful The Friend said We part with you with much Joy in our Souls Mr. Carew said to the Executioner Stay a while I will speak one Word and then said very solemnly and with a Loud Voice Lord Jesus receive my Soul Lord Jesus into thy Arms I commend my Spirit and so fell asleep His Majesty was pleas'd upon Intercession of his Friends to give his Body to be Buried OBSERVATIONS THE Scene is no sooner prepared and Harison's Part acted but Carew enters a Man that suck'd in Treason with his First Milk one of the Main Props on which Fanatick Fury Built herself a Fantastick Fabrick one whose Name like that of Felton and Ravillack shall stand stigmatiz'd to Eternity for Treason Inhumane Treason against a Gracious Prince Magistracy and Ministry the Two Eyes of this Land which like Two Diamonds in the Crown give a Lustre to Majesty by a pretended Zeal were almost dazled and hourly threatned to be quite put out whilst Gain was his greatest Godliness 1. He impudently affirms that it was in the Fear of the Lord he Condemned the Lord's Vicegerent pretends at the First to be excused from being a Member

up to him upon the Ladder interrupted him upon which Mr. Scot said Prithee let me alone I have not done and then proceeded in Prayer as followeth That this very Condition to which he is now brought he acknowledgeth is the very Answer of his Prayer before his going out of England Thou knowest Lord he did many times in Prayers and Tears seek thy Bessed Majesty for Counsel and for Advice whether it was his Duty to stay and suffer or to shelter himself abroad and if it were thy Will to take more Honour to thy self by his Suffering than Living thou wouldst be pleased to remand him back again and bring him hither And he hath observed thy Providence checking of his Way and in preserving him all along until he came to this O Blessed Lord thy Poor Creature doth acknowledge that thy Ways to his Poor Soul have been of wonderful Grace and Mercy But Blessed be thy Glorious Name the Great God of Heaven and Earth he hath been pleased to bear him Witness to himself to Angels and to all that hear me this very Day thy Poor Servant that now stands to suffer had Joy and much Consolation from God and from his Cause more than ever he had before I say again to the Praise of the Free Grace of God I Bless his Name he hath engaged me in a Cause not to be repented of I say in a Cause not to be repented of Here the Sheriff interrupted him saying Is this your Prayer Mr. Scot Desiring him to forbear those kind of Expressions Others also told him that he contradicted himself and spoke Blasphemy Then Mr. Scot said I shall say no more but this the Lord I do acknowledge that this very Morning in the Dark Chamber I had very much of the Presence of God and from thence I take Consolation to my self that his Spirit is with me and that he hath Sealed unto my Soul the Decrees of Heaven at least perswaded my Soul that it will be well with me and that I am out of all Danger as to my Eternal Condition and that I shall Live and Reign with him there where all my Sin shall be done away which is the Growing Glory of my Soul and all Tears wip'd away also O Lord remember the Price of Blood that hath been shed for the purchasing of the Civil and Christian Liberties And remember thy Enemies that are not Incorrigible Enemies to thy Truth and Holiness and give them Vnderstanding to see their Error and to turn to thee a Heart Broken and with Humiliation that they may seek God with their whole Heart that they may be a Holy or Immanual Nation a Chosen Generation a Peculiar People Zealous of Good Works Careful to shew forth the Virtue of him that hath called them from Death to Life The Lord call in all that belong to the Election of Grace speedily into that Number Let no Weapon formed against thy Church prosper but Lord remember Zion if it be thy Good Pleasure and repair the Walls of thy Jerusalem O Lord thy Cause lyes near the Hearts of thy People and I bear thee Witness that I have this Income from thee as the Return of their Prayers And that we are supported to bear Witness for thee very Cheerfully and with Satisfaction I desire to be found of thee in Jesus Christ I do now abhor all my Sins and renounce my Services and do account them all as Dung Lord thou knowest I have desired to live that I might serve thee better and love thee more But that I may be with thy self Oh it is infinitely better and to confirm that Testimony which is concerning thy Glorious Will And thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven by me and all thine from henceforth and for evermore Amen Observations on Mr. Scot MEN whose Damnable Actions whilst living never merited from Good Men the smallest Credit being now to be made Sacrifices to Publick Vengeance see how Saint-like they present themselves on the Stage This Man enter'd for a Black Saint in the Calender of Cruelty Something as to Mr. Gregory Clements take as followeth PErhaps some may think it strange that there is so little said as to Mr. Gregory Clement who suffered with the rest therefore this only is to be said more which is known to many that Mr. Clement was very silent both in the Time of his Imprisonment at Newgate and at the Time and Place of his Execution at Charing-Cross only thus it is said that he exprest his Trouble to some Friends in the Prison for yielding so far to the Importunity of his Relations as to plead guilty to the Indictment And though he spoke little at the Place of Execution yet so far as could be judged by some discerning Persons that was near him he departed this Life in Peace The same Day Mr. Ad. Scroop and Mr. John Jones suffered together at the same Place Collonel Scroop's Speech at Execution October 17 1660. YOU see an Object here that hath been in a better Place but howsoever the Lord Jesus Christ hath sent me to this Place I should Die I have no Animosity nor Malice against any Man nor ever had I neither have I any Evil Will to those that brought me hither nor to the Jury that found me Guilty nor Judges that passed Sentence nor to him through whose Means I was brought here to suffer I say once more the Lord forgive him I shall not Name him for I come not hither to reflect upon any Man's Person I will not tell you what my Breeding hath been because it is not good for any Man especially at such a time as this to boast of his Lineage or Breeding but this I shall say that I was Born and Bred a Gentleman As for my Carriage it may be some that look upon me here knows what it hath been Howsoever the Lord knows all and the Lord God is Judge of all and he will judge I shall submit my self to his Judgment which is a Righteous Judgment The Judgment of Men may go Wrong but God's Judgment is Right I shall submit to his Way The Lord he is the Rock of Ages and my Support under this great Weight that is now upon me I look up to him alone the Lord Jesus Christ is my Saviour and my Redeemer I am going into his Arms Blessed be his Name I follow him he is gone before me the same Way therefore it is no Reproach or Shame to follow the Lord Jesus Christ to Die in his Cause for that is it which I judge I am now going to do That which I do desire of you here are a great many Spectators both on the Right Hand and on the Left is that this Day may represent to you the General Day of the Judgment of Christ where you must appear and there every Man must receive according to their Works And at that time it will be known I say at that time it will be known and seen whose

A Brief Account OF THE BEHAVIOUR c. BY a Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of the King's Pretended Judges began at the Old Bailey Octob. 10th 1660 the aforesaid Persons with many others were Sentenc'd to Death of which Tho. Harrison or Major-General Harrison was the First that was Executed which was on Saturday the 13th of October following According to his Sentence he was drawn on a Hurdle from Newgate to Charing-cross where within certain Rales made on Purpose a Gibbet was erected When he came to the sight of the Gallows he was transported with Joy and his Servant asked him how he did He answered Never better in my Life His Servant told him Sir there is a Crown of Glory ready for you O yes Said he I see it When he was taken off the Sledge the Hangman desired him to forgive him I do forgive thee said he with all my Heart as it is a Sin against me and told him he wisht him all Happiness and further said Alas poor Man Thou dost it ignorantly the Lord grant that this Sin may not be laid to thy Charge and putting his Hand into his Pocket gave him all the Money he had and so parting with his Servant hugging of him in his Arms went up the Ladder with an undaunted Countenance Major-Gen Harrison's Speech upon the Ladder Gentlemen I Did not expect to have spoken a Word to you at this Time but seeing there is Silence commanded I will speak something of the Work God hath in Hand in our Days Many of you have been Witnesses of the Finger of God that hath been seen among us of late Years in the Deliverance of his People from their Oppressors and in bringing to Judgment those that were guilty of the Precious Blood of the Dear Servants of the Lord And how God did witness thereto by many wonderful and evident Testimonies as it were immediately from Heaven insomuch that many of our Enemies who were Persons of no mean Quality were forced to confess That God was with us and if God did but stand Neuter they should not value us and therefore seeing the Finger of God hath been pleading this Cause I shall not need to speak much to it In which Work I with others were engaged for the which I do from my Soul bless the Name of God who out of the exceeding Riches of his Grace accounted me worthy to be instrumental in so Glorious a Work and though I am wrongfully charged with Murder and Bloodshed yet I must tell you I have kept a good Conscience both towards God and towards Man I never had Malice against any Man neither did I act maliciously towards any Person but as I judged them to be Enemies to God and his People And the Lord is my Witness that I have done what I did out of the Sincerity of my Heart to the Lord I bless God I have no Guilt upon my Conscience but the Spirit of God beareth Witness that my Actions are acceptable to the Lord through Jesus Christ though I have been compassed about with manifold Infirmities Failings and Inperfections in my Holiest Duties but in this I have Comfort and Consolation that I have Peace with God and do see all my Sins washt away in the Blood of my Dear Saviour And I do declare as before the Lord that I would not be guilty Wittingly nor Willingly of the Blood of the meanest Son no not for Ten Thousand Worlds much less of the Blood of such as I am charged with I have again and again besought the Lord with Tears to make known his Will and Mind unto me concerning it and to this Day he hath rather confirmed me in the Justice of it and therefore I leave it to him and to him I commit my Ways but some that were Eminent in the Work did wickedly turn aside themselves and to set up their Nests on high which caused great Dishonour to the Name of God and the Profession they had made And the Lord knows I could have suffered more than this rather than have fallen in with them in that Iniquity though I was offered what I would if I would have joined with them my Aim in all my Proceedings was the Glory of God and the Good of his People and the Welfare of the whole Common-wealth The People observing him to tremble in his Hands and Legs he taking notice of it said Gentlemen By Reason of some Scoffing that I do hear I judge that some do think I am afraid to Die by the shaking I have in my Hands and Knees I tell you no but it is by Reason of much Blood I have lost in the Wars and many Wounds I have received in my Body which caused this Shaking and Weakness in my Nerves I have had it this Twelve Years I speak this to the Praise and Glory of God he hath carried me above the Fear of Death and I value not my Life because I go to my Father and am assured I shall take it up again Gentlemen Take notice that for being instrumental in that Cause and Interest of the Son of God which hath been pleaded amongst us and which God hath witnessed too by Appeals and wonderful Victories I am brought to this Place to suffer Death this Day and if I had Ten Thousand Lives I could freely and cheerfully lay them down all to Witness to this Matter Oh what am I poor Worm that I should be accounted Worthy to suffer any Thing for the Sake of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I have gone joyfully and willingly many a Time to lay down my Life upon the Account of Christ but never with so much Joy and Freedom as at this Time I do not lay down my Life by constraint but willingly for if I had been minded to have run away I might have had many Opportunities but being so clear in the Thing I durst not turn my Back nor step a Foot out of the Way by Reason I had been engaged in the Service of so Glorious and Great a God however Men presume to call it by hard Names yet I believe e'er it be long the Lord will make it known from Heaven that there was more of God in it than Men are now aware of All the Gods of the Nations are but Idols they have Eyes but see not and Mouths but speak not and cannot save those that trust in them But my God is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords before whom all you here and all Nations are but as the Drop of a Bucket And he will never leave those that truly trust in him unto whose Glory I shall surely go and shall sit on the Right Hand of Christ in Heaven it may be to judge those that have Vnjustly judged me Matth. 25. 33 34. 1 Cor. 6. 2. The Sheriff minding him of the shortness of Time if he had any Thing to say to the People he might He said I do desire as from my own Soul that they

following Words Col. Axtel's Speech at Tyburn October 12 1660. MR. Sheriff I am now as you see come to the Place of Execution according to my Sentence I desire your Leave that I may speak Freely and without Interruption first to this People and then to God for it is the last I shall speak in this World and I hope it will redound to your Account Mr. Sheriff's Reply Sir you know what the Court prohibited you to speak and what was spoken at the Bar of the Court was there desired therefore 't is needless to repeat it here I hope you will keep to the present Business that concerns you and not go out into Impertinencies and because you have but a little Time spend it to your best Advantage and the Good of the People and then you shall not be interrupted Or to the same Effect Col. Axtel begins I say the very Cause for which I have engaged is contained in this Book of God having the Bible in his Hand both in the Civil and Religious Rights of it which I leave to you giving the Book to Mr. Knowles You see a Dead Man Living and yet I hope I shall Live to all Eternity through the Mediation of Jesus Christ the Mediator of the Covenant of Free-Grace I must truly tell you that before these late Wars it pleased the Lord to call me by his Grace through the Work of the Ministry and afterwards keeping a Day of Humiliation in Fasting and Prayer with Mr. Symon Ash Mr. Love Mr. Woodcock and other Ministers in Laurence-Lane they did so clearly State the Cause of the Parliament that I was fully convinced in my own Conscience of the Justness of the War and thereupon engaged in the Parliament Service which as I did and do believe was the Cause of the Lord I ventred my Life freely for it and now Die for it Then Mr. Sheriff said to this Purpose Sir remember your self Col. Axtel proceeds and after the Work of the Lord was done in England my Lot cast me in the Service of Ireland and I thank the Lord I was serviceable to the English Nation in that Countrey and have discharged my Duty fully according to the Trust committed to me there As for the Fact for which I now suffer it is for Words only for Words and but for Words and the Sentence is already reversed in my own Conscience and it will be reversed by Jesus Christ by and by I pray God from the very Bottom of my Soul to forgive all that have had any Hand in my Death both Witnesses and Jury and the Court that passed Sentence for considering the Doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ as he hath laid it down Matth. 5. 44. It hath been said of Old Time Love your Neighbours and Hate your Enemies but I say unto you Love your Enemies and pray for them that hate and despitefully use you that you may be the Children of your Father which is in Heaven I desire according to this Doctrine from the Bottom of my Heart that God would give them true Repentance and not lay their Sin to their Charge nor my Blood which by God's Law and Man's I think could not justly have been brought here to suffer But I bless God I have some comfortable Assurance that I shall be imbraced in the Arms of Christ and have Cause to hope that his Spirit shall carry my Soul into the Father's Hands And if the Glory of this Sunshine be so great the Sun then shining Bright how much more is the Glory of the Son of God who is the Sun of Righteousness I think it convenient to give you some Account of my Faith I believe all Things written in the Old and New Testament in the Principles and Doctrine of a Believers Faith I believe the Blessed Ordinances of Christ that it is our Duty to hear the Word preached to seek unto God in Prayer and to perform Family Duties and to walk in the Communion of Saints and for my own Part I am a Member of a Congregation which I judge to be the Way of Christ and were it for that only I were to Die I could Witness to it which is a Company of Men Born again by his Grace that walk in the Ways of Christ Blameless and Harmeless I Believe Jesus Christ died for Poor Sinners of whom I am Chief as the Apostle Paul saith This is a faithful Saying and worthy of all Acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the World to save Sinners of whom I am Chief And if the Apostle might say so much more may I My Friends and Countreymen I have Reason to bewail my own unprofitable Life having been very unfruitful unto the People of the Lord the Lord knows I have much fault upon my Heart were it not for the Blood of Christ that cleanseth and washeth me according to his Promise saying I loved you and washed away your Sins in my own Blood for there is no Remission of Sins without the Blood of Christ I desire you all to loath and cast off Sin it were better to Suffer than to Sin it is better to Die than to Sin nothing could grieve our Saviour our but Sin and therefore have a Care of that You and I must meet one Day at the Bar of Christ and the Son of God shall be our Judge for God hath committed all Judgment to the Son That all Men should Honour the Son as they Honour the Father This Day is a resemblance of that Day therefore be serious Beg as much Good to your Immortal Souls as I expect to enjoy by and by I beseech you beg of God that he would save your Souls and omit no Opportunity through the Strength of the Lord to Believe and put your Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ be sure to Labour after Assurance of your Interest in him or else you will be of all Men most miserable for I of Men were most miserable if I had not believed To see the Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living Blessed be the Lord that brings me into this State let the Way or Means be what it will it is God's Sovereignty who made these Creatures to dispose of them how he pleaseth and God hath ordained this Death for me from all Eternity The Lord Christ often prayed Thy Will be done this is the Lord's Will He hath numbred my Days and my Times are in his Hand Many seek the Ruler's Favour but every ones Judgment is from the Lord When Pilate said unto Christ Knowest thou not that I have Power to Crucifie thee Christ answered him Thou couldst have no Power against me except it were given thee from above Therefore I acknowedge the Righteous Hand of God he is Righteous but I am Sinful Therefore will I bear God's Indignation because I have sinned against him It is said of Jesus Christ That for the Joy set before him he endured the Cross and despised the Shame and is set down at the