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death_n	adam_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,026	5	11.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66511	The speeches of Cap. Walcot, Jo. Rouse, and Will. Hone. One Friday the 20th of July 1683	Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.; Hone, William, d. 1683.; Rouse, John, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing W284A; ESTC R219902	20,963	13

THE SPEECHES 〈◊〉 Cap. Walcot Jo. Rouse and Will. Hone. one Friday the 20 th of July 1683. ●Aptain Thomas Walcot being drawn to Tiburn in one Hurdle John Rouse and William Hone in another and there put into a Cart the Reverend Dr. Thomas Cartwright Dean 〈◊〉 ●…pon and one of His Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary with Mr. Smith the Ordinary 〈◊〉 ●…gate began to acquaint Captain Walcot That this was the last time he had to spend 〈…〉 World and therefore desired him to make a good use of it telling him that as death 〈◊〉 him Judgment will find him and earnestly exhorted him to make an ingenious Disco●…●nd Confession of what he knew touching the Conspiracy and Treasons of which he 〈…〉 found guilty and received sentence to die 〈◊〉 this Capt. Walcot replyed That he had some Papers in his Pocket of what he had ●…ed to say in writing because his memory was bad therefore he desired they might 〈◊〉 ●…ed out and he would read them 〈◊〉 Dr. Cartwright and the Ordinary spake to Hone and Rouse to the effect before ●…ioned earnestly desiring them to confess the whole of what they knew instancing 〈◊〉 places of Scripture to them as Joshuah's advice to Achan c. my Son confess and give 〈◊〉 to God whom you have dishonoured c. telling them they would have imbrewed 〈◊〉 ●ands in the blood of a merciful and good Prince who had often pardoned and gave 〈◊〉 Acts of Oblivion and indemnity to his Subjects and whose Reign hath preserved the ●…ty of the Protestant Religion amongst us That we cannot enjoy more than we do en●…●…th other good admonitions for them to make cleer discoveries of the truth of what 〈◊〉 knew Captain Walcot in the mean while was prepared to read his Speech 〈◊〉 Cartwright askt him if be could discover any more than he had done already 〈◊〉 I 've not in the general I told the King the thing was laid very deep There was a ●…eman with me last night I told him what I told the King and that was all I told 〈◊〉 I thought an Act of indulgence would be very necessary because he had a great many 〈◊〉 to take Judgment of I know not the particulars of the Design but the King hath the 〈◊〉 Howard Mr. west and others that know more than I. I was never in Councel 〈◊〉 them nor never with them above four five or half a dozen times ●…en looking upon his Paper he began his Speech as follows ●…is great concourse of people do not only come here to see me dye but also to hear 〈◊〉 I shall say and because I would not be reproached and thought to be an Atheist 〈◊〉 I am gone I have two or three words to speak for my Religion I do believe in ●…e persons and one God and I expect and hope to be saved by the Merites and Righ●…ness of his Son Christ Jesus without the hope of an advantage by any Merits or ●…teousness of my own and I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament 〈◊〉 the word of God that they were not written according to the will of Man but holy men of 〈◊〉 writ them as they were inspired by the holy Ghost ● beleive that these Scriptures ought to be the Rule of our Faith and the methode of our ●…hipping of God I beleive that as Christ is the head of his Church so he is their Law●… That it is not in the power of any Council or Conclave of Cardinals or power upon 〈◊〉 whatsoever to set up the Precepts and Traditions of men and to make them of equal ●…ty with the word of God I beleive it was not because the Jews rejected and Cru●…d Christ that he rejected them but because they rejected his Word which appears by 〈◊〉 Three thousand that God by one Sermon of Peters Converted they being pricked in their 〈◊〉 and touched in their Consciences cryed out Men and Brethren what shall we do and they were that day added to the Church It was certainly because the Jews rejected the Word and Gospel of Christ that the things were hid from their eyes which belonged to their peace It is a dreadful thing to reject the Word of God and it is a dreadful thing to live in a sinful course of life till God withdraws his Spirit from us For it is said it shall not always strive with man Death is the wages of sin I beleive had not Adam sinned he and we his posterity had not dyed Death is said to be the King of Terrors but it is only so to those that are terified with a terrifying Conscience that have the arrows of the Almighty sticking in them from convictions of great guilt and see no hopes of mercy have no assurance of Pardon but those that are Christs he takes away the terror and horror and sting of Death he enables them to say with Paul To me to live is Christ and to die is gain he enables not only to get unto Christ but into Christ and so they have Communion and Fellowship with the Father and the Son It is no hard matter to get the notions of the promises of the Gospel into our heads but unless the Lord is pleased to apply them to our hearts we cannot believe except We be in Christ as branches in the Vine we are not Christians indeed It was the case of poor Francis Spira he was certainly a knowing man but notwithstanding he had not ●aith to apply the promises Christ hath said that he that believes in him though he were dead yet shall he live and he that lives and believes in him shall never dye So if we be able to apply the promises by the Spirit of God we may have comfort through Faith but then Faith is the gift of God and Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and receiving it in the love of God I shall not be tedious Mr. Sheriff I shall be very short Mr. Sheriff take your own time Walcot As to the present occasion of my death I do neither blame the Judges nor the Jury nor the Kings Councel I only blame some men that in reality and in truth were deeper concerned and more engaged than I that came in as Witnesses against me who swore me out of my life to save their own and who for fear they should not do it effectually contrived that That I will appeal to you all whether there be a probability in it or not for they said that I made it a scruple of Conscience to have a hand in killing the King or to embrue my hands in his blood but was so generous as to undertake the Charging his Guards whilst others did it and to the end another might do it Truly I will appeal to all that know me whether they believe me so much an idiot that I should not understand it was the same thing to engage the Kings Guards whilst another killed him as to Kill him with my own hands But however by