our grief and endured our punishment it made his soul cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me or else we must for ever be banished out of the presence of God and never have any hopes of glory of faith or of salvation had not the Son of God become our Mediator and Surety so there is one God and one Mediator the Man Christ Jesus He gave himself a Ransom for all our sins to free us from the wrath to come everlasting destruction and from the worm that never dies O that we could ever be thankful to God live to him that hath so loved us as to send his Son to die for us and is by the almighty power of God raised from the dead and now sits at the right hand of God and ever lives to make intercession Truly friends this is not the love of man but the love of God and therefore eternal love God so loved the world it is Gods love he loved sinners ungodly ones he did so love them as to give his only begotten Son to save them to reconcile them to uphold them to redeem them from wrath to come it was to seek and save them that were lost That is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners We all like sheep had gone astray and must perish in our sins had not the Lord Jesus been sent of his Father out of his bosom to declare the good-will of God and did it by which we are sanctified through the offering up of the body of Jesus Christ and this Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God he is the Mediator between God and poor sinners Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden said Christ and I will give you rest now this grace is from God we are saved by grace and that not of our selves it is the gift of God through faith in Christ we are saved and all things that do pertain to life and godliness is the gift of God now all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses unto him Would you know the forgiveness of your sins your peace with God and that God is well pleased with you God is reconciled by Jesus Christ unto you and does not impute your sins unto you but looks on the righteousness of Christ as satisfaction that thereby you might have the remission of your sins through the blood of Christ Be it known unto all men that through this mans preaching the forgiveness of sins Act. 13.38 39. and by him all that do believe are justified from all things from which they could not be by the Law of Moses now justification from sin and redemption from iniquity is through the knowledge of Christs death for your sins and his resurrection and now there is no other name given under heaven whereby we can be saved but by the name of Jesus and whosoever believeth in his name shall not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 5.24 It is the doctrine of Jesus Christ it is his word and I hope you will search the Scriptures and look into those things for your souls good when Christ says Verily verily I say unto you He that heareth my words and believeth them he hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life The reason why God does assure poor sinners they shall not pass into everlasting condemnation and perish is through his rich grace through his promises for he hath promised he will be merciful to our iniquities and our sins will remember no more and these his promises of grace which are all Yea and Amen in Christ are ratified by the blood of Christ the blood of Christ is the blood of the New Covenant and it is that by which we have the forgiveness remission and cleansing of all our sins Vndersheriff Mr. Gibbs let me interrupt you this is very good and pertinent but you have said these things over and over there is another of your friends is to speak and the time grows short pray go on to the matter or conclude Gibbs I shall speak a word or two as to the knowledge of forgiveness of sins by and through Jesus Christ and so the knowledge of the Resurrection of the dead it is the fruit of Jesus Christ for by the first man came death and by the second man Christ came life and God that has by his exceeding great and mighty power raised up Jesus Christ from the grave and power of sin he also shall raise us up by the same power and when he comes again the second time at his appearing and coming we shall see him and be made like to him and he will receive us to himself he is gone to prepare a place for us and in his Fathers house are many Mansions and if it were not so he would have told us And now God that hath given eternal life and forgiveness of sins unto his poor servants he will also when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world receive him into his everlasting glory which is my Faith expectation and hope in God through Jesus Christ A man may bear his infirmities but a wounded Conscience who can bear When God smites who can bear and therefore I desire as I believe the forgiveness of all my sins through the rich grace of God through the bloodshed of Jesus Christ his Son every one must give account to God and as their works are so will their reward be either accepted by God as workers of Christ or condemned as workers of iniquity Last of all as to the separated Congregations to whom I belong I have observed in those few days that I have lived there is a great deal of animosity evil will hard censuring and abusing the precious Saints of Jesus Christ If they are in an error you that are in the truth instruct them and you may recover them out of the claws of the Devil Are you Christians and have the light of God in your Souls O then strengthen your Brethren do not give them nick-names and abuse them that 's not the way Christ teaches another lesson That if thine enemy hunger you shall feed them and if he be thirsty give him drink we should pray to the Lord that he would turn those that be out of his way into the right way Vndersheriff You know we must be all subject to Government every Congregation must not have a Ruler their Meetings are prohibited by good Authority and because they will not be obedient to good Government Gibbs I do not say that every Congregation must have a Ruler and I hope I speak the words of sobriety I hope you will put a charitable construction upon what I say As to the Magistrates I have a word or two Vndersheriff Speak well of them Gibbs Be not
greatness of the villany and mischief that was intended But the Fanatick perhaps may object the uncharitableness of charging the sins of a few persons upon a whole party To this I answer When thou sawedst a Thief thou consentedst unto him Nor was this the product of a few mens brains as anon it will appear But how does it appear will they say that these men here convicted were Fanaticks ' â—is true indeed the Religion of the individual persons cannot be so far made out as to point to the particular Sect and Opinion of each since most of them were silent at their deaths as to that and he of them that did speak tells us rather what he is not than what he is for the same reason possibly with a late Brother in the like circumstances at Oxford that the blame and odium of their Crimes might not fall upon their Party Yet thus far without doubt we may venture from their employments in the late Civil War their affections to the King Lawn sleeves and Circingle to conclude that men so uneasie-under and so soon weary of Monarchy so little satisfied with and so ill affected to Hierarchy had not their education in nor ever were Members of that which alone deserves the glorious Sirname of true Protestant the Church of England by Law establisht It is likewise pretty plain they were not Papists further than all Sectaries are indirectly so being all several issue of that common Mother It remains then that they must be Dissenters Dissenters indeed and as much divided in their Tenets from each other as they are all from the Church of England Dissenters ih every thing but their old malice and continued Plots against her in conspiring whose overthrow though no two of them agree among themselves they are all of a piece to this they can give unfeignedly assent and consent so very forward in this ther zeal that they always resolve of pulling down the one before ever they once consider of setting up any other This was a Plot indeed that shewed the Authors Masters in their Mystery a general Plot not a few hot-brain'd fools met together without Order or Discipline Friends or Money but a close and deep contrivance formed after long deliberation things well weighed and digested every man his particular Province assigned and every Sect not one excepted engaged â— all interests were agreed Fifth Monarchy men Anabaptists Independents Fighting Quakers and the Congregational Churches were consenting and the Presbyterian that first-born of Rebellion though not so visibly at the head as in other cases yet full as deep as any and if he craftily pulled in his horns in appearance 't was but to play the villain with more success Yet some good honest harmless well-meaning men may perhaps mistake this policy for honesty and imagine remorse of Conscience for former offences or a grateful remembrance of an Act of Oblivion occasioned it but for my part I have not Charity enough to believe that they can either repent indeed of old sins or forbear attempting new ones when occasion offers itself Naturam expellas fureâ licet usque recurret Can a Black be washt white or do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles They were not grown honester but wiser if cunning in mischief improved by long practice may deserve that name they yet remembred how in the late Rebellion they had born the heat and burthen of the day and how yet those that came in at the eleventh hour were made not equal but superiour to them they had been the first aggressors at a vast expence of Blood and Treasure when the Independent stept in tript up their heels reaped the fruit of their labours and even surfeited with the riches of their spoils their Blood had paid for their birthright not bought but forced from them and not a single mess left them to feed on Virgil's fate was theirs Hanc ego rempublicam feci tulit alter honores they were therefore now for playing an after-game and desired in their turn to be even with their younger brother by which means nothing venturing they had hopes of all to step into the Government if the Plot succeeded to slip out of the halter if it miscarried For your true Protestant Dissenter whose Province is Rebellion hates no Plot but that which miscarries prosperum scelus vocatur virtus and is as proud to own a successful villany as cunning to shift it when 't is not so So when lately God for unscrutable causes was pleased to prosper the Arms of Traytors against their lawful Sovereign how forward even to ambition were they of being esteemed the Patrons of that then glorious villany Keepers of the Liberties of England Godly reforming Saints and what else were they not but when in process of time by as many sudden and extraordinary revolutions as any Age or History can boast of his Majesty was restored and the godly and thorough Reformation was solemnly damn'd and declared a downright detestable Rebellion not a Saint had a hand in it then 't was a damn'd Popish Plot devised to discredit the Kings Protestant Subjects and every babe was taught to answer to so much of his Catechism That the Papists cut off the Kings Head an evasion poor even to ridiculousness That the Papists should raise and carry on a War against Popery for that was then as still it is the burthen of the Song But a sorry shift is better than none That relation of Dr. du Moulin of disguised Jesuits sent over by the French Cardinal which they urge so often in their own excuse does not at all shift the Scene an account that makes in my opinion much against them it proves them Fools as well as Knaves derogating much from their policy without the least addition to their honesty For if a Jesuit suitably habited may pass for a zealous holder-forth and that they look no farther then the outside of a man a starcht Band a brace of Caps a whining Tone some six Grymaces with as many Crocodile Tears are all the ingredients that go to the making up a painful Soul-saving Preacher For they try not the spirits that are amongst them digesting every thing with an implicite Faith know no more of a man than his habit and seem not to have read or altogether to have forgotten that a tree is known by its fruit and men by their works not habits that ravenous Wolves are then most dangerous when they appear in sheeps cloathing If then Dissenters may be thus imposed upon if where there is a Conventicle there will be a Jesuit that is a villain which may by no means be questioned it having the authority of a man whose Evidence has stood the Test of Three Parliaments and of which a fresh instance we have in the person of the Doctor if so it be and that the most pernicious matter in point of Doctrine may be disguized by the ridiculous but most affected manner of delivering it so
not reflect upon his Majesty or the present Government which they all promised not to do and thanked him for his civility and then Phillips began in manner following Friends and Country-men I Am come this day to pay that great debt that I owe to Nature it is a work that had need be well done for it is but once to be done My hope is now above and for what I now come to suffer for my own part I bless God in whose presence I now speak as a dying man I had not any murderous thought against the King but I have prayed for him and wished that he might Live and Reign and long Reign in Righteousness and that God would make his Crown a Crown of Righteousness upon his Head and bless him in his Government so that he may not know any of these occasions more For my part I have ventured my life for his Majesty it was far from my heart to do any thing of that nature The Lord receive my soul I freely forgive all men as I hope to be forgiven of God I never did act any thing but only this which was my ignorance of the Laws that I did not discover it And I was justly found guilty for not discovering I have done Mr. Sheriff but hope after my Brethren have spoken we may have liberty to call upon the Lord. Vnder-Sher It will not be denied you Then Mr. Tonge began in this manner Friends and Countrey-men YOu see me here a dying man I have sometimes been in some mens company where I have heard them contriving the business for which I am condemned to die and that which led me to joyn with them was this I was and had been sometimes in the Army and I have looked upon this Cause to be good As for his Majesty the Lord bless him and prosper him and put it into his heart that he may be a Nursing-Father indeed to this Country Vnder-Sher Have you any more to say you may speak Tonge I have nothing more And then Gibbs proceeded and said COuntry-men and Friends and I hope Christians and the last consideration is that that makes me the more free to speak to you we all profess to own God and Jesus Christ to be our Saviour our Redeemer our Sanctifier and giver of and bestower upon us Eternal Life this should excite our Souls to love one another and upon the account of Gods love that God has so loved us as to give Jesus Christ to reconcile us sinners to God we ought to love one another it is his great command Truly as to the Cause for which I am brought here God the great Judge of Heaven and Earth before whom I stand knows that in the place where I have lived I behaved my self as an obedient Subject and when there was an Insurrection by the Fifth-monarchy-men I went out in my own person though I had Servants as well as others purely out of affection to his Majesty knowing that in the peace of his Government I should have peace and so I went out hazarded my life and continued out till all was quiet I was at a Neighbours house drinking of a cup of Beer on Tuesday night in the Kitchin alone save only the man of the house and the maid these men came in one Hill and Riggs that are the witnesses against me there was Riggs and Hill and this Stubbs and one Beazely and I being alone in the Kitchin they asked for one Gibbs the people of the house told me there were some Gentlemen would speak with me I wished them to direct them to me and they came to me and through the ignorance of the Law which it seems runs thus If any words treasonable against his Majesty is spoken it is Treason to conceal it So thus I have given you in part the cause of my being here Hereupon information was given to the Kings Majesty that I should say there would be a Rising and that Alhallows-eve was the time that there were Arms sent into the Country and that Ludlow was to be General and this was charged upon me by the Kings Majesty when I came before him to be examined and upon Hills and Rigg's Oath I was sent to the Tower and kept a long time a Prisoner examined three or four times over by the Lords of his Majesties Council I have one word more as touching my Judgment I am reputed in the world to be one of those that is called by the name of Anabaptist a name of derision and scorn One is an Anabaptist one an Independant one a Presbyterian one this and one that and one the other who gave these nick-names to Christians There is but one God one Lord Jesus one Baptism one Hope of Glory How comes the Body of Christ or the Members of Christ to be called these nick-names But now as I am one that do profess Faith in God through the Lord Jesus Christ and do stand before you all and before the Lord I know no other God but the Eternal and Living God that hath made the World and that Rules and Reigns and disposes all his Creatures I do believe in this God he has been gracious to me a poor sinner and to all poor sinners that when we by reason of sin had forfeited our mercies and were under wrath and everlasting destruction and must perish for ever that God did out of his rich grace and tender mercies give his only begotten Son according to his promise to be the blessing of God to the poor Gentiles according as the Scripture did declare the Scripture forseeing that God would justifie the Heathens through Faith preached before the Gospel to Abraham saying In thee shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed he speaks not of the natural seed of Abraham but of Christ so that all the blessings that God did convey to the sinful world is by the means of Jesus Christ whom God in the fulness of time did send his Son born of a woman to redeem poor sinners under the Law and herein was the great grace and mercy of God towards all sinners that he was so gracious to send his beloved Son out of his own bosom to take our natures upon him who were defiled and cursed and condemned and separated from God I say Jesus Christ took our natures upon him and for this very end to do the will of his heavenly Father Lo it is written in the volume of thy book I come to do thy will O God and it was his meat and drink to do his will and what was that but that we might be sanctified through â—â—e offerâ— up of the body of Jesus Christ for our sins to tread the winepress of his Fathers wra and to endure the cross and bear all our sins in his own body that made his soul heavy unto death he was a surety for us and our sins and for our sakes the Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all and he hath born
in Christ reconciling himself unto the world not imputing their trespasses He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness oâ— God in him Blessed be thy Name that thou hast sent thy holy Child Jesus to be the propitiation not only for our sins but for the sins of the whole world He hath suffered the just for the unjust that he might bring us unto God O do thou therefore help thy poor servants before thee and all thy children Give us to see the removal of eternal death by the death of the Lord Jesus Let us see thee at peace with us and justifying of us through thy grace All have sinned and come short of thy glory but being justified through the redemption of Christ Jesus whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation for the sins of the whole world Thou hast promised that whosoever believeth in the Lord Jesus Christ thy grace thy mercy thy love shall not perish but have everlasting life and thou hast given to thy poor servant exceeding great and precious promises and by thy own spirit bringing home these promises given him to believe the Records thou hast given of thy Son which beareth witness that God is reconciled to him and well pleased with him in Christ Jesus and given him eternal life And seeing thou hast bid his soul in Jesus Christ when he shall appear then shall we appear with him in glory and be made like to our Lord Jesus Christ By the same power that thou raisest up Jesus Christ from the dead by the same power thou art able to subdue all things There is nothing impossible with God what ever thou hast promised shall be performed Heaven and Earth shall pass away but one title of thy word shall not fail And therefore blessed be thy Name that thou hast revealed these things to thy poor and unworthy Creature that thou art his God and Father that thou wilt never leave him nor forsake him and thou hast hid his life in Christ and wrote his name in the Book of the Lord Jesus Christ and he rejoyceth that he knows he is his who is the onely true God Knows thou art well pleased with him and justified him freely from all his sins accepted him in and through the Lord Jesus Christ O therefore dear Father do thou receive his soul according to thy promise that he may be thine and thou his God O blessed Father do thou be pleased to do good to all thy people And now dear Father take care of our families be thou a Husband to our yoke-fellows a Father to the Fatherless Do them good abundantly above what we are able to ask or think and what is wanting and lost by our removal do thou hand out to them thy mercy and grace and move the hearts of the children of men to do them good Be thou their God help them and provide for them Seal up thy loving kindness to them not only for this life but for the life to come Do good to our Magistrates thou who hast the hearts of all men make such as are about them men fearing God and hating covetousness that may judge for God that he may have glory O be pleased to let his Majesty Rule and Reign in righteousness let his Throne be established in Righteousness and reveal the choicest of thy blessings to His poor soul manifest Christ Jesus and him crucified to him and give Him to see the most precious blood of Christ cleansing him from all sins Bind up his soul in the bundle of everlasting life Crown Him with a Crown of Righteousness as well as with an earthly Crown Let him be a Nursing Father and Nursing Mother indeed to this Nation that He may hate the evil door and be a praise to them that do well Dâ— good to every one of us O help us that we may first seek the Kingdom of God First believe in God and then honour our King First fear God and serve him and then give to Cesar that which is Cesars Give unto the King that which is the Kings Give Him all obedience to live quietly in all godliness and honesty And now O Lord do thou take away that spirit of emulation and strife and malice From whence comes wars come they not from our lusts The Lord remove pride preiudice and malice from us and cause us to love one another The Lord teach every one in their places to walk continually to the glory and praise of God that we professing the name of Christians may be enabled to walk humbly and meekly to do good to walk uprightly and to love mercy and then certainly we may expect that blessing that God hath promised to them that believe in him which is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Mr. Stubb's Prayer PRecious and eternal Lord God in thy presence O Lord are we and in the presence of thy Son and of thy holy Angels and in the presence of the great multitude that now is beholding us poor objects poor worms poor dust and ashes and truly Lord we were not able to lift up our heads this day except thou didst come in by thy mighty Power O Lord â—elp us to see the Heavens opened this day and that the Arms of our Christ may be opened to receive our poor souls O Lord we are bidding farewel to the world 〈…〉 enjoyments 〈◊〉 to every thing and now Lord we are going home to thy dear and 〈…〉 forth our souls and enlarge our hearts after thee that we may be in pursuit of our God our souls long for the Lord as the Hart longs or pantâ— after the water brooke Lord appear in this hour this is a great Tryal that thy poor creatures are brought to Now come and smile upon thy poor worms O that thou wouldest communicate thy self unto us the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon our precious souls be a precious God to us and 〈…〉 Father thou hast not left poor souls in the dark in such an hour as this O that thou wouldst communicately thy self unto us we are now departing and dying good Father we pray thee that we may have the spiritual life communicated to 〈◊〉 Look in mercy upon every heart here in thy presence O that their souls may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ thou hast given Christ to dye for us whilst creatures here thy blood is able to wash and make me clean O there is no spot no dye but the blood of Jesus is able to take it away O Lord help us that we may dye in the love of Jesus Christ And good Lord we desire that thou wouldst look in mercy upon him that in the Officer Execution of those poor worms and as he is to wash his 〈◊〉 our blood O Lord wash his Soul in the blood of the Lamb of God Father thou knowest we desire the good of his â—oul we forgive him and we desire to forgive every one And dear Lord we desire thee to look upon the King communicate the riches of thy mercy unto his Majesty we desire his Soul may be saved thou hast the hearts of all Kings in thy hand draw forth his heart that he may love those things that pleaseth thee and love them that thou lovest let him be established in righteousness and let Justice and Judgment run down the streets of England â— a mighty stream We pray thee to 〈◊〉 forth our Souls to pray for every Relation beget love in all sorts of people thâ—â— they may live the life of love that when they depart this life they may enjoy the blessed Comforter the Lord Jesus Christ And dear Lord thou or 〈…〉 to give us a â—ast of thy love this day Lord thou hast given us a pardon blessed be thy Majesty for it thou hast given us a reprieve for our Souls we are delivered from death to life we hope when we depart this world we shall enjoy those blessed manâ—â—ons to all eternity And gracious Father we desire to bless thee for that civility we have had from those that have been Officers here Lord make it up to them and we desire to bless thee for it O the riches and the height of the grace of God and the love of Jesus Christ to poor sinners We may see that thou 〈◊〉 be pleased to look in mercy upon thâ—â— poor 〈◊〉 O that thou wouldst unite their hearts in love together O that there might not be any more 〈◊〉 or luâ—â—ed unite their hearts in love and obedience that they may fear God honour the King that they may desire in all righteousness and holiâ—est to do those things that are according to thy mind and will And gracious Father thou canst not abide Hypocrites the Lord cause Souls to love holiness and the power of godliness that they may not shrowd themselves under the profession when there is no reality Look in mercy upon all the Churches of Jesus Christ communicate thy mercy and love to them be pleased to be with 〈◊〉 this day and go along with us O that we may bless that with our Souls and all that is within us Be with us and do for us more than we are able to ask or think upon the account of Jesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased to whom be all praise and glory now and for ever Amen After which their Caps being severally pulled over their faces and after some private Ejaculations the Executioner caused the Cart to be drawn away and after they had hanged a while they were severally Headed and Quartered according to their Sentence and theâ—e Heads and Quarters conveyed in a Basket to Newgate to be disposed of at the Kings pleasure Which he was graciously pleased thus to dispose of Their several Quarters to be Buried which was accordingly done on Saturday-night December 27. Their Heads to be set on several Poles Two on the one Tower-Hill and two on the other as neer the Tower as may be FINIS