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A63192	The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt. at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2d. and 6th, 1662 together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment (had he not been interrupted and over-ruled by the court) and his bill of exceptions : with other occasional speeches, &c. : also his speech and prayer, &c. on the scaffold.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2216; ESTC R21850	115,834	133

Parliament he desired he might have Counsel assigned him to argue them before their Lordships Some of these points he instanced in to wit 1. Whether a Parliament were accountable to any inferiour Court 2. Whether the King being out of possession and the Power Regent in others Here they stopt him not suffering him to proceed nor admitting that the King was ever out of possession To which Sir Henry replied The words of his Indictment ran thus that he endeavoured to keep out his Majesty and how could he keep him out of the Realm if he were not out But when he saw they would over-rule him in all and were bent upon his Condemnation he put up his Papers appealing to the Righteous Judgment of God who he told them must judge them as well as him often expressing his satisfaction to die upon this Testimony which Keeling one of the King's Counsel insultingly answered So you may Sir in good time by the grace of God The same person had often before shewed a very snappish property towards the Prisoner and Sir Henry sometimes answered him according to his folly For when he would have had the Book out of the Prisoner's hand wherein was the Statute of Westminster 2d. 31. Sir Henry told him he had a very officious Memory and when he was of Counsel for him he would find him Books Whereby was verified what was said to be spoken by him at first in answer to one of his Brethren on the Arraignment day Though we know not what to say to him we know what to do with him After Sentence given Chief Justice Forster endeavoured to take off the King from any Obligation by that Grant to the Petition of both Houses saying That God though full of mercy yet intended his mercy only to the penitent Reasons for an Arrest of Judgment writ by the Prisoner but refused to be heard by the Court. I. I Have been denied so much as to hear the Indictment read in Latine as it is the Original Record of the Court yea so much as a Copy of it in English hath been denied me during the whole time of my Tryal by the fight whereof I might be able to assign the defects of Law that may be in it Counsel also hath been denied not only before I pleaded but after and all points by me offered in Law to the Judges of the Court have been over-ruled without admitting me Counsel to argue the same and better inform the Judgment of the Court I have demanded that I might put in a Bill of Exceptions upon the Statute of Westminst 2d. cap. 31. This likewise is denied me over-ruled and judged as out of that Statute Neither will Counsel be allowed me in this to shew cause why it ought to be admitted as of Right And as no Counsel was allowed so neither were the Judges Counsel to me as they said themselves they would and ought to be but rather suffered me to wrong and prejudice my self some of them saying Let him go on the worst will be his own at last And they neither checked nor restrained the King's Counsel in their high and irritating expressions to the Jury to find me guilty One of whom were seen to speak privately with the Foreman of the Jury immediately before the Jurors went from the Bar after he had spoken openly That the Prisoner was to be made a publick Sacrifice in reference to the Actions done against his Majesty that now is All this is very far from that Indifferency in Tryal and from that Equality which the Law requires and they are bound by their Oath to afford me besides the undue proceedings in the business of the Petty Jury A List of forty eight persons was presented to me who being to me unknown and no time allowed me to gain any knowledge of them though I was permitted to challenge and refuse three Juries without shewing cause yet could not that refusal be upon such rational grounds as the Law supposes which doubtless intends substantial relief to the Prisoner in allowing him the liberty of such refusal whereas through my ignorance of the persons I might refuse the best and chuse the worst as to my safety And then whereas the Law further allows me the refusal of any other beyond the thirty five on just and exceptionable cause shewen what just exception was I capable to alledge in a sudden hurry against persons to me altogether unknown unless it would be taken for a just one that they were unknown to me All these things being so contrary to the Right which the Judges stand obliged to do to every one as they are for that purpose entrusted by God and the King is just cause for an Arrest of Judgment and a good Reason why they should yet at length allow me a Copy of the Indictment and assign Counsel to argue for the Prisoner against the defects in Law that may be found therein Without this Law is denied me which is my Birthright and Inheritance the best Birthright the Subject hath sayes Cook on Mag. Charta for thereby sayes he his Goods Lands Wife Children his Body Life Honour and Estimation are protected from injury The Life Birthright or Inheritance we have from our parents may soon be gone if this Fence thereof be broken down How great a wrong then it is for the Court to withhold it from me is manifest Are they not therefore in effect chargeable with my Blood by such unequal Proceedings as I have had in my Tryal II. My second Reason for an Arrest of Judgment is drawn from the Issue that is joyned in my Case which seems to depend chiefly upon matter of Law and that in such tender and high points as are only determinable in the high Court of Parliament For it is become the question Whether I am guilty or not guilty according as these Propositions following are truly or erroneously resolved 1. Whether the Parliament that began Novemb. 3. 1640 were dissolved by the King's Death and whether this Court may judge things done in Parliament 2. Whether the Powers regnant and de facto that successively were in being from Jan. 30. 1648 to Decemb. 20 1659 were such Powers de facto as are the King or Seigneur le Roy within the purview of the Stat. 25. Ed. 3. having the exercise of Regal Power in all the particulars of it though not the name 3. Whether during that time fore-mentioned his Majesty that now is were properly King de facto or whether he were not out of possession and without all exercise of his Regal Authority within the Realm 4. Whether the Case now in question be a Treason literally within the words of the Statute 25. Ed. 3. or at most any other than an interpretative and new Treason not declared before the very time of my Tryal and that only by the Judgment of the Court or opinion of my Judges eleven years after some of the things charged on me are alledged to have been committed As

whom we are made capable being chosen in him before the foundation of the world and he hath set us in heavenly places in Christ Jesus The hope of this Glory sweetens all our Sufferings I know a day of deliverance for Sion will come Some may think the manner of it may be as before with confused noise of the Warriour and garments rolled in Blood but I rathe think it will be with burning and fewel of fire The Lord will send a fire that shall burn in the Consciences of his Enemies a worm that shall not die and a fire that shall not go out Men they may fight against but this they cannot fight against It being told him by a Friend that he had delivered him up unto God as a Sacrifice though said he I have day and night prayed that this cup might pass from you He replied That he blessed God he had offered himself up first to God and it was a rejoycing to him that others had given him up also And why said he speaking before all the company should we be frighted with Death I bless the Lord I am so far from being affrighted with Death that I find it rather shrink from me than I from it His Children being then present to take their leave of him he said I bless God by the eye of Faith I can see through all my Relations to Mount Sion and there I shall need none of them I have better Acquaintance in Heaven These Relations are nothing to those I shall meet with there Then kissing his Children he said The Lord bless you he will be a better Father to you I must now forget that ever I knew you I can willingly leave this place and outward enjoyments for those I shall meet with hereafter in a better Country I have made it my business to acquaint my self with the society of Heaven Be not you troubled for I am going home to my Father I die in the certain faith and forefight That this Cause shall have its Resurrection in my Death My Blood will be the Seed sown by which this glorious Cause will spring up which God will speedily raise The laying down this earthly tabernacle is no more but throwing down the mantle by which a double portion of the Spirit will fall on the rest of Gods People And if by my being offered up the Faith of many be confirmed and others convinced and brought to the knowledge of the Truth how can I desire greater honour and matter of rejoycing As for that glorious Cause which God hath owned in these Nations and will own in which so many Righteous souls have lost their lives and so many have been engaged by my countenance and encouragement shall I now give it up and so declare them all Rebels and Murderers No I will never do it That precious Blood shall never lie at my door As a Testimony and Seal to the Justness of that Quarrel I leave now my Life upon it as a Legacy to all the honest Interest in these three Nations Ten thousand Deaths rather than defile my Conscience the chastity and purity of which I value beyond all this world and God is not a little concern'd on my behalf He will certainly judge my Case wherein is the bowels of this good Cause and in the bowels of that the Kingdom of Jesus Christ which will speedily be set on foot in these Nations I would not for ten thousand Lives part-with this Peace and Satisfaction I have in my own heart both in holding to the Purity of my Principle and to the Righteousness of this good Cause and the assurance I have that God is now fulfilling all these great and precious Promises in order to what he is bringing forth Although I see it not yet I die in the faith and assured expectation of it Hebr. 11. 13. And the eternal blessedness God hath prepared for me and is ready now to receive me into will abundantly make up all other things Through the power and goodness of God I have had in this Tryal of mine such a proof of the integrity of my own heart as hath been no small joy to me The expressions of grief from his Friends he said were but so many lets and hindrances to him in the view he had of that Glory he was going to possess that heavenly City and Commonwealth where he should behold the face of God and of his Son in a society of Angels and the Spirits of Just men made perfect Some few dayes before his Suffering his thoughts were much fixed upon Psal 118. 27. where are these words God is the Lord which hath shewed us light bind the Sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the Altar From this he said that God gives light and is light to his People under their darkest circumstances and sufferings and when he calls them forth to suffer he binds them as Sacrifices with cords in three respects First by the Cord of his Love to us for he loved us first Secondly by the Cruelty of our Enemies Thirdly by our Resignation-duty and love to him These three Cords have bound me so fast I cannot stir Upon Friends perswading him to make some submission to the King and to endeavour the obtaining of his Life he said If the King did not think himself more concern'd for his Honour and word than he did for his Life he was very willing they should take it Nay I declare said he that I value my Life less in a good Cause than the King can do his Promise And when some others were speaking to him of giving some thousands of pounds for his Life he said If a thousand farthings would gain it he would not give it And if any should attempt to make such a bargain he would spoil their market For I think the King himself is so sufficiently obliged to spare my Life that it is fitter for him to do it than my self to seek it He rejoyced exceedingly that God assisted him so eminently in bearing his Testimony with faithfulness even unto Death and that he as willingly laid down his Life and with as much satisfaction as ever he went to bed For in a natural sickness Death seized on the body without any consent of the mind but this was a free action of his mind without any constraint upon his body Mention being made to him of the cruel proceedings against him Alas said he what ado they keep to make a poor creature like his Saviour In discourse he said If the shedding of my Blood may prove an occasion of gathering together in one the dispersed Interests and Remnant of the Adherers to this Cause of whatever differing perswasions I should think ten thousand Lives if I had them well spent in such a service He was much pleased in this consideration That he was hastening to a place where God nor none of his would be ashamed to own and receive him Here is nothing in this world saith he but reproaching and

despising God's precious Saints but in Heaven there is a good reception for them where are Mansions prepared from the beginning of the world He said You will shortly see God coming forth with Vengeance upon the whole Earth Vengeance upon the outward-man of his Saints and Vengeance upon the inward-man of his and their Enemies and that shall perform greater execution than was heretofore After his Sentence he said to some Friends God brought him upon on three stages to wit before the Court and was now leading him to the fourth his Execution-place which was far easier and pleasanter to him than any of the other three Saturday June 14. 1662 being the day of his Execution on Tower-Hill He told a Friend god bid Moses go to the top of Mount Pisgah and die so he bid him now go to the top of Tower-hill and die Some passages of his Prayer with his Lady Children and other Friends in his Chamber MOst holy and gracious Father look down from the habitation of thy Holiness visit relieve and comfort us thy poor Servants here gathered together in the Name of Christ Thou art rending this Vaile and bringing us to a Mountain that abides firm We are exceeding interrupters of our own joy peace and good by the workings and reasonings of our own hearts Thou hast promised that thou wilt be a Mouth to thy People in the hour of Tryal for thou hast required us to forbear the preparatory agitations of our own minds because it is not we that are to speak but the Spirit of our heavenly Father that speaketh in us in such seasons In what seasons more Lord than when thou callest for the Testimony of thy Servants to be writ in Characters of Blood Shew thy self in a poor weak Worm by enabling him to stand against all the power of thy Enemies There hath been a battel fought with garments rouled in blood in which upon solemn Appeals on both sides thou didst own thy Servants though through the spirit of Hypocrisie and Apostacy that hath sprung up amongst us these Nations have been thought unworthy any longer to enjoy the fruits of that Deliverance Thou hast therefore another day of decision to come which shall be wrought by fire Such a battel is to begin and be carried on by the Faith of thy People yea is in some sort begun by the Faith of thy poor Servant that is now going to seal thy Cause with his Blood Oh that this decision of thine may remarkably shew it self in thy Servant at this time by his bold Testimony and sealing it with his Blood We know not what interruptions may attend thy Servant but Lord let thy Power carry him in a holy Triumph over all difficulties Thou art the great Judge and Law-giver for the sake of thy Servants therefore O Lord return on high and cause a righteous Sentence to come forth from thy presence for the relief of thy despised People This thy Servants with Faith and Patience wait for The working of this Faith in us causeth the Enemy to give ground already If Death be not able to terrifie us from keeping a good Conscience and giving a good Testimony against them what can they do but stumble and fall backwards The day approaches in which thou wilt decide this Controversie not by Might nor by Power but by the Spirit of the living God This Spirit will make its own way and run through the whole Earth Then shall it be said Where is the fury of the Oppressor Who is he that dares or can stand before the Spirit of the Lord in the mouth of his Witnesses Arise O Lord and let thine Enemies be scattered Thy poor Servant knows not how he shall be carried forth by thee this day but blessed be thy great Name that he hath whereof to speak in this great Cause When I shall be gathered to thee this day then come thou in the Ministry of thy holy Angels that excel in strength We have seen enough of this World and thou seest we have enough of it Let these my Friends that are round about me commit me to the Lord and let them be gathered into the Family of Abraham the Father of the Faithful and become faithful Witnesses of those principles and Truths that have been discovered to them that it may be known that a poor weak Prophet hath been amongst them not by the words of his mouth onely but by the voice of his Blood and Death which will speak when he is gone Good Lord put words into his mouth that may daunt his Enemies so that they may be forced to say God is in him of a Truth and that the Son of God is in his heart and in his mouth My hour-glass is now turned up the sand runs out apace and it is my happiness that Death doth not surprize me It is Grace and Love thou dost shew thy poor Servant that thou hastenest out his time and lettest him see it runs out with Joy and Peace Little do my Enemies know as eager as they are to have me gone how soon their breaths may be drawn in But let thy Servant see Death shrink under him What a glorious sight will this be in the presence of many Witnesses to have Death shrink under him which he acknowledgeth to be only by the power of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ whom the bands of Death could not hold down Let that Spirit enter into us that will set us again upon our feet and let us be led into that way that the Enemies may not know how to deal with us Oh! what abjuring of Light what Treachery what meanness of spirit has appeared in this day What is the matter Oh! Death is the matter Lord strengthen the Faith and Heart of thy poor Servant to undergo this dayes work with Joy and Gladness and bear it on the Heart and Consciences of his Friends that have known and seen him that they also may say the Lord is in him of a truth Oh that thy Servant could speak any blessing to these three Nations Let thy Remnant be gathered to thee Prosper and relieve that poor handful that are in Prisons and Bonds that they may be raised up and trample Death under foot Let my poor Family that is left desolate let my dear Wife and Children be taken into thy Care be thou a Husband Father and Master to them Let the Spirits of those that love me be drawn out towards them Let a Blessing be upon these Friends that are here at this time strengthen them let them find Love and Grace in thine Eyes and be increased with the Increasings of God Shew thy self a loving Father to us all and do for us abundantly above and beyond all that we can ask or think for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Several Friends being with him in his Chamber this morning he oft encouraged them to chearfulness as wel by his example as expression In all his deportment he shewed himself marvellously fitted to

meet the King of Terrors without the least affrightment But to shew where his strength lay he said he was a poor unworthy wretch and had nothing but the Grace and Goodness of God to depend upon He said moreover Death shrunk from him rather than he from it Upon the occasion of parting with his Relations he said There is some flesh remaining yet but I must cast it behind me and press forward to my Father Then one of the Sheriffs men came in and told him There was no Sled to come but he was to walk on foot He told his Friends the Sheriffs Chaplain came to him at twelve of the clock that night with an Order for his Execution telling him he was come to bring him that fatal Message of Death I think Friends that in this Message was no dismalness at all After the receipt of which I slept four hours so soundly that the Lord hath made it sufficient for me and now I am going to sleep my last after which I shall need sleep no more Then Mr. Sheriff coming into the Room was friendly saluted by him and after a little pause communicated a Prohibition that he said he had received which was That he must not speak any thing against his Majesty or the Government His Answer to this he himself relates on the Scaffold He further told Mr. Sheriff he was ready but the Sheriff said he was not nor could be this half hour yet Then Sir it rests on you not on me said Sir Henry for I have been ready this half hour Then the Shriff at his request promised him his servants should attend him on the Scaffold and be civilly dealt with neither of which were performed for notwithstanding this promise they were beaten and kept off the Scaffold till he said What have I never a servant here After this one of the Sheriffs men came and told him there must be a Sled to which Sir Henry replied Any way how they please for I long to be at home to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all He went very chearfully and readily down the stairs from his Chamber and seated himself on the Sled Friends and Servants standing about him then he was forthwith drawn away towards the Scaffold As he went some in the Tower Prisoners as well as others spake to him praying the Lord to go with him And after he was out of the Tower from the tops of houses and out of windows the people used such means and gestures as might best discover at a distance their respects and love to him crying aloud The Lord go with you The great God of Heaven and Earth appear in you and for you whereof he took what notice he was capable in those circumstances in a chearful manner accepting their respect putting off his Hat and bowing to them Being asked several times how he did by some about him he answered Never better in all my life Another replied How should he do ill that suffers for so glorious a Cause To which a tall black man said Many suffered for a better Cause and may for a worse said Sir Henry wishing That when they come to seal their better Cause as he called it with their Blood as he was now going to seal his they might not find themselves deceived And as to this Cause said he it hath given Life in Death to all the Owners of it and Sufferers for it Being passed within the Rails on Tower-hill there were many loud acclamations of the people crying out The Lord Jesus go with your dear Soul c. One told him that was the most glorious Seat he ever sate on he answered It is so indeed and rejoyced exceedingly Being come to the Scaffold he chearfully ascends and being up after the crowd on the Scaffold was broken in two pieces to make way for him he shewed himself to the People on the front of the Scaffold with that Noble and Christian-like deportment that he rather seemed a looker-on than the person concerned in the Execution Insomuch that it was difficult to perswade many of the People that he was the Prisoner But when they knew that the Gentleman in the black Sute and Cloak with a Scarlet silk Wastcoat the victorious colour shewing it self at the breast was the Prisoner they generally admired that Noble and great Presence he appeared with How chearful he is said some he does not look like a dying-man said others with many like speeches as astonished with that strange appearance he shined forth in Then silence being commanded by the Sheriff lifting up his hands and eyes towards Heaven and then resting his hands on the Rails and taking a very serious composed and majestick view of the great multitude about him he spake as followeth His SPEECH on the SCAFFOLD Gentlemen fellow-Countrymen and Christians VVHen Mr. Sheriff came to me this morning and told me he had received a Command from the King that I should say nothing reflecting upon his Majesty or the Government I answered I should confine and order my Speech as near as I could so as to be least offensive saving my faithfulness to the Trust reposed in me which I must ever discharge with a good Conscience unto Death for I ever valued a man according to his faithfulness to the Trust reposed in him even on his Majesties behalf in the late Controversie And if you dare trust my discretion Mr. Sheriff I shall do nothing but what becomes a good Christian and an Englishman and so I hope I shall be civilly dealt with When Mr. Sheriffs Chaplain came to me last night about twelve of the clock to bring me as he called it the fatal Message of Death it pleased the Lord to bring that Scripture to my mind in the third of Zechary to intimate to me that he was now taking away my filthy garments causing mine iniquities to pass from me with intention to give me change of raiment and that my mortal should put on Immortality I suppose you may wonder when I shall tell you that I am not brought hither according to any known Law of the Land It is true I have been before a Court of Justice and am now going to appear before a greater Tribunal where I am to give an account of all my actions under their Sentence I stand here at this time When I was before them I could not have the liberty and priviledge of an Englishman the grounds reasons and causes of the Actings I was charged with duly considered I therefore desired the Judges that they would set their Seals to my Bill of Exceptions I pressed hard for it again and again as the Right of my self and every free-born English-man by the Law of the Land but was finally denied it Here Sir John Robinson Lieutenant of the Tower interrupted him saying Sir you must not go on thus and in a furious manner generally observed even to the dis-satisfaction of some of their own attendants said that he

the Lord which therefore we should be most willing unto and with greatest longing after desire The strait which the Apostle found himself in was not at all from the least haesitation in his mind which of the two was in it self best and to be preferred but by which Christ might most be magnified and the Church benefitted according to the will of Christ So then unless to live were Christ and a real and clear magnifying of Christ in his Body he cared not for Life but contemned Death He saw evidently how it was his own particular loss and hindrance even not to Die since to be dissolved to depart and be with Christ and in the Society of the blessed Angels and Saints in Heaven was best of all and far more gainful and to be valued by him than any longer continuance or abode in the flesh The magnifying of Christ in his Body whether by Life or by Death was the Consideration with Paul that held the ballance cast the scale and that onely So it ought to be with every true Christian The end of man's coming into the Body and his temporary continuance and abode there according to the Law of his Creation is the magnifying and glorifying Christ either by his Life or by his Death or both the one of which if he do not it must needs be his sin and he is left without excuse For none can violate or corrupt the mind of man by the Law of Nature nor let in Death upon his Spiritual Substance but himself though they dissolve his temporary abode in the flesh break his outward case and shel and rather than do the one we should choose the other choose affliction rather than sin the dissolution of the Body rather than the corrupting of the Mind In so doing and dying Christ is magnifyed Thus Peter was foretold by what Death he should glorify God And to such it is given by Christ not onely to Believe but Suffer and Die for his Names sake as a transcendent priviledge and honour If no restraint then be upon our mind from without what hinders that Christ is not magnified in our Body but something within us in our judgement will and affections that are not right set and fixed nor as yet wrought to this self same thing by God who hath given us the earnest of his Spirit But it may be demanded What is it in which this great duty of man lies as to the magnifying of Christ in his Body by his Life or living in the Body which is a more difficult thing to do than to Die Christ himself tells us when he saith Let your Light so shine before men that they may see feel and sensibly discern your good works and so glorify your father which is in Heaven There are two sorts of signs we read of in those that believe which justifie their Faith in consortship as it were with which their Faith works and is made perfect so as the work of Faith is fulfilled in them with power 1. Signs Extraordinary as Mark 16. 18. with which the Primitive Christians were well acquainted and so may all such again as arrive to any competent maturity in that primitive Christian Spirit 2. Signes Ordinary as those mentioned Gal. 5. 22 23. called the fruits of the Spirit in us that makes us mighty in word and in deed not onely to will but to perform that which is good by being filled with the Spirit in our very Bodies made the Temples of the holy Ghost rich in Faith and Tuch good Works as are the fruit of Faith without which Faith it self is dead and unprofitable and by which Abraham justified his Faith and was called the Friend of God It is in this sense the Prophet urges the sanctification of our Vessels when he saith Be ye clean that bear the Vessels of the Lord. And the Apostle when he saith 1 Cor. 6. 19. What! know ye not that your Body is the Temple of the holy Ghost unto which Redemption by Christ extends as well as to your Spirits therefore glorify God in your Body as well as in your Spirit which is God's and wherein he hath and challengeth a special propriety The Body in Scripture acceptation signifies not onely the material substance from which the Soul is actually separated when it is laid in the Grave but very usually the Soul it self that is to say that part of the Soul which vitally unites the Body to it self whose faculty and operation is in and by the Body and doth properly and immediately exercise bodily Life as that which is co-natural and co-essential to it There is a higher part in man's Soul called Spirit in distinction from Soul and Body expressed 1 Thes 5. 23. as if the Spirit were an entire thing in it self though it be that in and with which Soul and Body doth consist as parts of the whole Man I pray God saith the Apostle that your whole Spirit Soul and Body be preserved blameless to the coming of Christ and that you may be sanctified throughout or in every part of you in your Soul and in your Body which are to be esteemed but as parts comparatively with your whole Spirit Man considered as entire in his Spirit may have and hath being before he partakes of Flesh and Blood as it is written Behold saith Christ I and the children which thou hast given me Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of Flesh and Blood he also himself took part of the same even he who with the children were a mystery hid with the Father before the World was and had their Seminal and radical Being in the Word of Life the Father of Spirits In this Word as in the Image and Mental conception of the invisible God the Souls of all men even of Christ himself as man were comprehended as in their original pattern and rule in order at the time appointed to come into flesh and there make their temporary abode allotted to them By the Condition and Law of Man's Creation he is made a Spiritual essence with two distinct faculties and operations according to which he may be said to be both Immortal and Mortal Immaterial and Material Spirit and Body as Body signifies man's animal rational Soul that is to live in flesh and hath its peculiar desire faculty and operation proportioned thereunto In all this Man bears the Image and Similitude of God the Mediator or of the Godhead in Christ as two Natures in him are Hypostatically united and make but one Compositum or Person This was comprehended in that Counsel which the blessed Trinity took concerning the making of Man in their Image and after their Similitude He was made male and female in his very Spiritual substance First with a faculty and operation of mind superiour stronger and more excellent which is free and independent upon bodily organs exercising Life properly and purely Spiritual and Immaterial above and without the use of sensible signes or shapes Secondly With that inferiour faculty and operation of mind whose subsistence life being and motion is in with and by the body and through the use of bodily organs sensible signes and external mediums on the loss of which this second faculty and operation of man's Soul which is the weaker inferiour and less valuable ceases at least is for a time suspended which in Scripture phrase is called Death even the Death of the Body Yet the more vigorous the exercise of this latter is and the more that thereby we are at home in the Body the more in truth and reality we are dead at least asleep in the earth as to our more Noble and Spiritual part in and through which we enjoy most of the presence of God and of Christ Since therefore mans constitution of Being in such as he cannot live both these Lives together untill the Resurrection but that in the one of them he must be incompleat have his operation much suspended and be as it were dead or asleep To resolve which of these to choose and prefer ought not to be so difficult as commonly it is made On the SUFFERINGS of the Renowned Sir H. Vane Knight GReat Soul ne're Understood Until deciphered by thy Blood A Priest a Prophet and a King Systeme of every worthy thing Dying that Liberty might Live The English Cause he doth retrieve Stating it in no formal dress But in the Spirit of Righteousness Which he from th' earth perceiving fled Dy'd to Return with 't from the Dead Persons or Forms of Government Did little make to his intent To nought was he an Enemy But what was fix'd in Enmity ' Gainst which he fought with eager breath Became Victorious in his Death And this not by necessity It was his Principle to Dye Flesh will resist but Faith can suffer The soft hand 's gone beware the rougher Th' envy and hate of every Form Upon his head pour'd down the Storm Whilst he sublim'd and sav'd the good O' th' lowest and seal'd it with his Blood How great he was his Enemies tell Who while he liv'd could not be well And in what stead his offering stood By resolute silence Friends made good The male o' th' Flock is ta'ne the best To expiate the blame o' th' rest What tears and prayers wanted in strength His crying blood brings down at length Groan English Hearts groan help the cry Lord Jesus Come I come quickly FINIS The Printer to the Reader IT 's very probable thou mayest meet with some faults and misprintings escaped the Corrector which could not be avoided by reason of the distance between the Transcriber and the Press thou art desired to correct them and pass them by with candor One thou mayest find in page 54 and 55 all those words within the Parenthesis should come in after the word Penetent And page 97. in the Title to that part read Case for Cause ☜