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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51609	Murther revealed, or, A voyce from the grave faithfully relating the deplorable death of Dr. John Hewit, late of St. Gregories London, with severall queries propounded to the consciences of his bloody tryers / by a true Englishman.	True Englishman.; Hewit, John, 1614-1658.	1659 (1659)	Wing M3087; ESTC R27118	16,669	18

before he could come to the fruition and full injoyment of his Bride he shewed such chearfullnesse to that work that gave satisfaction to his friends these communications being obstructed by arrivall at the Scaffold Dr. Wilde and Dr. Warmistry led him up the staires like to wings that assist the body to assend and being mounted he demeaned himselfe with a most meelt and undejected deportment and casting his eye toward the block he espyed some of the blood of his fellow-sufferer and having a while fixt his eyes stedfastly on that object with hands and eyes elevated he sends up ejaculations to heaven and then falleth down on his knees and prayed privatly a while and then about as long audably Doctor HEWIT's Letter to Doctor WILDE the day before he suffered Dearest Brother I Have no cause to think that you have not at any time taken me along with you in the daily walk upon your knees to Heaven but I beseech you and all my Brethren to be now especially very mindfull to call upon God for me The more company I go withal the more welcom I shall be made I should be loath either to leave out of my Creed or to be left out of the benefit of the Communion of Saints Two are better then one Two or three have the advantage of a Promise but to goe with a multitude to the House of God where all comme●s are welcome is to be assured before-hand of good entertainment Admission will hardly be denyed to any for whom there is great importunity of many If the Gate be shut much knocking will open i● or if that would not doe it united Forces would offer an Holy violence Many will prevail where one alone can doe but little good Woe unto him that is alone Therefore dear Brother sith it is the infirmity of our nature that we live not without the occasions of giving and taking of offence And 't is the corruption of our nature that the offences we give we write in the dust Those we take we engrave in Marble If you know or shall heare of any one either or my Brethren or other persons whom by any act of scandall I have tempted or provoked or lessened or disturbed to exclude me the benefits of their charitable prayers or wishes I beseech you beg of them from me for me their pardon And let not any private wild-fire of passion put out the holy flames of a diffusive charity And as for my sel●● I doe here protest before God that I do heartily desire to forget the injuries of whosoever has trespassed against me either by word or deed And if God should have been pleased to have granted a longer life I would not refuse yea I am stedfastly resolved to sollicite termes of Reconciliation with them that have done me the wrong And if my owne heart doe not deceive me I would give my life to save the soule of any of my Christian Brethren and would be content to want some degrees of glory in Heaven so that my very greatest Enemies might be so happy as to have some The God of Mercy shed forth his Bowels for them that shed my blood and the blood of Christ save and the spirit of Christ sanctifi● and support him who desires to live no longer then to honour the Father Son and holy Ghost and both living and dying craves yours and the prayers of the whole Church for her unworthy Child and Dearest Brother Your most affectionate friend Brother and Servant in Christ Jesus JOHN HEWIT Tower June 7. 1658. Morning 7 a Clock Doctor Hewit's first Prayer O Most glorious God Beeings of Beeings unaccessable light life of life Father of the spirits of the just and perfect infinite incomprehensible God of power wised me mercy justice and truth who dwelleth in that unsearchable glory and majesty to which none of all thy Creatures can attain King of kings Lord of lords my earnest expectation and my hope the onely confidence and consolation of my soule though my numberlesse sins have deserved thy wrath yet l●oke upon me through thy Christ in whome I have beleived by thy command and through whome thou hast promised the remission of my sins and eternall life that so as I was borne with a condition to dye so am I ready to dye with a condition to live with him and therefore for his sake assure me of it that so I may have hope and confidence in my end what though I must drinke the bitter portion of a violent death it is no more my God then my Redeemer ta●ted before me and though thou hast suffered me to be removed from my peace and comfort of this World and from prosperity hast cast downe my dejected spirit with weights of sorrow yet that soule that seekes thee by mercies are renewed every morning and thy compassion failes not therefore my soule hath faid that thou art my portion and therefore doth my soule trust on thee truth it is indeed oh my God that the hopes of the hills are vaine and so is all confidence in Man in honours or prosperity and most unhappy is that that is not in thee but in spite of Sathan or the Worlds malice blessed is that soule whose hope and whose trust thou art therefore though thou art pleased to weane me from a trustlesse world let thy peace and salvation Crowne my end and oh my Lord let my prayers come as incence up unto thee and in my Jesus be accepted by thee and bow the Heavens and come downe in to my soule that in this hour of my death the comfort and joy of thy presence make those that condemned me hither know that death nor terror is not dredfull to them whose hope whose strength and whose confidence and trust is in thee for this I am confident and know oh my God oh thou joy and salvation of my soule that it shall within a span of time appeare that it is good and happy for me that I have been in trouble when after this great tryall of my faith thou shalt give me the quiet fruits of wrighteousnesse a crown of glory this oh God is the voice of my faith in thee whome I beleive and know to be the God of truth of mercy of justice and of wrighteousnesse The time oh my God of my departure drawing neigh let me live those minutes I have yet to breath to thee and thy Jesus that he may be advantage to me in life and in death and that in this confidence I am willing to be dissolved and to be with Christ who hath through death abolished death and him that had the power of death and though death bring my body to the earth yet o● my God let not my soule lye in the dust and let neither things present nor future seperate between my soule and thee but oh my blessed Saviour who art the death of deaths take from my afflicted soule the sting of death lose its paines and the feare and sorrows

MVRTHER REVEALED OR A Voyce from the Grave FAITHFULLY Relating the Deplorable DEATH OF Dr. John Hewit LATE OF St. GREGORIES LONDON WITH SEVERALL QUERIES PROPOUNDED To the Consciences OF HIS BLOODY TRYERS By a true ENGLISH-MAN LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1659. THE INTRODUCTION GOD who ruleth his whole Creation by the omnipotency of his owne will wisely appoints for every man his portion to some riches and honour to others health and to others sufferings and afflictions that so in every thing he may glorifie himselfe and be all in all which lead us unto him whose bitter portion puts a period instead of a comma to those still flowing lessons that flowed from him who living in the Church was beloved and now being dead is lamented by her and yet lives in many hearts in Caracters of sorrow and teares which sends sighs to his memory that so often remembred them to sigh that so they might flye from the wrath to come and not fear what he hath chearfully undergone even the wages of sin which is death but whether divine justice inflicted that on him for the sins of his soule he not deserving life or for the sins of the Age amongst whom he was too good is a controversy shall not finde a result in me for I shall wright impartially and it is God who will judge righteously The Substance of Dr. Hewit's Tryall DOctor John Hewit being apprehended for a Conspirator against the present Power and Authority was on Tuesday the first of June brought before the high Court of Justice to answer to an Inditement of high Treason then and there exhibited against him his Plea being demanded he moved the Court not to respect his ignorance but to excuse it least taking advantages by the niceties of the Laws they might bereave him of those benefits the Law allowed him or over-power his Innocency This was not denyed but his request reaching farther to desire to hear the Commission of the Court read which he alledged was reasonable and that he conceived it to be his just right to know the validity of that Authority by which they sat and whether according to Law they were Compitent Judges in his Case further urging that those being matters of Law he therefore desired to have the liberty to advise with Councel in these and other the like Cause which did highly concern him this being denyed he urged further that he conceived it to be his right as an English-man to be tryed by a Jury and the Judges of his Highnesse Corts to whom and to the common Law he did appeale but being could there could be no appeale from them to any Court except to a Parliament because no other Court is above them All those differences to the Judges of the Courts of Judicature or to his Highnesse Councel against that if they or any of them would give it under their hand that his Tryall was according to Law he would submit but that not being granted as tending to the dishonour of that Court to appeale to any other Court or Persons the Dr. declared how in his owne opinion he stood bound in conscience and duty not to submit to that power meaning the Court of whose Authority according to Law he was not convinced his not pleading being recorded upon his default he was taken from the Bar where on June the 2d. lie received his Sentence as a Traitor to be hanged drawne and quarter'd which he received without the least dejection of spirit His Carriage and Discourses in Prison A Friend of his a while after telling him he were glad to heare he received his Sentence without disturbance he replyes at that present I had this Meditation my Lord and Master were made to carry his Crosse and I the meanest of his Servants should be carryed to my Crosse The time drawing near of his death which was Saturday June the fifth the Sentence was altered his head being to be severed from his Body on Tower-Hill on Tuesday the eigh●h of the same Moneth The Lords day he implyed for the most part in earnest seeking God by prayer that so through those sorrows and teares he might purchase the fruition of joys and pleasures most glorious pure and perpetuall The rest of the day being the afternoon he past away in discourse with some friends who came to condole his condition who deported himselfe with that chearfullnesse that they nor he need to metigate sorrow and as the feare of death was not tedious to him to imbrase charity bids us conclude he did it to put on a better Life This afternoon too passages are observeable The first whil'st the Doctor was discourseing with some Friends a Woman got accidentally to his Chamber doore and in a seeming mallincollinesse drew neare him and laid her hat at his Feet saying I can never be at quiet when the godly are to suffer The next the Gard being releived he turned to them that were departing and with a chearfull deportment and humble carriage saith faire well my deare friends and in all this time seemed so little to be moved at his Imprisonment that as the walls confinde his body so meeknesse imprisoned his passions On munday morning his Lady came to visit him but with how little pleasure or content I leave it to them imagined who contemplatively can make her sorrow their one now she must not onely take her leave for a day but resolve to see him no more in the flesh and indeed to me it seemes impossible to distinguish which was the greatest weight of sorrow to her spirit that he must suffer an untimely death and be no more or that she must take her last farewell of him and so she have him dead to her whil'st alive but since providence compels them to part here Imagen for I cannot expresse their affectionate farewels with teares till they meet where joys are compleater perpetual This being past he makes it his only work to put of this and to prepare for a better life in which D. Wild added to his indeavours his pious assistance the day being spent Dr. Wilde left him not without the beames and light of a friends prayers and the dayes glory together but kept him company all that night thereby to make day in his soule thought it were night in the World Immediately after came Dr. Reynolds Mr. Carill Mr. Manton Mr. Bates and others with whose discourse they were so affected that that evening they took Coach on Lud-gate Hill and went down to white-Hall to beg his life of his Highnesse the Lord Protector but that were not granted His demeanour on the Scaffold ON Tuesday morning the time of execution drawing neigh they spent that part which gave them leisure to prepare for that great work to dye which time being come Dr. Wilde Dr. Warmitry and Deane Reves accompanyed him to the place of Execution and on the way they tell him he was goeing to solemnize a marriage wherein he must look death in the face