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A71165	The second and last collection of the dying speeches, letters, and prayers &c. of those eminent Protestants who suffered in the west of England (and elsewhere) under the cruel sentence of the late Lord Chancellour, then Lord Chief Justice Jefferys : with an account of their undaunted courage at the barr and afterwards : with the most remarkable circumstances that attended their execution.	Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3383A; ESTC R32831	17,427	32

everlasting Life and by Sealing up to me the Pardon of all my Sins through the most precious Blood of Jesus Christ Let us Pray hard and much for each other when I leave this World it shall be with Prayer for thee if God give me life how shall I study to be a comfort to thee and to live up to my Marriage as well as Baptismal Covenant to all my Friends Tender my most affectionate Respects I hope their Prayers will one way or other be heard for me let the Almighty be your Protector Supporter and Comforter There be two Books I do recommend to you to read when you are retir'd as well as in your family Pierces Preparation for Death and Foxes Redemption of Time Now let our Souls meet together in one most Blessed God in our Dearest Jesus and sweetest Saviour let them clasp and cling about him and be Sick for the love of him and that we may meet to enjoy him fully to Eternity and be satisfied with his Love for ever a thousand Loves if I had them I would send to thee next to my and 〈…〉 Jesus and the things that are Heavenly Spiritual and 〈…〉 I love thee what I can spare for thee is convey'd to thee and my Dear Children from Thy most Affectionate and Faithful Husband and their most loving Father J. H. Another Letter My most Dear Love I Hope you have received my last once more as a dead and living man through difficulty I write to you though I yet do not know when nor where I shall dye but expect Death every day when that Message is brought to me I hope through the Grace and Strength of Christ it will be no surprize to me that neither my Lips Flesh nor Heart will tremble when I hear it I know the cause for which I Suffer God hath and has singled me out from many of my Brethren which I never have been without some apprehensions of for above these 20 years to lay down my Life how far it is for his cause will be judged at the last day I bless God who hath kept me from all Temptations to Conformity though it has brought me to Ruine and Destruction in this World it will be no fit Season for you to Vindicate that for which I am call'd to suffer be silent and leave it to God I advise to all Prudence in this case have your own reserv'd thoughts and let them concerning me support and comfort you if there never happen a time for you to Glory in my Sufferings it will be hereafter do you but walk with God though through Prudence you must hold your Tongue and be not asham'd you had such a Husband I thank God that gave it me whose Courage and Publick Spirit for the Protestant Religion the Civil Liberties of his Country even true English Liberties hath in this Ignominious way brought me to the Conclusion and End of my time Mourn not my Dear as one without Hope let the World know you have something from me something from your self as a Christian but ten thousand times more from God to comfort and support you see Christ by an Eye of Faith infinitely more lovely and beautiful than my self let him be Married to your Soul let him be the chiefest of ten thousand and more dear and precious to you it is not long we shall be separated before we shall see one another in a Spiritual Enjoyment separated from all Fleshly Pleasures and Delights yet infinitely more sweet satisfying to Immortal Spirits as you and I us'd to see Streams from the Fountaint and the largest Streams in the Ocean so let us see one another in God the Ever-flowing and Over-flowing Fountain of all Good the fathomless and boundless Ocean of Good seek much the things which are above live with your Affections set upon them and have your Conversation in Heaven whilst you are upon Earth I continue yet to Pray for you as for my self and shall continue to do it until I dye in my last Prayers you shall be Interested with my Dear Babes whom I hope God will take into Covenant with him and number them among his Adopted Ones and of that Incorruptible Inheritance which is in Heaven I hope God will spare your Life to see them Educated and guide and assist you therein and theirs to be a Blessing and Comfort to you consider your Condition is not single and alone this Countrey affords a multitude of the like sad and deplorable Instances let this make you more to possess your Soul with Patience and Humility calmly and quietly to submit to the good Will of God I have left a Paper behind me for you to Read and our Friend can tell with what difficulty I Writ it therefore must have many Defects and Imperfections which must be over-look'd and mended preserve the two Bibles for my Dear James and Betty What shall I say more my Dearest I must break off with my Heart full of Love to thee and Subscribe my self Thy most Dear and Affectionate Husband till Death J. H. Octob. 3d. 1684. Mr. Josias Askew's Letter to his Father Honoured Father I Not having an Opportunity to make my Gratitude known to you for all your Endeavours for the saving a poor vain perishing and troublesome Life and seeing it is all in vain I would desire you both to acquiesce in the Will of God and rejoyce with me for this happy Day of my Departure from this State of Pilgrimage home to the Possession of those Heavenly Mansions which my God and Father hath provided for me in and thorough my Lord Jesus Christ It is in him alone I put my Trust and Confidence and therefore can boldly say Who is he that Condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again and is set down at the Right Hand of God making Intercession for all those that have a well-grounded Confidence in him My time is but short and by reason of Company I am disturbed therefore I conclude with my last Breath beging of God that he would keep you constant in his Fear in this day of great Temptation and at last receive you to his Glory where we shall once more Unite in Praising without Interruption or Distraction World without End Amen Until which time the Grace of God the Father the Love of God the Son the comfortable Refreshings of God the Holy Ghost be with you all yours and the whole Israel of God both now and for ever Which is the Hearty Prayer of your Son Josias Askew Pray Remember me to all with Joy. Another Letter to his Friend MADAM YOU have been a Partaker with me in my Troubles I would also make you a Partaker with me in my Joys seeing my Wedding Day is come the Day of the Bridegroom is at Hand and I am this Day to be stript of my Rags of Corruption to be Cloathed upon with the White Robe of his Righteousness and Purity and to be Married to my Husband

Religion may flourish under him I also return thanks to God and the Reverend Clergy that assisted me in my Imprisonment ALICIA LISLE A Letter Writ by Mr. John Hicks Oct. 5. the Day before his Death My Dear Nephew I Am yet in the Land of the Living though in the Mouth of Death I having been concern'd for you next to my own Children before I die I thought fit to write two or three Lines to you as a Manifestation of my great Love to you I earnestly desire the Welfare of you here and to Eternity hereafter next to my own Wife and Children you will want me when I am gone but I hope the Lord will take care of you make it your business to walk with him to serve him faithfully flee youthful Lusts and Remember your Creatour in the Days of your Youth be deeply concern'd to have your Heart and Nature chang'd and an interest in Christ secur'd unto you Death comes suddenly you know not when where nor how you shall die Let time therefore be most precious to you fill it up with Work and Duty Live by Faith more than by Sense and this will stand by you when you come to die Seek the things which are above and set your Affections upon them have your Conversation in Heaven whilst you are upon Earth When you see your Parents give my dear Love to them and their Children the Lord grant that we may meet in his Everlasting Kingdom When you see any of your Cousins give my dear Love to them and be not asham'd of my Sufferings I wrote last Saturday was a Seven-Night to my Brother George but whether he is at London or Worcester I know not I wrote to him to desire him to Petition the King that some Favour and Mercy might be shewed me if he thought fit Things that are made to aggravate my Crime I am clear from as that I perswaded the Duke of M. to assume the Title of King at Taunton when I was not there with him nor in 13 days after he came into England and that I rode too and fro in the West to perswade People to go into his Army when I was in the East and came from thence to him in the West but my Nonconformity cuts me and obstructs the Kings Mercy from being Extended to me as I am told but the Will of the Lord be done the Life to come is infinitely better than this Many more things are laid to my charge which I am no more guilty of than your self If your Uncle be in Town go speedily to him and give him my Dear Love I Pray for you who am Your most Affectionate Vncle J. H. Octob. 5. 1684. A Letter to his Wife Sept. 23. 1684. My Dearest Love I Hope you received a few Lines from me by the way of London once more I write to you by our faithful and trusty Friend W. D. who hath been at Exon. If there be need for it he knows many of my Dear and Faithful Friends there who wish you would come and live among them and if your Estate fail I think it very adviseable so to do I hope God will stand by you and defend you My Dear see me in God as I must you I must now bid adieu unto all Earthly and Worldly Comforts and all the Pleasant and Delightful Objects of Sence I bless God for all present Mercies and Comforts hitherto I have had what will be after this day I know not but the Will of the Lord be done My Dear be very cautious not to speak one Word least it be wrested to wrong Sence which may ruine you I have not writ what I would of this Nature take the Advice of Friends and of what I send by our Friend O let not the Everlasting Arms of God be with-drawn from you one Moment and let him strengthen you with all Might according to his Glorious Power and to all Patience and Long-Suffering with Joyfulness Pray hard for Victory over Passion and be much in private Closet-Prayer with God and often read the Holy Bible and other good Books the Lord continually guide direct and counsel you My dear I return you a thousand thanks for all the Love you have shew'd me and my Children and particularly for the high and great Demonstration you have given thereof in this day of my distress I hope my Daughters will be as dutiful to you and be as much concern'd for your comfort and welfare as if you had travelled with them and brought them into the World God bless my Dear Little-Ones and them together I shall dye their most Affectionate and Praying Father God I hope will uphold support and comfort me at the last hour and enable me to overcome the Temptations I shall violently be assaulted with before I Die God by his Infinite and freest Mercies in Christ Jesus Pardon all the neglect of Relative Duties which I have bitterly lamented and bewail'd before God with all the Sins I am guilty of for the sake of our Dearest Lord and Redeemer the Lord make you grow in all Grace more than ever and make this great Affliction so humbly Purifying and Spiritualizing to you as well as me that it may work for us both a far more Exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory let him take your Soul into his most dearest Embraces and lodge it in the Bosom of his Love here and make us to meet in the full and Everlasting Fruition and Enjoyment of him hereafter though it is dangerous for you to vindicate that I die for yet be not too much cast down for it I will say no more as to that My hearty and affectionate Respects to all my Dear Friends I need not name them I hope to meet them with your self to inherit Eternal Life through the Merits of Christ's Death Farewel my Dear farewel in the Lord until we meet to be Marry'd to him for ever my Heart is as full of Love t●…e as it was the first day I Marry'd thee and if God spar●…ife it should have been as fully manifested until Death therefore I rest Your most Affectionate and Endeared Husband J. H. Sept. 23. 1684. Another Letter My Dearest Love I Received your Letter by Mr. Skinner I Bless God that you and my Babes are well the Lord continue their Lives to be a Blessing and Comfort to you and enable you to see them well Educated in the Fear of God and when God takes me away let him be a Husband to guide direct succour comfort and support you and to lodge your Soul in the Bosom of his Love and let him be a Father to them and their Portion for ever Monday last my Brother went to London to try what could be done for me what the success will be I know not I desire the Lord every day to prepare me for Death and carry me above the Fear of it by the discoveries of his everlasting love unto my Soul and clearing up my Right and Title to