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death_n	call_v	sin_n	world_n	4,381	5	4.8047	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47415	The last speeches of the two ministers Mr. John King, and Mr. John Kid, [brace] at the place of execution at Edenburgh on the 14th day of August, 1679.	King, John, d. 1679.; Kid, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing K508; ESTC R39063	12,472	51

well what it is that God calls for at their hands To be silent now especially when so many Cruel and Horrid things are Acted when they are so much called and ought to be concerned to speak even upon the Peril of their lives certainly a dreadful sin in the light of God their silence must be I shall only desire that the Lord would open the mouths of his faithful servants that with all boldness they may speak out the mind of their Master that so the work interest Crown and Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ may not be destroyed and that the troubles of his poor people which are precious to him may not without a Testimony be ruined I Shall but say a few words First All you that are profane I would seriously Exhort you that you return to the Lord by serious Repentance if you do iniquity shall not be your Ruine if you do not know that the day of the Lords Vengeance is near and hastneth on Oh know for your comfort there is a door of mercy yet open if you be not despisers of the day of Salvation And you that have been and yet are Reproachers and persecutors of Godliness and of such as live Godly take heed Oh take heed sad will be your day when God arises to scatter his Enemies if you repent not for your ungodly deeds Secondly All those who are taken up with their own private interests and if that go well they Care the less for the interest of Christ take heed and be zealous and repent lest the Lord pass the Sentence I will spew you out of my mouth Thirdly For the truly Godly and such as are Lamenting after the Lord and are mourning for all the abominations of this City and are taking pleasure in the very Rubbish and Stones of Zion be of good Courage and Cast not away your Confidence I dare not say any thing to future things but surely the Lord has a handful that are precious to him to whom he will be Gracious to these is a dark night at present how long it will last the Lord knows Oh let not the sad disasters that his poor people meet with though very astonishing Terrifie you beware of snares that abound Cleave fast to your Reformed Religion do not Shift the Cross of Christ if you be called to it it is better to suffer than sin account the reproaches of Christ greater Riches than all the Treasures of the World In the last place let not my Death be Grievous to any of you I hope it will be more profitable both for you and me and for the Church and interest of God than my life could have been I bless the Lord I can freely and Frankly forgive all men even as I desire to be forgiven of God pray for them that persecute you bless them that Curse you As to the cause of Christ I bless the Lord I never had cause to this day to repent for any thing I have suffered or can now suffer for his name I thank the Lord who has shewed mercy to such a vile sinner as I am and that ever he should advance me to so High a dignity as to be made a Minister of his blessed and everlasting Gospel and that ever I should have a Seal set to my Ministry upon the hearts of some in several places and Corners of this Land the Lord visit Scotland with more and more faithful Pastors and send a Reviving day unto the people of God in the mean time be patient be stedfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord and live in Love and peace one with another and the Lord be with his poor Afflicted Groaning people that yet remain Now I bid farewell to all my friends and dear Relations Farewell my poor Wife and Children whom I leave in the good hand of him who is better than seven Husbands and who will be a Father to the fatherless Farewell all Creature comforts Welcome everlasting life everlasting glory Welcome everlasting love everlasting praise bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me Sic Subscrib John King August 14th 1679. Tolbooth Circa horam Septimam THE LAST SPEECH OF Mr. JOHN KID AT THE PLACE OF EXECUTION ON The Fourteenth day of August 1679. Printed in the Year 1679. THE SPEECH OF Mr. JOHN KID Right Worthy and well beloved Spectators and Auditors COnsidering what bodily distempers I have been exercised with since I came out of the Torture viz. Scarce two hours out of my naked bed in one day it cannot be expected that I should be in Case to say any thing to purpose at this Juncture especially seeing I am not as yet free of it however I cannot but Reverence the good hand of God upon me and desires with all my Soul to bless him for this my present Lot It may be there are a great many here that Judge my Lot very sad and deplorable I must confess death it self is very Terrible to Flesh and blood but as it is an out-let to sin and an in-let to righteousness it is the Christians great and inexpressible priviledge and give me leave to say this that there is somthing in a Christians Condition that can never put him without the reach of insufferableness even shame death and the Cross being included And then if there be peace betwixt God and the Soul nothing can damp peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ this is a most supporting ingredient in the bitterest Cup and under the sharpest and firiest Tryal he c●n be exposed unto this is my mercy That I have somthing of this to lay Claim unto viz. The intimations of pardon and peace betwixt God and my Soul And as concerning that for which I am condemned I magnifie his grace that I never had the least challenge for it but on the contrary I Judge it my Honour that ever I was counted worthy to come upon the Stage upon such a consideration another thing that renders the most despicable Lot of the Christian and mine sufferable is a felt and sensible presence from the Lord strengthening the Soul when most put to it and if I could have this for my Allowance this day I could be bold to say Oh death where is thy sting and could not but cry out Welcome to it and all that follows upon it I grant the Lord from an Act of Soveraignity may come and go as he pleases but yet he will never forsake his people and this is a Cordial to me in the Case I am now exposed unto Thirdly The exercising and puting forth his glorious power is able to Transport the Soul of the believer and mine above the reach of all Sublunary difficulties and therefore seeing I have hope to be kept up by this power I would not have you to look upon my Lot or any other that is or may be in my Case in the least deplorable seeing we have ground to believe that in more or less he will