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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77386	A Brief account of the behaviour, &c.	Axtel, Daniel, d. 1660.; Carew, John, d. 1660.; Cook, John, d. 1660.; Hacker, Francis, d. 1660.; Harrison, Thomas, 1609-1660.; Jones, John, d. 1660.; Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.; Scott, Thomas, d. 1660.; Scrope, Adrian, d. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4503A; ESTC R42468	26,747	41

Right Hand of God where I hope to see him by and by in Glory and Majesty and to see his Angels and Believers worshipping of him and therefore I despise the Shame Our Saviour died upon the Cross without Sin I am a sinful Creature a wretched Sinner and shall I expect better than he that was my Master He who was Holy and never had a sinful Thought in all his Life and died not for himself but for us that we might Live through his Death that through his Poverty we might be made Rich. And Christ having done this for his People it should not be in their Eyes thought a despicable Thing that we should suffer for him having been engaged in the Work of God But Christ must prevail in Righteousness and he will prevail Now Mr. Sheriff I thank you for your Civility and for this leave After this Col. Hacker spoke something privately to him whereupon Col. Axtel said Mr. Sheriff Must we both Die together Mr. Sheriff answered Yes Then Col. Hacker read a Paper which he had in his Hand a Copy whereof followeth FRiends and Countreymen All that have known me in my best Estate have not known me to be a Man of Oratory and that God hath not given me the Gift of Vtterance as to others therefore I have only this briefly to say unto you that are Spectators As the Parliament stated the War I did out of Judgment and Conscience join with them in the Common Cause and have through Grace have been faithful to it according to my Measure And as for that which now I am condemned for I do freely forgive both Judges Jury and Witnesses and all others and I thank the Lord to whom I am now going at whose Tribunal I must render an Account I have nothing lyes upon my Conscience as Guilt whereof I am now Condemned and do not doubt but to have the Sentence reverst I do now apply my self unto God by Prayer and do desire the Hearty Prayers of all that fear God that I may have a sweet Passage from this Mortal Life to that Immortal Life which God hath prepared for all that are in Christ Jesus Francis Hacker After the reading of this he desired that Col. Axtel would be both their Mouth to God in Prayer And then Col. Axtel said I desire all that fear the Lord to hear me with Patience and to lift up their Hearts to seek the Lord with me that we may have his Strength and the Presence of his Spirit from this World to Everlasting Life After he had ended his Prayer he gave the Sheriff Thanks again for his Civility and turning to Colonel Hacker they saluted and embraced each other in their Arms and said The Lord sweeten our Passage and give us a happy Meeting with himself in Glory Then pulling his Cap over his Eyes expected as is supposed that the Cart should be drawn away with his Hands lifted up he utter'd these Words with a Loud and Audible Voice Lord Jesus receive my Spirit but the Cart staying a little longer he lift up his Hands the Second Time and with the like Audible and Loud Voice said Into thy Hands O Father I commend my Spirit And yet in regard there was no Man found to put forward the Horse to draw away the Cart until the Common Hangman came down out of the Cart himself to do it the Carman as many Witnesses affirm saying He would lose his Cart and Horse before he would have a Hand in hanging such a Man by this he had Opportunity to lift up his Hands and utter the like the Third Time also Observations on Mr. Axtel and Mr. Hacker THE last Actors in this Bloody Tragedy are now entred upon the Stage and seeing they were join'd in their Lives I thought it fit to leave them as I found them These were guilty of that Horrid Murther in daring to protect what is a Sin to think Axtel guarded those Bloody Shambles where Virtue and Majesty stood like Lambs before the Butcher and now having brought the Ship of our King's Life tost upon the Tumultuous Surges of so many uncertain Fortunes almost into the Harbour of their Malice he bids Rebellion cast an Anchor on the dangerous Sands of the Good Old Cause Thus when all good Christians Hearts were melted in the Furnace of Affliction to see Majesty lye a Bleeding and Pleading for Life in every Honest Heart before so sad a Tribunal This Gentleman spent his Time in raising his Soldiers Spirits to a Pitch of Mirth laughing at their Squibs extreamly pleased that Majesty rise offended with such sad Perfumes from the Seat where he sate which was suddenly to stumble at a Block and pass unregarded to a cold Grave FINIS

Judas when he Sold his Master Money is the Root of all Evil and brought that Famous Orator Demosthenes a Brother of the same Fraternity to a Sore Throat when 't was Avaritia non excusat militiam Some Memorable Passages of Mr. Hugh Peters in his Imprisonment at Newgate and at the Time of his Execution at Charing Cross October 16 1660. MR. Peters as is well known was exercised under great Conflict in his own Spirit during the time of his Imprisonment fearing as he would often say that he should not go through his Sufferings with Courage and Comfort and said to his Friends that he was somewhat unprepared for D●ath and therefore unwilling to die something he said he had committed and other Things omitted which troubled him but though it was a Cloudy and Dark Day with him for a Season yet the Light of God's Grace and Favour would break forth at last A Night or Two before he suffered Two of the Episcopal Clergy who as some Report were the King's Chaplains came to give him a Visit they endeavoured to make Advantage of the present Temptations wherewith he was then assaulted and to perswade him to a Repentance and Recantation of his former Activity in the Parliament Cause which they endeavoured to enforce upon him by a Promise of Pardon from the King in case he would therein hearken to them But told them He had no Cause in the least to repent of his adhering to that Interest but rather that he had in the Prosecution thereof done no more for God and his People in these Nations and with Civility dismissing those Visitants he applied himself to some other Ministers then present whom he judged more able to speak a Word in Season to him under these great Trials wherewith the Lord was then pleased to exercise him Being carried upon the Sledge to Execution and made to sit therein within the Rails at charing-Charing-Cross to behold the Execution of Mr. Cook one comes to him and upbraided him with the Death of the King bidding him with opprobrious Language to repent He replied Friend you do not well to trample upon a dying Man you are greatly mistaken I had nothing to do in the Death of the King When Mr. Cook was cut down and brought to be Quartered one they called Colonel Turner called to the Sheriffs Men to bring Mr. Peters near that he might see it and by and by the Hangman came to him all besmear'd in Blood and rubbing his Bloody Hands together he tauntingly asked Come how do you like this M. Peters How do you like this Work To whom he replied I am not I thank God terrified at it you may do your worst When he was going to his Execution he look'd about and espied a Man to whom he gave a Piece of Gold having bowed it first and desired him to go to the Place where his Daughter lodged and to carry that to her as a Token from him and to let her know That his Heart was as full of Comfort as it could be and that before that Piece should come to her Hands he should be with God in Glory Being upon the Ladder he spake to the Sheriff saying Sir You have here slain one of the Servants of God before mine Eyes and have made me to behold it on purpose to terrifie and discourage me but God made it an Ordinance to me for my Strengthening and Encouragement When he was going to Die he said What Flesh art thou unwilling to go to God through the Fire and Jaws of Death Oh! Said he this is a good Day he is come that I long look'd for and I shall be with him in Glory and so smil'd when he went away What Mr. Peters said further at his Execution either in his Speech or Prayer it could not be taken in regard his Voice was low at that time and the People uncivil His Head was afterwards set upon London-Bridge Observations on Mr. Peters A State Juggler drest in Divinity a meer Protous and yet a Regicide a Firebrand kindled by the Devil by whose insinuating Practices blowing the Bellows of Rebellion and belching from an Impure Throat the loathsome Vapours of Sedition he not only poisoned the Kingdom but ruined the Stately Fabrick of an incomparable Monarchy pretending in his Pulpit that to be the Finger of the Lord which visibly appears to all Ages to be the Hand of the Devil Wednesday October 17th Mr. Thomas Scot and Mr. Gregory Clement were brought on several Hurdles to the same Place where being come Mr. Scot first began Mr. Scot's Speech upon the Ladder GEntlemen I stand here a Spectacle to God to Angels and Men To God and Angels to whom I hope I am shortly a going And now to you I owe it to God and the Nation and my self to say something concerning each For my self I think it may become me to tell you how and why I came hither and something in the general concerning my Capacity In the Beginning of these Troubles I was as many others were unsatisfied I saw Liberties and Religion in the Nation in great Danger to my best Apprehension I saw the Approaches of Popery in great measure coming in upon us I saw Upon which the Sheriff interrupted him in these Words If you will betake your self to Prayer you may Mr. Scot replied I shall not speak to reproach any The Sheriff interrupted him again saying You have but a little time Mr. Scot therefore betake that little time to Prayer Mr. Scot replied 'T is according to my Mind to speak what may be said Here the Under-Sheriff interrupted saying It hath been denied unto your Predecessors and will be denied unto you Then he prayed as followeth HOly Lord God the Great and Glorious God of Heaven and Earth King of Nations and King of Saints in both which Capacities thy Poor and Vnworthy Creature comes now to bear his Witness in this great Spectacle before Thee Angels and Men O Lord were it not for Sin none of these Things had befallen this Nation nor my unworthy self we have all transgressed and gone astray from thee by a perpetual Back-sliding even all of all Sorts Conditions Ranks and Orders of Men And among them none none more than thy Poor Vnworthy Creature who acknowledgeth the same here before thee in the Face of Heaven and in thy Presence to which he is very shortly a going that Glorious Grace which thou hast been pleased to afford unto his Soul in it O Blessed Lord thou hast called him forth as a publick Spectacle to some in a Condition of Shame and Reproach to others of Comfort and to thy Blessed Self as one that is a Witness for thee that hath served thee with all Faithfulness in his Trust and Publick Capacity and Employment O Lord they Dispensation to thy Poor Creature hath been Wonderful Gracious and Merciful and he must say to the Praise of thy Free Grace Here the Hangman stooping down to take Drink which was reached