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A43470	The speech and deportment of John Hewit, D.D., late of St. Gregories London at the place of execution on Tower Hill, June 8, 1658 / taken by an impartial hand ; and the substance of his triall before the high court of justice, his letter to Dr. Wilde after sentence, his discourses and demeanor on the scaffold ; with an elegie on the said Dr. ; published for the satisfaction of his friends.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1638; ESTC R43244	16,407	17

or constitution or most easily provoked to O Lord with what affliction soever thou shalt punish doe not punish us with spirituall judgements and disertions Give us not over to our owne hearts lusts to our vile lewd and corrupt affections Give us not over to hardness and impenitency of heart but make us sensible of the least sin and give us thy grace to thinke no sin little committed against thee our God but that we may be humbled for it and repent of it and reform it in our lives and conversations And Lord keep us from presumptious sins oh let not them get the dominion over us but keep us innocent from the great offences And Lord sanctifie unto us all thy methods and proceedings with us fitting us for all further tribulations and tryals whatsoever thou in thy divine pleasure shalt be pleased to impose upon us Lord give us patience con●tancy resolution and fortitude to undergoe them that though we walke through the valley of the shadow of death we may fear none ill knowing that thou O Lord art mercifully with us and that with thy rod as well as with thy staffe thou wilt support and comfort us and that nothing shall be able to separate us from thy love which is in Jesus Christ our Lord And gracious God! we beseech thee be thou pleased to looke mercifully and compassionately on thy holy Catholique Church and grant that all they that doe confesse thy holy Name may agree together in the truth of thy holy Word and live in unity and godly love Thou hast promised O Lord The gates of hell shall not prevaile against thy Church Perform we beseech thee thy most gracious promises both to thy whole Church and to that part of it which thou hast planted and now afflicted in these sinfull Lands and Nations wherein we live Arise O Lord and have mercy upon our Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come for thy servants think upon her stones and it pitieth them to see her in the dust Lord maintain thine own cause Rescue the light of thy truth from all those clouds of errors and heresies which do so much obscure it let the light therof in a free profesion break forth shine again among us that continually even as long as the Sun Moon endures To this end O Lord blesse us all and blesse Him the po●terity which in Authority ought to rule over and be above us Blesse Him in His soul and in His body in His Friends and in His Servants and all His Relations Guide Him by thy Councell prosper Him in all undertakings granting Him a long prosperous honourable life here upon earth and that He may attain to a blessed life hereafter And gracious God! looke mercifully upon all our Relations and do thou bring them to the light of thy Truth that are wandring ready to fall that grace here may intrest them in glory hereafter Confirme them in thy Truth that already stand Shew some good token for good unto them that they may rejoyce O let thy good hand of providence be over them in all their wayes And to all orders and degrees of men that be amongst us Give religious hearts to them that now rule in Authority over us Loyall hearts in their Subjects towards their Supreame And loving hearts in all men to their Friends and charitable hearts one towards another And for the continuance of thy Gospel among us restore in thy good time to their severall Places and Callings and give grace O Heavenly Father to all Bishops Pastors and Curates that they may both by their Life and Doctrine set forth thy true and lively word and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments And Lord blesse thy Church still with Pastors after thine own heart with a continuall succession of faithfull and able men that they may both by Life and Doctrine declare thy Truth and never for fear or favour back-slide or depart from the same And give them the assistance of thy spirit that may inable them so to preach thy word that may keep thy People upright in the midst of a corrupted and corrupt generation And good Lord blesse thy people every where with hearing ears understanding hearts consciencious souls obedient lives especially those over whom I have had either lately or formerly a charge that with meek heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy holy word truly serving thee in righteousness and holiness all the days of their lives And we beseech thee of thy goodness O Lord to comfort and succour all those that in this transitory life be in trouble sorrow need sicknesse or any other adversity Lord help the helplesse comfort the comfortlesse visit the sick releive the oppressed help them to right that suffer wrong set them at liberty that are in Prison restore the banished and of thy great mercy and in thy good time deliver all thy people out of their necessities Lord do thou of thy great mercy fit us all for our latter end for the hour of death and the day of Judgement and doe thou in the hour of death and at the day of Judgement from thy wrath and everlasting damnation good Lord deliver us through the Crosse and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ In the meane time O Lord teach us so to number our dayes and me my Minutes that we may apply our hearts to true wisedom that we may be wise unto salvation that we may live soberly godly and righteously in this present world denying all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts Lord teach us so to live that we may not be afraid to dye and that we may so live that we may be alwayes prepared to dye that when death shall seixe upon us it may not surprise us but that we may lift up our heads with joy knowing that our redemption draws nigh and that we shall be for ever happy being assured that we shall come to the Felicity of the Chosen and rejoyce with the gladnesse of thy people and give us such a fullnesse of thy holy Spirit that may make us stedfast in this faith and confirme us in this hope indue me with patience under thy afflicting band let not death be unpleasing to me but support me in this visitation that I may dye with a confidence to overcome death and so to live for ever and so fortifie my soul with the assistance of thy spirit that I may to the last minute be assisted with a chearfull resolution to give up my selfe to thy divine disposing that so passing the pilgrimage of this world we may come to the Land of promise the Heavenly Canaan that we may reign with thee in the World to come through Jesus Christ our Lord in whose blessed Name and Words we further call upon thee saying Our Father c. Let thy mighty hand and out-stretched arme O Lord be the defence of me and all other thy servants

THE SPEECH AND DEPORTMENT OF JOHN HEWIT D.D. Late of St. GREGORIES London at the place of Execution on TOWER-HILL June 8. 1658. taken by an impartiall hand And The Substance of his Triall before the High Court of Justice his letter to Dr. Wilde after Sentence his discourses and demeanor on the Scaffold With an Elegie on the said Dr. Published for the satisfaction of his Friends Prov. 10.7 Memoria justi est benedicta Nomen autem Improborum putridum est Printed at London in the year 1658. AN ADVERTISEMENT To The READER HAving been so often importuned to publish Dr. Hewit's Speech and Deportment upon the Scaffold I shall not excuse my selfe from giving the reason the former though so imperfect being so earnestly received by all Persons and perhaps the compassion of some who had been his Auditors might wish it were not true But knowing my ability in caracter did advertize with me about it being unwilling that so great a Person as the Doctor should be ronged by false and imperfect Relations that might come out only upon Senister account wherefore as a further proofe of the truth I have spoken with severall Persons who were upon the Scaffold who seeing my Papers subscribed to them as the most exact wherefore that all might appeare more lively I have added the Substance of his defence before the high Court of Justice his letter to Doctor Wilde after sentence and discourses and deportment upon the Scaffold with his Elegie being certain his Auditors will continue to let fall a Celestiall due upon the flowers and lillies that growes upon the grave of this great Person 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 wh●se 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 tould 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 he 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 eighth 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