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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

THE LAST SPEECHES OF THE TWO MINISTERS Mr. JOHN KING and Mr. JOHN KID At the Place of EXECUTION AT EDENBURGH On the 14 th day of August 1679. Printed in the Year 1680. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER HAving observed that of late years it is become Customary to publish the dying Speeches of such as have been in a Publick manner Executed as Criminals I thought the sight of these Speeches not as Speeches or Discourses only but as the Speeches of these two so much talk'd of Men would to most be very acceptable all persons I believe being curious to know what they would say in their Circumstances I did not think it necessary to make any Animadversions upon them but lea●e it to the 〈◊〉 of every Reader to make his own Remarks it being as easie to animadvert in this Case as to read I would as unwillingly impose my Comment upon others as I would be imposed upon my self Farewel THE SPEECH OF Mr. JOHN KING Men and Brethren I Do not doubt but that many that are Spectators here have some other end than to be edified by what they may see and hear in the last words of one going to Eternity but if any one of you have Ears to hear which I nothing doubt but some of this great gathering have I desire your Ears and Attention if the Lord shall help and permit me to speak to a few things I bless the Lord since infinite Wisdom and holy Providence has so carved out my Lot to dye after the manner that I do not unwillingly neither by force It 's true I could not do this of my self Nature always having an Inclination to put the evil day far off but through Grace I have been helped and by this Grace yet hope I shall 'T is true through Policy I might have shunned such a hard Sentence if I had done some things but though I could I durst not God knows redeem my life with the loss of my Integrity and Honesty I bless the Lord that since I have been apprehended and made a Prisoner God hath very wonderfully upholden me and made out that comfortable word Fear not be not dismayed I am with thee I will strengthen thee I will uphold thee by the right hand of my Righteousness Isaiah 42.10 I thank the Lord he never yet gave me leave so much as to have a thought much less to seek after any shift that might be in the least sinful I did always and yet do judge it better to suffer Affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a Season therefore I am come hither to lay down my life I bless the Lord I dye not as a Fool dyeth though I acknowledge I have nothing to boast of in my self yea I acknowledge I am a Sinner and one of the chiefest that hath gone under the name of a Professer of Religion yea amongst the unworthiest of those that have Preached the Gospel my Sins and Corruptions have been many and have defiled me in all things and even in following and doing of my Duty I have not wanted my own sinful Infirmities and Weaknesses so that I may truly say I have no Righteousness of my own all is evil and like filthy Rags but blessed be God that there is a Saviour and an Advocate Jesus Christ the Righteous and I do believe that Jesus Christ is come into the World to save Sinners of whom I am the chief and that through Faith and his Righteousness I have obtained Mercy and that through him and him alone I desire and hope to have a happy and glorious Victory over Sin Satan Hell and Death and that I shall attain unto the Resurrection of the just and be made Partaker of Eternal Life I know in whom I have believed and that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day I have according to my poor Capacity preached Salvation in his name and as I have preached so do I believe and withal my Soul have commended it and still do commend to all of you the riches of his Grace and faith in his Name as the alone and only way whereby to come to be saved It may be many may think but I bless the Lord without any solid ground that I suffer as an Evil-Doer and as a busie body in other mens matters but I reckon not much upon that having the Testimony of my own Conscience for me It was the lot of our blessed Saviour himself and also the lot of many of his eminent precious Servants and People to suffer by the World as Evil-doers Yea I think I have so good ground not to be scar'd at such a lot that I count it my non-such-honour and Oh what am I that I should be honoured so when so many Worthies have panted after the like and have not come at it My Soul rejoyceth in being brought into Conformity with my Blessed Lord and Head and so Blessed a Company in this way and lot and I desire to pray that I may be to none of you this day upon this account a Stone of stumbling and a Rock of Offence and blessed is he that shall not be offended in Christ and his poor Followers and Members because of their being Condemned as Evil doers by the World As for these things for which Sentence of Death hath past against me I bless the Lord my Conscience doth not condemn me I have not been Rebellious nor do I judge it Rebellion for me to have endeavoured in my Capacity what possibly I could for the born-down and ruined Interest of my Lord and Master and for the Relief of my poor Brethren afflicted and persecuted not only in their Liberties Priviledges and Persons but also in their Lives therefore it was that I joyned with that poor handful the Lord knows who is the searcher of hearts that neither my design nor practice was against his Majesty's person and just Government but I always studyed to be Loyal to lawful Authority in the Lord and I thank God my heart do●h not condemn me of any Disloyalty I have been Loyal and I do recommend it to all to be obedient to higher Powers in the Lord. And that I preached at Field-Meetings which is the ground of my Sentence I am so far from acknowledging that the Gospel preached that way was a Rendezvous of Rebellion as it is so tearmed that I bless the Lord that ever he counted me worthy to be Witness of such Meetings which have been so undoubtedly countenanced and owned not only to the conviction but even to the Conversion of many therefore I do assert That if the Lord hath had any purer Church in the Land than other it hath been in and amongst these Meetings in Fields and Houses so much now despised by some and persecuted by others That I preached up Rebellion and taking up Arms against Authority is untrue I bless the Lord my Conscience doth not condemn me for that