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A85977	A true and exact copy of Mr. Gibbons's speech which he intended to have spoken immediately before his death, on the scaffold at Tower Hill, August 22. 1651.	Gibbons, John, d. 1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing G661; Thomason E796_24; ESTC R207344	15,277	8

the honour and repute of the whole Race of the Protestant Profession so far are the sons of abomination from blushing or being ashamed at this that they go on take possession and justifie the same before God and all the world and when the Heire is coming they combine together and say Come let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours for ever This doth call upon us that fear the Lord to wish their heads fountains of tears that they might powre out rivers of sorrow It have been to me living and shall be now dying a great lamentation I do professe unto you all I am so far from approying of any of the late actions that I would not have dared to have gone so far out of Gods way to have had the least hand in the death of the King no not to have saved the lives of all the three Kingdoms That God that hath written down all their actions and intentions will one day clear the Presbyterian Party and vindicate their Innocency before the face of all the whole world and though for the present their interest be lost with men it is found in God and there shall be a most glortous Resurrection of all their names and integrity when God comes to reckon with those men that have made use of their honest indeavours to plow up the Lords Vineyard and let in the wild Bore of the Forrest this is now both a black and bloudy day of Jacobs trouble all the Churches of Christ in the Furnace the poor Church of Scotland a bleeding fetching their dying groans Is there none to pity none to help nor none that will consider my distresse was there ever any affliction llike my affliction I am smitten in the place of Dragons I have my bowells torn out by those that I have brought forth and maintained the men whose hands I have strengthned have slain my young men by hundreds and thousands and carried them away captiffs those who I have been instrumentall to save have destroyed all my peace and glory and laid my honour in the dust robbed me of my Jewells robbed me of my Ordinances robbed me of all my riches and treasury and made all the Land drunk with the bloud of my slain and that which is ten thousand times worse they have poysoned the souls of my people with error and Heresie every one of these have a noise crying in the ears of God and men I read of a bitter curse pronounced against those that came not out to the help of the Lord against the mighty God hath given that poor Nation a bloudy Cup to drink but most assured I am all the dregs lie at the bottom for all those persons that come not forth with their prayers and tears to improve all their interest both in heaven and earth for the deliverance of that miserable oppressed people if it be terrible to all such as come not out with their swords to help and rescue them if God will be avenged upon all such persons as stand looking on what will the portion be of all such that do not only draw their swords against that beloved people but put them into their bowells and proclaim to all the world they do God good service and when they have laid heaps upon heaps and died the Church with their bloud they do not only rejoyce and triumph but hang up colours for monuments of their lasting glory such as these are Monsters with a Witnesse therefore let all those that love either bodies or souls rather chuse ten thousand times to live in a howling wildernesse to be cast into a Den of Dragons then either to countenance incourage or remain amongst the numbers of those men throughout all the book of God amongst all the prayers of the Saints you find none like David putting forth all his strength with the utmost of his vehemency improving all his interest to pluck down wrath and vengeance out of the hands of God against who was it but a cursed generation of men that persecuted those whom the Lord had smitten the Sun shined upon Sodom and presently after they were destroyed by most terrible showres of fire and brimstone all the prosperity and flourishing estate of the wicked is but like a watry Sun that will end in a dismall cloudy day The people of God may sit a while in darknesse but they are sure there will be light the wicked may rejoyce for a moment it is not long but they will have an eternall stormy night of Gods displeasure that shall never be blown over I know a child of God had rather have all the Lions of the Wildernesse roaring upon him all the miseries in the world and all the divells in hell let loose then to live under the frowns of God how canst thou then envy the state of the wicked though they did prosper as much as Alexander injoyed as much peace and glory as Solomon ride with as much state as Caesar did through Rome when thou knowest they are under the frowns of an infinite God that hates them with as perfect a hatred as he doth the divells in hell and knows well enough how and when it is seasonable to bring a most terrible destruction upon them that shall fly as far and ring as loud in the ears of all the Christian world as their sins and abominations have done The bush may burn but it shall not be consumed the divell hath been above this five thousand six hundred years a breathing out flames and persecutions against the Churches of God and yet it remains and so it shall be to the end of the world mourn for the sufferings of our dear brethren of Scotland give them all possible assistance by prayers and tears and what else possible you may but never despair of their deliverance for one look of God out of the Cloud can break all the power of their enemies and make a glorious Resurrection of them and all the Churches of Christ mourn and lament with an exceeding bitter lamentation for the reproach scorn and contempt that the Ministery lies under pray mightily that they may be delivered from many and great temptations and the multitudes of traps and snares that the subtilty of the adversary hath laid that they may destroy their offices and persons together You that make mention of the Lord never give him rest but cry and pray mightily for there are wonderfull promises to be accomplished wonderfull things to be done the fall of Babilon with all the power of Antichrist the calling of the Jews which will be the fullnesse of the Gentiles the perfecting and coming in of all the glory of the Churches of Christ the shaking of Nations and Kingdoms is the way to this therefore be not discouraged for Jacob shall arise God is never more in his way to bring all this about but when he seems to be most out of it Thus I have both endeavoured to declare and discharge my conscience I have

of this side hell I cannot think any more miserable then those that can rejoyce at such sights as these But have a care your mourning be not a discontented mourning quarrelling with God and his Providence repining and murmuring at the instruments do you as Jacob did look who stands upon the top of the ladder and like Ezekiel see who stands upon the top of the well and do not look at the hammer that smites nor at the next stop of the ladder but look up to God that orders and directs all who is infinitely wise and knows best how to contrive and bring things about for the good of his Church and people do you your duty and trust God though you see all the Providences of God crossing his promises still wait if you should never understand them here stay untill you come in heaven there you will know the meaning of every crosse working and then see that none of all the Churches sufferings nor afflictions of the Saints could have been spa●ed while you are here alive and depend upon promises and not providence do not forget that when God is a pulling down he is a setting up when he seems to make the greatest wounds he comes with the greatest healing when he holds forth the greatest destruction he intends the greatest deliverances he came to Jacob like an enemy to destroy when he was resolved to shew the greatest friendship I am most confident all that your eys have seen this day is also for your good and the way to your deliverance and that our blouds shall set the enemies a horseback and pur spur to their destruction I am most assured some standing in this place shall here and to all eternity blesse God for this daies work The most ●icked of men may behold the sufferings of Gods people but they cannot see the comforts they have they may see their mournings and rears but they cannot see the Towell that Jesus Christ wipes their eys withall since the Creation to this present day there was never any suffered Martyrdome for the testimony of a good conscience but God came with strength and comfort according to their condition and now they are in heaven I do fully perswade my self these of them that died the worst of deaths would have died no other nor have abated any of their sufferings or reproaches for a thousand worlds Were we but sensible of the infinite glory God gets by the sufferings of his people did we but know how many flowers and precious pearls it adds to their Crown we should see men come running as fast to Martyrdome as our eys now see them running from it the very first moment that we behold the face of God will be a sufficient reward for a thousand times more then ever we have or can suffer here though there were nothing else to be injoyed but Christ owning their souls at the day of Judgement it were enough to ingage a Christian to own Christ here though his sufferings were to be like the torments of hell when we come to know and tast of the infinite rewards that God hath prepared for his suffering people it heaven were capable of shame we would be ashamed we have done and suffered so little for Christ therefore give me leave to perswade you and let the last words of a dying man prevail with you that you let go all rather then part with your Principles better the heavens should fall and the whole world be set of fire then that God should lose his honour or the least jot or tittle of the truth be parted with fly from errour though it come in the habit and dresse of Saints and Angells error is like barrells of gunpowder that will blow up States Kingdomes souls and bodies whosoever takes up error draws a sword against Christ his Truth and Laws if you do but countenance one step the least from the truth you are in danger of falling into a gulfe that will swallow you up ask but your own experience and that will tell you many glorious Starrs and Professors that for some self-ends at the first did go but a little aside from the truth but there they did not stay but run from one error to another searching all the rooms in hell to find out new ones for never could any rest that follow error it is like hell without any bottom how many Ministers have you seen heretofore you could have lived and died withall gone but a little astray from the truth by which they have given a greater blow to the honour of God and Religion then all their Sermons and Preaching can do good while they live did you ever see any go aside from the truth but he got a blot and dishonour upon his name Truth hath called Kings and Emperours to honor the meanest of persons therefore though you see thousand and ten thousand run to error hold you to the Truth if you love your souls bodies land est●●e wife children part not with the least of it follow neither Christian nor Minister any further then he follows Christ not wonder it you see those that have appeared to be the most eminent in knowledge and grace go from the truth to error for from the beginning it hath been so and God doth suffer the same to try his people I must needs acknowledge that error is now cloathed with so smooth a dresse that i● makes my heart to bleed to think of the harvest the divell will have but in all Ages God hath preserved a remnant and so he doth still blessed be God that there are a few some of all sores both Ministers and people that have kept their garments unspotted never yet stained with error All you that love God be of the number of those few though you suffer and die with them every Error is a Chain that binds your Soul and Conscience that you cannot go to God every error is a Bar that makes fast the doo● against Christ and his Laws therefor hold and keep close to the truth look upon Athanasius that owned the truth when the whole world was against it be like Amos who kept close to God when a whole Court was against him or like Martin Luther that owned the truth of God alone against all the power and force of Antichrist in all Ages even in the most damnable apostatizing times God hath had some that have dared to own his truth if Baal be God follow him but if the Lord be God follow him Naboths Vineyard is taken away and his inheritance taken possession of but God is so far from approving of it that he sends in Elisha with an arrant of vengeance have not our eys seen and our ears heard more abominable practises in our times the head of our Countrey the breath of our nostrills the anointed of the Lord by a violent death is taken away from us so dreadfull was this stroke that it struck at the root of all Lawes and Religion and murdered