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A37137	The dying speeches of several excellent persons, who suffered for their zeal against popery, and arbitrary government viz. I. Mr. Stephen Colledg, at Oxford, August 31, 1681, II. The Lord Russel in Lincolns-Inn-fields, July 21, 1683, III. Col. Sidney, on Tower-Hill, December 7, 1683, IV. Col. Rumbald,	Colledge, Stephen, 1635?-1681.; Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683.; Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.; Rumbold, Richard, 1622?-1685.; Lisle, Alice, 1614?-1685.; Cornish, Henry, d. 1685.; Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.	1689 (1689)	Wing D2957; ESTC R3148	29,338	40

Presbyterians are worse than the Papists God doth know that what I say I speak freely from my Heart I have found many among them truly serving God and so I have of all the rest that have come into my company Men without any manner of design but to serve God serve his Majesty and keep their Liberties and Properties Men that I am certain are not of vicious Lives I found no Dammers or those kind of People among them or at least few of them To his Son Kissing him several times with great passion Dear Child Farewel the Lord have mercy upon thee Good people let me have your prayers to God Almighty to receive my Soul. And then he Prayed And as soon as he had done spake as followeth The Lord have Mercy upon my Enemies and I beseech you good people who ever you are and the whole World that I have offended to forgive me whom ever I have offended in word or deed I ask every Mans pardon and I forgive the World with all my Soul all the Injuries I have received and I beseech God Almighty forgive those poor Wretches who have cast away their Souls or at least endangered them to ruine this Body of mine I beseech God that they may have a sight of their Sins and that they may find Mercy at his hands Let my Blood speak the Justice of my Cause I have done And God have Mercy upon you all To Mr. Crosthwait Pray Sir my Service to Dr. Hall and Dr. Reynall and thank them for all their Kindnesses to me I thank you Sir for your Kindness The Lord bless you all Mr. Sheriff God be with you God be with you all good People The Executioner Ketch desired his pardon And he said I do forgive you The Lord have mercy on my Soul. The SPEECH of the late Lord RUSSEL to the Sheriffs Together with the PAPER delivered by him to them at the Place of Execution on July 21. 1683. Mr. Sheriff I Expected the Noise would be such that I could not be very well heard I was never fond of much Speaking much less now Therefore I have set down in this Paper all that I think fit to leave behind me God knows how far I was always from Designs against the King's Person or of altering the Government and I still pray for the preservation of both and of the Protestant Religion I am told that Captain Walcot has said some things concerning my knowledg of the Plot I know not whether the Report is true or not I hope it is not For to my knowledg I never saw him or spake with him in my whole Life and in the Words of a dying Man I profess I know of no Plot either against the King's Life or the Government But I have now done with this World and am going to a better I forgive all the World and I thank God I die in Charity with all Men and I wish all sincere Protestants may love one another and not make way for Popery by their Animosities The PAPER deliver'd to the SHERIFFS I Thank God I find my self so composed and prepared for Death and my Thoughts so fixed on another World that I hope in God I am now quite weaned from setting my Heart on this Yet I cannot forbear spending some time now in setting down in Writing a fuller Account of my Condition to be left behind me than I 'll venture to say at the place of Execution in the Noise and Clutter that is like to be there I bless God heartily for those many Blessings which he in his infinite Mercy has bestowed upon me through the whole Course of my Life That I was born of worthy good Parents and had the Advantages of a Religious Education which I have often thank'd God very heartily for and look'd upon as an invaluable Blessing For even when I minded it least it still hung about me and gave me checks and has now for many Years so influenced and possessed me that I feel the happy Effects of it in this my Extremity in which I have been so wonderfully I thank God supported that neither my Imprisonmenr nor the Fear of Death have been able to discompose me to any degree but on the contrary I have found the Assurances of the Love and Mercy of God in and through my blessed Redeemer in whom only I trust and I do not question but that I am going to partake of that Fulness of Joy which is in his presence the hopes whereof does so wonderfully delight me that I reckon this as the happiest time of my Life tho others may look upon it as the saddest I have lived and now die of the Reformed Religion a true and sincere Protestant and in the Communion of the Church of England tho I could never yet comply with or rise up to all the heights of many People I wish with all my Soul all our unhappy Differences were removed and that all sincere Protestants would so far consider the Danger of Popery as to lay aside their Heats and agree against the Common Enemy and that the Churchmen would be less severe and the Dissenters less scrupulous For I think Bitterness and Persecution are at all times bad but much more now For Popery I look on it as an Idolatrous and Bloody Religion and therefore thought my self bound in my Station to do all I could against it And by that I foresaw I should procure such great Enemies to my self and so powerful Ones that I have been now for some time expecting the worst And blessed be God I fall by the Ax and not by the Fiery Tryal Yet whatever Apprehensions I had of Popery and of my own severe and heavy share I was like to have under it when it should prevail I never had a Thought of doing any thing against it basely or inhumanly but what could well consist with the Christian Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom And I thank God I have examin'd all my actings in that Matter with so great Care that I can appeal to God Almighty who knows my Heart that I went on Sincerely without being moved either by Passion By-End or Ill-Design I have always loved my Country much more than my Life and never had any Design of changing the Government which I value and look upon as one of the best Governments in the World and would always have been ready to venture my Life for the preserving of it and would have suffered any Extremity rather than have consented to any Design to take away the King's Life Neither ever-had Man the Impudence to propose so base and barbarous a thing to me And I look upon it as a very unhappy and uneasy part of my present Condition That in my Indictment there should be so much as mention of so vile a Fact tho nothing in the least was said to prove any such Matter but the contrary by the Lord Howard Neither does any Body I am consident believe the least

turn you need not tye me at all I shall not stir from you for I thank God I am not afraid to die As he was going out he said Farewel Newgate Farewel all my Fellow-Prisoners here the Lord comfort you the Lord be with you all The Substance of Alderman Cornish's Speech at the Place of Execution Octob. 23. 1685. taken by one of his Servants I Am come here this day Condemned to die but God is my Witness the Crimes laid to my Charge were falsely and maliciously sworn against me by the Witnesses for I never was at any Consult nor any Meeting where Matters against the Government were discours'd of I never heard nor read any Declaration nor ever acted wilfully any thing against the Government I confess through the Justice of God my private Sins have brought me to this Infamous End yea it were just with God not only to deprive me eternally of his Presence but to condemn me to Eternal Torments but through Christ I hope to be eternally Blessed Yet as to the Crimes for which I suffer on the Words of a dying Man I am altogether Innocent I bless God I was from my younger Years brought up in and have for some Years continued a Protestant in the Communion of the Church of England in which Communion I now die I have often partaken in the Ordinances the blessed Effects and Comfort thereof I now feel in this my Agony I bless God I was born under a Government in the Constitution of which I did ever acquiesce and in which I was once a Member at which time I did according to the best of my Understanding Here be was interrupted by the Sheriff I bless God I was born in a Land of Light where the Gospel hath been Preach'd in Power and Purity He might have brought me forth in a Land of Darkness and Ignorance but blessed be God for Jesus Christ. Then he intreated the Sheriff to Intercede with his Majesty to be kind to his poor Wife and Children The Sheriff promised him to wait on his Majesty the next day about it He replied Mr. Sheriff I thank you the Lord reward you a thousand-fold the Lord put it into the Hearts of you to be kind to the Widdows and Fatherless it is your Duty The Lord put it into the Hearts of all good People to Pray for me More could not be taken by reason of the Noise of the People and Interruption of one of the Sheriffs The SPEECH of Captain WALCOT on Friday the 20th of July 1683. THIS great Concourse of People do not only come here to see me Die but also to hear what I shall say and because I would not be Reproached and thought to be an Atheist when I am gone I have two or three words to speak for my Religion I do believe in Three Persons and one God and I expect and hope to be Saved by the Merits and Righteousness of his Son Christ Jesus without the hope of an advantage by any Merits or Righteousness of my own And I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the Word of God that They were not written according to the will of Man but holy Men of God writ them as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost I believe that these Scriptures ought to be the Rule of our Faith and the method of our Worshipping of God I believe that as Christ is the Head of his Church so he is their Law-giver That it is not in the power of any Council or Conclave of Cardinals or any Power upon Earth whatsoever to set up the Precepts and Traditions of Men and to make them of equal validity with the Word of God. I believe it was not because the Jews rejected and Crucified Christ that he rejected them but because they rejected his Word which appears by the Three thousand that God by one Sermon of Peter's converted they being prickt in their hearts and touched in their Consciences cried out Men and Brethren what shall we do And they were that day added to the Church It was certainly because the Jews rejected the Word and Gospel of Christ that the things were hid from their Eyes which belonged to their peace It is a dreadful thing to reject the Word of God and it is a dreadful thing to live in a sinful course of Life till God withdraws his Spirit from us For it is said It shall not always strive with Man. Death is the wages of Sin. I believe had not Adam sinned he and we his Posterity had not died Death is said to be the King of Terrours but it is only so to those that are terrified with a Terrifying Conscience that have the Arrows of the Almighty sticking in them from convictions of great Guilt and see no hopes of Mercy have no assurance of Pardon but those that are Christ's he takes away the Terrour and Horrour and Sting of Death he enables them to say with Paul To me to live is Christ and to die is Gain He enables not only to get unto Christ but into Christ and so they have Communion and Fellowship with the Father and the Son. It is no hard matter to get the Notions of the Promises of the Gospel into our Heads but unless the Lord is pleased to apply them to our Hearts we cannot believe Except we be in Christ as branches in the Vine we are not Christians indeed It was the Case of poor Francis Spira he was certainly a knowing Man but notwithstanding he had not Faith to apply the Promises Christ hath said that he that believes in him though he were dead yet shall he live and he that lives and believes in him shall never die So if we be able to apply the Promises by the Spirit of God we may have comfort through Faith But then Faith is the gift of God and Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and receiving it in the love of God. I shall not be tedious Mr. Sheriff I shall be very short Mr. Sheriff Take your own time Walcot As to the present occasion of my Death I do neither blame the Judges nor the Jury nor the King's Counsel I only blame some Men that in reality and in truth were deeper concerned and more engaged than I that came in as Witnesses against me who Swore me out of my Life to save their own and who for fear they should not do it effectually contrived that That I will appeal to you all whether there be a probability in it or not For they said I made it a scruple of Conscience to have a hand in killing the King or to imbrue my hands in his Blood but was so generous as to undertake the Charging his Guards whilst others did it and to the end another might do it Truly I will appeal to all that know me whether they believe me so much an Ideot that I should not understand it was the same thing to engage the King's Guards whilst another Killed

his Judgments or Mercies reclaim them that they shed no more innocent Blood There is not a Man of them that I know of that ever heard me say or do any bit of Treason in my Life This is the first I may not say it is but almost the Twentieth Sham-Plot that they have endeavoured to put upon the Nation to delude the People and put off their own Damnable Plot. This is not the first but I think the sixteenth or seventeenth I pray God that my Blood may be the last I pray God defend every Man's Blood and all Protestants in England from the Hands of these bloody Papists by whose means I die this Death And if they shall go on in this Nature I hope the Good God will open every Man's Eyes to see it before he feels it And I beseech you if you have any love for your King your Country and the Protestants unite together if you are Protestants I pray God those that deserve the Name let them be called how they will either Dissenters or Church of England Men that they may unite together like Men like Christians against the Common Foe who will spare neither the one side nor the other but beat you one against another like two Pitchers the last that stands they will certainly destroy if they can This is my Sense and God is my Witness I speak my Conscience I do not know Mr. Sheriff whether there be any thing else I have to say or no we have a good God and I beseech every Man that hears me this day for we live in a sinful Age good People and it behoves every one of you it cannot be long before all that look upon me in this Condition must lie down in the Dust and God knows must come into an Eternal State either for Mercy or for Judgment I beseech you in the Name of God he is a God of Mercy and a God of Patience and Long-suffering that you would break off your Sins by Repentance and serve a good God who must be your Friend at last or else you are lost to Eternity O Lord how ungrateful Wretches are we that have a God of such infinite Mercy and Goodness that affords us our Life our Health and a thousand Mercies every day and we like ungrateful People not deserving the Name of Men or Christians live riotous Lives in Debauchery and Swearing in Malice and the Lord knows how many Evils I beseech God that I may be this day a Means in the Hand of God to bring some of their Souls over to him I beseech you remember what I say indeed I do not know I have been so strangely used since I have been a Prisoner what to say being brought from one Affliction to another that my Body is worn out and my Memory and Intellects have failed me much to what they were I cannot remember what I have to say more but that the Lord Jesus Christ would bless my Country and preserve it from Popery and in mercy bless his Majesty Good God be merciful to him make him an Instrument in thy Hand to defend his Protestant Subjects Lord in mercy defend him from his Enemies Good God bless this People good Lord continue the Gospel of Jesus Christ thy Gospel in its purity to us and our Posterity as long as the Sun and Moon endure O Lord save all that call upon thee be merciful to all thy Servants all thy People that put their trust in thee good Lord deliver them from the Hand of their Enemies good God let their Lives and Bodies and Souls be all precious in thy sight O merci-God put a stop to these most wicked Conspiracies of thy Enemies and the Nation 's Enemies the Papists Let no more Protestant Blood be shed but this of mine I beseech thee O my God. O Lord look upon me O Lord bless me O good God receive me into thy blessed Presence by Jesus Christ my alone Saviour and Redeemer in whom alone I put my trust for Salvation It is thee O God that I trust in thou Righteous Judg of Heaven and Earth All Popery all Pardons all Popes and Priests all Dispensations I disown and will not go out of the World with a Lie in my Mouth From the sincerity of my Heart I declare again that what I have said to you is the very Sentiments of my Soul as God shall have Mercy upon me and to the best of my knowledg I desire the Prayers of you good People while I am here and once more I beseech you to think upon Eternity every one of you that hear me this day The Lord turn your Hearts and Souls if you have been wicked Livers if you do live wicked Lives the Lord in Mercy convert you and shew you your Danger for I as little thought to come to this as any Man that hears me this day and I bless God I have no more deserved it from the Hands of Men than the Child that sucks at his Mothers Breast I bless my God for it and do say I have been a Sinner against my God and he hath learn'd me Grace ever since I have been a Prisoner I bless my God for a Prison I bless my God for Afflictions I bless my God that ever I was restrained for I never knew my self till he had taken me out of the World. Therefore you that have your Liberties and Time and precious Opportunities be up and be doing for God and for your Souls every one of you To his Son. Where is my dear Child Mr. Sheriff I made one Request to you and you gave me an imperfect Answer You said you were of the best Reform ●d Church in the World the Church of England according to the best Reformation in the World I desire you for the Satisfaction of the World to declare what Church that is Whether Presbyterian or Independent or the Church of England or what Colledge Good Mr. Sheriff for your satisfaction For twenty Years and above I was under the Presbyterian Ministry till his Majesty's Restauration then I was conformable to the Church of England when that was restored and so continued till such time as I saw persecution upon the Dissenting People and very undue things done to their Meeting-places then I went among them to know what kind of People those were And I do take God to Witness since that time I have used their Meetings viz. the Presbyterians others very seldom and the Church of England I did hear Dr. Tillotson not above three weeks before I was taken I heard the Church of England as frequently as I heard the Dissenters and never had any Prejudice God is my Witness against either but always heartily desired that they might unite and be Lovers and Friends and had no prejudice against any Man and truly I am afraid that it is not for the Nation 's Good that there should be such Heart-burnings between them That some of the Church of England will preach that the

to Death Suffered a Jury to be packed by the King's Solicitors and the Under-Sheriff Admit of Jury-men who are not Freeholders Receive such Evidence as is above-mentioned Refuse a Copy of an Indictment or to Suffer the Statute of 46. Ed. 3. to be read that doth expresly Enact it should in no Case be denied unto any Man upon any occasion whatsoever Over-rule the most important Points of Law without hearing And whereas the Stat. 25. Ed. 3. upon which they said I should be Tried doth Reserve unto the Parliament all Constructions to be made in Points of Treason They could assume unto themselves not only a Power to make Constructions but such Constructions as neither agree with Law Reason or Common Sense By these means I am brought to this Place The Lord forgive these Practices and avert the Evils that threaten the Nation from them The Lord sanctify these my Sufferings unto me and tho I fall as a Sacrifice unto Idols suffer not Idolatry to be Established in this Land. Bless thy People and save them Defend thy own Cause and defend those that defend it Stir up such as are Faint Direct those that are willing confirm those that Waver Give Wisdom and Integrity unto all Order all things so as may most redound unto thine own Glory Grant that I may Die glorifying Thee for all thy Mercies and that at the last Thou hast permitted me to be Singled out as a Witness of thy Truth and even by the Confession of my Opposers for that OLD CAUSE in which I was from my Youth engaged and for which thou hast Often and Wonderfully declared thy Self The Last Speech of Col. Richard Rumbold at the Market-Cross of Edinburgh with several things that passed at his Tryal 26 June 1685. ABout Eleven of the Clock he was brought from the Castle of Edinburgh to the Justices Court in a great Chair on Mens Shoulders where at first he was asked some Questions most of which he answer'd with Silence at last said He humbly conceived It was not necessary for him to add to his own Accusation since he was not ignorant they had enough already to do his Business and therefore he did not design to fret his Conscience at that time with Answering Questions After which his Libel being read the Court proceeded in usual manner first asking him If he had any thing to say for himself before the Jury closed His Answer was He owned it all saving that part of having Designed the King's Death and desired all present to believe the words of a Dying Man he never directly nor indirectly intended such a Villany that he abhorred the very thoughts of it and that he blessed God he had that Reputation in the World that he knew none that had the Impudence to ask him the Question and he detested the thoughts of such an Action and he hoped all good People would believe him which was the only way he had to clear himself and he was sure that this Truth should be one day made manifest to all Men. He was again asked If he had any Exception against the Jury He answered No but wished them to do as God and their Consciences directed them Then they withdrew and returned their Verdict in half an hour and brought him in Guilty The Sentence followed For him to be taken from that Place to the next Room and from thence to be Drawn on a Hurdle betwixt Two and Four of the Clock to the Cross of Edinburgh the Place of Execution and there to be Hang'd Drawn and Quartered He received his Sentenc with an undaunted Courage and Chearfulness Afterwards he was delivered into the Town-Magistrates Hands they brought to him two of their Divines and offered him their Assistance upon the Scaffold which he altogether refused telling them That if they had any good Wishes for him he desired they would spend them in their own Closets and leave him now to seek God in his own Way He had several Offers of the same kind by others which he put off in like manner He was most serious and fervent in Prayers the few hours he lived as the Sentinels observed who were present all the while The Hour being come he was brought to the Place of Execution where he saluted the People on all sides of the Scaffold and after having refreshed himself with a Cordial out of his Pocket he was supported by two Men while he spoke to the People in these words Gentlemen and Brethren It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die and after Death to Judgment and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done and seeing the Lord is pleased in this manner to take me to himself I confess something hard to Flesh and Blood yet blessed be his Name who hath made me not only Willing but Thankful for his honouring me to lay down the Life he gave for his Name in which were every Hair in this Head and Beard of mine a Life I should joyfully sacrifice them for it as I do this And Providence having brought me hither I thick it most necessary to clear my self of some Aspersions laid on my Name and first That I should have had so horrid an Intention of Destroying the King and his Brother Here he repeated what he had said before to the Justices on this Subject It was also laid to my Charge That I was Antimonarchical It was ever my Thoughts That Kingly Government was the best of all Justly Executed I mean such as by our ancient Laws that is a King and a Legal Free Chosen Parliament The King having as I conceive Power enough to make him Great the People also as much Property as to make them Happy they being as it were contracted to one another And who will deny me that this was not the Just Constituted Government of our Nation How absurd is it then for Men of Sense to maintain That though the one Party of this Contract breaketh all Conditions the other should be obliged to perform their Part No this Error is contrary to the Law of God the Law of Nations and the Law of Reason But as Pride hath been the Bait the Devil hath catched most by ever since the Creation so it continues to this day with us Pride caused our first Parents to fall from the blessed Estate wherein they were created they aiming to be Higher and Wiser than God allowed which brought an everlasting Curse on them and their Posterity It was Pride caused God to Drown the Old World. And it was Nimrod's Pride in building Babel that caused that heavy Curse of Division of Tongues to be spread among us as it is at this day One of the greatest Afflictions the Church of God groaneth under That there should be so many Divisions during their Pilgrimage here but this is their Comfort that the Day draweth near whereas there is but One Shepheard there shall

him as to Kill him with my own hands But however by their Swearing against me they have secured their own Lives and Estares and made my Blood the price of theirs I confess I was so unfortunate and unhappy as to be invited by Collonel Rumsey one of the Witnesses against me to some Meetings where some things were discoursed of in order to the asserting our Liberties and Properties which we looked upon to be violated and invaded But it was he and Mr. W. and some Gentlemen that are fled who were the great promoters of those Meetings I was near a quarter of a Year ill of the Gout and during that time Mr. W. often visited me and still his discourse would be concerning Lopping the Two Sparks That was the word he used meaning the King and the Duke and proposed it might be done at a Play This was his frequent discourse For he said Then they would die in their Calling It was his very Expression He bought Arms to do it with without any direction of mine I never saw the Arms nor I never saw the Men that were to do it though they said they had Fifty imployed to that end I told several of them That the Killing the King would carry such a blemish and stain with it as would descend to Posterity that I had Eight Children that I was loth should be blemished with it And withal I was confident the Duke of Monmouth would revenge his Fathers Blood if it were but to vindicate himself from having any hand in it And now I desire to forgive all the World from the very bottom of my Heart and I pray God of his Mercy from my Heart to forgive them even Mr. Shepherd who delivered me up who promised to carry me into Holland but instead of that he brought me into the condition wherein I now am I do desire with all my Heart to forgive the Witnesses and withal do earnestly beg that they may be observed that some Remarks may be set upon them whether their End be Peace and that they die the common Death of all Men. Certainly though it be the Law of the Land I ought to Die and the King may justly and reasonably put me to Death for being in those Meetings where a War was debated yet I think these Men are guilty of my Blood that were as deep in as I and have betrayed me and taken it away Then in the next place I beg leave Mr. Sheriff to speak one short word of Advice to my Friends that hath been often given to me though I was not so fortunate and so happy as to take it and that is That they would neither hear any Man speak nor speak themselves that which they would not have repeated For there is no such thing as Faith in Man to Man whatever there is in Man to God Either the Tears of a Wife or a Family of little helpless Children something or other will tempt and provoke Men to betray one another When God hath a Work to do he will not want Instruments for he can make them nor will he want a way to do it for he can contrive it and bring it to pass And I do most heartily desire and my earnest Prayer to the Almighty is That this may be the last Blood spilt upon this account I know Acts of Indulgence and Mercy in the King would make him much easier in his Government and would make his People sit much easier under it and that the Lord may encline his Heart to mercy ought to be the Prayer of every good Man. What hath happened and what hath been the present occasion of our Calamity I suppose every man knows what Provocations have been on the one hand Fears and Necessities Jealousies and Sufferings of the other I will not intermeddle with resolving to use my utmost endeavour to make that Peace and Reconciliation with my God which is impossible for me to make with Man and to make it my hearty Prayer to the Great God before whom I am in a little time to appear That he would stench this Issue of Blood and find out some other way to preserve these Kingdoms in Unity and Peace to the Honour and Glory of his Great Name and the eternal Comfort of his People One word Mr. Sheriff I desire to speak as to Ireland because the King prest it hard upon me and several People have been with me about Ireland how far Ireland was concerned in this matter I do aver here as in the presence of God before whom I am now going to appear That I do not know an Englishman nor Protestant in Ireland engaged in it What I did know was only of one Scotish Gentleman in the North and the King knows it but he says he does not believe it For they that were concerned I was never in any of their Councils I never saw any of those Lords but the Duke of Monmouth and that was I believe above six Months ago I never saw nor spoke with one Lord only my Lord Howard I have not more to say Mr. Sheriff But truly you will do an act of a great deal of Charity if you will Prevail with the King for an Act of Indulgence and Liberty to his People I think so And so the Lord have mercy upon me Captain Walcot's Prayer O Lord our God Thou art a God of present help in time of Trouble a God that hast promised to be with thy People in the Fire and in the Water O Lord we pray Thee that Thou wilt afford thy Presence to thy poor suffering Servants at this time that Thou wilt enable us to pray with Faith to trust in Thee to be in expectation and hope of Mercy from Thee O Lord thy Servant that speaketh doth confess that the Iniquities at his Heels have justly overtaken him that Just and Righteous art thou in all thy Judgments that he hath reason to bear thy Indignation because he hath sinned O Lord we beg even for thy Son Christ Jesus's sake that our Sins may not be brought to our remembrance in order to our despondency or discouragement or our despairing in thy Mercy but rather O Lord in order to an assurance that our great God hath pardoned and forgiven them in the Blood of his Son. O do thou bathe each of our Souls in that Fountain set open for Sin and for Uncleanness Give us O Lord inward spiritual strength from thy Self and give us cause to bless thy Name for inward supporting Graces for inward assistances O let us find an increase of spiritual strength let us be assured that our Sins are done away and let us also be assured that our Names are written in the Book of Life and let it be such an assurance as may be matter of joy and rejoycing to our Souls O do thou enable every one of us from the inward evidence of thy Spirit to say with thy Servant Job That we know and are assured that our Redeemer lives O