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A70520	The last speech & behaviour of William, late Lord Russel, upon the scaffold in Lincolns-Inne-Fields, a little before his execution, on Saturday, July 21, 1683 being condemned for high-treason in conspiring the death of the King, and the subversion of the government &c. : together with the paper delivered by him to the sheriffs, and signed with his own hand : also the last speeches, behaviour, and prayers of Capt. Thomas Walcot, John Rouse Gent., & William Hone, joyner, a little before their execution at Tyburn, on Friday the 20th of July, 1683, being condemned for hihg-treason in conspiring &c.	Russell, William, Lord, 1639-1683.; Walcot, Thomas, d. 1683.; Rouse, John, d. 1683.; Hone, William, d. 1683.	1683 (1683)	Wing L504; ESTC R9946	28,404	20

other Temptation but make the Light of thy Countenance to shine upon me for thou art my Sun and my Shield and as thou supportest me by thy Grace so I hope thou wilt hereafter crown me with Glory and receive me into the Fellowship of Angels and Saints in that blessed Inheritance purchased for me by my most merciful Redeemer who is I trust at thy Right Hand preparing a Place for me into whose Hands I commend my Spirit Signed Will. Russel THE SPEECHES Of Captain Walcot Jo. Rouse and Will Hone On Friday the Twentieth of July 1683. CAptain Thomas Walcot being drawn to Tyburn in one Hurdle John Rouse and William Hone in another and there put into a Cart the Reverend Dr. Thomas Cartwright Dean of Rippon and one of His Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary with Mr. Smith the Ordinary of Newgate began to acquaint Captain Walcot That this was the last time he had to spend in the world and therefore desired him to make a good use of it telling him That as death leaves him so Judgment will find him and earnestly exhorted him to make an ingenious Discovery and Confession of what he knew touching the Conspiracy and Treasons of which he had been found guilty and received Sentence to die To this Captain Walcot replyed That he had some Papers in his Pocket of what he had prepared to say in Writing because his memory was bad therefore he desired they might be pulled out and he would read them Then Dr. Cartwright and the Ordinary spake to Hone and Rouse to the effect before-mentioned earnestly desiring them to confess the whole of what they knew instancing some places of Scripture to them as Joshuah's advice to Aeloan c. My Son confess and give glory to God whom you have dishonoured c. telling them they would have imbrued their hands in the Blood of a merciful and good Prince who had often pardoned and gave many Acts of Oblivion and Indemnity to his Subjects and whose Reign hath preserved the purity of the Protestant Religion amongst us That we cannot enjoy more than we do enjoy with other good admonitions for them to make cleer Discoveries of the truth of what they knew Captain Walcot in the mean while was prepared to read his Speech Dr. Cartwright askt him if he could discover any more than he had done already Walcot I 've not in the general I told the King the thing was laid very deep There was a Gentleman with me last night I told him what I told the King and that was all I told him I thought an Act of Indulgence would be very necessary because he had a great many men to take Judgment of I know not the particulars of the Design but the King hath the Lord Howard Mr. West and others that know more than I. I was never in Councel with them nor never with them above four five or half a dozen times Then looking upon his Paper he began his Speech as follows THis great Concourse of people do not only come here to see me dye 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 holly 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 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 Peters Converted they being prickt in their hearts and touched in their Consciences cryed 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 dyed Death is said to be the King of Terrours but it is only so to those that are terrifyed 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 Christs he takes away the terror and horror and sting of death he enables them to say with Paul To me to live is Christ and to dye 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 dye 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 Kings Councel 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 that

because Sir Geo. Jefferies insinuated to the Jury as if I had made a Story about going thither but I never said that was the only Reason And I will now truly and plainly add the rest I was the day before this Meeting come to Town for two or three days as I had done once or twice before having a very near and dear Relation lying in a very languishing and desperate Condition And the Duke of Monmouth came to me and told me He was extreamly glad I was come to Town for my Lord Shaftsbury and some hot Men would undo us all if great Care be not taken and therefore for God's sake use your Endeavours with your Friends to prevent any thing of this kind He told me there would be Company at Mr. Shephard's that Night and desired me to be at home in the Evening and he would call me which he did And when I came into the Room I saw Mr. Rumsey by the Chimny though he swears he came in after and there were things said by some with much more Heat than Judgment which I did sufficiently disapprove and yet for these things I stand condemned But I thank God my part was sincere and well meant It is I know inferred from hence and was pressed to me that I was acquainted with these Heats and ill Designs and did not discover them But this is but Misprision of Treason at most So I dye innocent of the Crime I stand condemn'd for and I hope nobody will imagine that so mean a Thought could enter into me as to go about to save my self by accusing others The part that some have acted lately of that kind has not been such as to invite me to love Life at such a rate As for the Sentence of Death passed upon me I cannot but think it a very hard one For nothing was sworn against me whether true or false I will not now examine but some Discourses about making some Stirs And this is not levying War against the King which is Treason by the Statute of Edward the Third and not the consulting and discoursing about it which was all that was witnessed against me But by a strange Fetch the Design of seizing the Guards was construed a Design of killing the King and so I was in that cast And now I have truly and sincerely told what my part was in that which cannot bemore than a bare Misprision and yet I am condemned as guilty of a design of killing the King I pray God lay not this to the charge neither of the King's Counsel nor Judges nor Sheriffs nor Jury And for the Witnesses I pity them and wish them well I shall not reckon up the Particulars wherein they did me wrong I had rather their own Consciences should do that to which and the Mercies of God I leave them Only I still averr that what I said of my not hearing Col. Rumsey deliver his Message from my Lord Shaftsbury was true for I always detested Lying tho never so much to my advantage And I hope none will be so unjust and uncharitable as to think I would venture on it in these my last Words for which I am so soon to give an account to the Great God the Searcher of Hearts and Judg of all Things From the Time of chusing Sheriffs I concluded the Heat in that Matter would produce something of this kind and I am not much surprized to find it fall upon me And I wish what is done to me may put a stop and satiate some Peoples Revenge and that no more innocent Blood may be shed for I must and do still look upon mine as such since I know I was guilty of no Treason and therefore I would not betray my Innocence by Flight of which I do not I thank God yet repent tho much pressed to it how fatal soever it may have seem'd to have proved to me for I look upon my Death in this manner I thank God with other eyes than the World does I know I said but little at the Trial and I suppose it looks more like Innocence than Guilt I was also advis'd not to confess matter of Fact plainly since that must certainly have brought me within the Guilt of Misprision And being thus restrained from dealing frankly and openly I chose rather to say little than to depart from Ingenuity that by the grace of God I had carried along with me in the former parts of my Life and so could easier be silent and leave the whole matter to the Conscience of the Jury than to make the last and solemnest part of my life so different from the course of it as the using little Tricks and Evasions must have been Nor did I ever pretend to a great readiness in speaking I wish those Gentlemen of the Law who have it would make more Conscience in the use of it and not run Men down by Strains and Fetches impose on easie and willing Juries to the Ruine of innocent Men For to kill by Forms and Subtilties of Law is the worst sort of Murder But I wish the Rage of hot Men and the Partialities of Juries may be stopp'd with my Blood which I would offer up with so much the more Joy if I thought I should be the last were to suffer in such a way Since my Sentence I have had few Thoughts but Preparatory ones for Death Yet the Importunity of my Friends and particularly of the best and dearest Wife in the World prevailed with me to sign Petitions and make Addresses for my Life To which I was very averse For I thank God tho in all respects I have lived one of the happiest and contented'st men in the world for now near fourteen years yet I am so willing to leave all that it was not without Difficulty that I did any thing for the saving of my Life that was Begging But I was willing to let my Friends see what Power they had over me and that I was not obstinate nor sullen but would do any thing that an honest Man could do for their Satisfaction Which was the only Motive that sway'd or had any weight with me And now to summ up all as I never had any Design against the King's Life or the Life of any man whatsoever so I never was in any Contrivance of altering the Government What the Heats Wickednesses Passions and Vanities of other men have occasioned I ought not to be answerable for nor could I repress them tho I now suffer for them But the Will of the Lord be done into whose Hands I commend my Spirit and trust that thou O most merciful Father hast forgiven me all my Transgressions the Sins of my Youth and all the Errors of my past Life and that thou wilt not lay my secret Sins to my Charge but wilt graciously support me during that small part of my Life now before me and assist me in my last Moments and not leave me then to be disorder'd by Fear or any

I made it a scruple of Conscience to have a hand in killing the King or to embrue 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 Idiot that I should not understand it was the same thing to engage the Kings Guards whilst another Killed him as to Kill him with my own hands But however by their Swearing against me they have secured their own Lives and Estates and made my Blood the price of theirs I confess I was so unfortunate and unhappy as to be invited by Colonel 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. West 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. West often visited me and still his discourse would be concerning Lopping the Swo 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 dye 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 slain with it as would descend to posterity that I had Eight Children that I was loath 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 Mr. West presently told me that the Duke of Monmouth did not refuse to give an Engagement that he would not punish those that should kill the King 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 withall 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 Bloud that were as deep in as I and have betrayed me and taken in 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 Bloud 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 men and to make it my hearty Prayer to the Great God before whom I am in little time to appear That he would stench this Issue of Bloud 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 leave 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 English-man nor Protestant in Ireland engaged in it What I did know was onely 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 onely my Lord Howard I heard my Lord Howard say That they did not value Ireland for it must follow England 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 Dr. Cartwright You blame them for that which is their Vertue and not their Crime That they have been Witnesses for the King Walcot I was not for contriving the Death of the King if you 'll believe me Dr. Cartwright You blame them for betraying of you in Contriving the War upon which the death of the King must have followed if your Treason had gone forward for else you could not have defended your self from that Justice to which he hath brought you and therefore you to lay that as a Crime upon your Witnesses is indeed very strange Walcot Sir I think it was but reasonable that I should suffer that is due from Justice and reasonable by the Law but these men they did not come in against me till they did it to save themselves Dr. Cartwright Better late than never a man had better save his Soul and Body too than die as now you do for Crimes that ought to make every good mans heart relent and therefore

for your blaming them it was for that which was their duty to do they have not committed a Crime in that but a very meritorious act Walcot They have revealed it with that aggravating circumstance which I think no rational man will be guilty of Dr. Cartwright That circumstance which you call aggravating is no aggravation at all That is rather a mitigation of your Crime to make them believe that You were tenderer of the Kings person than to shoot him when he was not armed But you confess you were consulting this Crime Walcot I was not to have a hand in the Kings Death Dr. Cartwright But it was proposed when you were there Walcot It was so Dr. Cartwright And it was agreed to be done Walcot Truly I do not know how far it was agreed I was there many Meetings Dr. Cartwright These very Meetings you could not but be sensible of Walcot There were several Meetings wherein the business of the Kings life was never spoke of Dr. Cartwright That was agreed in those Meetings but you had a tenderer Conscience Walcot I say they were for asserting our Liberties and Properties Dr. Cartwright I would fain have you explain that Walcot Truly Sir since you do press me to speak we were under general apprehensions and so were those Lords that are likely to suffer as I have heard they were under general apprehensions of Popery and Slaveries coming in Dr. Cartwright What signe was there of it you had no Persecution at all you were allowed by the Law to meet five in a house besides those of the Family It is true the Conventicles have been disturbed of late and I would have you look upon it as a Judgment of God to bring you to this for forsaking the Church of England You have forsaken Communion with that Church in that way you were instructed from your Youth Walcot I do not come here to dispute of Religion but I come here to die religiously if it please God to enable me Dr. Cartwright I pray God enable you but I would not have you charge that as a Crime upon the Witnesses which was their Duty Walcot I can't tell how to excuse my Witnesses for aggravating things against me and making them worse than really they were Dr. Cartwright going to reply Walcot Pray Sir give me leave for a man to invite a man to a Meeting to importune him to this Meeting to be perpetually solliciting him and then to deliver him up to be hanged as they have done me Dr. Cartwright It was a Crime to sollicite you to those Meetings but when you were in it was a Duty in you and in them to reveal it if God had given you the grace to reveal them the turn had been theirs which now is yours And whereas you say you cannot excuse them that is uncharitable Walcot I do forgive them and I desire with all my heart God would forgive them Dr. Cartwright You confess you were guilty enough to take away your life Walcot I was so The same measure we mete to another that measure God will mete to us Then Sir I do leave it to God Dr. Cartwright Then you pray this may be the last blood spilt upon this account Walcot I do so Dr. Cartwright Would not you have Traytors brought to their end You talk of spilling Blood as if it were innocent Blood now spilt when you do confess and own the guilt But I shall give you no further disturbance but my Prayers to Almighty God for you that God would give you mercy And then turning to Hone. Dr. C. Mr. Hone give glory to God and unburthen your Conscience for you have but a short time to stay here Hone. I have nothing further to say but that I have been guilty of the Crime Dr. C. You are so H. Yes I am guilty of this Crime according to the Law of the Land Dr. C. I and according to the Law of God H. Yes Dr. C. You say according to the Law of the Land a man may be sworn out of his life by false witnesses but you were guilty of Conspiring the Death of the King and raising an Insurrection H. Truly I must say as the Captain well minded I was drawn in Thou sawest a thief and thou consentedst with him So I say that I was drawn in I saw the thief and consented I have looked upon my self since to be the more guilty of blood and my Circumstance was to be drawn in and insnared for I never was at any of their meetings none of their Cabals but in a publick Coffee-house or Tavern where they discoursed the matter of Fact and I was to meet the K. and the D. of York but I did not know at that time when or where nor what was my business Dr. C. But you were to assist H. Yes I promised that to assist Dr. C. Do you beg God and the Kings forgiveness for it from the bottom of your heart that you have been guilty of this For if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the Ditch as well he that leads as he that is led although he that leads may fall deeper There are circumstances make one mans Crime greater than another The greatness of theirs do's not lessen yours H. I believed that then I was very near another snare I was resolved to go down into the Country and not meddle in the thing at all and had been in the Country but meeting with Keeling I freely forgive him for whatsoever is done he called me and discoursing with him I did say I was for killing the K. and saving the D. of York Dr. C. Why was you for saving the D. of Y. H. I do not know what to say as to that there was no reason Dr. C. What was your own private reason for killing the K. and saving the D. of Y. H. As to that I think this that the D. of Y. did openly profess himself to be a R. Catholick and I did say I had rather dispose of the K. than the D. of Y. Dr. C. Had you rather a Papist should Reign over us as you take him to be than the K. H. I do not know what to say to that Dr. C. That do's deserve a reason Mr. Hone. You ought to give some reason of that you cannot but have some reason if you had had a design to kill the D. and save the K. then it might be to prevent Popery but you say the quite contrary God in Heaven forgive you for your murderous design H. I know as little of this as any poor silly man in the world I was fain to gather it I had it not so down right I was drawn into it however I am now to die as for the Witnesses I desire the Lord to forgive them Dr. C. They have not wronged you they have done their duty Dr. C. Rouse what say you Rouse As a man and a Christian in the first place as God hath made me a Christian

those that are Professors of the Protestant Religion and particularly Coffee-Houses where it is very well known too much time is spent and Families and Wives and Children suffer too much I pray God the People may take notice of it and lay it to Heart that spend their time so thinking it is but a Penny and a Penny and so discourse of State-Affairs as if so be they were Gods Counsellors in the Government of the World running from the Coffee-House to the Tavern and from the Tavern to the Coffee-House which hath been the Debauchery of this Age and so bring them into this Dilemma to discourse of those Things neither pleasing to God nor the King nor themselves but their Prejudice The Profanation of the Sabbath-Day is commonly discourst of in this place God forgive me for not observing it as I should I pray God those that follow me may be more careful of their Duty to God and Man for the good of themselves their Souls and their Families those that are young especially and coming up that they may chiefly mind their Concerns for Eternity and that they would pay their Duty and Homage to the King and those that God has set over them and not neglect that great Command to pray for the King and all that are in Authority Being asked if they had any thing more to say They said No. Mr. Ordinary then prayed with them and sung a Psalm and then they desired to pray themselves which was granted Captain Walcot's Prayer O Lord our God Thou art the 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 bath each of our Souls in that Fountain set open for Sin and for Vncleanness 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 do thou give us such an assurance of an Interest in thee that we may be inabled in deed in reality and in truth to say that we have run our race and we have finished our course with Joy O let us now receive the fruit of those many Petitions that we have put up unto thee O let us now find the Spirit influencing our Hearts to a yielding patience and a thorow subjection to the Will of God let us find thy Spirit assuring us that we are thine O let us have stronger Evidences of thy Love stronger Testimonies of thy Affection O give us some inward Tastes of those heavenly Joys that we hope through the Mercy of Jesus Christ in a little time to have a more full Fruition of O Lord do thou speak peace to every one of our Consciences enable us to take hold of thy Strength that thou may'st make Peace with us and let us not be discouraged O Lord since we have a High-Priest that can be touched with our Infirmities let us with Boldness have Access to the Throne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and Grace to help in time of need O take away the Sting and Terror that is in Death in any one of us by assuring us of our Interest in thee by assuring us that our Names are recorded in the Book of Life tho we lye under a Sentence of Death from Man we beg that we may have a Sentence of Life eternal from our God and tho we meet thee O Lord in a Field of Blood we beg that thou wilt come to meet with us in a Field of Mercy O Lord extend thy Mercy thou Lord whose Compassions faileth not cause the Bowels of thy tender pity to yearn with Compassion towards us enable every one of us O Lord to die believing in Jesus Christ to die hoping in his Mercy to die relying upon him for Justification for Sanctification and for Adoption O Lord though we have been Prodigals we desire to return to our Fathers House where there is Bread enough O enable us to come unto thee as Children to their Parents O let our Prayers be offer'd with so much Fervour in Christ Jesus that thou may'st think it reasonable to assure us of thy Love O let the Intercession of Jesus Christ be accepted O Lord we beg that he may be our Advocate if our Advocate be our Judge certainly we cannot miscarry O let Jesus Christ be the Hope of every one of our Souls and Lord let not our Hope be like that of the Hypocrite but let our Faith be built upon the Rock of Ages and let us not fail from the apprehension of Affliction and Punishment from men Yet O Lord do thou so order our Hearts and our Spirits aright that thou may'st be the Lot of our Inheritance and our Portion for ever O do thou interest us in thy self Lord carry on thy own Work We desire to come unto thee that we may have life Lord help us Lord put to thy helping Hand Lord teach us truly to leave no Sin unrepented of in any one of our Hearts And O Lord we beg that with us thou wilt give us leave to recommend unto thy Care our poor Wives and Children Thou hast promised to be the Father of the Fatherless and the Husband of the Widdow and thou hast commanded us to cast the Care of them upon thee O do thou make Provision for them deal kindly with them imprint thy own Image upon them and enable them to bear this severe stroke with Patience O Lord stand by and support them let their Ways be found so pleasing and acceptable unto thee that thou may'st think it reasonable to make all their Enemies at Peace Lord interest them in thy Love and do thou favour them with thy Mercies and loving Kindnesses O