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B02487	The happy sinner: or, The penitent malefactor. Being the prayers and last words of one Richard Cromwel (some time a souldier and chyrurgion in the late D. of Monmouth's Army, and since of their present Majesties) who was executed at Leichfield for murder, on the 3d. day of July, 1691. Wherein are not only contained his prayers ... but also his last speech ... And also, his legacy to his county, of choyce, physical, and chyrurgical receipts ...	Cromwel, Richard, d. 1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing C7035; ESTC R171606	6,296	11

thy Grace I Commend my self my Soul and my Body into thy hands praying thee not to cast him which hath no Hope but onely in thee and that alone in and by Jesus Christ my onely Lord and Saviour Amen Amen Isaiah 53 Ver. 3. O My beloved Saviour wast thou despised and rejected of men and shall I not learn to despise and reject my self that I may be like to thee approved to thee and received by thee wast thou a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief who knewest no sin and shall I who came into the world with sin look to go out of the world without sorrow didst thou so patiently bear the griefs and carry the sorrows that were due for my sins and shall not I patiently bear the griefs and carry the sorrows that are due for mine own sins how could I have sorrows if I had not sins and why should I not have patience now I must have sorrows wast thou stricken and smitten of God and afflicted who wast his only begotten and most dearly Beloved Son and shall I look to escape the Scourge who heretofore have been his Enemy and still am his undutifull and unworthy servant His Speech to the People at his Execution Good People IT would much comfort my afflicted soul if at this my last farewell to the world I could say any thing that may be for the benefit as to instructions for Sobriety Holiness Justice and Charity You have them so plentiful poured out upon you by the Reverend Dean and Ministers of this place that have most Christianly assisted me in my afflictions that it will be your condemnation not to observe and Obey them and your impieties under such plentifull means of Holiness will be utterly inexcusable As for my own sins were I to live ever so long I could not sufficiently confess and Lament for them But I hope the pardon hath this day been sealed unto me in the Holy Sacrament which I have received as to the Crime for which I suffer I here declare in the presence of God before whom I am instantly to appear that I am so far innocent as not to have given him the wound of which it is said he dyed on Nay I can farther add in the presence of God that I had no design to kill him or any other person whatsoever I did not so much as see or touch him and consider these are the Words of a dying Man I cannot in Charity Omit to put those in mind of their uncharitableness who so far thirsted after my blood as to hinder means used to save it and who by Unchristian informations have prevented that Gracious Mercy which otherwise I might have obtained This mercy they have obstructed as I hear say not only uncharitably but unjustly by laying the most wicked falsehood to my charge That is that I should threaten If I got my pardon to be the death of Mr. Wright or his Wife I call God to witness that this wickedness was never in my thoughts and I pray God forgive them who have raised this false report Another unmerciful slander which some have Thrown upon Me and that since my condemnation I have been guilty of Uncleaness with Women I do not come hither to justifie my life God knows it hath been too wicked But I bless God since I was a prisoner and condemn'd I have had an abhorrence of all such wickedness God forgive them God forgive them and grant them True Repentance for what they have done Lord lay not my Blood nor their hindering of the means used to save it to their charge But that which hath given me no small Trouble is that I hear the Reverend and good Dean Dr. Addison who hath been so carefull of my soul and willing to save my life hath been misrepresented above for so doing by those whom nothing could satisfie but my death I am now going to appear before that God before whom you must also shortly appear and as I desire forgiveness at his hands so I humbly forgive all God bless their present Majesties and preserve the Church of England with the Reverend Dean and Ministers of this place and all who have been Charitable to me with all others And so I humbly beg Gods pardon for all my sins for the sake of Christ in whose name I recommend my Soul to his Mercy I beseech all the world to forgive me in whatsoever I have offended them whether by thought word or deed I do from the bottom of my heart forgive all those who have any way injured me And lastly I beseech you all good people to pray for me to the last Moment of my Life Lord Jesus receive my Spirit How far this unhappy Man was guilty of the Crime he dyed for is too late to dispute 'T is indeed certain a Man was Kil'd but whether by this person or the Switz's his companion is now the query since this that Suffered denyed it to the last it may serve to inform those who are strangers to the thing into whose hands this small book may come that the matter appeared so on Tryal that the jury found cause to acquit the Forraigner and bring this person in guilty but as in most cases of this Nature different men have different Sentiments so there were some and of good quality too who so far concern'd themselves on his behalf as to endeavour his Reprieve which had they not thought him an Object deserving Pitty and his case a little hard we may reasonably conclude they would not have appeared therein It may not be improper to add the rather because it is a thing much talked of here where the thing was done that though the prisoner had about six days notice to prepare for his death yet because there had been such means used for His Reprieve he was not wholly without hopes of life till the day before when he being upon his Knees in his Chamber three Ravens light upon the prison and after making a very great noise there they took wing again but immediately returning they flew with great violence against the walls of the Room where he was and there being a little hole or window against which place this person was Kneeling one of the Ravens hanging on the wall by her Claws put in her head thereat and with so much feirceness that it was thought had the hole been big enough she would have flown in at him This at first a little frighted him but afterwards considering that that God that had made all creatures had still the command over them and remembring that the Raven is esteemed by most persons a kind of foreteller of death he really accounted them so to himself and looked upon them as Messengers sent by Providence to take off his hopes of life and warn him of his approaching end So he esteemed them as sent by God and from that time laid by all Hopes of a Reprieve This was not only told by himself but will be

The Happy Sinner OR The Penitent Malefactor BEING The Prayers and Last Words of one Richard Cromwel some Time a Souldier and Chyrurgion in the Late D. of Monmouth's Army and since of Their Present Majesties who was Executed at Leichfield for Murder on the 3d. day of July 1691. Wherein are not only contained his Prayers drawn up by his own hand which with a little Variation may fitly be used by most Christian People but also his Last Speech which is a very Pious and Godly Exhortation to all Christian People to forsake Sin and Wickedness and to turn to GOD before He overtake them with His Just Judgments for their Wickedness AND ALSO His LEGACY to his County of Choyce Physical and Chyrurgical Receipts viz. I. A Balsome for Wounds Bruises Pains Aches Stiches and Sprains II. A very Extraordinary Receipt for the Worms III. Two several Receipts for that Tormenting Distemper the Wind Collick IV. A Cure for all Colds or C●●ghs New or Old V. A Purge for the Head which Cures ●●…ost Pains and helps the Eye-sight VI. A General Purge c●rrying off all Flegme Choller Melancholly from a●l parts of the Body ●hereby Curing or preventing many Diseases VII A most Excellent Plaister for all Pain● And Lastly Directions to make Two ●●veral Waters for the Eyes with the Last of which he Cured a Boy in Leichfield that had been Blind Three Years TOGETHER With a Strange and Wonderful Account of Three Ravens Flying against the Walls of his Chamber which he esteemed as sent by God to give him Notice of his Approaching Death Licensed and Entred according to Order London Printed for R. Clavell at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church Yard and are to be Sold by Mich. Johnson Bookseller in Leichfield 1691. A PRAYER Applyed to my Present State and Condition being Condemned to Dye the 23d of April VOuchsafe O thou God of all Mercy and Compassion to look with Pity upon the most woful Case of a poor Wretch ready by the Sword of Justice to be cut off as unworthy to live amonst Men and like also without thy speedy Favour to be shut out of Heaven and to have my part in the second Death Truth it is O Lord that all this though it be grievous yet it is no more than my desert and touching that bodily Death whereto I am adjudged I must confess it to be thy Mercy and Goodness towards me that I have been found out by the eye of the Magistrate and stopped by the Power of Authority from going on in further Evil I beseech thee that my death may be both a Chastisement to me and an Advertisement to others to contain themselves within the Bonds of true Obedience but now concerning my Soul which is now e're long to appear before the Tribunal Seat of thy great Majesty I humbly pray thee to be merciful thereunto I cannot but acknowledge that if thou give me my due Recompence I must be thrust into that dreadful place of infinite and eternal Torment which thou hast prepared for the Wicked the Burning whereof is Fire and much Wood and thy Breath like a River of Brimstone doth kindle neither see I in my self or in any Creature any means or possibility to escape fearful unto me hath been the Face of an Earthly Judge and the Sentence of Death to be inflicted upon this my House of Clay hath made my Heart to quake What then will become of me when I shall be Arraigned before thee at whose rebuking the very Foundations of the Earth are discovered and before whom no man living can be justified Thou O Lord knowest all mine Iniquities they are sealed up with thee as in a bag they are all noted in thy Registers although I have many times sought for the covering of my evil ways to hide my self in the darkness of the Night supposing that no Eye should see me yet thou hast still compassed my Paths and been accustomed to all my ways there hath not been a Thought in my Heart or a Word in my Tongue but thou hast wholly known it often have I said in my heart God will not regard he hath forgotten he hideth away his face and will never see I shall never be moved nor be in danger thy Word I never delighted to hear I hated Knowledge I would none of thy Counsel I sought to dam up the Mouth of my Conscience that it might not Check me when my Friends admonished me I hated and scorned their Reproof then it was a pastime to me to do naughtily Wickedness was sweet in my Mouth and would not be perswaded to forsake it justly therefore O Lord hast thou overtaken me and made me eat the Fruit of my own way bringing me to be a Spectacle of the World to dye as one of the Fools of the People yet O gracious God there is Mercy with thee and that thou art very ready to forgive be favourable I entreat thee to me a most unworthy Sinner Manasses being put in Fetters and bound in Chains prayed unto thee and humbled himself greatly before thee in his Tribulation and thou wast entreated of him the Woman of Canaan whom thou termedst to be no better than a Dog yet thou didst afford her some Crumbs of Mercy and didst cause it to be unto her as she desired the Thief at his Execution confessed his sins and prayed to be remembred in thy Kingdom and thou didst promise him an Entrance into Paradice O Lord Are not these things written for my Learning that I through the Comfort of these Examples might have hope Hath thy Word spoken it in vain That at what time soever a Sinner sigheth unto thee thou wilt put all his Wickedness from before thee Shall I think that thou wilt call me being laden with my Sins to come unto thee and when I come will not accept me Make me I pray thee to see the depth of my Sins my self And grant also that those which see my End and know mine evil ways may have some Evidence of my Repentance and may learn of me to beware of the deceitfulness of Sin Enable me to look with the Eye of my Faith upon my Crucified Saviour casting my self wholly upon him and desiring by him to be hidden from thy Wrath give me some Tast of thy Love and some inward and secret Pledge of thy being reconciled to me for his sake strengthen me against the fear of Death that albeit I have every way just Cause to tremble at it it being both the desert of my Offences to men and the Wages of my Sins against thee yet having some Assurance in my Soul that the sting thereof is plucked out I may embrace it in my Bosome and entertain it as an end appointed for my Misery and as a Means to bring me unto Happiness Thus O Lord with fullness of my desire out of the bottom of this Misery and Shame which I am fallen into to fly unto thy Mercy and to be shrowded under the shadow of