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A40042	An alarme for sinners containing the confession, prayers, letters, and last words of Robert Foulkes, late minister of Stanton-Lacy in the County of Salop, who was tryed, convicted and sentenced at the sessions in the Old Bayly, London, January 16th, 1678/9, and executed the 31st following : with an account of his life / published from the original written with his own hand, during his reprieve, and sent by him at his death to Doctor Lloyd ...	Foulkes, Robert, d. 1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1644; ESTC R14395	27,043	44

and to deliver me over to Judicial hardness that seeing I might see and not perceive and hearing I might hear and not understand I have served divers Lusts and Pleasures My Eyes and Heart were full of Adultery so that I could not cease from Sin Nor have I sinned alone O Lord for I have drawn many with me into the snare of the Devil so that my Sins are Innumerable and Aggravated by many Circumstances but most of all that I was called by thy Name so that thy Enemies do blaspheme it upon my account I have to all this added that Execrable Sin of shedding Innocent Blood and done what I could to stifle the motions of thy Good Spirit But now my Sins and thy Righteous Judgments have found me out I acknowledge this is in great Mercy to my Soul that I might not lye and perish in my Sins I am Confounded and Ashamed I Abhor my self in dust and ashes I Confess I do not only deserve to die this Infamous death but to be cast out of thy sight into Outer-darkness for thou art of purer Eyes then to behold Iniquity and the Deceitful and Blood-Thirsty man thy Soul abhorreth so that I may justly fear my Prayers are Abomination to thee yet whither shall I flye from thy Presence thy Hand hath overtaken me and I am now to appear at thy Judgment Seat My Soul is full of Terrour and I am afraid of thy Judgments The Remembrance of my Sins is Grievous to me the Burden of them is Intolerable Yet my only Hope is that thou art Gracious and Merciful Slow to Anger Ready to Forgive and thy Son gave Himself to die and bore our Sins on his own Body He ever lives and maketh Intercession for Sinners and is able to save to the uttermost all that come to thee O God by Him I confess I come at the last Moment when I have nothing else left me and so thou mayst justly reject me Yet O most Merciful God take pity on the Work of thine own Hands Beget in me for Christ his sake a deeper Sense of my Sin and Guilt that I may Tremble for fear of thy Judgments and Cry to thee Night and Day Let none of this little time that is given me to Repent be lost For thy Name sake pardon mine Iniquity for it is great And deliver me from Blood-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of my Salvation Open my Heart and Lips that my Mouth may shew forth thy praise That Sinners seeing thy Judgments and my Repentance may be Converted unto thee That I who by my vitious Life have so much Dishonoured Thee may by my Death Glorifie Thee O hear and have Mercy on me Pity and Pardon O most Merciful Redeemer wash my defiled Soul with thy most Pretious Blood and for the Glory of thy Mercy send down upon me thy free Spirit to Convince me of Sin and of Righteousness and of Judgment And Grant me a Wretched and Forlorn Sinner some of those Comforts that may Support me under those Agonies that are so terrible O Visit me with thy Salvation Speak Comfortably to me say to my Soul Thy Sins are forgiven thee Lord deliver me from the fears of Death and be with me in my last passage Give me some Glimpse of Hope that I may die with Assurance of thy Favour and Pardon I humbly submit to thy Justice in my Death but I most Fa●nestly pray that I may be delivered from Eternal Death and Everlasting Burnings and when my Soul is departed from this vile Body Let it be brought into thy Presence that I may Bless and Glorifie thy Name Eternally for the Riches of thy Grace and Mercy which has so Abounded towards me And for thy Names sake role away the Reproach from thine Heritage and thine own Tribe which I have brought upon it Preserve thy Church Let her Priests be Clothed with Righteousness and let her Saints sing with Joyfulness Be Gracious to the Nursing Father of it our Dread Soveraign Lord the King 's Most Excellent Majesty Protect his Person Prosper his Affairs As for his Enemies Cloth them with shame but upon Himself let his Crown flourish Grant that he knowing whose Minister he is may above all things seek thy Honour and Glory And that all his Subjects duly Considering whose Authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in Thee and for Thee according to thy Blessed Word and Ordinance Be Merciful O Lord be Merciful to my Afflicted Family Comfort my Desolate Wife according to the Evil that I have caused her to see Teach my Poor Children by my Example not to sin against thee Give true Repentance to all whom I have tempted to Sin in particular to that miserable person who was my Partner in so much wickedness thou hast given her time to repent Lord give her grace to do it lest a worse thing befall her Provide a faithful Pastor for that Flock I have scandalized that may build up what I have pulled down And now into thy hands I commit my Soul and Conclude in his words who taught me when I pray to say Our Father c. Having thus shaken hands with the World I am too deeply Concerned to take a particular leave of my Friends especially my Dear tho distressed Relations I have done them little Good in my Life They may Live to Reap Benefit and Advantage from these my Dying Directions To my Good Wife Dear Wife IT is too late to make wishes that I had admitted of thy Counsels But 't is not too late nor unprofitable to Observe That thy Comminations have proved too Prophetical The God of Heaven is a Just and Righteous God and has clearly discovered which was in the right and which in the wrong Thee or I Dear Heart I am not now to Confess my Sins against thee Nor am I now to receive thy pardon and forgiveness I Rejoyce in the Entireness of thy Affection which all the cold Water I threw upon it could not quench The Constancy of it especially in this Extremity has given me the Comfort and thee the Character of being one of the best of Wives In order of Nature I might have longer enjoyed the happiness of thy Affections and I was resolved to have made it my only Happiness in that sense but my Sins and God's righteous Judgments hurry me hence yet before we part I will leave with thee a few Directions which is all the Legacy my vicious Courses have left me power to bequeath they proceed from entire though too late love to thee Therefore lay them up and peruse them now and then First For thy self thy constant course of private Devotion Reading the Scriptures according to the direction of the Church Fasting and Meditation before the blessed Sacrament save me the labour of any further or other Advice save that of the Apostle Be not weary of well-doing c. Only now thou must be sure to add to thy private Devotion what I too

An Alarme FOR SINNERS Containing The Confession Prayers Letters and last Words of Robert Foulkes Late Minister of Stanton-Lacy in the County of Salop who was Tryed Convicted and Sentenced at the Sessions in the Old Bayly London January 16 th 1678 9 and Executed the 31 st following With an Account of his LIFE Published from the Original Written with his own hand during his Reprieve and sent by him at his Death to Doctor Lloyd Dean of Bangor Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 12. Licensed Jan. 29. 1678. LONDON Printed for Langley Curtis on Ludgate-Hill 1679. TO THE Right Reverend and Honourable MY LORD BISHOP of LONDON May it please your Lordship AS it was an Act of the Highest Charity and Condescention in your Lordship upon Dr. Lloyd's Motion so speedily and effectually to Address your self to his Majesty for a Reprieve of my Body from Death for some small time in order to the Preparation of my Soul for that Eternity I am ready to enter on so that I think my self in Duty and Gratitude obliged not only to give some Account to the World how that time is Employed but also to submit this Account to be Ordered and Disposed of as shall seem best to your Lordships great Wisdom If it be thought useful as I hope it may be a loud Caveat against bold and daring Impiety I humbly desire it may not steal abroad but take along with it the Honour as well as authority of your Lordship 's Imprimatur That Learned and Charitable Person which Presents it to your Lordship has promised to Order and Dispose of the confusion of these loose Papers so as shall be least troublesome to your Lordship in the Perusal and to make my Apology for Presenting them to such an Honourable Hand in such a Rude and Disorderly Form The Circumstances of my present Condition will not suffer me to put them in any better But what I have now Presented to your Honour is sincerely the Truth and there is not a Tittle here but what is the Exact Transcript of those Impressions I find upon my Conscience I hope they may in some measure contribute to the Advancement of His Glory whom I have so beyond all Example dishonoured and convince all that are not willing to catch at irrational Inferences to support themselves in their Atheisme and Debauchery That our Excellent Religion and this Sacred and Honourable Profession are not to be Judged and disparaged for the Miscarriages of such unsound Members as I have been This gives me also some Ground to hope that I shall obtain your Lordships Pardon and Prayers together with that of the numerous Clergy under your Lordship's Government in this great and populous City which I most humbly and heartily begg God continue your Honour to be what you are as great an Ornament to the Protestant Profession as I have been a Scandal to it In a deep Sense of your abundant Charity I shall not cease to improve that Breath you have borrowed for me as for my Own so for Your Lordship 's Eternal Happiness Robert Foulkes An Alarme FOR SINNERS THAT they who have seen the former ill Example of my Life and do now look on this dismal Conclusion of it might not be Spectators disappointed as I had great Reason so I had a good Occasion to encourage me in this following Account That Great God that brings Good out of Evil so ordered it that that very Evening after my Condemnation I received a very seasonable Visit from a Reverend Person Indeed the Visit was but short and our Discourse also interrupted with Matter not so pertinent to that Lamentable Occasion so that being under great Disturbance I could make little or nothing of it but as I lay on my Bed that Night about one or two of the clock it came into my thoughts again and upon the search of my Memory I recollected two things which in Answer to my earnest Request for his Assistance that Worthy Person had directed me to The first was to Glorifie God The other as a means to promote that Chief End to wipe off all I could of the Scandal and Reproach which my Vicious Life and Ignominious Death reflected upon my Function and both these He told me could not be more Effectually performed than by a full Confession of my manifold Enormities I then resolved upon it and as soon as I could procure Pen and Paper set about it being willing with all my Heart to Justifie the Holy and Righteous God and all I can to Vindicate that Reverend Employment from unjust Aspersions though it redounds never so much to my own Shame and Reproach and cannot otherwise be imputed to my Profession but as the Effect of great Ignorance of or great Malignity against Canons and Constitutions so Regular and Orderly in every Circumstance such as strictly oblige to great Circumspection and Exact Walking from which Excellent Rules I wretchedly departed as appears by the following Audit of my Life and Actions I had made no considerable Progress in that Work but I found my self interrupted by that Consideration That God would not Approve or License David's Intention of Building him a Temple to Glorifie his Name in because his hands had been too deeply concerned in Blood 'T was of no Difficult but of very discouraging Application but whether this were a Design of Satan or a plot of my own Corruption or a Concurrence of both I will not stand to Examine The Advice of another Able Person so Encouraged me and baffled the Objection that it vanished of it self That removed I considered that being now summoned to a speedy Appearance before the Impartial and most Dreadful Tribunal of the Just and Righteous Judge of all the Earth there to Answer for those many and heinous Sins visible in my Vicious and Ill-led Life I hold my self obliged to enter into a narrow Search and a very close Inspection of my Heart and all my Wayes And though my Crimes be so Crying and Publick the Aggravations of them such as make them s exceeding sinful that the shame of them doth cover me my Horrour for them and the just Reward due to them here on my Body hereafter on my Soul in the more dreadful and terrible Miseries of Eternal and unquenchable Burnings that these Sins must needs draw upon me if the hand of Infinite Mercy does not snatch me as a brand out of the Flame though I say these General Considerations have almost distracted my Thoughts yet I cannot find any rest till I have made a more diligent Scrutiny a more distinct and particular discovery of all that Wickedness that was damm'd up in my Heart as the Spring and Fountain and burst out thence into such Rapid and impetuous Streams of Prophaneness in my Life Such were my Irregularities that I have just Cause and had long ago reason to smart under the severity of David's Reproofor rather of David's God So the

since I could not think of appearing before an earthly Judge without shame and affrightment of spirit O Lord work in me a greater dread of thee with a greater shame and confusion of face now that I am in thy presence for which end be pleased to represent unto me effectually the wickedness and baseness and vileness of all my evil doings as well as the guilt and just desert of them O that I could hate and abhor them more than that death which I expect very shortly to suffer for them Bestow on me O Lord that ingenuous and godly sorrow which worketh repentance and unfeigned purposes of Amendment of life They come too late indeed I may justly think to find Acceptance with thee and therefore not without fear and trembling and a great sense of my undeservings I look up unto thee acknowledging thy infinite goodness if thou wilt vouchsafe me but the smallest hope of mercy Mercy mercy good Lord cast me not quite out of thy sight for Jesus Christ his sake who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity It is the beginning of some mercy and an Earnest I hope of more that thou hast made me sensible of mine offences and that thou hast wrought in me a resolution to forsake them and some love to a godly sober and righteous life Help me O Lord to manifest the sincerity and uprightness of my Soul in these resolutions as much as I am able by giving thee hearty thanks that the hand of Justice has overtaken and laid hold upon me and put a stop to the further mischief which I might have committed and by making a free and open Confession of my Crimes and taking the shame which belongs to me before others and by acknowledging that I am unworthy to live and by earnest Admonishments to all to be warned by my Example and to cease betimes to do evil and learn to do well O God that I could glorifie thee a little in my latter end after this manner and till I come to receive my deserved punishment help me to spend my time in bewailing my sins in humbling my self before thee for them in setting my heart against them in studying and admiring with the greatest affection the Holy life of the Lord Jesus in calling other Offenders to Repentance and exhorting them thereby to give thee Glory Deny me not Grace I beseech thee to enable me thus to employ my self that I may have some taste of thy Mercy and the fear of death may be abated by some hope that when my Soul shall be parted from the body thou O blessed Jesus wilt receive it though so unworthy into some of the Heavenly Mansions Amen Amen Amen FINIS His LAST WORDS spoken at the place of Execution Good Christian People I Intend not and I hope you will not expect any long Discourse at this time but I have taken care that my Confession wherein as I shall by and by answer to the God of Truth you will finde nothing but the truth shall be published more fully and to your better advantage than I could possibly make it here It a few words therefore You may in me see what sin is and what it will end in you may in me see the lamentable and irreparable mischiefs of Vncleanness and Hypocrisie in particular and what it is for one who was the Member of Christ to make himself the Member of a Harlot It is a sin that seldome goes single and alone it is the Mother-sin to abundance more and they more ugly and deformed than it self I have found it by sad and woful experience It led me to Lying to Oaths and Execrations to conceal and defend it Nay I went further to advise contrive and assist in what might procure Abortions which certainly in the sight of God was Murther in intention Nor stopt it there but went forward to murther in Act and Execution for which crying sin I am come hither to satisfie the Law of man and do acknowledge the Justice of that Sentence And Oh that all you may fear and tremble at God's holy and righteous Judgments which have overtaken me and that they may make you take warning to avoid the Snares of a whorish woman and especially to keep the Married bed undefiled Beware of hypocritical pretences to Religion of coming to the Holy Sacrament while you live in those filthy practices Do not grieve or quench the Holy Spirit of God nor stifle the Convictions of your own Consciences lest God leave you as he did me to work all Vncleanness with greediness and lest at last you be brought to this most miserable condition to which he has most justly brought me to whose most righteous Judgment I do submit I forgive all the world as I desire to finde mercy at God's hands through Jesus Christ I do earnestly desire you by me to take warning not to continue in sin for in the end it will finde you out As to my sin I have but two things to say one I have cause exceedingly to lament and that is the great Scandal I have thereby brought upon Religion and the holy Function of the Ministery The great disparagement which reflects on these I look upon as the most hainous Aggravation of my loose and licentious life Therefore I pray you take up no prejudices against them upon my Account they are holy and good and grant no Licenses at all to such wicked and ungodly practices as I have been guilty of The other I have some reason to rejoyce in 'T is true my sin has exposed the whole Nation to Judgment for through Blood the Land is defiled but this is my comfort that God by this punishment makes me expiate that Guilt for the Judgment falls upon my own pate but I hope through the mercy of God and merit of Christ will proceed no further than my body I desire all that hear me to take warning not to continue in sin but betimes to cease to do evil and learn to do well Now the Lord be with you all and have mercy upon my poor Soul for which I desire you to pray with me and for me to the last moment of my life * Dr. Lloyd Psal 23. 2. Ver. 5. Deut. 6. 11 12. 8. 10 11 12. Prov. 3. 6. Hier. in Epist ad Tit. * Qua libertate peccantem corripere potest cum tacitus ille sibi respondet eadem sé admisisse quae corripit Hier. ubi sup 1 Tim. 4. 12. Tit. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Ambr. de Dig Sacerd. Levit. 4. 3 13 23 28. Aquinas Non ex Gradu a●t Mersura fidei et poenitentiae dependet Justificatio sed ex veritati Psal 146. 9. Heb. 5. 13. 1 Cor. 14. 9. 1 Cor. 13. 1.