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A71165 The second and last collection of the dying speeches, letters, and prayers &c. of those eminent Protestants who suffered in the west of England (and elsewhere) under the cruel sentence of the late Lord Chancellour, then Lord Chief Justice Jefferys : with an account of their undaunted courage at the barr and afterwards : with the most remarkable circumstances that attended their execution. Tutchin, John, 1661?-1707. 1689 (1689) Wing T3383A; ESTC R32831 17,427 32

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Religion may flourish under him I also return thanks to God and the Reverend Clergy that assisted me in my Imprisonment ALICIA LISLE A Letter Writ by Mr. John Hicks Oct. 5. the Day before his Death My Dear Nephew I Am yet in the Land of the Living though in the Mouth of Death I having been concern'd for you next to my own Children before I die I thought fit to write two or three Lines to you as a Manifestation of my great Love to you I earnestly desire the Welfare of you here and to Eternity hereafter next to my own Wife and Children you will want me when I am gone but I hope the Lord will take care of you make it your business to walk with him to serve him faithfully flee youthful Lusts and Remember your Creatour in the Days of your Youth be deeply concern'd to have your Heart and Nature chang'd and an interest in Christ secur'd unto you Death comes suddenly you know not when where nor how you shall die Let time therefore be most precious to you fill it up with Work and Duty Live by Faith more than by Sense and this will stand by you when you come to die Seek the things which are above and set your Affections upon them have your Conversation in Heaven whilst you are upon Earth When you see your Parents give my dear Love to them and their Children the Lord grant that we may meet in his Everlasting Kingdom When you see any of your Cousins give my dear Love to them and be not asham'd of my Sufferings I wrote last Saturday was a Seven-Night to my Brother George but whether he is at London or Worcester I know not I wrote to him to desire him to Petition the King that some Favour and Mercy might be shewed me if he thought fit Things that are made to aggravate my Crime I am clear from as that I perswaded the Duke of M. to assume the Title of King at Taunton when I was not there with him nor in 13 days after he came into England and that I rode too and fro in the West to perswade People to go into his Army when I was in the East and came from thence to him in the West but my Nonconformity cuts me and obstructs the Kings Mercy from being Extended to me as I am told but the Will of the Lord be done the Life to come is infinitely better than this Many more things are laid to my charge which I am no more guilty of than your self If your Uncle be in Town go speedily to him and give him my Dear Love I Pray for you who am Your most Affectionate Vncle J. H. Octob. 5. 1684. A Letter to his Wife Sept. 23. 1684. My Dearest Love I Hope you received a few Lines from me by the way of London once more I write to you by our faithful and trusty Friend W. D. who hath been at Exon. If there be need for it he knows many of my Dear and Faithful Friends there who wish you would come and live among them and if your Estate fail I think it very adviseable so to do I hope God will stand by you and defend you My Dear see me in God as I must you I must now bid adieu unto all Earthly and Worldly Comforts and all the Pleasant and Delightful Objects of Sence I bless God for all present Mercies and Comforts hitherto I have had what will be after this day I know not but the Will of the Lord be done My Dear be very cautious not to speak one Word least it be wrested to wrong Sence which may ruine you I have not writ what I would of this Nature take the Advice of Friends and of what I send by our Friend O let not the Everlasting Arms of God be with-drawn from you one Moment and let him strengthen you with all Might according to his Glorious Power and to all Patience and Long-Suffering with Joyfulness Pray hard for Victory over Passion and be much in private Closet-Prayer with God and often read the Holy Bible and other good Books the Lord continually guide direct and counsel you My dear I return you a thousand thanks for all the Love you have shew'd me and my Children and particularly for the high and great Demonstration you have given thereof in this day of my distress I hope my Daughters will be as dutiful to you and be as much concern'd for your comfort and welfare as if you had travelled with them and brought them into the World God bless my Dear Little-Ones and them together I shall dye their most Affectionate and Praying Father God I hope will uphold support and comfort me at the last hour and enable me to overcome the Temptations I shall violently be assaulted with before I Die God by his Infinite and freest Mercies in Christ Jesus Pardon all the neglect of Relative Duties which I have bitterly lamented and bewail'd before God with all the Sins I am guilty of for the sake of our Dearest Lord and Redeemer the Lord make you grow in all Grace more than ever and make this great Affliction so humbly Purifying and Spiritualizing to you as well as me that it may work for us both a far more Exceeding and Eternal Weight of Glory let him take your Soul into his most dearest Embraces and lodge it in the Bosom of his Love here and make us to meet in the full and Everlasting Fruition and Enjoyment of him hereafter though it is dangerous for you to vindicate that I die for yet be not too much cast down for it I will say no more as to that My hearty and affectionate Respects to all my Dear Friends I need not name them I hope to meet them with your self to inherit Eternal Life through the Merits of Christ's Death Farewel my Dear farewel in the Lord until we meet to be Marry'd to him for ever my Heart is as full of Love t●…e as it was the first day I Marry'd thee and if God spar●…ife it should have been as fully manifested until Death therefore I rest Your most Affectionate and Endeared Husband J. H. Sept. 23. 1684. Another Letter My Dearest Love I Received your Letter by Mr. Skinner I Bless God that you and my Babes are well the Lord continue their Lives to be a Blessing and Comfort to you and enable you to see them well Educated in the Fear of God and when God takes me away let him be a Husband to guide direct succour comfort and support you and to lodge your Soul in the Bosom of his Love and let him be a Father to them and their Portion for ever Monday last my Brother went to London to try what could be done for me what the success will be I know not I desire the Lord every day to prepare me for Death and carry me above the Fear of it by the discoveries of his everlasting love unto my Soul and clearing up my Right and Title to
but by my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts I know Afflictions spring not out of the dust God did wonderfully Deliver and Provide for me and has now by his special Providence brought me to this Place and I hope none will either insult or be stumbled at it seeing they ought not for God Almighty does all things well for good and holy Ends though we do not always understand it Love and Hatred is not known by what is before us Eccles 9. 1. 8. 11 12. 13. Afflictions are not only foretold but promised to Christians and are not only tollerable but desirable We ought to have a deep Reverence and Fear of God's displeasure but withal a firm Hope and Dependance on him for a blessed Issue in compliance with his Will for God chastens his own to Refine them and not to ruine them whatever the World may think Heb. 12. 3. to 12. Prov. 3. 11 12. 2 Tim. 1. 8. 2 Tim. 2. 11. 12. Mat. 10 18 to 40. Mat. 16. 24. to 28. We are to imitate our Saviour in his Sufferings as 1 Pet. 2 23. and 1 Pet. 4. 16 to 20. We are neither to despise our Afflictions nor faint under them both are extreams We are not to suffer our Spirits to be exasperated against the Instruments of our trouble for the same Affliction may be an effect of their Passion and yet sent by God to punish us for Sin Thô it is a Comfort when we may say to them with David Psal 59. 3. Not for my Transgression nor for my sin O Lord. Nor are we by fraudulent Pusillanimous Compliances in wicked Courses to bring Sin upon our selves Faint Hearts are ordinarily False Hearts choosing Sin rather than Sufferings and a short Life with Eternal Death before Temporal Death and a Crown of Glory Such seeking to Save a Little Loses All and God readily hardens them to proceed to their own Destruction How many like Hazael 2 King. 8. 13. run to Excesses they never thought they were capable of Let Rulers and others read seriously and weigh Prov. 1. 10 to 20. 2 Chron. 28. 6 to 17. Prov. 24. 11 12. and Prov. 28. 10. and avoid what is bad and follow what is good For me I hope by God s strength to joyn with Job Chap. 13. 15. and the Psalmist Psal 22. 4. and 167. and shall Pray as Psal 74. 19 to 24. and Psal 122. 6 to 9. and Luk. 1. 74 75. and shall Hope as Psal 94. 14 15. I do freely forgive all that directly or indirectly have been the cause of my being brought to this place first or last and I pray God Forgive them I pray God send Truth and Peace in these Three Kingdoms and continue and increase the glorious Light of the Gospel and restrain the Spirit of Prophanity Atheism Superstition Popery and Persecution and Restore All that have back-slidden from the Purity of their Life or Principles and Bless his whole People with all blessings Spiritual and Temporal and put an end to their present Trials And I intreat all People to Forgive me wherein I have Offended and to concurr with me to Pray That the great good and merciful God would sanctifie my present Lot and for Jesus Christ his sake Pardon all my Sins and receive me to his Everlasting Glory It is suggested to me that I have said nothing of the Royal Family and it remembers me that before the Justices at my Trial about the Test I said that at my Death I would Pray That there should never want one of the Royal Family to be a Defender of the True Ancient Apostolick Catholick Protestant Faith which I do now And that GOD would enlighten and forgive all of them that are either luke-warm or have shrunk from the Profession of it And in all Events I pray God may provide for the Security of his Church that Antichrist nor the Gates of Hell may never prevail against it The HUMBLE PETITION OF THE WIDDOWS AND FATHERLESS CHIDREN IN THE West of England TO BE Presented to this present Convention WE to the Number of a Thousand and more Widdows and Fatherless Children of the Counties of Dorset Somerset and Devon our dear Husbands and tender Fathers having been so Tyrannously Butcher'd and some Transported our Estates sold from us and our Inheritance cut off by the severe and harsh Sentence of George Lord Jefferies now we understand in the Tower of London a Prisoner who has lately we hear endeavoured to excuse himself from those Tyrannical and Illegal Sentences by laying it on Information by some Gentlemen who are known to us to be good Christians true Protestants and English-men We your poor Petititioners many hundreds of us on our Knees have begg'd Mercy for our dear Husbands and tender Parents from his Cruel Hands but his thirst for Blood was so great and his Barbarism so Cruel that instead of granting Mercy for some which were made appear to be Innocent and Petitioned for by the flower of the Gentry of the said Counties he immediately Executed and so barbarously that a very good Gentlevvoman at Dorchester begging on her Knees the Life of a worthy Gentleman to Marry him and make him her Husband this vile Wretch not having common Civility with him and laying aside that Honour and Respect due to a Person of her worth told her Come I know your meaning some part of your Petition I will grant which shall be that after he is Hanged and Quartered you shall have that Member you best like when living and so I will give Orders to the Sheriff These with many hundred more Tyrannical Acts are ready to be made appear in the said Counties by honest and credible Persons and therefore your Petitioners desire that the said George Jefferies late Lord Chancellour the Vilest of Men may be brought down to the Counties aforesaid where we the good Women in the West shall be glad to see him and give him another manner of Welcome than he had there three Years since And your Petitioners shall ever Pray c. FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere will now speedily be Publisht a Treatise Entituled The Bloody Assizes or A Compleat History of the Life of GEORGE Lord JEFFERIES from his Birth to this present time c. Wherein amongst other things is given a true Account of his unheard of Cruelties and barbarous Proceedings in his whole Western Circuit the manner of his coming to Dorchester his Tyrannical Behaviour there his Affronts to the Sheriffs and chief Gentlemen of Devon-shire Dorset-shire Somerset-shire c. His barbarous Practices at Exeter Taunton and the City of Wells the Tryals and Condemnation of 947 Persons with their undaunted Courage at the Barr and remarkable Circumstances that attended their Executions Faithfully Collected by several West Countrey Gentlemen now in London who were both Eye and Ear-witnesses Which will be Sold by John Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey over against the Compter ☞ The First and Second Collection of Dying Speeches Letters Prayers c. of those who suffer'd in the West sold by J. Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey ☞ The Joy of Faith er a Treatise opening the true Nature of Faith by S. Lee sold by J. Dunton