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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69768	Excellent contemplations, divine and moral written by the magnanimous and truly loyal Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham ; together with some account of his life, and his letters to several persons whilst he was prisoner in the tower ... likewise his affectionate letters to his lady, the day before his death ... March 9, 1648, with his pious advice to his son the late Earl of Essex.	Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649. His speech on the Scaffold, March 9, 1649.	1683 (1683)	Wing C469; ESTC R4075	81,286	218

pleased to be so God be with Thee my most virtuous Wife God multiply many comforts to Thee and my Children is the fervent Prayer of Thy c. A Letter to Mr. E. S. from a Reverend and Grave Divine SIR I Hope this Paper will find you upon your Recovery You have my daily and hearty Prayers for it not so much for your own sake for I doubt not but it would be much better for you in regard of your self to be dissolved and be with Christ but in the behalf of the Church your Friends and poor Family to which notwithstanding be assured God will be merciful howsoever he disposeth of you either for this Life or for a better But if you live as I pray and hope you will you shall do very well to write the Life and Death of that Noble Lord and Blessed Martyr who professed at his Death That he died for the Fifth Commandment And to die in the Defence and for the Testimony of any Divine Truth is truly and properly to be a Martyr That which I can contribute towards this Work is to communicate some few Observations I made of him and from him before and after his Condemnation I was several times with him and always found him in a very chearful and well-composed Temper of Mind proceeding from true Christian Grounds and not from a Roman Resolution only as his Enemies are pleased to speak of him He told me often It was the Good God he served and the Good Cause he had served for that made him not to fear Death Adding He had never had the Temptation of so much as a thought to check him for his Engagement in this Quarrel for he took it for his Crown and Glory and wished he had a greater Ability and better Fortune to engage in it After his Condemnation and the Afternoon before his suffering we were a great while in private together when bewailing with that Sense which became a true and not despairing Penitent the sins of his Life past the greatest he could remember was his Voting my Lord of Strafford's Death which though as he said he did without any Malice at all yet he confessed it to be a very great sin and that he had done it out of a base Fear they were his own words of a prevailing party Adding That he had very often and very heartily repented of it and was confident of God's Pardon for it Then he told me He had a great desire to receive the Blessed Sacrament so he called it before he died the next Morning asking What Divine of the King's Party I would recommend to him I replied That though many were more worthy yet none would be more willing to do him that Service than my self Which he accepting very kindly told me He durst not desire it for fear it might be some danger to me After this and some Conference in order to his preparation both for his Viaticum and his Voyage the Sacrament and his Death he desired me to pray with him Which after I had performed and promised to be with him by seven the next Morning I left him for that time to his own Devotions The next Day I was there at the time assigned and after some short Conference in order to the present Occasion he desired me to hear him pray which he did for half an hour in an excellent Method very apt Expressions and most strong hearty and passionate Affections First Confessing and bewailing his sins with strong Cries and Tears Then humbly and most earnestly desiring God's Mercy through the Merits of Christ only Secondly For his dear Wife and Children with some passion but for her especially with most ardent Affections recommending them to the Divine Providence with great Confidence and Assurance and desiring for them rather the Blessings of a Better Life than of This. Thirdly For the King Church and State And lastly For his Enemies with almost the same Ardour and Affection After this sending for my Lord of Norwich and Sir John Owen I read the whole Office of the Church for Good Friday and then after a short Homily I used for the present Occasion we received the Sacrament In which Action he behaved himself with great Humility Zeal and Devotion And being demanded after we had done how he found himself he replied Very much better stronger and cheerfuller for that Heavenly Repast and that he doubted not to walk like a Christian through the Vale of Death in the Strength of it But he was to have an Agony before his Passion and that was the parting with his Wife Eldest Son Son-in-Law two of his Vncles and Sir T. C. especially the parting with his most dear Lady which indeed was the saddest spectacle that ever I beheld In which Occasion he could not chuse but confess a little of Humane Frailty yet even then he did not forget both to comfort and counsel her and the rest of his Friends particularly in blessing the young Lord he commanded him never to revenge his Death though it should be in his Power The like he said unto his Lady He told his Son He would leave him a Legacy out of David's Psalms and that was this Lord lead me in a plain Path. For Boy said he I would have you a plain honest Man and hate Dissimulation After this with much adoe I perswaded his Wife and the rest to be gone and then being all alone with me he said Doctor the hardest part of my Work in this World is now past meaning the parting with his Wife Then he desired me to pray preparatively to his Death that in the last Action he might so behave himself as might be most for God's Glory for the endearing of his Dead Master's Memory his Present Master's Service and that he might avoid the doing or saying of any thing which might favour either of vanity or sullenness This being done they were all carried to Sir Robert Cotton's House where I was with him till he was called unto the Scaffold and would have gone up with him but the Guard of Souldiers would not suffer me AT the same time with the Lord Capel there suffered as is aforementioned James Hamilton who was likewise Earl of Cambridge and Henry Earl of Holland who were both condemned by the same pretended High Court of Justice together with George Lord Goring and Sir John Owen who were pardoned The Names of which pretended High Court were as followeth A List of the Names of the Judges of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of James Earl of Cambridge Henry Earl of Holland George Lord Goring Arthur Lord Capel and Sir John Owen Knight Appointed by an Act of the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled IOhn Bradshaw Serj. at Law Rich. Keable Serj. at Law Jo. Pulliston Serj. at Law Matthew Shepheard Will. Underwood Jo. Hayes Geo. Langham George Manley Jo. Langley Sam. Moys Morris Tompson Richard Shute Mark Hildersley Thomas Allen. Daniel Taylor Edmund Warring

have nothing but sin and corruption in me I have nothing but that which in stead of being carried up into the Arms of God and of Glory I have nothing but may throw me down into Hell Bolton But my Lord when you are cloathed with the Righteousness of another you will appear glorious though now sinful in your self The Apostle saith I desire not to be found in my own righteousness and when you are cloathed with another the Lord will own you and I shall say but thus much Doubt not that ever God will deny salvation to sinners that come to him when the end of all his Death and Sufferings was the Salvation of Sinners when as I say the whole end and the whole design and the great work that God had to do in the world by the death of Christ wherein he laid out all his counsels and infinite wisdom and mercy and goodness beyond which there was a Non ultra in Gods thoughts when this was the great design and great end the salvation of sinners that poor Souls should come over to him and live certainly when sinners come he will not reject he will not refuse And my Lord do but think of this the greatest work that ever was done in the World was the Blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it And this blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it And this Blood of Christ that was shed was shed for them that come if not for them for none it was in vain else you see the Devils they are out of capacity of good by it the Angels they have no need of it wicked men will not come and there are but a few that come over but a few that come over and should be deny them there were no end nor fruit of the Blood and Sufferings of the Lord Jesus and had your Lordship been with Christ in that bloody agony when he was in that bloody sweat sweating drops of blood if you had asked him Lord what art thou now a doing art thou not now reconciling an angry God and me together art thou not pacifying the Wrath of God Art not thou interposing thy self between the Justice of God and my Soul Would he not have said yea And surely then he will not deny it now My Lord His passions are over his compassions still remain and the larger and greater because he is gone up into a higher place that he may throw down more abundance of his mercy and grace upon you and my Lord think of that infinite Love that abundance of riches in Christ I am lost I am empty I have nothing I am poor I am sinful be it so as bad as God will make me and as vile as I possibly can conceive my self I am willing to be but when I have said all the more I advance that Riches and Honour that Grace of God And why should I doubt when by this he puts me into a capacity into a disposition for him to shew me mercy that by this I may the better advance the Riches of his Grace and say Grace Grace to the Lord to all Eternity that God should own such a Creature that deserves nothing and the less I deserve the more conspicuous is his Grace and this is certain the Riches of his Grace he throweth amongst men that the Glory of his Grace might be given to himself if we can give him but the Glory of his Grace we shall never doubt to partake of the Riches of it and that Fulness My Lord that Fulness be your Comfort that Fulness of Mercy that Fulness of Love that Fulness of Righteousness and Power be now your Riches and your only Stay and the Lord interpose himself between God and you as your Faith hath indeavoured to interpose him between God and your soul so I doubt not there he stands my Lord to plead for you and when you are not able to do any thing your self yet lie down at the Feet of him that is a Merciful Saviour and knows what you would desire and wait upon him while you live trust in him when you die there is Riches enough and Mercy enough if he open not yet die at his door say there I 'le die there is mercy enough Holland And here is the place where I lie die down before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an Eternal Glory through my Saviour upon whom I rely from whom only I can expect mercy into his Arms I commend my Spirit into his bleeding Arms that when I leave this bleeding Body that must lie upon this place he will receive that Soul that ariseth out of it and receive it into his Eternal Mercy through the Merits through the Worthiness through the Mediation of Christ that hath purchased it with his own most precious Blood Bolton My Lord Though you conclude here I hope you begin above and though you put an End here I hope there will never be an End of the Mercy and Goodness of God And if this be the Morning of Eternity if this be the Rise of Glory if God pleaseth to throw you down here to raise you up for ever say Welcom Lord Welcom that Death that shall make way for Life and welcom any Condition that shall throw me down here to bring me into the Possession of Jesus Christ Hodges My Lord if you have made a Deed of Gift of your self to Jesus Christ to be found only in Him I am confident you shall stand at the Day of Christ My dear Lord we shall meet in Happiness Holland Christ Jesus receive my Soul my Soul hungers and thirsts after him Clouds are gathering and I trust in God through all my Heaviness and I hope through all Impediments he will settle my Interest in Him and throw off all the Claim that Satan can make unto it and that he will carry my Soul in despight of all the Callumnies and all that the Devil and Satan can invent will carry it into Eternal Mercy there to receive the Blessedness of his Presence to all Eternity Hodges My Lord It was his own by Creation it is his own now by Redemption and Purchase and it is likewise his own by Resignation O my Lord look therefore up to the Lamb of God that sits at the Right Hand of God to take away the Sins of the World O that Lamb of God! Holland That Lamb of God into his Hands I commit my Soul And that Lamb of God that sits upon the Throne to judge those Twenty Four that fall down before Him I hope he will be pleased to look downward and judge me with Mercy that fall down before Him and that adore Him that only trusts upon his Mercy for his Compassion and that as he hath purchased me he would lay his Claim unto me now and receive me Bolton My Lord Think of this There is no Condemnation to them who are in Christ Who is it that can condemn It is

estate CXXXIV To bear crosses and afflictions is the part of Christian resolution yet heathen morality can act it But to suffer them and be thankful to God for them is the sole and peculiar property of admirable Christian Faith CXXXV Few there are that will part with their affections to purchase Truth For we easily credit the tale of a slanderer whom we love against an indifferent person when we will scarcely indure the true relation of honest lips in the true information of the vices and villanies of those we favour CXXXVI The inconveniences of promises are so many and dangerous that it were better to be liable to the censure of being of a tenacious disposition which nevertheless one may by wisdom avoid than to be enthralled by fetters of our own making whereby we are inforced many times to purchase our own liberty with the great discommodity of our own affairs or else to break those shackles with that violence that our reputation must suffer sore bruises CXXXVII Eminent evils are by providence diverted those that are fatall by patience endured and all by wisdom profitably used CXXXVIII When the greatest and those that should be the gravest Councils and Courts in a Common wealth are ordered tumultuously contentiously it is an apparent symptom of a sick and languishing State For when the chief and those that are the first-moving wheels keep not true time all the rest are misled CXXXIX Those that hastily censure other mens good or ill conduct of their affairs are commonly far off from the right judgment For though prosperous event be the happiness of endeavour yet circumstances are considerable parts of every undertaking and he that is ignorant of these barely and grosly knows the action but not the nature of it And especially those businesses which have many agents and patients cannot rightly be censured but by those that well understand the parties CXL He that desires to gain and preserve a repute either of honesty magnanimity learning or any other praise-worthy quality must onely consort himself with men like affected and by no means admit the society of men of debauched conditions For though happily he may preserve himself from accompanying their foul acts which is difficult to do yet men of judgment do not discern a mans dispositions by any way better than by observing his consortship and by that means he shall be reputed such a one CXLI To fear death is alwaies to live in the pangs of death For most true it is Fear is more pain than pain CXLII It is worth the observation to hear the poor man sing to his plow and the rich man fret in his palace and torment himself This shews it is the mind not the fortune that makes us happy CXLIII The over labouring our thoughts in our affairs doth not enlighten but thicken the judgment CXLIV The life of life is society of society freedom of freedom the discreet and moderate using it CXLV The greatest wisdom of speech is to know when and what and where to speak the time matter manner The next to it is silence For though silence seldom helps yet sometimes it hath its advantage but at the least it is innocent and leaves us a perfect liberty without incumbrance when men of many words are entangled CXLVI None so inferiour but the variety of occasion makes them often necessary And therefore 't is good discretion so to manage all sorts of men by our courtesie and affability that they may with alacrity offer themselves to our purposes CXLVII It much conduceth to our tranquillity not to animate expectation for it both augments pain and diminisheth pleasure For if we fearfully expect evils though unavoidable we are then hurt before we be hit If longingly we expect good things then is the pleasure of the instant of enjoying defloured which is so much the greater by how much the more unlooked for Yet I deny not providence in our actions and lives but I would qualifie the injury that expectation will bring CXLVIII If we did as certainly believe as we do often discourse of Gods providence in every action it would give us courage in our enterprises and patience in our sufferings For if God have the over ruling hand and I make him my friend when the undertaking is for my good I fear not the power of any adversary for nothing is able to stand before him But when my weak and sinful apprehension desires and endeavours that which I think good for me but his most clear wisdom knows is hurtful if I miss my desire there is not only cause of patience but of thanksgiving CXLIX Those actions that are directed by reiterated considerations are not unlike things that are double-guilded not only more beautiful but more durable And indeed time ever advantageth those courses whereas hasty undertakings are like meteors that amaze at first but in time grow contemptible and vanish CL. Many free dispositions have overthrown great fortunes not altogether by their meer liberality but through their ignorant dispensing their bounties not considering the extent of their gifts which if they had advisedly thought on might have been done in such a due measure as their own undoing might have been saved at least moderated And giving untold handfulls is rather profuseness than Bounty CLI The common practise is to vilifie other mens favours to magnifie our own but better it is to antipractise this For where men see their bounties augmented by the receiver it is their encouragement to bestow more And men will more gently be manacled with our benefits when they can walk easily with them CLII. It is an unpleasant sight to see men follow their sports and recreations with fretting and cha●ing Like the leak of a Ship the water that should carry it drowns it so that which should recreate torments CLIII Those that are froward and unwilling to receive replyes are double unhappy because they are indigent of knowledge and abhor the means to attain it CLIV. How mad are men in their mis-conceits and commonly in those they are more stubborn than constant in Truth CLV A Christian of all others must necessarily be the most merciful man For he considering the great debt of his sins and his little ability of satisfaction and how freely these were satisfied for by another how can he be backward in forgiving others that are culpable to him Nay more the condition of his pardon stands but by the exercise of his mercy towards others Mat. 18. 33. CLVI 'T is a great curse for a man to be given over to that blindness that he loves flatterers and hates friends CLVII A tedious condition it is to be obliged to those whose frowardness is more irksom than their bounties pleasant or advantagious CLVIII We shall receive more satisfaction from a modest mans discourse than from a confident speaker For that fears the detection either of folly or untruth this neither fears nor declines any thing that should temper his forwardness CLIX.