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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

our persons and estates shall suffer much and our affection enjoy but a momentary satisfaction Neither doth affection alwaies press us peremptorily by absolute command but often adventures to attach our reason by discourse as it were rationally but yet subtilly Therefore by our selves we may easily conceive how advantagious a circumstance it is to gain their affection with whom we have or may have business CLXXXVI There is a base-conditioned sort of creatures whose affections are bought and sold by Hopes CLXXXVII It is an example of a deplorable nature and of the worst aspect both in a publick state and private family to see detestable faults not only not punished but the perpetrating persons grow greater in favour and more insolent in conditions CLXXXVIII A condemned person not legally put to death is murthered not executed and to judge ill of any unheard is not bare injury but high injustice CLXXXIX Fowlers set not the same sort of grinsfor the same kinds of fowls at all seasonsof the year but vary neither do the crafts-masters of subtility deceive though the most ignorant Gulls by one only trick For a very dogg will abhor that room whence he is often beaten CXC Guic●iardin incites his countrey-men to their pristine vertue by remembring them That to be a Roman is a most glorious name if accompanied with vertue and their shame is doubled if they forget the honour and renown of their Ancestours But Christians have more reasons to enflame their hearts to zeal and piety since their comportment is not only exposed to the view of men and Angels but to almost pure essence and strict observer God himself And what profession was ever honoured with better examples then ours Christ and his Apostles CXCI. That Master is never well served that doth not carry an esteem with his servants who should be readier to believe their masters commandments are wise than dispute it amongst themselves And above all things a master must be carefull that his servants be not eye-witnesses of any base or absurd action CXCII Pleasures moderately used are pleasant but immodestly and too frequently prove scurrilous and nauseous So while we too greedily pursue them we over-run and lose them CXCIII What is the advantage of men greatly learned they labour to be unsatisfied to know how ignorant they are and increase of knowledge is but increase of appetite to have more CXCIV Rely not upon men whose predominant humour is covetousness For they love nothing so well as wealth nor fear nothing so much as poverty Therefore if their gain and your good be opposed and they have power to make choice of either imagine the sequel though against their promise to you and your former obligations upon them Either choose a man that loves you above all things or which is better Honesty CXCV. The same shoe fits not all mens feet nor the same reason weighs with every man CXCVI. He is far from a wise man that the many examples of this age have not tutoured to a safe and wary carriage in his speech CXCVII Often to consider that Christ by his passion hath not only gained remission of our sins and absolved our great debt to God and his Law but hath purchased all our right to our worldly blessings and to heaven itself will make our hearts tender and pliable not only to forgive our brethren but to behave our selves with all Christian bounty toward them CXCVIII. Him that is a Baud to ones lust we account base and why not as well him that Flatters For this incites the mind to ill that but the body and therefore this the worse CXCIX The froward peevish disposition is like the wind no man knows whence the cause of it is nor whither it goes nor how long it will last but while it is all are troubled with the fearful noise and rumbling it makes CC. Though in a necessary denial yet I would express a grief to be unable rather than an unwillingness to satisfy except it be to those that are importune and impudent and their resolute answers should rid me of further trouble CCI. Those that are wise neglect not to weigh old and common precepts and to govern themselves by them whilst Novelists reject them as thred-bare and looking for fresher accept of worser CCII. To judge a man without anger because we never saw him moved is to say the flint is without fire which indeed struck against wood or many other things discovers not its property but against steel shews its nature And no man is tempered against all occasions though against many and it may be most CCIII The Indies have not made the Spaniard rich neither is any man made wealthy by abundant comings in but by the few occasions of spending CCIV. In Physick the relapse into a former disease is cured by the same medicines that were first used yet because the relapse is more dangerous and difficult there is added to the former medicines more operative vertue and oftener application Contrition and Confession are the medicines of a sick sinfull soul and for a relapse into a former sin we must use these medicines both with more fervency and frequency CCV Observe we those that are cleanly and neat yet without curiosity and commonly they are thriving for with it there goes a disposition of industry Whereas those that are slovenly are commonly lazy and that is the road to poverty CCVI. Vnkindness among friends is like a brack in a garment unless timely stopt ravels from top to bottom CCVII. As the Soul is the form and excellency of every creature so is modesty the very life and being of a beautiful womans commendation CCVIII A wise parent more patiently suffers the death of his children than their wicked or debauched actions CCIX. Those whose dispositions are retired are commonly wiser than those that are jovial The reason is excess of joy dilates the spirits whereas the other disposition unites them and adapts for consideration which is the parent of wisdom CCX There is an odious spirit in many men who are better pleased to detect a fault than commend a vertue CCXI. Those trees that grow wild in our fields we neglect but for those that grow in our garden we observe the due times of pruning and cutting If we be planted in Gods Garden we shall be cut and pruned by afflictions For God chastiseth every Son whom he loveth CCXII. These four are the chief ways of perpetuating our memory Books which require a good Head Valiant acts which require a couragious Heart Children which require an ability of Body and Building which requires a replenished Purse CCXIII. Such a man is to be imitated and admired that had rather suffer injury than do it that not out of a sluggishness and dulness of nature but out of good moralityand strong oppositions against affections CCXIV. How agreeable are those courtesies which we wished and are conferred upon us before we could ask CCXV There are a sort of men that