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doctrine_n	church_n	faith_n	protestant_a	2,183	5	9.3322	5	false

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A25378	The last speech of Col. Eusebius Andrews, sometimes a lawyer of Lincolns-Inne, at the time of his execution on the scaffold at Tower-hill, Thursday the 22 of August, 1650 with several questions propounded to him by Doctor Swadling, and his answer thereunto.	Andrews, Eusebius, d. 1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing A3117; ESTC R15663	5,132	10

acknowledge that this stroak you are by and by to suffer is a just punishment laid upon you by God for your former sins Coll. Andrews I dare not only not deny it but dare not but confess it I have no opportunity of glorifying God more then by taking shame to my self and I have a reason of the justice of God in my own bosome which I have put to your bosome Doctor You acknowledge you deserve more then this stroak of the Axe and that a farre greater misery is due to you even the pains and torments of Hell that the damned there endure Coll. I know it is due in righteous judgment but I know again I have a satisfaction made by my elder Brother Christ Jesus and then I say it is not due 't is due from me but quitted by his righteousness Doctor Do you believe to be saved by that Mediator and none others Coll. By that and that only renouncing all secondary causes whatsoever Doct. Are you truly and unfainedly sorry before God as you appear to us for all those sins that have brought you hither Col. I am sorry and can never be sorrowful enough and am sorry I can be no more sorry Doct. If God should by a miracle not to put you to a vain hope but if God should as he did to Ezekiah renew your dayes what life do you resolve to lead hereafter Coll. It is a question of a great length and requires a great time to answer Men in such streights would promise great things but I would first call some friends to limit how far I should make a Vow that I might not make a rash one and so offer the sacrifice of fools but a Vow I would make and by Gods help endeavour to keep it Doct. Do you wish health and happiness upon all lawful Authorities and Government Coll. I do prize all obedience to lawful Government and the adventuring against them is sinful and I do not justifie my self what ever my judgment be for my thus venturing against the present Government I leave it to God to judge whether it be righteous if it be it must stand Doct. Are you now in love and charity with all men do you freely forgive them Coll. With all the world freely and the Lord forgive them and forgive me as I freely forgive them Doct. You have for some late years laid down your Gown and took up the Sword and you were a man of note in those parts where you had your residence I have nothing to accuse you for want of diligence in hindering the doing of injuries yet possibly there might be some wrong done by your Officers or those under you to some particular men if you had your Estate in your hands would you make restitution Coll. The wrongs themselves you bring to my mind are not great nor many some things of no great moment but such as they are my desire is to make restitution but have not wherewithall Doct. If you had ability would you likewise leave a legacy of thankfulness to Almighty God something to his poor Servants to his lame Members to his deaf Members to his double Members Coll. My will hath alwayes been better then my ability that way Doct. Sir I shall trouble you very little further I thank you for all those heavenly Colloquies I have enjoyed by being in your Company these three dayes and truly I am very sorry I must part with so heavenly an associate We have known one another heretofore but never so Christian-like before I have rather been a Scholler to learn from you then an Instructer I wish this Stage wherein you are made a spectacle to God Angels and the World may be a School to all about you for though I will not diminish your sins nor shall I conceale nor hypocrize mine own for they are great ones betwixt God and my self yet I think there is few here have a lighter load upon them then you have if we consider things well and I only wish them your repentance and that measure of faith God hath given you and that measure of courage you have attained from God and that constant perseverance God hath crowned you with hitherto Coll. His name be praised Here the Doctor prayed with him almost a quarter of an hour after which the Col. turning himself again to the People spake as followeth One thing more I desire to be clear in There lieth a common imputation upon the Cavaliers that they are Papists and under that name we are made odious to those of the contrary opinion I am not a Papist but renounce the Pope With all his dependencies when the distractions in Religion first sprang up I might have been thought apt to turn from this Church to the Roman but was utterly unsatisfied in their Doctrine in point of faith and very much as to their Dissipline The Religion which I profess is that which passeth under the name of Protestant though that be rather a name of distinction then properly essential to Religion But the Religion which was found out in the Reformation purged from all the errors of Rome in the Reign of Edward the 6. practiced in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth K. Iames and K. Charles that blessed Prince deceased that Religion before it was defaced I am of which I take to be Christs Catholique though not the Roman Catholique Religion in the profession and practice whereof I will live and die that for my Religion Then he turned himself unto the Executioner I have no reason to quarrel with thee thou art not the hand that throws the stone I am not of such an Estate to be liberal but there is 3 l. for thee which is all I have Now tell me what I lack Executioner Your hair to be turned up Col. Shew me how to fit my self upon the block After which his doublet being of and hair turned up he turned again to the People and prayed a good while Before he laid down upon the block he spake again to the People viz. There is not one face that looks upon me though many faces and perhaps different from me in opinion and practice but me thinks hath something of pitty in it and may that mercy which is in your hearts fall into your own bosoms when you have need of it and may you never find such blocks of sin to stand in the way of your mercy as I have met with I beseech you joyn with me in prayer Then he prayed leaning on the Scaffold with an audible voice for about a quarter of an hour having done he had some private conference with Dr. Swadling then taking his leave of his friends Sheriffs and acquaintance saluting them all with a courteous valediction he prepared himself for the block kneeling down said let me try the block which he did after casting his eyes up and fixing them very intentively upon Heaven he said when I say Lord Jesus receive me Executioner do thine Office then kissing the Axe he laid down and with as much undaunted yet Christian courage as possibly could be in man did he expose his throat to the fatall Axe his life to the Executioner and commended his soul into the hands of God as into the hands of a faithful and merciful Creator through the merritorious passion of a gracious Redeemer saying the foremencioned words his head was smitten of at one blow FINIS