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A76061	A murderer punished and pardoned, or, A true relation of the wicked life, and shameful-happy death of Thomas Savage imprisoned, justly condemned, and twice executed at Ratcliff, for his bloody fact in killing his fellow-servant, on Wednesday, Octob. 28, 1668 / by us who were often with him in the time of his imprisonment in Newgate, at at his execution, Robert Franklin, Thomas Vincent, Thomas Doolitel, James Janeway, Hugh Baker ; to which is annexed a sermon preached at his funeral.	R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681.; Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.; Franklin, Robert, 1630-1684.	1679 (1679)	Wing A997A; ESTC R42788	47,969	54

blessed Lord God I beseech thee O Lord look down upon me with an eye of pity if it be thy blessed will it is thy infinite mercy that I am on this side the grave and out of Hell O Lord I have deserved to be cast into torments to all Eternity How have I offended thee and run on in fin and thought I could never do enough to abuse thy mercy pardon the sins that I have committed wash that blood from off my soul let not me perish to Eternity It was an horrid crime to shed innocent blood pardon that sin O Lord let the blood of Christ cry more for mercy than the blood of that creature cry for for vengeance O Lord thou hast been merciful to me in giving me time to Repent for ought I know her soul is undone for ever Lord forgive me Lord forgive me I knew not what I did Forgive my Sabbath-breaking Lying Cursing forgive my drunkenness blot them out of the book of thy remembrance turn them away behind thee Lord I have repented of them from my soul that ever I should offend a God so good and so merciful and gracious I do believe on thee and do wholly throw my self upon thee I acknowledge it would be just in thee to damn my Soul but it will be infinite mercy in thee to save me and what free Grace will it be in thee to pardon me It is dreadful to lose the body but how dreadful will it be to lose the Soul to all Eternity Lord let it not be in vain that I had so many instructions O let me not go down to hell let my soul bless and praise thy Name for ever for what thou hast done for me thou hast been at work upon my heart and thou hast helped me to Repent the Lord be praised Lord I desire to be more and more humble under the sence of my sins for they are dreadful there are many souls that have not committed those sins that are now in Hell O what a mercy is it that I am not in those flames in those devouring flames Lord as thou hast spared me here spare me to Eternity Let not my soul perish Lord reveal thy self unto me make known thy love unto me tell me my sins are pardoned tell me that I have an Interest in Christ before I go hence and be seen no more that I might leave some Testimony behind me that I might tell thy Ministers what thou hast done for me and tell thy People what thou hast done for my Soul Lord this will not be onely for my satisfaction but for thy glory Blessed Lord pardon the sins that I am guilty of and take away this cursed base heart of mine break this rocky stony heart in pieces these sins of Murder and Drunkenness c. were in my heart before I thought no eye did see me commit those sins but thou didst see me Lord turn my heart to thee and take away this heart of stone and take away this cursed nature for it was this cursed Nature that brought me to these sins and to this end and I was in danger of loosing my soul to all eternity but Lord though I a great sinner Christ is a great Saviour he is able to save me from my sins though they be never so great I do believe Lord I speak freely from my heart so far as I know my heart I do believe it is my grief I can sorrow no more for my sins which have been the cause of offending thee so long and so much One drop of thy blood sprinkled upon my soul will pardon all my sins Lord cross the black line of my sins with the red line of thy blood I am not able to answer for one vain thought much less for all my horrid crimes Lord save my immortal soul that I might sing praise to thee to all eternity Thou hast pardoned Manasseh that was a great sinner and Mary Magdalen and Paul that were great sinners and the Thief upon the Cross and thy mercies are as great thy mercy and thy love to repenting sinners is not shortned though my sins be great yet thy mercies are greater then my sins Lord be with me in my death then let me have some comfortable assurance of thy love unto my soul of the pardon of my sins do thou be my God and my Guide now and to all eternity Amen This Prayer he put up with much earnestness with great brokenness of heart for sin that all that joyned with him were exceedingly affected and blessed God for the Spirit of Prayer they discerned God had so plentifully poured out upon him After we had some other discourse with him we took our leave of him telling him we purposed to see him again at the place of Execution After two or three hours when the time of his going from Newgate drew near we were willing to return to see him once more there and the rather because one Minister that had not yet been with him was desirous to visit him and then again after some few words with him we asked him to go to prayer again once more saying Now this will be the last time that we shall pray with you in this place And he did perform this duty with great liveliness that now he excelled himself and the nearer he came to his end the more fervently we perceived he prayed but we took notice that in this last duty in Newgate he was much in praising God and blessing God for his mercy to him to our great astonishment After a few words when this duty was over we took some of us our final farewell of him and he expressing his thanks to Gods people for their prayers for him and to the Ministers for their love and pains with him was commended by us to the Grace of God saying ' Thomas The Lord be with you the Lord of Heaven be with you O the Lord of mercy help you and have compassion on you This morning he expressed himself to his Friend H. B. thus Oh my friend we cannot tell how glorious a place Heaven is but if once I get thither and could drop down a Letter to you and tell you of the glorious things I there shall find how would it rejoyce your heart And to his Friend parting with him said I know God loveth me and that I am going to the Kingdom of Heaven The last Speech of Thomas Savage at the place of his Execution at Ratcliff Gentlemen HEre I am come to dye a cursed and ignominious Death and I most justly deserve it for I have Murthered a poor innocent Creature and for ought I know have not only murthered her body but if God had no more mercy of her soul then I had of her body she is undone to all Eternity so that I deserve not only death from Men but Damnation from God I would have you all that look upon me take warning by me the first sin I began with was Sabbath-breaking

lusts are you in good earnest friends and will you promise as in the presence of God that you will do what you can possibly to discharge your duty and to follow those directions that I shall give you In hopes that some are resolved by the help of God to do what in them lies for the keeping all under their charge from everlasting burnings I shall advise you 1. Be good your selves and labour to be paterns of Holiness and to shew your Children and Servants by your conversation that you your selves believe that there is a God an immortal soul heaven hell and eternity let your language be savoury and speak you to be one that hath been with Jesus Let your actions be regulated by the Word and endeavour to let them know that you are not in jest when you speak of God and their Souls Psal 10. 1 2. 2. I charge you as in the presence of God as you will answer the neglect of it at the bar of that great Judge take an exact account of your Servants how they spend their time what company they keep what they do upon the Sabbath and if you would make any thing of Religion be as careful that the Sabbath be spent in Gods service as the week-days in yours I could tell you of a Servant that was wont many a time and oft to complain of his Master and say If my Master had ever examined me the Text on the Lords day or called me to account where I had been or what I had heard I am perswaded I should never have come to so sad an end as I am now like to do 3. Instruct them oft in the matters that concern their eternal welfare Sirs tell them I beseech you with all the earnestness that you can for your lives of the danger of sin give them wholesome advice tell them of the necessity of Conversion allow them a little time to pray and read and let them know that you take notice of any thing that is good in them 4. Pray for them cry to the Lord mightily and say O that Ishmael may live in thy sight Lord hast thou not a blessing O my Father for me and mine O pitty dear Lord my children and my Servants and let all under my roof be of the Houshould of Faith and of the Family of the Lord Jesus And now once more I beg you to be in earnest 't will be the true●t evidence of the truth of your Grace to be faithful in this work 'T will be your joy upon a Death-bed 't will be your Crown in another world Vse 5. One word by way of advice to you young people brethren you saw yesterday what it was to fall into youthfull lusts and to day you have h●●rd something of the danger of these things Methinks by this time you should be in a rage 〈…〉 methinks you should all say Well now I will never ●p●●● the Sabbath day as I have done I 'le never come near the company of vile women this I hope shall be a warning unto me as long as I live Are you in sober sadness of this mind Oh that the Lord would keep this always upon your hearts O that you now may not get out into the cold world and shake of the sense of these things But do I not see some weeping eyes and aking hearts and what dost thou say poor soul O Sir I am the man you mean but is it possible for me to escape Hell I have lived in almost all these sins for many a year what shall I do I shall answer this honest request and the God of Love and Power set it home 1. Labour to be acquainted with the Principles of Religion be much in reading of the Scriptures search and you will find never a word there to encourage sin but all against it they will make you wise to salvation consult the word and you will escape the wrath to come which shall surely fall upon all those that live and dye in their sins Psal 119. 9. 2. Labour to understand wherein your happiness lies it lies not in Riches Pleasures and Honours but in the Favour of God Psal 4. 6. Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and the righteousness thereof set your affections on things that are above and not on things below 3. To be sure keep the Sabbath strictly and attend upon a powerful Ministery Then is the time to buy provisions to live upon for ever 4. Keep good Company Get out of wicked mens society Mark those that walk soberly and that mind their souls and make much of them and beg an interest in their prayers and take their advice If you once grow weary of good company I shall have but little hopes of you and it 's a sign God means good to poor souls when they are very desirous to be in with them that are dear to God A warm Christian-companion O Sirs you cannot value him too highly 2 Cor. 15. 33. 1 Pet. 4. 4 Heb. 6. 12. 5. Take heed of sinning against Conscience Let Davids Prayer be yours Psal 19. 13. Keep back thy servant from presumptious sins let them not have dominion over me 6. Take heed of putting of Repentance remember now your Creator now is the acceptable time O if you value your lives make haste and delay not an hour but go and fall upon on your knees and beg of God to give you Repentance unto life Give God no rest day nor night till he have changed your heart and made you to see your need of a Christ and to give up your self to Christ O cry out this night A Christ dear Lord a Christ for my poor Soul or I am lost for ever Eclesc 12. 2. Psal 119. 62. 7. Be much in consideration Commune now and then with your heart and think seriously whither you are going and ask your soul what a condition it is in and what it hath to bear up against the fear of death and what provisions are made for Eternity look into your purse what money hast thou that will go currant in another world spend much time in thinking I askt this poor boy how he spent his time in prison he answered In praying reading and consideration 8. Neglect not prayer ask and you shall have seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you be frequent and serious in this duty forget not secret prayer and look after your Prayers and be not content except you here of them again 9. Be diligent in your Callings be not slothful in your worldly business idleness is the devil's shop Rom. 11. 12. 10. Hold out to the end remember what they shall have that conquer resolve for Christ and Heaven upon any terms Well Sirs now my work is done have I been beating the air What shall become of these two Sermons yesterday you heard one out of the Cart and from the Gibbet and to day from the pulpit and what are you resolved to do what shall the tears prayers and entreaties of that dying young man be so soon forgotten if they are can the commands of the living God be so easily contemned Is there nothing in all that I have been speaking what are you still of the same mind that you were or are you not I say again I must leave you and a thousand to one whether I shall ever see you or speak to you more once more I charge you as you love your own Soul as as you fear the wrath of God and the flames of Hell Flee youthful lusts FINIS

to be saved He answered by Repentance and Faith and I could easily tell you to satisfie you that I do repent and do believe but truly so to do as I ought I find it the hardest thing in the World I do believe and I do not I cannot tell how to believe that Christ dyed for sinners so as to throw my self wholly and fully upon him and to think my Tears and Prayers will do me no good But here Reader we must take notice of the unwearied diligence of the Devil in using all means from time to time to undo ruine and wound the Soul of this poor Malefactor who would not forbear to solicit him to sin after he was cast into Prison for former iniquities he had committed for we cannot but judge that the Devil was loth to loose such a prey as his immortal Soul when he had brought him to the very Mouth and Gates of Hell to have him snatched out of his hands by the free-grace of God the Devil did work the more because he knew his time to tempt him was but short to blemish and eclipse the gracious work of God upon his heart and cloud the glory of Gods mercy in saving such a sinner He was by some former acquaintance visiting of him who shewed their love to a death deserving sinner no other way then by calling for drink and desiring him to drink with them overcome therewith and after some former convictions of sin and his lost estate did twice relapse into the sin of Drunkenness whereby he caused many to fear that all this while he had no more than some common workings of the Spirit and put us to stand that we knew not what would be the issue of these things but yet not daring to omit endeavours if possible as instrumenents under God to save his soul we did after this visit him again and again and set forth unto him the greatness of his sin that he should sin yet more against the Lord and in his affliction and chains to provoke the Lord to greater wrath against his Soul with many words to that purpose After which his soul was wounded his heart was pierced he knew not what to do he asked May Mercy be had for a back-sliding sinner To which were given him some Scriptures where God called to back-sliding sinners to return and invited them to repent and promised Mercy to them if they did even after they had done as wickedly as they could and this was much enlarged upon before him from Jer. 3. ver 1 to 15. verse But God that had begun to awaken and to rowse his Conscience that he might set him up as a pattern of free-grace would not let the Devil go thus away with his Soul but brought him to a deep sense of his falling into sin that he much lamented with many tears the sadness of his state the misery of his soul saying What will become of my Soul my Immortal Soul I cannot think what will become of my soul I deserve Hell ten thousand times over and have I now but one grain of sand left in the glass to work for Eternity shall I neglect God any longer O I have neglected God too long already striking his hand upon his Breast and wringing his hands and shaking his head and weeping abundantly said Lord what shall I do O God what shall I do Lord what will become of me if God had dealt justly with me I had now been in Hell I had been dashed into Hell when I murthered that poor innocent Creature I wonder that I am not now in Hell that such a wretch as I am not in Hell God hath been pleased to manifest more mercy to me in sparing of me and affording me so long time for Repentance but I have neglected time and relapsed into drunkenness and vain talking time after time I thought this place meaning the Hole in Newgate Hell upon Earth and did account it a Heaven to be among other Prisoners but now God hath tryed me whether sin will be bitter and displeasing to me or not I have this day being the Lords day been among the Prisoners and they asked me to play at Cards but instead of complying with them I reproved them and told them for my part I had profaned Sabbaths enough already I have but a little time to work for my Soul and I ought not to neglect time now that they likewise he told them if they rightly considered had something else to do and striking his hand upon his breast with much earnestness he cryed out with tears Now now I find that God hath been at work upon my Soul he hath I am sure been at work for now I see so much evil and taste such bitterness in sin that I am not so much troubled that I am to dye nor so much troubled that I am in danger of Hell as to think I should so dishonour God that I should so offend so gracious and merciful a God and spurn against all his Mercies Oh my Soul my Immortal Soul I know not what will become of it to all Eternity it is the grief of my very Soul that I have neglected time as I have done now I see so much need of a Christ and so much preciousness and excellency in Christ that if the greatest King in the world should come and throw his Crown at my foot and tell me I should enjoy it and all the glory of it for millions of years and should have my Liberty presently and should say but it must be without Christ I would sooner chose to dye this moment nay to be racked to pieces by ten thousand deaths or burn ten years together so I may have a Christ I speak freely from my heart so far as I know my heart and now I find it is not only the Devil 's tempting me hath brought me to this but this cursed wretched devilish heart of mine within It is within me so that it was in me before it was committed by me I deserved Hell ten thousand times over before I committed this horrid sin well now I am resolved I will pray as much as I can and weep and wrestle with God as if I were to have Heaven for it but when I have done all I will deny all for my Prayers and Tears cannot save me and I will fully and wholly throw my self at the feet of Christ and if I am damned I will be damned there And more he spake to this purpose in Mr. Baker's hearing About three days after Mr. Baker coming to him asked him how it was with him He told him that the Devil was very busie with him and did solicit him grievously with his Temptations perswading him to have thoughts of escaping These things said he hindred my minding of God one part of the day the other part of the day the Devil fills me with drowsiness that I can neither pray nor read nor perform any duty nor mind any one that prays with

Gods Truth also stood betwixt him and eternal happiness and told him that I spake it with reverence that the Holy God must be a Lyar or else he dying in the guilt of these sins must be certainly and eternally damned I asked him what do you think how will you escape the damnation of hell and the great wrath that is come You have heard what God saith what do you say what course will you take and what means will you use that you may not according to God's threatning be cast amongst Devils into Eternal devouring flames to this at present he made no reply but did often shake his head and lifted up his eyes towards Heaven Next I endeavoured to bring him to a sight and sense of the corruption of his nature and of the sinfulness of his heart and told him all those sins were in his heart before they were actually committed and turned him to the saying of Christ in the 15th of Matthew ver 19. For out of the heart proceedeth evil thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts False-witnesses Blasphemies and told him that in his repentance for those sins he must not only lay to heart and be grieved for the outward acts but lament and bewail the inward principle of corruption whereby he was so strongly inclined to such horrid abominations according to the example of David after his sins of Adultery and Murther in his confession did follow them up to the rise and original from whence they did spring Psal 15. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me By this time I perceived some workings of heart within him and that he was in some measure sensible of his lost estate and by his deportment and carriage to be cast down not knowing what to do I was unwilling to leave him without some grounds of hope that it may be he might be saved that there was a possibility that he might obtain pardoning mercy and be delivered from that great damnation that was due to him for his great transgressions I began to open to him the readiness of Christ the fulness and sufficiency of Christ to save the greatest sinners and that God I hoped in mercy to his soul had sent me one of his Embassadors to offer him a pardon and Eternal life if he were but willing to accept of Christ upon the terms of the Gospel for his Lord and Saviour and did encourage and assure him upon repentance and faith in Christ there was mercy yet for him though a Murderer from these Scriptures Isa 1. 18. Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow and though they be as red as crimson they shall be as wool As I opened to him the great mercy of God in Christ toward Sinners dyed in grain that were sinners of a scarlet colour that had committed heinous transgressions he brake forth into tears and wept plentifully at the tydings of mercy and possibility that such a one as he might be saved Besides I turned him to some Scripture-promises that God would certainly forgive his sins and save his Soul if he could repent and get Faith in Christ Such as Prov. 28. 13. He that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find mercy and Isa 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon This Scripture he diligently heeded and turned it down in his Bible and these two Scriptures the night before he suffered amongst others he alledged as the grounds of his hopes of mercy I also gave him some Scripture instances of great Sinners that had obtained mercy turned him to the example of Manasseh 2 Chron. 33. to that of Mary Magdalen Luke 7. 37 38. to that of the Jews Acts 2. 37 38. that were guilty of the blood of Christ that had murdered the Son of God a greater murther than which could not be committed and yet upon Repentance and Faith many of them were pardoned and saved To that of Paul 1 Tim. 1. 13 14 15 16. shewed him how God had set up Paul as a pattern of Free-grace towards great sinners for the encouragement of such that though guilty of great sins afterwards should believe To all these he hearkned very carefully and took notice of the places of Scripture for his meditation after I left him And last of all I endeavoured to set before him Jesus Christ as the only Remedy and Saviour for his Soul and shewed him the insufficiency of all his Duties Prayers and Tears to get off the guilt of the least sin that if he could shed a thousand tears of blood for any one vain thought it would be no better than puddle water to justifie or to save him Much discourse I had with him at this time besides what is here inserted and several other times when I went to visit him in Newgate which I willingly omit because this book should not swell to too great a bulk After all I went to prayer with him in which Duty he was much dissolved into tears he seemed to me and his faithful Friend that was most with him above all others to be very earnest in Prayer and with weeping eyes to beg for pardon and for Converting Grace and Christ to be his Saviour which was much insisted on in the prayer that was made for him After which advising him to consider of what I had said for that time I took my leave of him The next time after this Discourse that Mr. Baker came to him he Enquired how it was with him he said what T. D. had said did very much startle him that he knew not what to reply and cryed out very much of the heinousness of his sins that he should commit that horrid Sin of Murder and knew not what to do for that left a deep impression upon his heart that God must be a Lyar or else he in that condition of impenitency must be damned yet he laid hold upon that promise that was unfolded to him That if a sinner turned from his wicked ways God would abundantly pardon And afterwards read on the verse that followed Isa 55. 8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways saith the Lord. Upon which considering said Men cry out for death and vengeance no mercy to be had from men but Gods thoughts to a repenting sinner were life for he delighteth not in the death of a sinner About four or five days after this he was puzled about his performing of Duties and resting only upon Christ for Salvation for he was tempted if he performed duties to rest upon them or to let them alone and leave them off if he must rest only upon Christ At which time H. B. coming to him enquired how it was with him now and how he hoped

me Sometimes he tempts me to delay telling me that it is time enough for me to think of Repentance when I am Condemned and that God is a merciful God and sometimes he tempted me to Despair telling me that it was impossible that so monstrous a sinner as I had been should be saved But blessed be God that he made me to think that these were but the Devils Temptations although I have been sadly hurried with them for some days but that which did most fill me with terror was the frequent fears of the Devil 's appearing personally to me which did so exceedingly trouble me in Prayer so that I could say nothing when I kneeled down but was fain to set the Candle down before me and durst not look one way nor other for fear I should see him and my thoughts have been so vain many times when you have been reading to me that I have scarce heard a word of what you said A Discourse betwixt H. B. and T. S. Prisoner in Newgate after some Friends went away dissatisfied fearing he had not a sense of his sin c. H. B. asking him how it was with him He replied It is the grief of my Soul that I should be no more affected I think I have the most rocky stony heart in the world if ever there was an heart of Iron I have one it is not fit to be called an heart To have others come and pray with me and instruct me and see how they are affected with my condition and yet I not at all affected with my own condition Oh it is the grief of my soul to see it so and yet as soon as Ministers and good people are gone and I walk about and consider oh it melts me and breaketh my heart in pieces to think I can mourn for sin and grieve for sin no more when Gods people are with me because it causeth them to think that I am not sensible of my sin though blessed be God I am in some measure sensible of the evil of my sins and it is the grief of my soul to think how I have dishonoured God and abused his Mercy and spurned against his Mercy and Patience After this they both spent some time in Prayer and H. B. asked him how it was with him now He said I find so much sweetness in prayer although I cannot find God loveth me that to think I am not Cursing and swearing as others are but be confessing my sin my very tears trickle down my Cheeks for joy sometimes I find my heart so dead and dull in duty that I know not what to say in Prayer at other times I find my heart so full and so much affected in Duty that I could wish I might never rise off my knees The night before the Sessions H. B. coming to him asked him if it was not terrible to him to think of appearing before the Barr of men he answered methinks when I consider seriously of it what a light poor thing mans Barr is in comparison of Gods Barr yet mans Barr is enough to daunt one to hear them say Take him Gaoler tye him up but to appear before Gods Barr who knoweth all the sins that ever I committed he saw all my secret sins and for God to say Take him Gaoler take him Devil shut him up in the Dungeon of Hell Oh! that is enough I believe to make the stoutest heart in the World to tremble for there is no recalling that sentence and I believe there are many go out of this Prison as I saw formerly three that went to be hanged and they were almost drunk and did sing all the way they went but oh their note was soon changed when they came to stand before Gods Barr. The morning before he went to the Sessions H. B. and the Prisoner spent some time in prayer the Prisoner in his prayer did earnestly beg of God that he would keep him from those temptations he might be exposed unto by bad company After this he was taken down to the Sessions house but was not called because the Jury of Middlesex did not sit that day At night H. B. came to him again and asking how it was with him he answered he found it no easie thing to be a true Christian I thought before I came to Prison that reading a Chapter now and then and saying the Lords Prayer and the Creed at night when I went to bed would have saved me though many times I was asleep before I had half done but now I find it no such easie thing to get to Heaven nay I find it the hardest thing in the World for my Prayers and Tears and Duties if I could fall upon my knees and never rise off from them while I live they would not save me for all this is but my duty but I now know there is merit enough in the blood of Christ to save me and he did earnestly beg of God in Prayer that God would wash his Soul in the blood of Christ and blot out all his sins out of the book of his remembrance and turn them behind his back though I as earnestly beg they might be all spread before my face that I might have a more humble and throughly broken heart for them Lord one drop of that blood is enough to wash away all my sins And so after some conference H. B. left him for that night who heard from one that was with him that night that he spent that time most in Prayer and Reading The second morning in the time of the Sessions Mr. Baker that was a careful friend for the good of his Soul went to the Sessions House where he found him well and in good Frame and continued with him for the space of two or three hours that morning after which time Mr. Baker was from him to hear the Tryal of the Person that was arraigned and afterward executed for the Fire upon the house burnt down in Mincing-Lane for the space of half an hour or thereabout in which time in company of other Prisoners he was much distempered with something that he had drank amongst them which did take from him his understanding that he was not his own man we judge that though this did cast a blemish upon the profession that he had made after he came to Newgate it was not a voluntary act but some surprisal or design of the other upon him partly because the quantity was far less than what at other times he could drink without any disturbance to his head A Friend also heard Hannah the Strumpet that enticed him to his former wickedness say Others have made you drunk to day but I will make you drunk to morrow But afterwards he was afraid to drink in their company but rather denied to take what was necessary for his refreshment The Prisoners were much against his accusing of that Harlot and did much perswade him to take something to chear his Spirits and when T. D. was