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A60227	The life and death of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., or, A short narrative of the main passages of his earthly pilgrimage together with a true account of his purely Christian, peaceable, spiritual, gospel-principles, doctrine, life and way of worshipping God, for which he suffered contradiction and reproach from all sorts of sinners, and at last, a violent death, June 14. Anno, 1662 : to which is added, his last exhortation to his children, the day before his death.	Sikes, George.	1662 (1662)	Wing S3780; ESTC R19959	148,120	164

significancy of its words to serve their present purpose yea or if they date even beyond all this lay down their meer arbitrary assertions that have not the least hint for them in such a new made Law which will pass with Jurors for a legal ground of taking away ones Life A righteous man in these circumstances has an exceeding hard time on 't Beyond all this yet if a proviso-Foundation for securing an innocent persons Life any voluntary unsought for grant made upon a supposal that all other Foundations of his security should sail him if this also be laid aside and slighted though the word of a King in answer to the Petition of a Parliament amounting in effect to an Act of Parliament where 's the righteous man then gone without remedy But whither from earth to heaven A sad loss to us a great gain to him Sure something will come down from heaven amongst us er'e long for such doings A righteous man in a case so circumstanced which I have thus taken Liberty according to my word to speak a little to in general what can he say in his just defence that his Accusers and Judges will not call Treason and be ready to form up a new Charge against him for if commanded Thus a Iews served Christ and so I pass to the other branch of my reserved liberty the consideration of particulars in the case of the leading Sufferer Ye have heard the blasphemy saies the high Priest he hath spoken blasphemy what further need have we of Witnesses What think ye the Jewry-men never study the point they have their Verdict ready at their fingers ends he is guilty of death Mat. 26. 65 66. Quick work But what was the crime He denied not but that he was the Son of God For Christ or Christians to be in the highest sence what they should be own it this men yea the very high Priests Archbishops that pretend to be the chief watchmen over souls are ready to call Blasphemy If they can but get any the least intimation of such a thing out of them by interrogating they reckon they have enough to take away their Lives They Devil● as Christ told these Iews can't endure to hear any own themselves to be the Sons of God What a world is this for Christ and his followers The chief Priests Elders and all the Council sought false Witnesses against Iesus to put 〈◊〉 to death They tamper with many yet for a good while find none ●●●uch as are insufficient to do their work either through the invalidity of the matter testified or inconsistency of their testimony for they agreed not To murder him they were resolved all they sought for was a colourable pretext At length come two false witnesses well paid 't is like for their pains which say this fellow said I am able to destroy the Temple of God and build it in three dayes whereas his words were Ioh. 2. 29. destroy ye this Temple his Body so they did and in three dayes I will raise it up so he did But what a feeble testimony was here to go about to take away a man's Life upon in case it were true that he spake these words and that in their sence concerning the material structure of the figurative Temple They lie at catch therefore for some word from his own mouth at the bar to carry on the work Very little 't was he spoke there He lets the false witnesses pass uncontrolled answers not a word though demanded by the high Priest Mat. 26.61 63. Then the high Priest falls to interrogating tries what new matter for a charge he can get out of him by Questions Yea he adjures him to tell them whether he be the Christ the Son of God Christ denies it not Now they reckon they have enough They slight their false witnesses They are now Judges and Witnesses too themselves and that in a matter of far greater consequence blasphemy he makes himself the Son of God say they Then they hurry him away before Pilate the Romane Deputy where the chief Priests and Elders that sat as his Judges in the other Court turn his Accusers vehemently urging and witnessing many things against him before Pilate and he lets all pass answers not a word Yea though minded of it and urged by Pilate to speak for himself not a word could they get of him say or do what they would He 's a Mute It seems their Testimony in Pilates judgement amounted to very little for after all he asks them What evil hath he done Their answer is Let him be crucified Bruits Oh but say they we have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye because he made himself the Son of God 'T is a dangerous thing amongst men for Christ or his fellow-heirs to own themselves to be the Sons of God Heirs of the heavenly Kingdom though they give no disturbance or just occasion of offence to any Kings in their worldly Thrones Men will be laying their heads together to frame some miscievous Law against them to call them Blasphemers then put them to death for it They will call that Heresy which is the only right way of worshipping the God of our Fathers then punish them for it What goodly work are Magistrates with some new upstart Lawes like to make on 't at Religion and Worship If there be any that do what they should in either of all others they must be sure to go to wrack But Pilate yet seeks to release Christ. All that is said yet will not do it with him 'T was a custom to deliver some one Prisoner at the F●ast he asks them therefore Shall I deliver Christ or Barabbas Now Barabbas was a robber and a Murtherer They cry out all at once like mad men away with this man and release unto us Barabbas Men will rather favour Murderers and Robbers than Christ and his followers Pilate willing yet to release Iesus Christ had the better on 't of our Prisoner as to the Lord chief Justice that sat upon him speaks once again to them of it But they hold to their old tone cry crucifie him crucifie him He replied yet again Why what evil hath he done I find no cause of death in him But they were instant with loud voices requiring that he might be crucified Pilate sayes to them What Shall I crucify your King The chief Priest answered we have no king but Caesar. And here they take hint for a new charge against him that it will highly concern Pilate to take notice of If thou let this man g● say they thou art not Caesars friend Whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Caesar. Then Pilate complies with them The voices of the People and the chief Priest prevailed so he passes sentence that it should be as they required 'T is the legally religious party all along that accuse prosecute and deliver up Christ and his followers into the hands of sinners among the Gentiles and so

the Law or the ruling activity of their own rational powers in them But let him speak a word of the divine Life broadly and plainly in its distinction from their present attainment that is to be propagated in them by another birth he is presently looked upon as an enemy There are two births or formations of Christ in the souls of men Those that stay with unwise Ephraim in the first which is but that state or place whence the true Heavenly Seed and Children of God do break forth Hos. 13. 13. refusing to be born of God Iohn 1. 13. Of the will of God Iames 1. 18. By the new second and more excellent Birth will in fine appear in their colours false brethren that will hate and slander their own Mothers Son Psal. 50. 20. In order to this second birth under the metaphor of a Mother Paul saith He travelled with the Galatians again till Christ in his second more excellent appearance and communicable life be formed in them Gal. 4. 19. Veritas odium parit Truth brings hatred is a Proverb that holds too true in all sizes and kindes of Truth Let a man take upon him the boldness to exercise but his Moral-Philosophy-Principles in giving check to the open Enormities of his time drunkenness beastliness swearing and the like he makes himself a prey He reproves a scorner and gets himself a blot Prov. 9. 7. This is his portion from the lewd multitude that will but attempt so much as with the Pharisees to wash the outside of the dish and of the cup to circumcise and lop off the wild excrescencies and exuberant superfluities of naughtiness Sir Thomas Moore Overbury and many others for their faithful counsel on such accounts have been cut off If Socrates a heathen Philosopher through the sublimity of his speculation cannot own the Magistrates Religion but give his Testimony against Polytheisme or a plurality of Gods he must die for it without remedy If Seneca and other Stoicks declare against the corrupt manners and bruitish practises of the generation amongst whom their Lot is cast they are not like to scape much better The main bulk of mankind is so plunged and lodged in wickedness or the wicked one the Devil 1 Iohn 5. 19. and Chap. 3. 12. that they 'l not endure a word against downright Bruitism But for the true Believer that comes forth in and with the Spirit Testimony and everlasting Gospel of Christ he must expect to become hatred even in the house of his God Hos. 9. 8. As it fared with Paul in the Church of Galatia Gal. 4. 16. Yea Paul himself when an eminent practitioner in the righteousness of the Law or of Man was the hottest and maddest persecutor the spiritual believer had and verily thought that he ought to do what he did therein Acts 26. 9. 11. as Christ had foretold in like case Iohn 16. 2. They shall put you out of the Synagogues yea and whosoever killeth you will think he doth God service Your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my Names sake said Let the Lord be glorified we doubt not but we glorify God herein by punishing and excommunicating such Hereticks and Blasphemers but God himself takes up the Controversie very short telling his out-casts he will appear to their joy and their enemies shall be ashamed that cast them out Isa. 66. 5. Paul saw this bitter ignorant zeal in the professing Churches at Ierusalem which he had had experience of both wayes in himself towards other Saints and in other Pharasaical sticklers lately towards him He therefore chose rather to cast himself upon the Heathen Magistrate for his tryal than be returned to them and Festus answered unto Caesar shalt thou go Act. 25. 11 12. He did make the better choice for the Iews were ready to destroy him immediately without a hearing Act. 23. 12 15. Caesar gives him a breathing while He scapes his Sword two whole years what ever more Act. 28. 30 31. Yet suffers at last under that Lyon Nero whom he had for a season been delivered from 2 Tim. 4. 17. Tyrannical Magistrates are so metaphor'd in Scripture as also by others Beasts Birds and Fishes of prey the most potent and ravenous Creatures in Air Earth and Water Eagles Dragons Lyons Unicorns Bears Wolves Foxes the Leviathan or Whale c. But God hears that is delivers his humble broken-hearted Saints from the hornes of such Unicorns saves them from the Lyons mouth Psal. 22. 21. that is from the powers of the darkness of this World Devils or Men by them influenced till they be enabled to triumph over death and conquer them by dying Satan is called The God of this world the great red Dragon of a bloody murtherous colour the root fa●her and spring of all corrupted worldly Magistracy and arbitrary domination Pharaoh is called a Dragon Ezek. 29. 3. And it is written As a roaring Lyon and a ranging Bear so i● a wicked● Ruler over the poor people Prov. 28. 15. Her Princes are like Wolves ravening the prey to shed blood destroy souls and get dishonest gain Ezek. 22. 27. Her Iudges are evening Wolves they gnaw not the bones till the morrow Zeph. 3. 3. In Herod they are termed Foxes Luk. 13. ●2 Such Foxes amongst others are taken notice of as spoilers of the Vines Cant. 2. 15. Wasters of the true Churches and People of Christ by their sacrilegious intrusions and magisterial lording it over those that after the way which men call Heresie are rightly worshipping the God of their Fathers What a world is here for a Believer To the generality of bruitish men an honest moral Heathen will be reputed a Phan●tick The Legal Christian with his Ordinances and imputed righteousness of Christ for his Justification and acceptance with God though but upon the tearms and in the renewed Principles of the first Covenant will appear so to the honest Heathen The spiritual Man as born of the will of God partaker of the Divine Nature the proper New-creature Principle of eternal Life that quallifies him for the steady Sonly obedience in the spirit and way of the new and everlasting Covenant he appears a Phanatick to them all a Fool a Mad man The Prophet is a Fool the Spiritual man is Mad Hol. 9.7 Yea he is reputed so in the house of his God vers 8. amongst his mothers children Psal. 50. Thus the Iewes Christ's own People said of him He hath a devil and is mad why hear ye him Yea his very friends go about to lay hold on him for said they he is besides himself Mark 3. 21. The Servant is like to find but harsh entertainment where the Lord is thus handled The bruitish party of men is incomparably the greatest and will carry it by Vote The honest Heathen and the Legal Christian will all joyn with them to call the Spiritual man mad The very Christ Christ in Spirit the very Christian the Spiritual man he is cast out of all their

dunghil because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort Dan. 3. Yet it appears not that Nebuchadnezzar himself worshipped this true God or forsook his false A while after we find him boasting and vaunting as if there were no other God but he Dan. 4.30 What a fickle thing is that Religion that depends upon the Magistrates Decree Darius the Mede when he comes upon the Stage at Babylon he is flattered by his corrupt Courners to turn Pope take upon him to be the holy Father all must pray to him for thirty dayes and not ask a petition of any other God If they did they must to the Lions den Daniel is charged with slighting the King and his Decree The King set himself to deliver him but could not An Angel did by stopping the Lyons mouths Then his accusers with their wives and children were cast to the Lyons and were torn in pieces immediately before they came to the bottom of the Den Dan. 6. What looking-glasses are here for Kings to give them aim what persons to put most value on Idolatrous flattering Courtiers that counsel them to their dammage and disherison or true Prophets and faithful Subjects that advise them for the safety of their Crown and Dignity True they know not to give flattering titles to men for in so doing their maker would soon take them away Job 32. 22. They fear him more than men 'T is the true advantage of Kings to be plainly dealt with by them Flatterers ruine them They are the Traitors as has appeared in all ages Believe it O ye Rulers and Judges if you go on at the rate you have begun should all the Angels in heaven and Men on earth lay their understandings together to demonstrate the requisiteness yea absolute necessity of having made a Parliamentary and popular defence against such corrupt sticklers for prerogative and arbitrary domination when got into armes 1641. 'T is hard to imagine how they should mend that which your selves have given by your most injurious and oppressive practices since your return What should we mince the matter for The world is almost at an end The Devils rage is great because he knows he has but a short time It highly concerns us to deal plainly with one another lest that great deceiver of the Nations cozen us all If men do as wickedly as they can and make a law that no body must tell them of it must every body therefore hold their peace and let them go on What can the Devil desire more Must God and his Messengers have no hearing with you What do you imagine will become of you then Will ye change Religion and the Laws and must no body dare to say so But they will you see Will you put out the eyes of all the good People of England They have eyes and will use them too do what you can as long as their heads are on With these eyes they see clearer what you are about then it may be you are aware The Lord in the late War was a Rebuker of you all in many pitch'd Fields and a continued series of disappointments for many years together If you would but mend the matter as to what this Nation felt when it groaned under the Tyranny of your apostate Conqueror this yet were something Many of the same persons that he abused and oppressed you have slain and so finished his work upon them You should let the oppressed go free ease those heavy burdens that he put upon the People and you encrease them so that the Nation languishes under a general discouragement as to Trade and almost every thing else What work God will suffer to be made by any instruments of cruelty amongst us that are profound to make slaughter though unfit to fight he himself best knows But that God will send deliverance in the close and preserve a remnant in the scramble I am as confident as that there is a God that judgeth in the Earth who will make himself known by the Judgements which he will execute upon all wicked Opposers of him and his People Freely I have received and I freely give you such portion as the Scripture allots you Yet say not O Rulers there is no hope we will therefore fill up the measure of our wickedness and then let God strike Say not thus There is yet hope You may repent of the evil of your doings and quite lay aside all your mischievous and destructive intendments towards this peeled People and you and we together may be a flourishing Nation If the King say as the King of Nineveh Let every man cry mightily unto God let them turn every one from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands who can tell but God may turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not Jonah 3. 8 9. FINIS Some Notes of Sir Henry Vane's Exhortation to his Children and Family brokenly and imperfectly taken Iune 13. 1662. being the day before his Execution Genesis 18. 17 18 19. And the Lord said Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty Nation and all the Nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him For I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do Iustice and Iudgement that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him VVE have here a description of God's reasoning within his own mind concerning the open-heartedness he would use towards Abraham who is called his Friend Isa. 41. 8. for the eminency of his Faith by which he was made one spirit and of one mind with the Lord so as he could instantly surrender and perform whatever God called for from him or required of him however hard or contrary to the desire eye and reasonings of flesh and blood The greatest tryal of his Faith and the most signal manifestation of it was the offering up his only begotten son the son of promise of whom it was said In Isaac shall thy seed be called This Typical Father of the Faithful behaved himself but as a pilgrim and stranger even in the earthly Land of Promise seeking yet a better Country a heavenly Heb. 11. 12. He came off readily with this greatest offering of flesh at its best in his Isaac the figure of Christs offering so as by the transforming Baptism of the Spirit to grow up into a perfect harmony with the will of God Rom. 12. 1 2. Hereupon he is termed the Father of the Faithful and hereby Isaac also became a Son of the Resurrection as he was also before in a figure Heb. 11. 12 19. as springing up from Abraham's body and Sarah's womb when both of them were as good as dead The present occasion admits ●o long insisting on this being together with the care he had of his Family but the introductory consideration with God

who revealeth his secrets to his servants the Prophets Amos 3. 7. and them that fear him Psal. 25. 14. for the discovering unto Abraham that exemplary vengeance he then resolved to pour out upon Sodom and the neighbouring Cities for their wickedness Abraham by the offering up of Isaac did certainly perform the choicest highest and most acceptable Sacrifice and Service that is required of God or performable by the Faith of Gods Elect. Nothing was so dear to him as the Will of God and God thought nothing too much to give him He must become a great and mighty Nation yea all the Nations of the Earth must be blessed in him Moreover he will not withhold his secret counsels and resolutions from his friend Abraham If he intend to execute his Judgements in the Earth he will unbosom himself to Abraham before-hand and so afford him the opportunity of trying the utmost that may be done by his intercession on behalf of the Generation amongst whom his lot was cast The servant knows not what his Lord is about to do but the Friend the Son all must be discovered to him The Friend will readily do whatsoever the Lord commands Ioh. 15. 14 15. will follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes Rev. 14. 4. therefore is the Lord willing to disclose to him whatsoever he is going about to do The Son that abideth in the house for ever is open-handed free and universal in his love and resignation of all he is or hath unto God and God is as free and open-hearted unto him knowing that he will make a right construction and improvement of his discoveries Observe first then That the life of Faith is the most excellent life and that those therefore that live by Faith in the highest operation of it are of highest esteem with God This is apparant in Abraham's case here before us He was a Believer of the highest rank and therefore the choice Friend of God the Father of the Faithful in whom all Nations are to be blessed He is thought ●it for most intimate bosom familiarity and converse with God 'T was a more excellent operation of the Faith that saves and is Eternal life in the Believer which Abraham did experience and walk in in distinction from ●nd-superiority to the elect Angels and an inferiour ●ort of everlastingly ●aved Men that shall stand about the Throne on which Abraham with others of his more sublimated spirit and higher participations of Christ shall sit as the Bride the Lamb's Wife From the singular notice God here takes of Abraham and the peculiar friendliness ●he shews in revealing to him alone of all mankind his present intendment towards Sodom Observe secondly That ●● it is the 〈◊〉 so is it the great Priviledge and advantage of Believers highly to value and carefully to improve Divine Discoveries Why did God shew this secret to Abraham more than to 〈◊〉 living but because of the singular good use he knew Abraham wo●●● make of it He knew he would instruct and command his Children and Family after him to keep the way of the Lord and to worship him in Spirit and in Truth though a way by men called Heresie God thinks he can never be open enough to a tryed Believer a known Friend Vse 1. How should this encourage us to give up all our Isaacs to him to do with us and all we are or have whatsoever pleases him How willing should this render us to have our Sacrifices fast bound to the horns of the Altar with the threefold cord of God's love to us man's enmity to us and our love to God Whatever we surrender and part with in obedience to the Will of God we are sure to receive again with Usury to die is gain To lose life is the way to find it eternally A Believer draws forth the choicest communicable Excelle●cies and bosom-secrets of Christ. God puts a great value upon every motion of his believing Friends Much tribulation they me●e with in this Vale of tears many affronts and cruel mockings from contradictious men yea bonds imprisonments and cruel death● But the Lord stands by them to assist and give them peace in the midst of all to make them stedfast and unmovable in the work of the Lord and in their sufferings for such work He raises in them such ravishments of joy through the manifestation of the glory that follows that they chuse rather to be tortured and flain than to accept of deliverance in order to obtain a better resurrection than their deliverance from prisons and death would amount unto They abide stedfastly with God unto a temporary death and he then sets upon their heads the Crown of eternal life Consider was not Christ the great Captain of our Salvation made perfect through sufferings did not he pass this way to the Crown and must not he that will live godly suffe● persecution and through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God The Apostle bids us consider Christ who quietly endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest we be wearied and faint in our minds I am now going through the grace of God to resist man unto blood as knowing that I ought to obey God rather than me● I am ready to follow the Lord whithersoever he goes and calls me after him Rest assured of this However dismal and sad the Believers work and condition appears to men God will give besides a holy triumph of rejoycing in the way an expected end an end that will answer and over-answer all the desires and expectations of his soul. Whoever is able throughout to mark the perfect man and to behold ●●e upright in heart will find that the end of that man is peace such peace and so given not as the world giveth but so as no man can take it from him Objection But what peace is this Believers have Is it not their usual lot here to be delivered into the hands of sinners doth not God permit the men of this world the inhabitants of the earth to trample upon and insult over them yea even to ride over their heads Psal. 66. 12. so that they are forced to lay their bodies as the ground and ●● the sheet to their oppressors that go over them Isa. 51. 23. Doth he not suffer the Devil by wicked men to proceed further against them for the tryal of their Faith than he had commission to proceed against Job for the tryal of his patience even to the touching and taking away their very lives and that with all manner of lying aggravations contring in this to fix the black and infamous character of the greatest malefactors upon them and then cry Crucifie them crucifie them away with such people from the earth it is not fit they should live any longer Act. 22. 22. Answ. To this I answer Thus Christ himself was served and therefore all this notwithstanding they may have peace Yea they have the only true peace which passeth understanding In the midst of all

her sucking Child as he will have to you in this case Isa. 49. 15. Wait on the Lord then be of good courage and he shall strengthen your hearts wait I say on the Lord Psal. 27. 14. Wait on the Lord and keep his way so shall he exalt you to inherit the Land and verify ye shall be fed The true believing Seed of Abraham shall in the close possess the gates of their enemies The meek shall inherit the Earth and delight themselves in the abundance of Peace But the transgressors shall be destroyed together The end hope and expectation of the wicked shall be cut off Know this for your comfort though the Lord be pleased to take your Father from your head this day you have other wayes and means to learn and be built up in the mind of the Lord in your most holy Faith Never cease to beg of the Lord more abundant communications of his Spirit of Grace till you be strengthened with all might in your inward man that ye may be able to serve God acceptably and resist the Devil effectually and finally Remember it hath been the prayer of a poor worm on your behalf that ye may so pray and be so answered by your heavenly Father that your joy may be full See and consider the gracious design of God towards you in this very dealing of his with you by taking me away from you Is it not that ye may be brought more singly and immediately to rely upon his Influence that he may bring the Blessings of Abraham more plentifully upon you Once more I say be not discouraged Regard 〈◊〉 the reproaches that are fallen on your Father Say or do men what they will Abraham's Faith will find the Blessing Abraham found in whomsoever it is As for me I can truly say with David The Reproaches O Lord of those that have reproached thee are fallen upon me Psal 69. 9. And he will in his due time take off all such unjust Reproaches from himself from me and all his faithful hidden ones and will make himself known by the Judgments that he will execute in the Earth so that it shall be said Verily there is a reward for the Righteous verily he is a God that judgeth in to Earth God seems now to take all our concerns wholly into his own hands You will be deprived of my bodily presence but Abraham's Blessing shall come upon you If you be under Abraham's Covenant all that 's therein promised will be made good to you as well as to him or me The Lord revive and cause to grow up and flourish whatever is of that Faith of Abraham in you that is in your Father and grant it may more and more appear in my Family after I am gone hence and no more seen in my mortal body Certain PASSAGES in a Letter sent from a Friend out of the Country to one that accompanied Sir Henry Vane to the SCAFFOLD My loving and worthy Friend DIdst thou stand fast by my worthy Friend and bear him company Did thy soul suffer with him and rejoyce with him riding in his Chariot of Triumph to the Block to the Ax to the Crown to the Banner to the Bed and Ivory Throne of the Lord God thy Redeemer Didst thou stand by to see all these put upon him in the day of his Espousals in his solemn Nuptials Was he not my Friend most richly trimmed adorn'd deck'd with all manner of fine Linnen curious Embroyderies Did not the Perfume of his Garments give a good smell to all the Room and Company Was he not like the Lord's the Lamb's Bride made altother ready Was not his Head richly crown'd and his Neck like the Tower of David Didst thou see the Chain about his Neck of one Pearl dazling the Beholders Were not his Eyes like the pure Dove 's fixed above upon his M●te single and clear Was not his Breast-plate strong like Steel Did the Arrows the sharp Tryals and cruel Mockings pierce it Did not his Shield cover him like the Targets of Solomon was it not beaten Gold When it was tryed did it yeeld to the Tempter O precious Faith Tell me my Friend how did he weild his glittering flaming Sword Did not it behave it self valiantly conquering and turning every way to preserve the Way of Truth Liberty Righteousness and the Cause of the Lord and his People Was not his whole Armour very rich Was it not all from the Sanctuary for beauty and strength Oh mighty Man of Valour thou Champion for the Lord and his Host when they were defied How hast thou spoyled them The Goliah is trodden under foot The whole Army of the Philistims fly Is He fled Is He gone from amongst men Was not this Earth this Kingdom worthy of Him Wast thou upon the Mount of Olives with him to see how he was lifted up glorified advanced Didst thou see him ascend and Chariots and Heavenly Hosts the Glorious Train accompanying Him to his Chamber to the Palace of the great King whether he is gone we gazing below after him But will he not come again Will not the Lord his Bridegroom bring him when He shall come to reign and his S●ints with Him Make ready then my Friend G●r● up thy loins Ride through gloriously for the Day is a great Day of Battel And he that overcometh shall sit down with Abraham Isaac Jacob the Prophets the Apostles and our late Friend VANE in the Kingdom of Heaven whither I shall ever long to be prepared to set forward with the first and to meet thee Friend ascending into the Heavenly Place A LETTER from a Person of Quality to a Relation of Sir Henry Vane about a week after the Execution MADAM IF I do later than others give you an account of the share I have in the losse of your generous Kinsman it is because I would not rudely disturb the Motions of so just a Sorrow but I hope that you are assured I have so real a concern in all that relates to you that it was not necessary by an early haste to send you an Information of it I have Madam whilst I own a love to my Country a deep Interest in the Publick Losse which so many worthy Persons lament The World is robbed of an Unparallel'd Example of Vertue and Piety His great Abilities made his Enemies perswade themselves that all the Revolutions in the last Age were wrought by his Influence as if the World were onely moved by his Engine In him they lodged all the dying hopes of his Party There was no Opportunity that he did not improve for the Advantage of his Country And when he was in his last and much deplored Scene he strove to make the People in love with that Freedom they had so lavishly and foolishly thrown away He was great in all his Actions but to me he seemed greatest in his Sufferings when his Enemies seem to fear that He alone should be able to acquaint them with a Change of Fortune In his lowest condition you have seen him the Terrour of a great Prince strengthened by many potent Confederates and Armies you have seen him live in high Estimation and Honour and certainly he dyed with it Men arrive at Honours by several wayes The Martyrs though they wanted the glittering Crowns the Princes of those Ages dispensed have Rich Ones in every Iust man's esteem Vertue though unfortunate shines in spite of all its Enemies nor is it in any Power to deface those lasting Monuments your Friend hath raised of his in every heart that either knew him or held any Intelligence with Fame But Madam I trespass too long upon your patience This is a subject I am apt to dwell on because I can never say enough of it I shall now onely desire you to make use of that Fortitude and Vertue that raised your Friend above the malice and power of his Enemies and do not by an immoderate Sorrow destroy that which was so dear to him your Self but live the lively Representation of his Vertue the exercise of which hath made you alwayes the admiration of Your humble Servant c. 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