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The last speech, of that pious and [lear]ned divine Mr. John Hicks who was executed at Glassenbury, Octob. 1685.
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Hickes, John, 1633-1685.
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may have the knowledge thereof with innumerable other things that I am now ignorant of or do but imperfectly know compleated and perfected and so be made happy by a plenitude and fulness of intellectual pleasures which of all others are most sutable sweet and satisfing to immortal souls When I also see that he that departs from iniquity makes himself a prey and so many ingulph and plung themselves into the depth of wickedness least they should make themselves odious and vile so accompted which makes them so much to degenerate not onely from Christianity but humanity also as if they where scarce the excressence of either abandoning even that most noble generous heroick spirit that hath dwelt in many hearthens who counted it most honorable and glorious to contend for their countrys rights and libertyes yea to suffer death the worst of deaths in defence of the same and judging them most accursed execrable horrid vilaines that doe so not onely so but for their own private advantage tho many of them inslave their posterity by it are most industrious laborious most fierce furious in destroying them whereby they are become as unnatural children that seek the ruine of their parents that begat them and brought them forth or they that lay violent hands upon them selves dashing out there own brains cutting their own throats hanging and drowning themselves ripping up their own bowels They being in a different sense but children and members of that body politick they design and attempt the death destruction of and when I know not how long the duration and continuance of these things shall be or a conclusion and end by God who by an infallible and unerring wisedom governes the World shall be put there to why shall my soul be unwilling to take its flight into the unseen and eternal World where no such sordid impious things most in congrous unto unbecoming nature shall be seen found and where I shall behold no narrow convulsive contracted souls that habitually perfer their private before a publique Good But all most unanimously and equally concentring in one common universal Good and where the sighs groanes and tears of the afflicted shall be heard no more for ever I earnestly exhort all most highly to prise value time diligently to improve it to externity to be wise seriously and seasonably to consider there latter end for though by the irreparable irrevesible Law of Heaven we must all dye yet we know not how where nor when to live with their souls full of sollicitude care and with the most deep concernedness and while you have time opportunity means of grace health and strenght to make sure of those two greate things viz. 1. What merits for you a right and title to eternal life and the future unchangeable blessednes and that is the redeemers most precious blood and righteousness and therefore let there be a sincere application and imputation thereof unto you by believing 2. That which makes you qualified subjects for it and that is the great work of regeneration wrought in your souls a being renewed in the Spirit of your minds the having the divine nature imprinted on you a repairing of the decayed image of God in you the transformation into his own likenes whereby they may minde and Savour more of the things of the Spirit than the things of the flesh celestial heavenly more then the terrene earthy superiour more then inferiour things and here with to have a holy life and conversation conjoined that results and springs from the same as fruits from the feeds and roots and acts from the habit let all in order thereunto seriously consider those few Texts of Sacred Scripture let them be deeply transcribed upon your souls let them be assimulated thereunto be made the written Epistle the lively picture purtraiture thereof Matth. 5 8. blessed are the pure in heart for they shall se God verse 20. for I say unto you except your righteousness exceed the rightousness of the Scribes and Pharisees yow shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of God John 3 3. and Jesus sayed unto him except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Cor. 6 9. know ye not that the unrighteous shall not enter into the Kingdom of God be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers verse 11. such were some of yow but now ye are washed ye are sanctified 5 Gal. 20 21 22 23 24. James 18. of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures 1 Pet. 1 23. being born again noâ— of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abided for ever 3 Coll. 1 2. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above set your affections on things above and not on things on the earth 5 Gal. 24. they that aer Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof 2 Ephes 1. and you hath be quickned who were dead in Trespasses in sins 2. Revel 6. Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus c. 1 Pet. 1 15. But as he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation 4. Ps 3. But know that the Lord hath sett a part him that is God by for him self I shall mention no more the Holy Bible abounds with those texts which shews what renovation and change of our carnal and corrupt nature and hearts there must be with holiness of life and conversation before we can be capable of a future blessed immortality and of inheriting he Kingdom of God for ever