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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46902	A true copy of the speech of Mr. Francis Johnstons, alias Dormore, alias Webb, alias Wall, a priest of the Church of Rome (who was convicted before Mr. Justice Atkins, at Worcester, last Lent-Assizes, upon an indictment on the statute of the 27 Eliz. Cap. 2) which he spake upon the ladder, immediately before his execution, on Fryday last, August 22, 1679	Wall, John, Saint, 1620-1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing J775; ESTC R3893	4,768	4

prophet Jeremiah that Rivers of waters may fall from my Eyes by reason of sin Lam. 3.48 But Tears will not be proper to me at this time I have kept my self from them left by shedding Tears some might say I was unwilling to die or feared death but instead of Tears I offer all the Blood in my veins and I wish every drop were an Ocean and I would offer it up unto God and I wish that I might become a Man like David I wish I had Mary Magdalens penitential Tears I wish I had her Arms to embrace the feet of mercy I wish I had all the Graces of Saints and Angels and I would offer them all to God for the Romission of my sin this is my desire and this I wish for as much as is in me I offer first my Life and I beseech and desire of God to turn his face from my sins but not from me I offer up my Life in satisfaction for my sins and for the Catholick Cause and I beg for those that be my Enemies in this my death and I desire to have them forgiven because I go to that World of Happiness sooner than I should have gone And humbly beg pardon from God and the World And this I beg for the Merits and Mercy of Jesus Christ I beseech God to bless his Majesty and give him a long Life and happy Reign in this World and in the World to come I beseech God to bless all my Benefactors and all my Friends and those that have been any way under my charge I beseech God to bless all the Catholicks and this Nation and his Majesties privy Council and grant that they may Act no otherwise than what may be for the Glory of God 〈◊〉 12. who will bring to light and to judgement all both good and evil So I beseech God that he will give them Grace to serve him I beseech God to Bless the Parliament that is now in Election that they may determine nothing but what they themselves do hope to be judged by at the last day I beseech God to bless all that suffer under this Persecution and to turn this our Captivity into Joy that they which Sow now in Tears may Reap in Joy I beseech God to save the Death of my Body and to receive my Soul I have no more to say Mr. Sheriff I give you no Interruption but only whereas you said That you Dyed for the Faith that is not so You do not Dye for that but because you being his Majesties Subject received Orders from the Church of Rome beyond the Seas and came again into England contrary to the Law Mr. Johnst That was pardoned by the King's Act of Grace Mr. Sher. That Act pardoned only Crimes committed before the making of it but not those done since as your Continuance in England was Mr. Johnst I am sorry if I have given Offence in any thing I have said My Reason for it was because when I was sent for to the Judges upon Sunday-Night Judge Atkins told me I Dyed not for being concerned in the Plot but for being a Priest Mr. Sher. No but for your Continuance in England against the Law being a Priest Mr. Johnst God Receive my Soul Mr. Sher. Sir You may take your own time and you shall have no Interruption Sir Will you be pleased to have your own time Jaylor Sir Pray give the Signe when you please to be Turned Off. Mr. Johnst I will give you no Signe Do it when you will And so he was Executed ANd thus this Popish Faction design to delude the World by pretending that they dye only as Martyrs for their Religion This Priest with great Asseverations denies his knowledg of the Horrid and Damnable Plot wherein we have not much reason to give credit to him since it has been lately so fully and undenyably demonstrated That Lies Equivocations yea and the most solemn Asseverations to an untruth even at the last Moment is not only Lawful but Meritorious when it may advance the Interest of Holy Church Besides if I forbid a man to come into my House upon pain of death and he will be so obstinate notwithstanding he knows the penalty to rush in upon me if he lose his Life in the Quarrel he will be Judged by all wise men to dye like a Fool and his blood is upon his own head Again we are fully satisfied that whoever shall seduce any of the Subjects of this Kingdome to the Popish Religion does at the same Instant make the Person Seduced a Rebel and Traytor against his Prince and Countrey since in a Letter written by that blessed Saint Hartcourt lately departed at Tyburn He does there allow his Proselytes to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy reserving the sence they take it in to themselves whereby we may evidently perceive that they make use of Religion only as a Politick Engine which they manage as may best serve their cursed designs and that no Oaths Tests or Obligations whatsoever can possibly bind or oblige them but that they may be Indulged in breaking or evading the force thereof which our wise Ancestors were very sensible of and therefore with great prudence made this Excellent Law against their Leaders since if a Factious Priest have the sole Command of the Conscience and that whatever he Commands must be indispensable obeyed no Prince nor Government can possibly be safe or secure and therefore Persons of such Principles as the Romish Clergy avow and own ought with the greatest Reason to be hooted out of the World as being the most cursed and dangerous Enemies to man-kind Let us therefore conclude with the Prayer of the Church in the Old Liturgy Be thou O Lord our mighty Protector and scatter our Cruel Popish Enemies who delight in Blood strenthen the hands of our gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of this Land with Judgment and Justice to cut off those workers of Iniquity whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose practice is Murthering Souls and Bodies and to root them out of the Confines and Limits of this Kingdom that they may never prevail against us nor Triumph in the Ruine and destruction of thy Church and People Amen FINIS