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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	father_n	son_n	10,642	5	4.8190	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25795	The speech of the late Marquiss of Argyll upon the scaffold, May 27, 1661 being a true and perfect copy.; Speech upon the scaffold the 27th of May 1661	Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3669; ESTC R17347	3,216	8

THE SPEECH of the late Marquiss of Argyll upon the SCAFFOLD May 27. 1661. Being a True and Perfect COPY Printed at Edenburgh and Reprinted at London Anno Dom. MDCLXI THE SPEECH of the late Marquisse of ARGYLL upon the Scaffold May 27. 1661. Gentlemen MAny will expect that I will speak of many things and according to their several Opinions and Dispositions so will bee their expectations from mee and constructions of mee but I resolve to disappoint many for I came not either to justifie my self but the Lord who is holy in all his waies and righteous in all his works holy and blessed is his Name neither come I to condemn others I know many will expect that I should speak against the hardness of the Sentence pronounced against mee but I will say nothing to it I bless the Lord I pardon all men as I desire to be pardoned of the Lord my self Let the will of the Lord bee done that is all that I desire I hope that you will have more Charity to mee now than yee would have had at another time since I speak before the Lord to whom I must give account shortly I know very well that my words have had but little weight with many and that many have mistaken my words many have thought me a great enemy to those great works that have of late been brought to pass● But do not mistake mee people I speak it in the presence of the Lord. I entred not upon the Work of Reformation with any design of advantage for my self or prejudice to the King or his Government as my Will which was written in the year 1655 and then delivered to a friend in whose hands it still remains can show As for those Calumnies which have gone abroad of mee I bless God I know them to bee no more and as I go to make a reckoning to my God I am free as to any of them concerning the Kings Person or Government I was real and cordial in my desires to bring the King home and in my indeavours for him when hee was at home and I had no correspondence with his Adversaries Army or any of them the time His Majesty was in Scotland nor had I any accession to His late Majesties Murder by Counsel or Knowledge of it or any other manner of way This is a truth as I shall answer to my Iudge And all the time H●s Majesty was in Scotland I was still indeavouring his advantage my conscience beareth mee witness in it That is for that At this hee turned about and said I hope Gentlemen yee will all remember this I confess many looks on my Condition as a suffering-Condition but I bless the Lord that hee that hath gone before mee hath trod the Winepress of the Fathers wrath by whose sufferings I hope that my sufferings shall not bee eternal I bless him that hath taken away the sting of my sufferings I may say my Charter was sealed this day for the Lord hath said to mee Son bee of good chear thy sins bee forgiven thee And so I hope my sufferings shall bee easie and yee know the Scripture saith That the Captain of our Salvation was made perfect through sufferings I shall not speak much to those things that I am condemned for lest I seem to condemn others it is well known it is onely for Compliance which is the Epidemical Fault of this Nation I wish the Lord may pardon them I say no more There was an expression in my Submission presented to the Parliament of the Contagion of the times which may bee mis-construed as if I had intended thereby to lay Imputation upon the work of Reformation but I declare I intended no such thing but it was onely in relation to the Corruptions and Failings of men occasioned by the prevalency of the usurping Power Now Gentlemen I think there are three sorts of people that take up much of the world and this Nation There are 1. The openly prophane and truly I may say though I have been a prisoner yet I have not had mine ears shut I hear assuredly that swearing drinking and whoring were never more common and never more countenanced than now and truly if Magistrates were here I would say to them if they lay forth their power for the glor●fying of God by the restra●ning of this they would fare the better if they continue in not restraining of it they will fare the worse I say no more but let either people shun prophanity or Magistrates restrain it or assuredly the wrath of God will follow on it 2. Others they are not openly prophane every one will not allow that but yet they are Gallioes in these matters if things go well as to their private interests they care not whether Religion and the Chu●ch of God sink or swim But what ever they think God hath laid Engagements upon Scotland we are tyed by Covenant to Religion and Reformation those that were then unborn are ingaged ●o it and in our Baptisme we are ingaged to it and it passes the power of any under heaven to absolve a man from the Oath of God they deceive themselves and it may be will deceive others that think other wayes But I would caveat this people would be ready to take this as a kinde of instigation to Rebelion but they are very far in the wrong that think so and tha● Religion and Loyalty are not consistent if any man seperate them Religion is not to be blamed but they It is the duty of every Christian to be Loyal yet I think the order of things is to be observed as well as their na●ure ●he order of Religion as well as the nature of it Religion must not bee the Cogboat but the Ship God must have what is his as well as Cesar what is his And those are the best Subjects that are the best Christians And that I am looked on as a friend to Reformation is my glory 3. There are another sort that are truly godly and to those I must say what I fear and every one hath reason to fear it's good to fear evil it is true that the Lord may prevent it but if hee do not these times are like to bee very sinning times or very suffering times and let Christians make choice there is a sad Dilemma in the businesse sin or suffer and truly hee that will chuse the better part will chuse to suffer others that will chuse to sin shall not escape suffering they shall suffer but it may be not as I do here turning him to the Maiden when hee spake it but worse mine is but Temporal theirs shall be Eternal when I shall bee singing they shall be howling bewa●e therefore of sin what ever yee beware of especially in such times Yet I cannot say of my own condition but the Lord in this providence hath minded mercy to mee even in this world for if I had been more favourably dealt with I fear I might have been overcome with tentations as many others are and I fear many more will bee and so should have gone out of the world with a more polluted Conscience than through the Mercy God now I have and hence my Condition is such now as when I am gone will bee seen not to have been such as many imagined It is fit God take mee away before I fall in those Tentations that I see others are fallen into and I fear many others will fall I wish the Lord may prevent it Yet blessed bee his Name that I am kept both from present evils and evils to come Some will expect that I will Regrate my own Condition but truly I neither grudge nor repine nor desire I any Revenge And I declare I do not repent my going to London for I had alwaies rather have suffered any thing than lye under such Reproaches as I did I desire not that the Lord should Iudge any man nor do I Iudge any but my self I wish that as the Lord hath pardoned mee so may hee pardon them for this and other things and that what they have done to mee may never meet them in their Accompts I have no more to say but to beg the Lord that since I go away hee may bless them that stay behinde His last words immediately before he laid his head upon the Block were the vindication of his Innocency from that horrid Crime of the Kings Murder in these words I desire you Gentlemen and all that hear me again to take notice and remember that now when I am entering on Eternity and am to appear before my Iudge and as I desire salvation and expect eternal happiness from him I am free from any accession by knowledge contriving counsel or any other way to his late Majesties death And I pray the Lord to preserve our present King his Majesty and to poure his best blessings upon his Person and Government And the Lord give him good and faithful Counsellors FINIS