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A Letter formerly sent to Dr. Tillotson, and for want of an answer made publick, and now reprinted with the said doctor's letter to the Lord Russel a little before his execution.
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Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
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your own Conscience We would as soon deliver our Reasons at the Door of a House of Commons and I am not sure that the same Spirit of Integrity which has hindred me from succumbing under what we think an Usurpation will not the next time there is an Assembly there carry me that length if I don 't in the mean time publickly hear from you I beg of God Almighty in whose Being I bless his Name I yet believe to lay a happy constraint upon me to do what may be most for his Glory and the Good of these Nations and I earnestly supplicate him that he will enable me to suffer what-ever may be necessary for those great Ends and that he will incline you either to publish yâ—ur Reasons or Repentance To his blessed Guidance and Protection I heartily recommend you ADVERTISEMENT â‚ Since Dr. Burnet's Pastoral Letter is burned by the Common Hangman according to the Order of the House of Commons it 's therefore now far more necessary that you or he should explain King William's Title and what you have now to say against the following Letter to my Lord Russel Dr. Tillotson's Letter to the Lord Russel My Lord I Was heartily glad to see your Lordship this Morning in that calm and devout Temper at Receiving the blessed Sacrament but Peace of Mind unless it be well grounded will avail little And because transient Discourse many times hath little effect for want of time to weigh and consider it therefore in tender Compassion of your Lordship's Case and from all the good Will that one Man can bear to another I do humbly offer to your Lordships deliberate Thoughts these following Considerations concerning the Points of Resistance if our Religion and Rights should be invaded as your Lordship puts the Case concerning which I understood by Dr. Burnet that your Lordship had once received Satisfaction and am sorry to find a Change First That the Christian Religion doth plainly forbid the Resistance of Authority Secondly That though our Religion be established by Law which your Lordship urges as a difference between our Case and that of the Primitive Christians yet in the same Law which establishes our Religion it is declared That it is not lawful upon any Pretence whatsoever to take up Arms c. Besides that there is a particular Law declaring the Power of the Militia to be solely in the King And that ties the Hands of the Subjects though the Law of Nature and the General Rules of Scripture had left us at liberty which I believe they do not because the Government and Peace of humane Society could not well subsist upon these Terms Thirdly Your Lordships Opinion is contrary to the declared Doctrine of all Protestant Churches and though some particular Persons have taught otherwise yet they have been contradicted herein and condemned for it by the generality of Protestants And I beg your Lordship to consider how it will agree with an avow'd asserting of the Protestant Religion to go contrary to the general Doctrine of Protestants My end in this is to convince your Lordship that you are in a very great and dangerous Mistake and being so convinced that which before was a Sin of Ignorance will appear of a much more heinous Nature as in Truth it is and call for a very particular and deep Repentance which if your Lordship sincerely exercise upon the sight of your Error by a penitent Acknowledgment of it to God and Men you will not only obtain Forgiveness of God but prevent a mighty Scandal to the Reformed Religion I am very loth to give your Lordship any disquiet in the Distress you are in which I commiserate from my Heart but am mâ—ch more concerned that you do not leave the World in a delusion and false Peace to the hindrance of your eternal Happiness I heartily pray for you and beseech your Lordship to believe that I am with the greatest Sincerity and Compassion in the World My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful and Afflicted Servant JOHN TILLOTSON Dr. Tillotson's Last Prayer at the Execution of the Unfortunate Lord RUSSEL O Almighty and Merciful God with whom alone live the Spirits of Just Men made perfect after they are delivered from these Earthly Prisons we humbly commend the Soul of this our dear Brother into thy hands as into the hands of a Faithful Creator and most Merciful Saviour humbly beseeching thee that it may be precious in thy sight Wash it O Lord from all its Guilt in the Blood of the immaculate Lamb that was slain to take away the Sins of the World that whatsoever Defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this wicked World by the Lusts of the Flesh or the Wiles of Satan being purged and done away by a sincere and unfeigned Repentance through thy infinite Mercy and Goodness in our Lord Jesus Christ it may be presented pure and holy and without spot before thee O Lord we humbly beseech thee to support thy Servant and stand by him in this last and great Contest Deliver him from the Pains of Eternal Death and save him O Lord for thy Mercies sake and grant that all we who survive by this and other Instances of thy Providence may learn our Duty to God and the King and that by this and other like Spectacles of our Mortality we may see how frail and uncertain our Condition is in this World that it is all but Vanity and teach us so to number our days that we may seriously apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly Wisdom while we live which may bring us to Life Everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord In whose holy Name and Words we conclude our Prayers Our Father c. It being credibly and confidently reported That you Sir immediately after the Execution went to visit that Excellent Lady my Lady Russel and assur'd her amongst other expressions to comfort her That you wish'd your Soul might go to the same place whither my Lord 's was gone I beseech you to make Mankind understand that expression or vindicate your self from the Imputation wherewith this Story charges you FINIS