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A69768	Excellent contemplations, divine and moral written by the magnanimous and truly loyal Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham ; together with some account of his life, and his letters to several persons whilst he was prisoner in the tower ... likewise his affectionate letters to his lady, the day before his death ... March 9, 1648, with his pious advice to his son the late Earl of Essex.	Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649. His speech on the Scaffold, March 9, 1649.	1683 (1683)	Wing C469; ESTC R4075	81,286	218

present Affairs as they are I cannot tell how to judge of them and truly they are in such a condition as I conceive no body can make a judgment of them and therefore I must make use of Prayers rather than of my Opinion which are That God would bless this Kingdom this Nation this State that he would settle it in a way agreeable to what this Kingdom hath been happily governed under by a King by the Lords by the Commons a Government that I conceive it hath flourished much under and I pray God the change of it bring not rather a prejudice a disorder and a confusion than the contrary I look upon the Posterity of the King and truly my Conscience directs me to it to desire that if God be pleased that these people may look upon them with that affection that they owe that they may be called in again and they may be not through blood nor through disorder admitted again into that Power and to that Glory that God in their birth intended to them I shall pray with all my Soul for the Happiness of this State of this Nation that the blood which is here spilt may even be the last that may fall among us and truly I should lay down my life with as much chearfulness as ever Person did if I conceived that there would be no more blood follow us for a State or Affairs that are built upon blood is a Foundation for the most part that doth not prosper After the Blessing that I give to the Nation to the Kingdom and truly to the Parliament I do wish with all my Heart Happiness and a Blessing to all those that have been Authors in this business and truly that have been Authors in this very work that bringeth us hither I do not only forgive them but I pray heartily and really for them as God will forgive my sins so I desire God may forgive them I have a particular relation as I am Chancellor of Cambridge and truly I must here since it is the last of my prayers pray to God that that University may go on in that happy way which it is in that God may make it a Nursery to plant those persons that may be distributed to the Kingdom that the souls of the people may receive a great benefit and a great advantage by them and I hope God will reward them for their kindness and their affections that I have found from them I have said what Religion I have been bred in what Religion I have been born in what Religion I have practised I began with it and I must end with it I told you that my Actions and my Life have not been agreeable to my Breeding I have told you likewise that the Family where I was bred hath been an Exemplary Family I may say so I hope without vanity of much Affection to Religion and of much faithfulness to this Kingdom and to this State I have endeavoured to do those Actions that became an honest Man and a good English man and which became a good Christian I have been willing to oblige those that have been in trouble those that have been in persecution and truly I find a great reward of it for I have found their Prayers and their Kindness now in this distress and in this condition and I think it a great reward I pray God reward them for it I am a great sinner and I hope God will be pleased to hear my Prayers to give me faith to trust in him that as he hath called me to death at this place he will make it but a passage to an Eternal Life through Jesus Christ which I trust to which I rely upon and which I expect by the mercy of God And so I pray God bless you all and send that you may see this to be the last Execution and the last Blood that is likely to be spilt among you And then turning to the side-rayl he prayed for a good space of time after which Mr. Bolton said My Lord Now look upon him whom you have trusted My Lord I hope that here is your last prayer there will no more prayers remain but praises and I hope that after this day is over there will a day begin that shall never have end and I look upon this my Lord the morning of it the morning of that day My Lord You know where your fulness lies where your riches lie where is your only rock to anchor on you know there is fulness in Christ If the Lord comes not in with fulness of comfort to you yet resolve to wait upon him while you live and to trust in him when you die and then say I will dye here I will perish at thy feet I will be found dead at the feet of Jesus Christ Certainly he that came to seek and save lost sinners will not reject lost sinners when they come to seek him He that intreateth us to come will not slight us when we come to intreat him My Lord there is enough there and fix your heart there and fix your eyes there that eye of Faith and that eye of Hope exercise these Graces now there will be no exercise hereafter As your Lordship said here take an end of Faith and take an end of Hope and take a farewel of Repentance and all these and welcome God and welcome Christ and welcome Glory and welcome Happiness to all Eternity and so it will be an happy passage then if it be a passage here from Misery to Happiness And though it be but a sad way yet if it will bring you into the presence of joy although it be a Valley of Tears although it be a Shadow of Death yet if God will please to bring you and make it a passage to that Happiness welcome Lord. And I doubt not but God will give you an heart to taste some sweetness and love in this bitter Potion and to see something of mercy and goodness to you and shew you some sign and token of good so that your soul may see that which we have had already of experience of blessed be God for it many experiences many expressions not only in words nor tears God hath not left us without much comfort and evidence and I hope my Lord You that have given so many Evidences to us I hope you want none Your self but that the Lord will be pleased to support You and bear up your Spirit and if there want Evidence there is reliance my security lies not in my knowing that I shall come to Heaven and come to Glory but in my resting and relying upon him when the Anchor of Faith is thrown out there may be shakings and tossings but there is safety nothing shall interrupt safety although something may interrupt security my safety is sure although I apprehend it not and what if I go to God in the dark What if I come to him as Nicodemus did staggering in the night It is a

have nothing but sin and corruption in me I have nothing but that which in stead of being carried up into the Arms of God and of Glory I have nothing but may throw me down into Hell Bolton But my Lord when you are cloathed with the Righteousness of another you will appear glorious though now sinful in your self The Apostle saith I desire not to be found in my own righteousness and when you are cloathed with another the Lord will own you and I shall say but thus much Doubt not that ever God will deny salvation to sinners that come to him when the end of all his Death and Sufferings was the Salvation of Sinners when as I say the whole end and the whole design and the great work that God had to do in the world by the death of Christ wherein he laid out all his counsels and infinite wisdom and mercy and goodness beyond which there was a Non ultra in Gods thoughts when this was the great design and great end the salvation of sinners that poor Souls should come over to him and live certainly when sinners come he will not reject he will not refuse And my Lord do but think of this the greatest work that ever was done in the World was the Blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it And this blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it And this Blood of Christ that was shed was shed for them that come if not for them for none it was in vain else you see the Devils they are out of capacity of good by it the Angels they have no need of it wicked men will not come and there are but a few that come over but a few that come over and should be deny them there were no end nor fruit of the Blood and Sufferings of the Lord Jesus and had your Lordship been with Christ in that bloody agony when he was in that bloody sweat sweating drops of blood if you had asked him Lord what art thou now a doing art thou not now reconciling an angry God and me together art thou not pacifying the Wrath of God Art not thou interposing thy self between the Justice of God and my Soul Would he not have said yea And surely then he will not deny it now My Lord His passions are over his compassions still remain and the larger and greater because he is gone up into a higher place that he may throw down more abundance of his mercy and grace upon you and my Lord think of that infinite Love that abundance of riches in Christ I am lost I am empty I have nothing I am poor I am sinful be it so as bad as God will make me and as vile as I possibly can conceive my self I am willing to be but when I have said all the more I advance that Riches and Honour that Grace of God And why should I doubt when by this he puts me into a capacity into a disposition for him to shew me mercy that by this I may the better advance the Riches of his Grace and say Grace Grace to the Lord to all Eternity that God should own such a Creature that deserves nothing and the less I deserve the more conspicuous is his Grace and this is certain the Riches of his Grace he throweth amongst men that the Glory of his Grace might be given to himself if we can give him but the Glory of his Grace we shall never doubt to partake of the Riches of it and that Fulness My Lord that Fulness be your Comfort that Fulness of Mercy that Fulness of Love that Fulness of Righteousness and Power be now your Riches and your only Stay and the Lord interpose himself between God and you as your Faith hath indeavoured to interpose him between God and your soul so I doubt not there he stands my Lord to plead for you and when you are not able to do any thing your self yet lie down at the Feet of him that is a Merciful Saviour and knows what you would desire and wait upon him while you live trust in him when you die there is Riches enough and Mercy enough if he open not yet die at his door say there I 'le die there is mercy enough Holland And here is the place where I lie die down before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an Eternal Glory through my Saviour upon whom I rely from whom only I can expect mercy into his Arms I commend my Spirit into his bleeding Arms that when I leave this bleeding Body that must lie upon this place he will receive that Soul that ariseth out of it and receive it into his Eternal Mercy through the Merits through the Worthiness through the Mediation of Christ that hath purchased it with his own most precious Blood Bolton My Lord Though you conclude here I hope you begin above and though you put an End here I hope there will never be an End of the Mercy and Goodness of God And if this be the Morning of Eternity if this be the Rise of Glory if God pleaseth to throw you down here to raise you up for ever say Welcom Lord Welcom that Death that shall make way for Life and welcom any Condition that shall throw me down here to bring me into the Possession of Jesus Christ Hodges My Lord if you have made a Deed of Gift of your self to Jesus Christ to be found only in Him I am confident you shall stand at the Day of Christ My dear Lord we shall meet in Happiness Holland Christ Jesus receive my Soul my Soul hungers and thirsts after him Clouds are gathering and I trust in God through all my Heaviness and I hope through all Impediments he will settle my Interest in Him and throw off all the Claim that Satan can make unto it and that he will carry my Soul in despight of all the Callumnies and all that the Devil and Satan can invent will carry it into Eternal Mercy there to receive the Blessedness of his Presence to all Eternity Hodges My Lord It was his own by Creation it is his own now by Redemption and Purchase and it is likewise his own by Resignation O my Lord look therefore up to the Lamb of God that sits at the Right Hand of God to take away the Sins of the World O that Lamb of God! Holland That Lamb of God into his Hands I commit my Soul And that Lamb of God that sits upon the Throne to judge those Twenty Four that fall down before Him I hope he will be pleased to look downward and judge me with Mercy that fall down before Him and that adore Him that only trusts upon his Mercy for his Compassion and that as he hath purchased me he would lay his Claim unto me now and receive me Bolton My Lord Think of this There is no Condemnation to them who are in Christ Who is it that can condemn It is

Christ that justifies And therefore look now upon this My Lord upon this Christ upon this Christ that justifies Hell Death Sin Satan nothing shall be able to condemn It is Christ that justifies you Holland Indeed if Christ justifie no Body can condemn and I trust in God in his Justification Though there is a Confusion here without us and though there are Wonders and Staring that now disquiet yet I trust that I shall be carried into that Mercy that God will receive my Soul Bolton I doubt not my Lord but as you are a Spectacles of Pity here so you are an Object of God's Mercy above Holland Then the Earl of Holland looking over among the People pointing to a Souldier said This honest Man took me a Prisoner You little thought I should have been brought to this when I delivered my self to you upon Conditions And espying Captain Watson on Horse-back putting off his Hat said to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Bolton My Lord Throw your self into the Arms of Mercy and say There I will anchor and there I will die He is a Saviour for us in all Conditions Whither should we go He hath the Words of Eternal Life And upon Him do you rest wait while you live and even trust in Death Holland Here must now be my Anchor a great Storm makes me find my Anchor and but in Storms no Body trusts to his Anchor And therefore I must trust upon my Anchor Vpon that God said Mr. Bolton upon whom your Anchor trusts Yea God I hope will anchor my Soul fast upon Christ Jesus And if I die not with that Clearness and that Heartiness that you speak of truly I will trust in God though he kill me I will rely upon Him and in the Mercy of my Saviour Bolton There is Mercy enough my Lord and to spare you shall not need to doubt they shall never go begging to another Door My Lord that come to Him Then the Earl of Holland speaking to Mr. Hodges said I pray God reward you for all your Kindness and pray as you have done instruct my Family that they may serve God with Faithfulness and Holiness with more Diligence than truly I have been careful to press them unto You have the Charge of the same Place you may do much for them and I recommend them to your Kindness and the Goodness of your Conscience Dr. Sibbald standing upon the Scaffold in his Passage to Collonel Beecher expressed himself thus to his Lordship Dr. Sibbald The Lord lift up the Light of his Countenance upon you and you shall be safe Holland Then the Earl of Holland embraced Lieutenant Collonel Beecher and took his Leave of him After which he came to Mr. Bolton and having embraced him and returned him many Thanks for his great Pains and Affections to his Soul desiring God to reward him and return his Love into his Bosom Mr. Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great Extremity The Lord reveal and discover himself to you and make your Death the Passage unto Eternal Life Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Here my Friend let my Cloaths and my Body alone there is Ten Pounds for thee that is better than my Cloaths I am sure of it Executioner Will your Lordship please to give me a Sign when I shall strike And then his Lordship said You have Room enough here have you not And the Executioner said Yes Bolton The Lord be your Strength there is Riches in him The Lord of Heaven impart himself to you he is able to save to the uttermost We cannot fall so low as to fall below the everlasting Arms of God and therefore the Lord be a Support and Stay to you in your low Condition that he will be pleased to make this an Advantage to that Life and Glory that will make amends for all Holland Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Friend do you hear me If you take up my Head do not take off my Cap. Then turning to his Servants he said to one Fare you well thou art an Honest Fellow and to another God be with thee thou art an Honest Man And then said Stay I will kneel down and ask God Forgiveness And then prayed for a pretty space with seeming Earnestness Bolton The Lord grant you may find Life in Death Holland Which is the way of lying which they shewed him And then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the People God bless you all and God deliver you from any such Accident as may bring you to any such Death as is violent either by War or by these Accidents but that there may be Peace among you and you may find that these Accidents that have happened to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdom It is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my Soul I pray God give all Happiness to this Kingdom to this People and this Nation And then turning to the Executioner said How must I lie I know not Executioner Lie down flat upon your Belly And then having laid himself down he said Must I lie closer Executioner Yes and backwarder Holland I will tell you when you shall strike And then as he lay seemed to pray with much Affection for a short space and then lifting up his Head said Where is the Man And seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the Sign And presently after stretching out his Hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now And just as the Words were coming out of his Mouth the Executioner at one Blow severed his Head from his Body Arthur Lord Capel his Speech on the Scaffold immediately before his Death March 9. 1649. The Execution of the Lord of Holland being thus performed the Lord Capel was brought to the Scaffold as the former and in the way to the Scaffold he put off his Hat to the People on both sides looking very austerely about him And being come upon the Scaffold Lieutenant Collonel Beecher said to him Is your Chaplain here Capel NO I have taken my Leave of him And perceiving some of his Servants to weep he said Gentlemen refrain your selves refrain your selves And turning to Lieutenant Collonel Beecher he said What did the Lords speak with their Hats off or no Coll. Beech. With their Hats off And then coming to the Front of the Scaffold he said I shall hardly be understood here I think And then began his Speech as followeth Capel The Conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the Cause of this violent Death of mine shall be the Beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much Sincerity That I would pray to the God of all Mercies that they might be Partakers of his inestimable

night of trouble a night of darkness though I come trembling and staggering in this night yet I shall be sure to find comfort and fixedness in him And the Lord of Heaven be the strength stay and support of Your soul and the Lord furnish you with all those Graces which may carry You into the bosom of the Lord Jesus that when You expire this Life You may be able to expire it into him in whom You may begin to live to all Eternity and that is my humble prayer Holland M. Bolton God hath given me long time in this World he hath carryed me through many great Accidents of Fortune he hath at last brought me down into a condition where I find my self brought to an end for a disaffection to this State to this Parliament that as I said before I did believe no body in the world more unlikely to have expected to suffer for that cause I look upon it as a great judgment of God for my sins And truly Sir since that the Death is violent I am the less troubled with it because of those violent deaths that I have seen before principally my Saviour that hath shewed us the way how and in what manner he hath done it and for what cause I am the more comforted I am the more rejoyced It is not long since the King my Master passed in the same manner and truly I hope that his purposes and intentions were such as a man may not be ashamed not only to follow him in the way that was taken with him but likewise not ashamed of his purposes if God had given him Life I have often disputed with him concerning many things of this kind and I conceive his sufferings and his better knowledge and better understanding if God had spared him Life might have made him a Prince very happy towards himself and very happy towards this Kingdom I have seen and known that those blessed Souls in Heaven have passed thither by the gate of sorrow and many by the gate of violence and since it is Gods pleasure to dispose me this way I submit my Soul to him with all comfort and with all hope that he hath made this my end and this my conclusion that though I be low in death yet nevertheless this lowness shall raise me to the highest glory for ever Truly I have not said much in publick to the people concerning the particular Actions that I conceive I have done by my Counsels in this Kingdom I conceive they are well known it were something of vanity methinks to take notice of them here I 'le rather die with them with the comfort of them in my own bosom and that I never intended in this action or any action that ever I did in my Life either Malice or Bloodshed or prejudice to any Creature that lives For that which concerns my Religion I made my profession before of it how I was bred and in what manner I was bred in a Family that was looked upon to be no little notorious in opposition to some Liberties they have conceived then to be taken and truly there was some mark upon me as if I had some taint of it even throughout my whole way that I have taken every body knows what my Affections have been to many that have suffered to many that have been in troubles in this Kingdom I endeavoured to relieve them I endeavoured to oblige them I thought I was tyed so by my Conscience I thought it by my Charity and truly very much by my Breeding God hath now brought me to the last instant of my time all that I can say and all that I can adhere unto is this That as I am a great sinner so I have a great Saviour that as he hath given me here a Fortune to come publickly in a shew of shame in the way of this Suffering truly I understand it not to be so I understand it to be a Glory a Glory when I consider who hath gone before me and a Glory when I consider I had no end in it but what I conceive to be the service of God the King and the Kingdom and therefore my Heart is not charged much with any thing in that particular since I conceive God will accept of the intention whatsoever the action seems to be I am going to dye and the Lord receive my Soul I have no relyance but upon Christ for my self I do acknowledge that I am the unworthiest of sinners my Life hath been a vanity and a continued sin and God may justly bring me to this end for the sins I have committed against him and were there nothing else but the iniquities that I have committed in the way of my Life I look upon this as a great Justice of God to bring me to this Suffering and to bring me to this Punishment And those Hands that have been most active in it if any such there hath been I pray God forgive them I pray God that there may not be many such Trophies of their Victories but that this may be as I said before the last Shew that this People shall see of the Blood of Persons of Condition of Persons of Honour I might say something of the Way of our Tryal which certainly hath been as extraordinary as any thing I think hath ever been seen in this Kingdom but because that I would not seem as if I made some complaint I will not so much as mention it because no body shall believe I repine at their Actions that I repine at my Fortune it is the Will of God it is the hand of God under whom I fall I take it entirely from him I submit my self to him I shall desire to roul my self into the Arms of my Blessed Saviour and when I come to this place when I bow down my self there I hope God will raise me up and when I bid farewel as I must now to Hope and to Faith that Love will abide I know nothing to accompany the Soul out of this World but Love and I hope that Love will bring me to the Fountain of Glory in Heaven through the Arms Mediation and the Mercy of my Saviour Jesus Christ in whom I believe O Lord help my Unbelief Hodges The Lord make over unto You the Righteousness of his own Son it is that Treasury that he hath bestowed upon You and the Lord shew You the Light of his Countenance and fill You full with his joy and kindness O my dear Lord the Lord of Heaven and Earth be with You and the Lord of Heaven and Earth bring You to that Safety Holland I shall make as much hast as I can to come that Glory and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my soul I look upon my self entirely in Him and hope to find Mercy through Him I expect it and through that Fountain that is opened for Sin and for Uncleanness my Soul must receive it for did I rest in any thing else I