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An Account of the execution and last dying speeches of Thomas Watson and Thomas Gourdon who were executed (the one for murthering his wife and the other for high-treason) on Kenington-Common in the county of Surry, the 19th of March, 1687 : together with a true coppy of a paper left by Tho. Watson in order to be published and recommended by him at the place of execution to the spectators as the real sense of what he further designed or intended to say or leave at his going out of this world &c. ...
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fell to consider and meditate on sundry sacred Texts by which means I found more Consolation as thus Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will aboundantly pardon for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are my ways your ways saith the Lord. I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own Names sake and will not remember thy sins Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord Though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow Though they be as Red as Crimson they shall be as Wool but this I say Bretheren the time is short this remains that both they that have Wives be as though they had none and they that Weep as though they Weep'd not and they that Rejoyce as though they Rejoyced not and they that Buy as though they possessed not and they that use this World as not abusing it for the Fashion of this World passeth away in the sweat of thy Face faith the Lord shalt thou Eat Bread till thou return unto the Ground for out of it was thou taken for Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt return In God have I put my trust I will not be affraid what man can do unto me He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but whosoever confesseth and forsaketh them shall have Mercy hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord the Lord is the true God and an everlasting King at his Wrath the Earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his indignation Go therefore and teach all Nations Baptising them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost for there are three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one Jesus said unto him thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and with all thy Soul and with all thy Mind This is the first and great Commandment and the Second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self for whosoever will save his Life shall loose it and and whosoever will loose his Life for my sake shall find it For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole World and loose his own Soul or what shall a man give in Exchange for his Soul For if a man Dye shall he Live again all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come trusting in and hoping to improve that which our Blessed Saviour said to encourage St. Peter viz. I have prayed for thee that thy Faith fail not and when thou art Comforted strengthen thy Bretheren and examine your selves whether you be in the Faith prove your own selves know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is is you except ye be in Reprobation Therefore let us keep the Feast not with Old Leaven neither with the Leaven of Mallice and Wickedness but with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth I wrought unto you in an Epistle not to accompany Fornicators but let us who are of the day be sober putting on the Brest-Plate of Faith and for an Helmet the hope of Salvation for God hath nor appointed us for Wrath but to obtain Salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ but the Lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from Evil for I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good Fight I have finished my Course I have kep'd the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but to all them that love his appearing knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but by the Faith of Jesus Christ Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the Faith of Jesus Christ and not by the works of the Law for by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified I do not frustrate the Grace of God for if Righteousness comes by the Law then Christ is Dead in vain but Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us Therefore let us keep the Feast not with Old Leaven neither with the Leaven of Mallice and Wickedness but with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity and Truth Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted wherefore I abhor my self and Repent in Dust and Ashes Look down then from Heaven and behold from the Habitation of thy Holiness and of thy Glory where is thy Zeal and thy strength and the erning of thy Bowels and of thy Mercy towards me are they restrained doubtless No for thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer thy Name is from everlasting Having well weighed and considered these things I betook my self to prayer in the following manner THE PRAYER ALmighty and Most Merciful Father Most Holy and Righteous Judge of the whole World give me a miserable and sinful Wretch leave to prostrate my self before the Throne of thy Grace and to implore that Mercy I have formerly abused and despised I am not worthy to look up to Heaven which is the Throne of thy Purity but it becomes me in the greatest Humility and Dejection of Spirit to bewail and groan under the load of my many and great sins so henious that when I reflect on them I am ready to sink into Hell and dispair of Mercy But although I am a miserable sinner yet thou art a merciful God full of Compassion and long suffering and of great Goodness To thee do I come beseeching thee for thy dear Son Christ Jesus sake to pardon all my sins whether of Omission or commission secret or open notorious or presumptious that in Thought Word or Deed I have committed against thy Divine Majesty Especially O Lord pardon my prophaning thy Holy Sabbaths when thou gavest me six days to follow my lawful Occasions in and took but one to thy self yet I have not spent it as I ought in private praying unto thee and praising of thee in Reading and Meditating of thy Holy Word and examining the state of my soul nor publickly attending upon thee in thy house to worship thee and hear thy Holy Word Preached to me to instruct me in the way to Heaven and to restrain me from sin but the precious time I have thrown away upon my Folly and vanities O Lord pardon my uncleanness for that Body which should have been the Temple of the Holy Ghost and been kept from all impurity and unchast Thoughts and Actions I have defiled by unchast
Desires and uncleanness O Lord pardon all those sins and irregular Actions by which I entered into Debts further than my necessity required or I was able to pay Let not my Creditors suffer by my sins Lord reward all their Kindnesses into their Bosomes and make them recompence where I cannot Lord I beseech thee pay my Debts in Blessings to them and theirs Lord pardon all my Rashness and Passion for when I should have been meek gentle humble and merciful patiently bearing all the injuries done unto me as my Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ did alas I have for one inconsiderable word broak into open Rage and Passion harbouring mischief in my heart nay at last they brought me to the inhumane and cruel Murther even of her that ought to have been as dear unto me as my own Life although she was unkind to me I ought to have loved her instructing reproving and restraining her with all meekness and gentleness and long suffering praying for her and not to have been rash and passionate against her moreover wickedly to destroy her and as much as in me lay to raise out the very Image of God Deliver me O Lord from Blood Guiltiness thou that art my Saviour and my Tongue shall sing of thy Righteousness wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sins Turn thy Face from my sins and blot out all my misdoings make me a new heart and renew a right spirit within me the Remembrance of my sins is grievous the Burthen of them intollerable O Lord I beseech thee give me a due sense of my sins the baseness and vileness of all my doings and misdeeds that I may hate them worse than that Death I expect shortly to suffer Give me a Godly sorrow that may work Repentance never to be repented of Give me unfeigned purposes of amendment of Life though I may justly think they are too late to find Acceptance with thee therefore with fear and a great sense of my own unworthiness with a sorrowful heart and true sence of my sins I look up unto thee for Mercy that had Mercy on the Penitent Thief at the last hour thou that art Mercy it self give me some small hopes of Mercy good Lord cast me not quite out of thy sight for Jesus Christ's saâ—e who gave himself for us to redeem us from all Iniquities I confess 't is a beginning of Mercy and an earnest I have to hope for more that hast made me sensible of my sins to a degree of hating them and to resolve against them that I have a love and desire to a Godly Life I confess thou had'st just cause to leave me to my self and permit me to commit so horrid a Fact O Lord I know thou canst bring good out of evil and I beseech thee to let this be a means of bringing me to Repentance and then I shall have infinite cause to Bless thee for suffering of Justice to take hold of me and put a stop to my further sinning against thee let me take shame to my self by open confessing my Crime and earnestly admonishing all to be warned by my Example to cease betimes to do evil and learn to do well O! that I might Glorifie thee in my Latter End till I receive my deserved punishment give me Grace to spend my time bewailing my sins in and humbling my self before thee for them and hating them with a perfect hatred and in calling other Offendors to Repentance I beseech thee to inable me thus to spend my time Grant me to tast of thy Mercy and take from me the fear of Death Give me Grace to work out my Salvation with fear and trembling to use all diligence to make my Calling and Election sure so that when my Soul is seperated from my Body that thou Blessed Jesus wilt receive it into thy Protection and have Mercy upon me O Lord God according to thy loving kindness according to thy tender Mercys blot out my Transgressions wash me throughly from mine Iniquity and cleanse me from my sins for I acknowledge my Transgressions and my Sins are ever before me against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou might be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest for behold I was shapen in Iniquitie and in sin my Mother concieved me but thou shalt make me to know wisdom Purge me with Hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than Snow Make me to hear of joy and gladness that the Bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce hide thy Face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me cast me not away from thy presents and take not thy Holy Spirit from me restore unto me the joy of thy Salvation and uphold me with thy Spirit then will I teach Transgressors thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from Blood-guiltiness O God thou God of my Salvation and my Tongue shall sing aloud of thy Righteousness O Lord open thou my Lips and my Mouth shall shew forth thy Praises for thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it thee thou delightest not in Burnt-Offerings the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and contrite heart O God Thou wilt not dispise do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion Build thou the walls of Jerusalem let me make my Calling and Election sure and when my soul departeth from my body then O Blessed Lord receive it into the hands of thy Mercy These and whatsoever else thou seest needful for me I Beg in the Name and for the sake of Jesus Christ concluding these my imperfect Prayers in saying as he himself hath Taught us Our Father c. Written by me Thomas VVatson with my own Hand in the Marshalsea Prison And is my desire it may be made publick WE the Persons who have subscribed the Papers mentioned to be left by Thomas VVatson do testifie of our own Knowledge that they were Written by the said Thomas VVatson and signed with his own Hand it being his desire they should be Printed and Published Joshua Ettry Jonah Bullock Judith Granger This may be Printed R. M. March the 21st 1687. London Printed by D. Mallet for G. P. MDCLXXXVII