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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86997	The several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March. Also the several exhortations, and conferences with them, upon the scaffold, by Dr Sibbald, Mr Bolton, & Mr Hodges. Published by special authority.	Hamilton, James Hamilton, Duke of, 1606-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.; Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.	1649 (1649)	Wing H482; Thomason E546_21; ESTC R202512	23,521	45

certainely when sinners come hee will not reject bee will not refuse And my Lord doe 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 was shed for them that come if not for them for none it was in vaine else you see the Divells 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 and should hee denie them there were no end nor fruit of the blood and sufferings of the Lord Jesus and had your Lordship beene with Christ in that bloody agony when hee 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 thou not interposing thy selfe betweene the Justice of God and my soule Would hee not have said yea and surely then hee will not deny it now My Lord his passions are over his compassions still remaine and the larger and greater because hee is gone up into a higher place that ●ee may throw downe 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 poore I am sinfull 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 honor 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 say grace grace to the Lord to all eternity that God should owne such a Creature that deserves nothing and the lesse I deserve the more conspicuous is his Grace and this is certaine the riches of his Grace hee throweth amongst men that the glory of his Grace might be given to himselfe If wee can give him but the glory of his Grace wee shall never doubt to partake of the riches of it and that fulnesse My Lord that fulnesse bee your comfort that fulnesse of mercy that fulnesse of love that fulnesse of righteousnesse and power bee now your riches and your only stay and the Lord interpose himselfe between God and you as your Faith bath endeavored to interpose him between God and your soule so I doubt not but there he stands my Lord to plead for you and when you are not able to do any thing your selfe yet lie downe at the feet of him that is a mercifull Saviour and knowes 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 hee open not yet die at his doore say their I 'le die there is mercy enough Holland And here is the place where I lie down before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an eternall Glory through my Saviour upon whom I rely from whom only I can expect mercy into his Armes I commend my spirit into his bleeding Armes that when I leave this bleeding body that must lie upon this place he will receive that soule that ariseth out of it and receive it into his eternall mercy through the merits through the worthinesse 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 goodnesse 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 Welcome Lord welcome that death that shall make way for life and welcome 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 selfe to Jesus Christ to bee found only in him I am confident you shall stand at the day of Christ My dear Lord we shall meet in happinesse Holland Christ Jesus receive my soule my soule hungers and thirsts after him cloud are gathering and I trust in God through all my heavinesse and I hope through all impediments he will settle my Interest in him and throw off all the claime that Sathan can make unto it and that he will carry my soule in dispight of all the calumnies and all that the Devi'l and Satan can invent will carry it into eternall mercy there to receive the blessednesse 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 sinnes of the World O that Lamb of God! Holland That Lamb of God into his hands I commit my soule and that Lamb of God that sits upon the Throne to Judge those 24 that fall downe before him I hope hee will bee pleased to look downeward and judge me with mercy that fall downe before him and that worship him and that adore him that onely ttusts upon his mercy for his compassion and that as he hath purchased me he would lay his claime 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 Sinne Sathan nothing shall be able to condemne it is Christ that justifies you Holland Indeed if Christ justify no body can condemne and I trust in God in his justification though there is confusion here without us and though there are wonders and staring that now disquiet yet I trust that I shall be caried into that mercy that God will receive my soule Bolton I doubt not my Lord but as you are a Spectacle and of pitty here so you are an object of Gods mercy above Holland Then the Earle of Holland looking over among the people pointing to a Souldier sayd This honest man took me prisoner you little thought I should have beene brought to this when I delivered my selfe to you upon conditions and espying Captaine Watson on horse back putting off his hat sayd to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Bolton My Lord throw your selfe into the Armes of mercy and say there I will Anchor and there J will die he is a Saviour for us in all conditions whither should wee goe

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 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 I conceive his sufferings his better knowledg better understanding if God had spared him life might have made him a Prince very happy towards himself very happy towards this Kingdom I have seen and known that those blessed Soules in heaven have passed thither by the gate of sorrow 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 neverthelesse this lowness shal raise me to the highest glory for ever Truly I have not said much in publique to the People concerning the particular actions that I conceive I have done by my counsells in this Kingdom I conceive they are well known it were somthing of vanity me thinks to take notice of them here He rather die with them with the comfort of them in my own bosome 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 concernes 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 that they conceived then to bee taken and truly there was some marke upon mee as if I had some taint of it even throughout my whole wayes that I have taken every body knowes what my affections have beene to many that have suffered to many that have beene in troubles in this Kingdome I endeavoured to relieve them I endeavoured to oblige them I thought I was tied 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 hee hath given mee heere a fortune to come publiquely in a shew of shame in the way of this suffering truly I understand it not to bee so I understand it to bee a glorie a glorie when I consider who hath gone before mee and a glory when I consider I had no end in it but what I conceive to bee the service of God the King and the Kingdome 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 seeme to bee I am going to die and the Lord receive my Soule I have no reliance but upon Christ for my selfe I doe acknowledge that I am the unworthiest of sinners my life hath beene a vanity and a continued sinne and God may justly bring mee to this end for the finnes I have committed against him and were there nothing else but the iniquities that I have committed in the way of my Life I looke upon this as a great justice of God to bring me to this suffering and to bring mee to this punishment and those Hands that have beene most Active in it if any such there hath beene I pray God forgive them I pray God that there may not bee many such Trophees of their Victories but that this may bee as I said before the last shew that this people shall see of the bloud of persons of Condition of persons of Honor I might say something of the way of our Triall which certainely hath beene as extraordinary as any thing I thinke hath ever beene seene in this Kingdome 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 intirely from him I submit my selfe to Him I shall desire to roule my selfe into the Armes of my blessed Saviour and when I come to this * place when I bow downe my selfe there I hope God will raise mee up and when I bid farewell as I must now to Hope and to Faith that love will abide I know nothing to accompany the soule out of this World but love and I hope that love will bring me to the fountaine of glory in Heaven through the Armes Mediation and the Mercy of my Saviour Iesus Christ in whom I believe O Lord help my unbeliefe Hodges The Lord make over unto you the righteousnesse of his owne Son it is that treasury that hee hath bestowed upon you and the Lord shew you the light of his countenance and fill youful with his joy and kindnesse 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 Holl. I shall make as much hast as I can to come to that glory and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my soule I looke upon my selfe intirely in Him and hope to finde mercy through Him I expect it and through that fountaine that is opened for sin and for uncleannesse my soule must receive it for did I rest in any thing else I have nothing but sinne and corruption in mee I have nothing but that which in stead of being carried up into the Armes of God and Glory I have nothing but may throw me downe into Hell Bolton But my Lord when you are cloathed with the righteousnesse of another you will appeare glorious though now sinfull in yourselfe The Apostle saith I desire not to be found in my owne Righteousnesse and when you are cloathed with another the Lord will owne 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 designe and the great Work that God had to doe in the world by the death of Christ wherein hee laid out all his Councels and infinite wisedome and mercy and goodnesse beyond which there was a Non ultra in Gods thoughts when this was the great designe and great end the salvation of sinners that poor fooles should come over to him and live