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spirit_n	father_n	heaven_n	holy_a	8,259	5	5.1378	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67695	The last discourse of the Right Honble the Lord Warestoune, as he delivered it upon the scafford at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, July 22. 1663. being immediately before his death Whereunto is added a short narration of his carriage during the time of his imprisonment, but more especially at his death: all which is very comfortable and refreshing to all those that take pleasure in the dust of Zion, and favour the stones of our Lord's broken-down building amongst us. By a Favourer of the Covenant and work of reformation.	Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord, 1611-1663.	1664 (1664)	Wing W984; ESTC R222558	17,646	20

I can wish no better to my self 9. I do most humbly and earnestly begg the Fervent Prayers of all His Praying Children Servants and Instruments wheresoever they be whether absent or present to be put up in behalf of His Name Cause Covenant Work and People and also in behalf of my Wife and Children and their Posterity and that the Lord would Glorifie Himself Edifie his Church Encourage his Saints further and accomplish his Good Work by all his Doings and Dealings in Substances towards all his own 10. Whereas I heard that some of my own Friends have Slandered and defamed my Name as if I had been accessary to his late Majesties death and to the making the change of the Government thereupon I am free as I shall now answer before his Tribunal from any accession by counsel or contrivance or any other way to his late Majesties death or to their making that change of the Government and the Lord judge between Me and mine Accusers And I pray the Lord to preserve our present King his Majesty and to pour his best Blessings upon him and his Royal Posterity and the Lord give unto them good and faithful Counsellors Holy and Wise Councils and prosperous Successors to God's Glory and the Good of his Interest and People and to their own Honour and Happiness 11. I do here submit and commit my Soul and Body VVife and Children and their Childrens Children from Generation to Generation for ever with all others our Lord's Friends and Followers and all his doing suffering witnessing and sympathizing Ones in the present and subsequent Generations unto the Lord 's choicest Mercies Graces Favours Services Imployments Impowerments Injoyments Improvements and Inheritments in Earth and in Heaven in Time and Eternity All which suits with all others which he hath at any time by his Spirit moved and assisted me to make and put up according to his Will I leave before the Throne and upon the Father's merciful Bowels and the Sons mediating Merits and the holy Spirits compassionating groans for now and for evermore Amen When he had delivered this Discourse at the North-side of the Scaffold he went about to the South-side where he delivered it again with the like admirable courage to the astonishment of all Then did he pray most fervently as his manner had alwayes been with much faith and humility calling upon God as a childe upon his tender-hearted father beginning his supplications according to the Rule appointed by Christ for direction in Prayer thus Abba Abba Father Father accept this thy poor sinful Servant coming unto thee through the Merits of Iesus Christ c. and when speaking of himself spake most humbly as if he had been the chief of sinners forgetting the many honourable pieces of Service the Lord had put upon him wherein he made him eminently instrumental for promoting of his Kingdom in the world Thereafter he stood very patiently till the Napkin was tyed about his head Now said this meek Lamb you will take it up till I be up the Ladder Yea my Lord that shall be done Then said he How will I get it drawn down upon my face My Lord it shall be done for you do not trouble your self Then coming to the foot of the Ladder he prayed as formerly resigning God's Interests and his own soul into the hands of his heavenly Father Then said one who had tyed the Cloth about his head There is no missing of Ministers here this day Christ hath made good that blessed word Phil. 4. 19. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Iesus And as tribulation hath abounded for Christ's sake so hath comfort been encreased by Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. For howbeit he had often supplicated for some Ministers to be with him there yet they would grant a liberty to none unless he would have accepted of those that had broken in upon the Labours of other faithful Ministers whom he refused neither would he have any that approve of or seem to connive at the present defection so that no Minister was upon the Scaffold Then came the Executioner desiring him to forgive him to whom he answered The Lord forgive thee poor man which I also do and giving to him some money in a cloth bad him do his work aright After this one desired the Executioner to go up to the head of the Ladder said he I must go up with him else he cannot get up Nay said he again Go you up and do not offer to touch him till it come to your own work for we shall get him helped up so the Executioner went up Then he was conveyed by some in side-mourning to the head of the Ladder who staid with him and spake with him all the time he was upon the same As he ascended he said Your prayers your prayers I desire your prayers in the Name of the Lord so great had alwayes his esteem been of Prayer As the Cord was going about his precious neck being told that many precious Friends were looking on which seemed to refresh him for he answered and said Is there indeed and considering that his chearfulness did much tend to the credit of the Work of God for which he suffered he cryed out with a very loud and chearful voice I beseech you all who are the Lords People not to scar at suffering for the Interests of Christ because of any thing you see fall out in these dayes as to the Sufferings of his Servants but be encouraged to do and endure in suffering for him and his Interests for I assure you in the Name of the Lord he will bear all your charges The Cord being about his neck he spake to the same purpose again I pray you that are the Lord's People be encouraged to do and suffer for the Interests of Christ yea even for the smallest point of Truth in your several stations for he may revive his Work by a very unexpected mean And I do again assure you in his Name he will furnish all your expences and bear all your charges and he hath graciously comforted me Then he enquired if the Executioner was ready Yes if your Lordship be then said he to the man Do your Office and so cryed out again Your prayers your prayers c. and with unspeakable composedness and tranquility of mind chearfully committing himself into the hands of his tender-hearted heavenly Father the Executioner turned him off the Ladder at which sight there arose a very lamentable Cry of many thousand Spectators Immediately thereafter he lifted up his two precious hands to Heaven as they had been often lifted up in prayer not only in the day-time but also in the silent watches of the night and without the least motion trembling or shaking of body which is most ordinary in that condition peaceably sleeped away to glory One of his Sons standing on the Scaffold weeping one present took him by the hand and said Sir be encouraged for