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The Dying speeches, letters and prayers &c. of those eminent Protestants who suffered in the west of England (and elsewhere) under the cruel sentence of the late Lord Chancellour, then Lord Chief Justice Jefferys : with an account of their undaunted courage at the barr, and afterwards : with the most remarkable circumstances that attended their execution : never before published.
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THE Dying Speeches LETTERS and PRAYERS c. Of those EMINENT Protestants Who Suffered in the WEST of ENGLAND And Elsewhere UNDER THE CRUEL SENTENCE Of the late Lord Chancellour THEN Lord Chief Justice JEFFERYS WITH An Account of their Undaunted Courage at the Barr and afterwards and the most remarkable Circumstances that attended their EXECUTION Never before Published LONDON Printed for John Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey over against the Compter and are to be Sold by R. Janeway in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-noster-row 1689. To the Memory of those Worthy Protestants who Suffered in the West and elsewhere in the Year 1685. SInce that free Agent who conducts the World His Wheels of Providence has backward whirl'd And by the Turn men to their Senses brings To loath their Idol-Priests and Idol-Kings Finding a Popish promise proves all one From an Ignatian Chair and from a Thronâ— Since over Indulgent Heaven has been so kind To op'en our Eyes by Miracles we find All men admiring they 've so long been blind Surpriz'd they should so long their Friends oppose And with a credulous trust caress their foes Amidst the numerous Wonders of the time 'T is no small wonder not to say a Crime We reverence no more their memory Who for their Countrey 's welfare dar'd to dye Whose quarter'd Limbs imbru'd with Native gore Still cry for vengeance on the Western shore Why should we with ignoble triumph tread Vpon the silent Ashes of the dead And with insulting feet their dust profane Whose free-born Souls spurn'd at a slavish Chain Souls not so sensless so supine as ours That early saw the drift of Romish Powers Early disdain'd those yoaks with generous sâ—orn Which our more servile necks have tamely born That saw the hovering Storm approach from far Threat'ning a thousand mischiefs worse than warr And boldly rush'd upon th' impetuous Waves Rather to dye like men than live like Slaves To save their native Countrey bravely try'd Fail'd in th' attempt and then as bravely dy'd In vain would envious clouds their Fame obscure Which to eternal Ages must endure In vain do virulent Tongues attempt to stain The solid Glory noble Patriots gain If ill designs some to the Battel drew T is Impious to condemn all for a few If fawning Traytors in their Councils fate 'T is base to mock rather lament their fate Thô God for England's sins refus'd to bless Their brave designs with the desir'd success 'T is an unequal Brutish argument Always to judge the Cause by the Event Thus the unthinking giddy Multitude A suffering Jesus Criminal conclude Well 't is enough Heaven now crowns with Applause And gives protection to that righteous Cause Nay did ordain that Spot to be the Scene Where the Cause dy'd for't to revive again Great Nassau favour'd by the Powers above Their special care and their peculiar love An Atlas to our sinking State does prove Auspicious Stars on all his Councils smile That breathe vast Blessings on our joyful Isle And now methinks their Manes who of late Fell worthy Martyrs of our bleeding State Reproach us with Ingratitude and say Is nothing due unto our murther'd Clay Vnto our murther'd Names is nothing due Who sacrific'd both Lives and Names for you Does no Tongue daign to move in the defence Of wounded Honour and wrong'd Innocence If th' All-wise God tho Just do'nt yet see good With swift revenge t' appease our crying Blood Save us at least from Envy's darker Grave And let our Fame a Resurrection have Great Souls too great for our Inferiour Praise You for your selves the noblest Trophyes raise Your Dying Words your Monuments become More Bright more Lasting than a Marble Tomb To future Times your Fame shall freshly bloom And speak aloud till it strike Envy dumb THE Dying Speeches LETTERS and PRAYERS c. OF Those Eminent Protestants who Suffered in the West of England and elsewhere Some Passages of Henry Cornish Esq before his Sufferings COming into the Press-yard and seeing the Halter in the Officers hand he said Is this for me the Officer answered Yes he replyed Blessed be God and Kissed it and after said O blessed be God for Newgate I have enjoyed God ever since I came within these Walls and blessed be God who hath made me fit to dye I am now going to that God that will not bâ— mocked to that God that will not be imposed upon to that God that knows the Innocency of his poor Creature And a little after he said Never did any poor Creature come unto God with greater Confidence in his Mercy and Assurance of Acceptation with him through Jesus Christ than I do but it is through Jesus Christ for there is no other way of coming to God but by him to find acceptance with him there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby we can be saved but the Name of Jesus Then speaking to the Officers he said Labour every one of you to be fit to dye for I tell you you are not fit to dye I was not fit to dye my self 'till I came in hither but O blessed be God he hath made me fit to dye and hath made me willing to dye In a few moments I shall have the fruition of the Blessed Jesus and that not for a day but for ever I am going to the Kingdom of God to the Kingdom of God where I shall enjoy the presence of God the Father and of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit and of all the Holy Angels I am going to the general Assembly of the First-born and of the spirits of just Men made perfect O that God should ever do so much for me O that God should concern himself so much for the good of poor Creatures for their salvation blessed be his Name for this was the design of God from all Eternity to give his only Son to dye for poor miserable sinners Then the Officers going to tye his Hands he said What must I be tyed then well a brown Thred might have served the turn you need not tye me at all I shall not stir from you for I thank God I am not afraid to dye As he was going out he said Farewell Newgate Farewell all my fellow-prisoners here the Lord comfort you the Lord be with you all The Croud and Noise of People being so great that what was spoken at the Place of Execution could not be exactly taken it was not thought convenient to Publish it Mr. Richard Nelthrope's LETTER TO HIS Parents Brothers and Sister Dearest Parents and ever loving Brothers and tender hearted and beloved Sister THrough the Infinite Goodness of God the nearer I approach my end the more Joy and Comfort I find in my suffering Estate that I may so call it I can through Mercy say that I have found more true Delight and Content this Night than in all the Days and Nights of my whole life and I hope the Lord will continue it that his Name may
of Angels and the Spirits of Just men made perfect all fastned together with indissolvable and uninterrupted Chains of most pure Love and all continually wrapt up in and transported with the highest Admiration of Gods Love his infinite and incomprehensible excellencies and perfections singing Hallelujahs to him without ceasing and triumphing in his praise for ever and ever The Consideration also that I know so little of these sublime profound and divine misteries of the most glorious mystery of Salvation by Jesus Christ that I am so uncapable to fathom the depth of the Providences of God whose ways are in the Sea and whose paths are in the deep waters and whose footsteps are not known and particularly in the late stupendious and amazing one and that I am so ignorant of the Nature of Angels and Spirits with their Offices and Operations and of their high and glorious excellencies and that I am so little acquainted with the Nature of my own Soul as at present dwelling in and united to my Body and as disunited and separated from it how without corporeal Organs it shall most vivaciously and vigorously perform all its proper Functions and Offices and more than ever strongly and indefatigably serve the Lord Jesus most fervently and abundantly love him and delight in him every way much more obtain the supream and highest end of its Creation and being and this makes me much more willing to dye that I may have the knowledg hereof with innumerable other things that I am now either ignorant of or do but imperfectly know and so be made happy by a plenitude of fulness of enjoying intellectual Pleasures which are of all other most suitable sweet and satisfactory to immortal Souls And also I see that he that departs from Iniquity makes himself a prey and so many plunging themselves into the ways of Iniquity lest they should accounted odious and vile which makes them so much degenerate not only from Christianity but from Humanity it self as if they were scarce the excrement of either contemning even that most Noble Generous Heroick Spirit that dwelt in many Heathens who accounted it most honourable and glorious to contend for their Rights and Liberties yea to suffer Death and the worst of Deaths in Defence of the same and judge them accursed and most execrable in the World that do so and not only so but for their own profit and advantage have many of them inslaved their posterity by it and are most industrious and laborious most fierce and furious to destroy them whereby they are become as unnatural as Children that seek the ruine of their Parents that begot them and brought them forth or them that lay violent hands upon themselves dashing out their own Brains cutting their own Throats hanging and drawing themselves ripping up their own Bellies tearing out their own Bowels they being in diffirent sences Children and Members of that Body politick they design and attempt the Destruction of and when I know not how long the Duration and Continuance of these things shall be or a Conclusion or End by God shall be put thereto who by Divine and Unerring Wisdom governs the World why shall my Soul be unwilling to take it's flight into the unseen and eternal World where no sullied sordid or impious thing most incongruous and unbecoming Nature shall be seen and found and where I shall behold no narrow conclusive contracted Soul there habitually preferring their private before a publick good but all most unanimously and equally center in one common universal good and where the sighs and groans and cryes of the afflicted and persecuted shall be heard no more for ever I earnestly exhort all most highly to prize and value Time and diligently improve it for Eternity to be wise seriously and seasonably to consider of their latter End for by the Irrepealable and Irreversable Law of Heaven we must all dye yet we know not how where or when live with your Souls full of solicitude and care with a most deep concernedness and most diligent Industriousness whilst you have time and opportunity and the means of Grace Health and Strength make sure of these two great things viz. 1. What Merits for you a Right and Title to Eternal Life and Glory and the future unchangeable Blessedness as the Redeemers most precious Blood and Righteousness that thereby a real Application and Imputation may be unto you by sincere believing 2. That that which makes you qualified Subjects for it is the great work of Regeneration wrought in your Souls being renewed in the Spirit of your Minds the Divine Nature being imprest upon them repairing of the depraved Image of God in you that being transformed into his own likeness thereby in the World you may mind and savour more the things of the Spirit than the things of the Flesh Celestial and Heavenly more than Terrestial and Earthly Superiour more than Inferiour things And therewith have a Holy Life and Conversation conjoyned that results and springs from the same as Fruit from the Root and Acts from the Habits Let all in order thereto seriously consider these few Texts of sacred Scripture let them predominantly possess you let them be deeply and Indelibly Transcribed upon your Souls let them be assimulated thereunto and made the written Epistles the lively Pictures thereof Mat. 5. 8 20. Blessed be the pure in Heart for they shall see God. v. 20. For I say unto you except your Righoeousness exceed the Righteousness of Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of Heaven John 3. 3. Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10 11. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God c. Gal. 5. 19 20 to 23. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery c. Jam. 1. 18. Of his own Will hegat he us with the Word of Truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his Creatures 1 Pet. 1. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant Mercy hath begotten us again to a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Vers. 13. Wherefore gird up the loyns of your Minds c. Colos. 3. 1 2. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things that are above set your affections on things above not c. Gal. 5. 24. And they that are Christs have Crucified the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts c. Eph. 2. 1. And you hath he quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins Rev. 20. 6. Blessed and Holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection on such the second Death hath no Power Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no Condemnation c. 1 Pet. 1. 15. But as he that hath called you is holy so be ye c. V. 23. Being born again not