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A64807	The last speech and prayer with other passages of Thomas Venner, the chief incourager and promoter of the late horrid rebellion immediately before his execution in Coleman-street on Saturday last being the 19th of Ianuary, 1660 : together with the names of the rest that were condemned for the same fact.	Venner, Thomas, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing V194A; ESTC R7065	1,983	10

The last Speech and Prayer with other Passages of Thomas Venner The Chief Incourager and Promoter of the late Horrid Rebellion immediately before his Execution in Coleman-street on Saturday last being the 19th of Ianuary 1660. Together with the names of the rest that were condemned for the same Fact LONDON Printed in the year 1660. The last Speech and Prayer with other passages of Tho. Venner ON Saturday the nineteenth of January one thousand six hundred and sixty in persuance of the judgement of the Court at the Sessions house in the Old Baily whereby sixteen of the late Rebels were condemned to be hang'd drawn and quartered Thomas Venner formerly a Cooper in London but of late a pretended Preacher of a private Congregation in Coleman street was with Roger Hoskins a Button-seller in Clements Lane and a member of his Church drawn from Newgate unto Coleman-street aforesaid upon a Hurdle where two Gibbets were erected for their execution being the place where they had first contrived and where the said Master Venner had first promoted encouraged and at last unanimously agreed upon the late Rebellion and Insurrection Being come to the Gallows by reason of his many wounds he was taken out of the Sledge by two of the Sheriffs Officers and led to the Ladder being come to the foot thereof one met him that was a brother preacher of his in former time but of late times better instructed spake unto him saying Now Mr. Venner you are going to your last home therefore confess your sinnes and acknowledge this great fault and wickedness for which you are now to dye Venner I now speak as I said before that what I did was according to the best light I had and according to the best understanding that the Scripture will afford D. But with all Gods people before death there must be confession of sinne according to the Scripture Venner There must be conviction before there can be confession which I cannot find in my own conscience D. But David saies that we should pray against blood-guiltinesse and desires God to deliver us from it and this surely must needs lye upon your spirit Venner Do not be an instrument of Satan to take away that comfort I have within me now I am going to dye Upon which command was given that they should not speak any farther to him As he went up the Ladder he used this expression The Lord judge between me and thee And being upon the Ladder with the Rope about his neck he spake as followeth Friends I Desire in the feare of the Lord to acknowledge why I am brought to this place at this time What I did was from the Word of the Lord you ought to believe that the Fourth Monarchy is come and that it is the duty of the people of God to looke for liberty And there is one thing that lyes upon my spirit for the Testimony of King Jesus which is and I doe here declare it that I have done nothing but what was for the propagation of his Government and Rule and for the advancement of his Kingdom according to the light which I had given me I have beene very much wounded and for five or six dayes before I came hither I thought I should have dy'd but Gods providence hath brought me hither that I might declare unto you and to all the world that I dye for the testimony of his truth Now the Lord help you and the Lord help us all to consider really that there is no standing against God for he will be too hard for you now if you be of his party it will hold and none shall resist you but if not know that he can raise Servants out of the dust to doe his own work And therefore Oh Friends doe not rise against God these are the last words I must say but the Lord will speake more by my death then by my life Therefore all that I have to say to you is this All the Doctrines that ever I have preached are truth every word thereof was by the spirit of Truth according to the word and the best light which I had within me and the same I now seale with my Blood And therefore the Lord help you to lay it to heart and to your consciences and therefore Oh that I could speak it for I am faint and indeed I cannot speake Here one told him again that David desired to be cleansed from blood-guiltinesse to which Master Venner said how a man blood-guilty in the service of King Jesus Here he was desired now he was going out of the World to make some kind of confession to shew some signe of Repentance of his fault To which he answered and said that he had no fault to confesse end if what he did for the glorification of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ he was there ready to suffer for it At last he was bid to prepare himselfe for death for he had but a few minutes to live Venner I will pray first and so began OH Good Lord I am coming to thee Oh Lord forgive me Oh Lord comfort me into thy hands Oh Lord I commit my spirit at which words he was turned off the Ladder and having hang'd the space of a quarter of an hour he was out down and quartered according to his Sentence A List of the names of those that are condemned to dye Roger Hoskins Leonard Goaler John Allen. John Pym. William Gotsingham William Ashton Giles Pritchard Rich. Martin John Smith Tho. Hopkins Will. Corbet John Elstone Tho. Harris John Gardiner John Wells Robert Brierly FINIS