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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43470	The speech and deportment of John Hewit, D.D., late of St. Gregories London at the place of execution on Tower Hill, June 8, 1658 / taken by an impartial hand ; and the substance of his triall before the high court of justice, his letter to Dr. Wilde after sentence, his discourses and demeanor on the scaffold ; with an elegie on the said Dr. ; published for the satisfaction of his friends.	Hewit, John, 1614-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1638; ESTC R43244	16,407	17

presented the same in effect in the former the Title was mistaken Yet because the Title was mistaken and no answer was given therefore it was that another Petition was drawn up to the same effect with a new Title given as I remember presented by the Serjeants at Arms and one writ it over in such haste lest they should be drawn out of the Painted-Chamber into the Court that I had not time to read it over only I subscribed my name and there was in the front of the Petition a word left out but what the word was I know not but must needs be sensible the trespasse was but small and its hard that a mistake of that nature should take the blood of the Innosent for the guilty for it was taken so ill as if I had put an offront and contempt on the Court And it was thought they would have heard me plead but because of that mistake they sent word I should have my answer when I came into the Court and my answer I had indeed which was the sentence of condemnation that adjudged me to this place And therefore I pray with all my soul that God would forgive all those that occasioned the charge to be drawn against me to give such unjust things against me I pray with all my soul that God would forgive all those that upon so slender and small grounds adjudg'd me to dye by taking advantage of such simpl● ignorance as I was in And it is the mere to be observed because I had at the begining of my pleading engaged their Honors no advantage should be taken against me to my prejudice that in as much as I understood nothing of the Law And having heard that a man in the nicity of the Law might be lost in the severity thereof meerly for speaking a word out of simple ignorance I made it my prayer to them that no advantage might be taken against me to the prejudice of my person And there was to me a seeming consent and promise for the President told me there should be no advantage taken against me and upon these considerations I am afraid there was two great uncha●itableness in some But I pray God forgive them from the very bottom of my soul and I desire that even those that shed my blood may have the blood of the God of mercy shed for them And now having given you the occasion of my coming hi●her it is fit I should give you somewhat as concerning my selfe as I am a Christian and as I am a Clergy-man First as I am a Christian I thank God I was baptized to the Holy Church so I was baptized to be a member of the holy Catholique Church that is the Church of England which I dare say for purity of Doctrine and orderly Discipline till a sad reformation had spoiled the face of the Church and made it a querie whether it were a Church or no I say It was more purely Divine and Apostolical than any other Doctrine or Church in the Christian World whether National or Classical or Congregational And I must tell you That as I am a member of this Church so I am a member of the holy Catholique Church and shall give a most just confession of my faith both negatively and affirmatively Negatively I am so a member of the holy Catholique Church that I abhor all Sects Schi●ms Sedition and Tyranny in Religion Affirmatively so That as I hold communion with so I love and honour all Christians in the world that love the same Lord JESUS in sincerity and call on his Name agreeing with those truths that are absolutely necessary and clearly demonstrated in the word of God both in the Old and New Testament though in cha●i●y dissenting from some others that are not necessary And I as I am thus a Christian I hope for salvation through the merits of Christ JESUS his blood I rely on his merits I trust to for the salvation of my own soul though to this Faith good Works are necessary not meritorious in us but onely made meritorious by Christ his death by his all-sufficiency by his satisfaction and his righteousnesse they become meri●orious but in us they are no other than as defiled rags And truly as I am a member of the Church so I told you I was a member of this Community and so pleaded for the Liberties and Priviledges thereof I must now answer somthing I am aspersed withall in the World They ta●k of somthing of a Plot and a Treasonable designe and that I had a great interest in the knowledge and practise thereof and that for the saving my li●e I would have discovered and betrayed I cannot tell what I hope my conversation hath not been such here in this City where I have been a long time very well known as to make one imagine I should intermeddle in such an action and goe so contrary to the practise of my proiession and I hope there are none so uncharitable towards me as to beleive I had a knowledge of that designe which is reported I abhor Here I must come to particulars for a Plot of having a designe upon the City of London for the firing of it I so much tremble at the thought of the thing that should have been done as they say for the carrying on of such a designe if my heart deceive me not had I known it I so much abhor the thing unfainedly from my heart and as a dying man I am confident I should have been the first discoverer of it Nor ever had I correspondency or meetings with such persons as would have carryed on such a designe It Is said likewise I entertained the Earl the Marquess of Ormond To my remembrance I never saw the face of that honourable Person in my life It is said One Lords day I did preach at Saint Gregories and the next Lords day I was at Brussels or Bruges and kist the Kings hand and brought I cannot tell what Orders and Instructions from him This I shall say For these three years last past together I have not been sixty miles from this City of London and I think it is somewhat further to either of those places than threescore miles It is said that I kept correspondence with one Mallory and Bishop They are persons I have heard of their names but never in all my life to my knowledge saw their faces and to my knowledge I doe not know they know me nor doe I know them at all but only as I have heard of their names And whosoever else hath suggested such things against me I know not but the Lord God forgive them who is just and mercifull His Highnesse was pleased to tell me I was like a flaming Torch in the midst of a sheafe of Corn He meaning I being a publick Preacher was able to set the City on fire by sedition and combustions and promoting designes H●re truly I do say and have it from many of those that are Judges

that condemned me hither know that death nor terror is not dredfull to them whose hope whose strength and whose confidence and trust is in thee for this I am confident and know oh my God oh thou joy and salvation of my soule that it shall within a span of time appeare that it is good and happy for me that I have been in trouble when after this great tryall of my faith thou shalt give me the quiet fruits of wrighteousnesse a crown of glory this oh God is the voice of my faith in thee whome I beleive and know to be the God of truth of mercy of justice and of wrighteousnesse The time oh my God of my departure drawing neigh let me live those minutes I have yet to breath to thee and thy Jesus that he may be advantage to me in life and in death and that in this confidence I am willing to be dissolved and to be with Christ who hath through death abolished death and him that had the power of death and though death bring my body to the earth yet oh my God let not my soule lye in the dust and let neither things present nor future seperate between my soule and thee but oh my blessed Saviour who art the death of deaths take from my afflicted soule the sting of death lose its paines and the feare and sorrows and sweeten the bitternesse of it that so by injoying thy presence death may be swallowed up in victory and oh thou who pouredst out thy soule to death for me receive my wearied spirit when the fatall blow shall be given into thy eternall rest for thy passions sake heare me and answer me And now oh Lord to thee be praise for ever that hast breathed such a calme into my troubled spirit that it is at peace with thee and with the whole World blessed be thy Majesty for it that thus gatherest me to my Fathers in peace and that givest me a heart to condemne my selfe that thou maiest justifie me and to forgive my enemies whose owne conscience cannot but condemne them but I most humbly beseech Thee pardon them and with them thy servant who is ready to come unto thee therefore come Lord Jesus come quickly Amen His Speech upon the Scaffold I Have alwayes made it my chiefest care to submit my will to the will of God that with a contented minde I might imbrase and eye him in all his motion that so whether he appeared in affection or affliction my soul might say welcome to thy owne my Redeemer I have oft times tasted in the sweetnesse of the first his love by many inestimable incomes of his favours towards me and now am come to participate of the latter the parentiall scurge of my holy Father but the experiences of the first his affections hath made me more his then to shrink under the latter his afflictions for to me to live is Christ and to dye is ga●ne knowing that Christ is mine that I am Christs and that Christ is Gods and he it is that for my sins hath suffered me to be come a publick Spectacle this day to Men and Angels and I hope God who is Omniscient is now beholding me with much pity and great mercy and compassion and the more because I am now come to that end that his owne Son came into the wolrd to To beare witnesse to the truth he himselfe said For this end was I born for this cause came I into the World that I should beare witnesse to the truth I was brought into the world the Christian world for to beare witnesse to the truth of the Gospell as a common Christian I was brought into the world the Church as a Minister of his blessed Word and Sacraments Blessed be his name for that great honour and dignity And I came into the World to dye more immediatly for the testimony of Jesus which God hath now called me to I came into this world this Common-wealth to be a member thereof to bear witnesse to the Truths of the Customes the Laws the Liberties and Priviledges thereof and for so doing I am now to suffer And me thinks it seemes to me a strange thing that in as much as we all plead for Liberty and Priviledges and I pleading for the Priviledges the Laws the Statutes and the Customes of this Land yet I should dye by those that should stand for the Lawes the Statutes and Priviledges of the Land And I am here beheld by those that plead for their Liberties and I hope I am pitied because I here give up my selfe willingly and freely to be a State-Martyr for the publick good Indeed I had rather dye many deaths my selfe than betray my fellow-free-men to so many inconveniences that they might be like to suffer by being subject to the wills of them that willed me to this death And it is worthy remembrance that Mr. Aturny Gen. having impeached me of Treason to the Commissioners of the Court against his Highnesse I did often when brought before those Commissioners plead for the Liberties of the people of England though I had no knowledge of the Law yet I had instruction from these that were learned in the Law and had severall Law Cases and Presidents put into my hand though not by them and urged several Law-Cases and made my Appeal First for the Judicature that I was to be tryed by Whether it were according to Law Whether it were according to the Act And whether it were according to the words of the said Act I did appeal to have the said Act argued by learned Lawyers on both sides and then to be resolved by his Highnesse own Councell which was denyed me This by the by I pressing the Argument made a second Appeal that those Judges if they would give singly their several Judgements that it was a just and lawfull Court of Judicature according to the Laws of the Land I would answer to my Charge I did make another Appeal to those that were his Highness's Councel and pleaded against m● That if they would deliver it to me under their hands to be according to Law I would then go on to plead and answer to the Charge but all was answered either with a denyall or a disregard What was then said further my spirits being faint I shall not say much but only this I was taken in three defaults upon formality of the Court It seemes it is a custome in all Courts which I did not know bfore that if they answer not the third time speaking by the Clerk that then they are guilty of three defaults and proceeded against as mute I had no such knowledge of the Law This advantage being laid hold on hath brought my Innosence to suffer as the guilty for they found me guilty of those defaults and when I would have pleaded and resolved to begin to plead I was taken from the Bar. I did the next day make my Petition to the Court in the Painted-Chamber two Petitions were