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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

or constitution or most easily provoked to O Lord with what affliction soever thou shalt punish doe not punish us with spirituall judgements and disertions Give us not over to our owne hearts lusts to our vile lewd and corrupt affections Give us not over to hardness and impenitency of heart but make us sensible of the least sin and give us thy grace to thinke no sin little committed against thee our God but that we may be humbled for it and repent of it and reform it in our lives and conversations And Lord keep us from presumptious sins oh let not them get the dominion over us but keep us innocent from the great offences And Lord sanctifie unto us all thy methods and proceedings with us fitting us for all further tribulations and tryals whatsoever thou in thy divine pleasure shalt be pleased to impose upon us Lord give us patience con●tancy resolution and fortitude to undergoe them that though we walke through the valley of the shadow of death we may fear none ill knowing that thou O Lord art mercifully with us and that with thy rod as well as with thy staffe thou wilt support and comfort us and that nothing shall be able to separate us from thy love which is in Jesus Christ our Lord And gracious God! we beseech thee be thou pleased to looke mercifully and compassionately on thy holy Catholique Church and grant that all they that doe confesse thy holy Name may agree together in the truth of thy holy Word and live in unity and godly love Thou hast promised O Lord The gates of hell shall not prevaile against thy Church Perform we beseech thee thy most gracious promises both to thy whole Church and to that part of it which thou hast planted and now afflicted in these sinfull Lands and Nations wherein we live Arise O Lord and have mercy upon our Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come for thy servants think upon her stones and it pitieth them to see her in the dust Lord maintain thine own cause Rescue the light of thy truth from all those clouds of errors and heresies which do so much obscure it let the light therof in a free profesion break forth shine again among us that continually even as long as the Sun Moon endures To this end O Lord blesse us all and blesse Him the po●terity which in Authority ought to rule over and be above us Blesse Him in His soul and in His body in His Friends and in His Servants and all His Relations Guide Him by thy Councell prosper Him in all undertakings granting Him a long prosperous honourable life here upon earth and that He may attain to a blessed life hereafter And gracious God! looke mercifully upon all our Relations and do thou bring them to the light of thy Truth that are wandring ready to fall that grace here may intrest them in glory hereafter Confirme them in thy Truth that already stand Shew some good token for good unto them that they may rejoyce O let thy good hand of providence be over them in all their wayes And to all orders and degrees of men that be amongst us Give religious hearts to them that now rule in Authority over us Loyall hearts in their Subjects towards their Supreame And loving hearts in all men to their Friends and charitable hearts one towards another And for the continuance of thy Gospel among us restore in thy good time to their severall Places and Callings and give grace O Heavenly Father to all Bishops Pastors and Curates that they may both by their Life and Doctrine set forth thy true and lively word and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments And Lord blesse thy Church still with Pastors after thine own heart with a continuall succession of faithfull and able men that they may both by Life and Doctrine declare thy Truth and never for fear or favour back-slide or depart from the same And give them the assistance of thy spirit that may inable them so to preach thy word that may keep thy People upright in the midst of a corrupted and corrupt generation And good Lord blesse thy people every where with hearing ears understanding hearts consciencious souls obedient lives especially those over whom I have had either lately or formerly a charge that with meek heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy holy word truly serving thee in righteousness and holiness all the days of their lives And we beseech thee of thy goodness O Lord to comfort and succour all those that in this transitory life be in trouble sorrow need sicknesse or any other adversity Lord help the helplesse comfort the comfortlesse visit the sick releive the oppressed help them to right that suffer wrong set them at liberty that are in Prison restore the banished and of thy great mercy and in thy good time deliver all thy people out of their necessities Lord do thou of thy great mercy fit us all for our latter end for the hour of death and the day of Judgement and doe thou in the hour of death and at the day of Judgement from thy wrath and everlasting damnation good Lord deliver us through the Crosse and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ In the meane time O Lord teach us so to number our dayes and me my Minutes that we may apply our hearts to true wisedom that we may be wise unto salvation that we may live soberly godly and righteously in this present world denying all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts Lord teach us so to live that we may not be afraid to dye and that we may so live that we may be alwayes prepared to dye that when death shall seixe upon us it may not surprise us but that we may lift up our heads with joy knowing that our redemption draws nigh and that we shall be for ever happy being assured that we shall come to the Felicity of the Chosen and rejoyce with the gladnesse of thy people and give us such a fullnesse of thy holy Spirit that may make us stedfast in this faith and confirme us in this hope indue me with patience under thy afflicting band let not death be unpleasing to me but support me in this visitation that I may dye with a confidence to overcome death and so to live for ever and so fortifie my soul with the assistance of thy spirit that I may to the last minute be assisted with a chearfull resolution to give up my selfe to thy divine disposing that so passing the pilgrimage of this world we may come to the Land of promise the Heavenly Canaan that we may reign with thee in the World to come through Jesus Christ our Lord in whose blessed Name and Words we further call upon thee saying Our Father c. Let thy mighty hand and out-stretched arme O Lord be the defence of me and all other thy servants

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