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A51609	Murther revealed, or, A voyce from the grave faithfully relating the deplorable death of Dr. John Hewit, late of St. Gregories London, with severall queries propounded to the consciences of his bloody tryers / by a true Englishman.	True Englishman.; Hewit, John, 1614-1658.	1659 (1659)	Wing M3087; ESTC R27118	16,669	18

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 againt thy Church Perform we beseech thee thy mot 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 wherin we live Arise O Lord and have mercy upon our Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the times is come for thy servants think upor 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 posterity 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 lung prosperous honour able life here upon earth and that He may attain to a blessed life hereaster 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 hereaster Confirme them in thy Truth that already stand Show 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 degress of men that be amongst us Give religi●●● 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 Calings and give grace O Heavenly Father to all Bishops Pastors and Curates that they may both by their Life and Docirine 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 sould 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 be seech 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 comport the comfortlesse visit the sik 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 diliver 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 we 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 rightcously in this present world denvint 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 Chossen 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 asslicting band let not death be unpleasting 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 chearfulire 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 belssed Name and Words we further call upon in thee saying Our Father c. Let thy mighty hand and ou●-s●●●●●darme O Lord the she desence of me and all other thy servants thy mercy and loving kinsness in Jesus Christ o●● savali●n thy 〈◊〉 and hody word our instruct on thy Grace and holy Spirit our comfort and consolation to the end and in the end through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Which being s●n●●hed he appl●es limeselse to the Executioner giving him chr●e pieces in gold om of a Purfe Stripping himselfe he being in his shirt askes his Man for his Wast●●●● who after a dilgene sea●ch not finding of it he toll his Mast●r it were lost upon which the Doctor makes answer no matter if I lose a Was●coa● when I am to lose my if after ward it being f●und and having put i● on with his Cap he put his hair under it himselfe laying himselfe down to 〈◊〉 himself to the Block preving a pretty while in which time there were brought a Warrant upon the Scassold which did not in the least alter Dr. Howit having done Prayer he arises taking leave of his friends which occasioned the fall of many a tear and prepares himselfe for the Block where giving a si●n the Executionet at one blow and a raze severed his Head from his Body which was put in a Coffin brought for that purpuse and conveyed to Hunsdon House neer Doctors Commons and after word enter'd with all desecency in the Chancell of Saint Gregories London FINIS AN ELEGIE

so slender and small grounds adjudg'd me to dye by taking advantage of such simple 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 prejucice of my person And here 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 uncharitableness in some But I pray God sin give them from the very bottom of my said 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 hither it is si● 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 Disciplane till a sad reformation had spoiled the face of the Church and made it a querie w●ether it were a Church or no I say It was mode purely Divine and Apostolical than any other Doctrine or Church in the Christian World whether National or Clastical 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 Secis Schisms 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 charily 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 meritorious but in us they are no other than as desired rags And truly as I am a man be of the Church so I told you I was a member of this Community and so pleaded so the Liberties and Priviledges thereof In must now answer somthing I am aspersed withall in the World They talk 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 life I would have discovered and betrayed I cannot toll 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 profession 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 t●emble 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 sh●ate of Corn He meaning I being a publick Preacher was able to set the City on fire by sedition and combustions and promoting designes Here truly I do say and have it from many of those that are Judges of the High Court by which I was condemned that upon examination of the business they have not found me a medler at all in these affaires And truly I must needs say therefore That it was a very uncharitable act in them who ever they were that brought such accusation against me and irritated his Highnesse against me which first obstructed my liberty next brought to the Bar as a Traitor which now commands me to satisfie them with my blood but I will not say it was malice it might be zeal but it was rash zeal which caused me to be sentenced to this place The God of Mercy pardon and forgive them all And truly as I am a member of the Church and as a member of the Community where on behalfe I have been speaking I cannot but doe as our Saviour himselfe did for his Disciples when he was to be taken from them he blessed them and ascended up to Heaven My trust is in the mercy of the Most High I shall not miscarry and however my dayes are shortned by this unexpected doom and shall be brought unamely to the grave I cannot goe without my prayers for a blessing upon all the people of this Land and cannot but blesse them all in the name of God and beseech God to blesse them in all their wayes and his blessing be upon

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●e 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 and 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 sust●●● 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 those 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 J●●icature 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 Clearge I did make another Appeal to those that were his Highness's Council and pleaded against me 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 In●osonce 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 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●or 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 for give 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