give them grace to serve him I beseech God to bless the Parliament that is now in Election that they may determine nothing but what they themselves do hope to be judged by at the last day I beseech God to bless all that suffer under this Persecution and to turn this our Captivity into Joy that they who now sowe in tears may reap in joy I beseech God to accept the death of my Body and to receive my Soul I have no more to say Mr. Sheriff I give you no interruption but only whereas you said that you dyed for the Faith that is not so you do not dye for that but because you being His Majesties Subject received Orders from the Church of Rome Beyond the Seas and came again into England contrary to the Law Mr. Johnson That was pardoned by the Kings Act of Grace Mr. Sheriff That Act pardoned onely Crimes committed before the making of it but not those done since as your continuance in England was Mr. Johnson I am sorry if I have given offence in any thing I have said my reason for it was because when I was sent for to the Judges upon Sunday night Judge Atkins told me I dyed not for being concerned in the Plot but for being a Priest Mr. Sheriff No but for your continuance in England against the Law being a Priest Mr. Johnson God receive my Soul Mr. Sheriff Sir You may take your own time and you shall have no interruption Sir will you be pleased to have your own time Jaylor Sir pray give the Sign when you please to be turned off Mr. Johnson I will give you no Sign do it when you will And so he was Executed Mr. Johnson was of an Honourable Family in Norfolk born to an Estate of 500 l. per Annum All which he left for the sake of Religion his third Brother now enjoys the Estate FINIS Mr. Johnson's Speech Which he deliver'd to his Friend to be Printed as he mention'd at the place of Execution ADVERTISEMENT Mr. Johnsons ' s Tryal and what he spoke at his Execution being finisht there came to the Printers hands his Speech at large of which his foregoing words are only the heads as the Reader will see and as Mr. Johnson also mentions viz. I would have said more but that I gave my Speech to a Friend to be Printed therefore his Friend has now faithfully publisht it accordingly being written by Mr. Johnson himself as followeth GOD Almighty honoured Friends having been pleased of his infinite mercy through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ to bestow on all Christians the Theological vertues of Faith Hope and Charity by vertue of Faith all are to believe whatever God hath revealed to us in this world by hope all are to expect what he hath promised we shall receive in the world to come And because where God bestows such a Faith and Hope it is in order to bring all to a true charity and love of him for who can have Faith to believe an Infinite Goodness in which he hopes but he must 〈◊〉 that Infinite Goodness in whom he hopes which bestows on him such gifts therefore all ought to honour God and shew their love to him by a due profession and a due practice of this Faith this Hope and this Rom. 10. 10. Charity otherwise they cannot believed because as St. Paul saith With the heart it is believed to righteousness but with the mouth confession is made to salvation Rom. 10. 10. For those that will not shew their Faith which is a light not to be hid under a bushel but to be set in a Candlestick to give light to all such can never have neither true Hope for themselves nor true Charity towards God or their Neighbour nor God to them because our Saviour saith Luke 12. He that confesseth me before men him will Luk. 12. 8. the Son of man confess before the Angels of God but he that denieth me before men as those do that act or swear against their conscience him will the Son of Man deny before the Angels of God And as all are bound to confess him and his Faith so likewise all are obliged to own Ephes 4. 4 5. and profess that this Faith can be but one only Faith as we are taught Ephes 4. where St. Paul declares There is one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God even as you are called saith he in one hope of your calling This being most true let every rational Christian in his most retired thoughts consider how this Unity of Faith and this Hope of our Calling can stand with such multiplicity of Sects and Opinions all so divers one against the other with which the Nation now so abounds For according to the Text a man may as well say there are diversities of Gods or diversities of Christs as that there are diversities of Faiths because Faith is nothing but the truth of one God which Truth or Faith he hath revealed which none can alter We are all therefore bound to believe alike in one Faith and in one holy Catholick Church as our Creed teacheth us we are all obliged to believe in one Catholick Faith as the Creed of St. Athanasius in the Protestant Common-Prayer-Book declares saying Whosoever will be saved it is necessary before all things that he believe in the Catholick Faith which Faith unless every one keep whole and undefiled he shall without doubt perish everlastingly All and every one are to keep this Faith whole because as it is writ St. Jam. 2. v. 10. Whosoever keeps the whole Law and yet offends in one point is guilty of all Jam. 2. 10. All are to keep the whole Faith because our Saviour saith Matth. 16. 15. Go ye into the world and preach the Gospel to every creature All are to believe alike the whole Faith of the Gospel else they shall perish everlastingly because our Saviour saith in the same place v. 16. He that believes shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned We all must keep the Unity of Faith whole and undefiled because our Saviour also saith St. Matth. 5. 16. Heaven and Earth shall pass but one jot or one tittle Mat. 5. 16. of the Law shall in no wise pass till all be fulfilled as well the Law of Faith as the Law of Works In confirmation of this I appeal to the Faith and Works and Sufferings of all the Saints from the beginning who to keep their Faith whole and entire have made such profession and practice of it and confirm'd it by such works as are recorded in St. Paul Heb. 11. where first he registers the Faith and Deeds of the Believers in particular and Heb. 11. then in general of what they did and suffered by vertue of their Faith as there you read By faith they stopt the mouths of Lions extinguished the force of the fire repelled the edge of the sword they were racked they were tryed
well I do not intend you shall dye at least not for the present until I know the King 's further pleasure I was not I thank God for it troubled with any disturbing thoughts either against the Judge for his Sentence nor the Jury that gave in such a Verdict nor against any of the Witnesses For I was then of the same mind as by God's grace I ever shall be esteeming them all the best Friends to me in all they did or said that ever I had in my life or ever shall have except upon the like occasion And I was I thank God so present with my self whil'st the Judge pronounced the Sentence to deliver me to Death that without any concern for any thing in this world I did actually at the same time offer my self and the world to God After the Judge was gone from the Bench to the other end of the Hall I stayed with the Keeper in the Hall where several Protestant Gentlemen and others who had heard my Tryal came to me though Strangers and told me how sorry they were for me To whom with thanks I replied that I was troubled they should grieve for me or my condition who was joyful for it my self for I told them I had professed this Faith and Religion all my life-time which I was as sure to be true as I was sure of the truth of God's Word on which it was grounded and therefore in it I deposed my Soul and Eternal Life and Happiness and therefore should I fear to lose my temporal life for this Faith whereon my Eternal life depends I were worse than an Infidel and whosoever should prefer the life of their Bodies before their Faith their Religion or Conscience they were worse than Heathens For my own part I told them I was as ready by God's grace to dye to morrow as I had been to receive the Sentence of Death to day and as willingly as if I had a Grant of the greatest Dukedom So we sate talking half an hour and I returned to the Prison there to remain as long as it pleased God and the King whom God long preserve in all happiness There was another Objection which I forgot to put in until I had finished the former Writing and it was an Objection which the Judge was pleased to put against me himself and it was that I had changed my name and went in several places by several names To which I answered the reason was Because in Cromwel's time in the great Troubles our Family suffered much my Father was imprisoned and a Fellow-Prisoner with Sir Thomas Ashton both confined together which Sir Thomas is now one of His Majesties Admirals of the Fleet. And for my own part I going Beyond Sea to Travel I changed my name and then coming into England again before the King's Restauration I was glad to conceal my self and go by several names as many others of the King 's Loyal Subjects did the better to be able to do His Majesty the best service I could which according to my small ability I did endeavor both before and since the King came into England like a dutiful Subject and like the rest of our Family who all endeavored to serve His Majesty For I have two Brothers served Him the one a Voluntier at Sea in Sir William Reeve's Ship which Sir William was killed in the last Engagement with the Dutch and the other Brother had a Command under his Royal Highness the Duke of York at Land therefore I hope the changing of my name on such an occasion as I did could not be imputed as a guilt upon me nor speak me other than a dutiful Subject which I could have made further appear before the Bench but I did not judge it convenient to say any more to the Judge there in publick But before his Lordship went out of VVorcester I presented him with a Petition to acquaint his Lordship that I having had the honour to kiss His Majesties Hand before His Restauration in the Low-Countries as also I have had the honour to be one of those whom His Majesty was pleased to grace with being entertained by us His then best Subjects His Majesty was pleased to make us a Gracious Promise that when it should please God to restore Him to His Crown we should not live so in Banishment as then we did Of this in my Petition I did acquaint the Judge and beseeched him that he would be pleased by declaring this to the King to endeavor to obtain some gracious Favor from His Majesty for me my condition now being such that I could never have greater need to be Partaker of His gracious Promise and Clemency The Judge promised me he would make an Address to His Majesty for me in this behalf which whether he hath done or no I wish some body may put him in mind to do it for me I do not here mention the place where in particular nor the other persons to whom His Majesty made that Promise but if you remember you know I did tell you with several other particular circumstances which I need not here make any further mention of THE Last SPEECH OF Mr. Francis Johnson Priest of the Order of St. Francis who was Executed as a PRIEST onely at Worcester upon the 22d of August Anno Dom 1679. Which he spake for the most part upon the Ladder immediately before his Execution but being interrupted and that which he did speak being taken by an unskilful Scribe was Printed by the halves and so imperfect that it was in some places Nonsense To correct that Abuse this which he left written with his own Hand is publish'd by Friend ALmighty God out of his infinite Goodness to this World through the merits of his Son Christ Jesus ordained or made choice of three Virtues whereby we must walk which are these viz. Faith Hope and Charity First by virtue of Faith we are to believe all things that are done in this World Secondly by virtue of Hope we are to believe and hope for all things in another World And the reason why Christians do believe this Hope is to bring and conduct them to salvation in the other World And if we hope in God we cannot but believe God for with the mouth Confession is made but with the heart and through Faith we must believe unto salvation so that Faith is not to be troaden under foot or to be hid under a bushel but to be set upon a candlestick Luke 12 Whosoever doth confess me before men him will I confess before the Angels of God And therefore all are bound to believe that there is but one Faith and if but one Faith then but one Christian Faith There is but one Faith one Lord one Baptism if it be so how can this stand with so many Sectaries as there are If there be but one Faith how can this be I believe the Creed of St. Athanasius which is in your Common-Prayer Book there it
example if we hope to drink of the torrent of pleasure as God hath promised we shall in his Kingdom who will fear to taste now of the Chalice of some small Persecution If we hope hereafter to be numbered amongst the Sons of God as he hath promised we shall and have our lot among the Saints why should we now fear to be reviled of men or be reputed ignominious as our Saviour and his Apostles were If they have so will they do you also the Scholar is not above the Master nor the Servant above his Lord. If they call'd the Master of the Family Beelzebub so will they do his Servants therefore we must with the Apostles rejoice as you read in the Acts they did because they were accounted worthy to suffer contumely and reproaches If contumely and reproach seem so hard for us to undergo now for a good Cause as is our Conscience before a few Enemies what contumely must those undergo who for now acting against their Conscience shall undergo at the great judgment before God Angels Saints Devils and all the Damn'd in Hell if for our reproach now we hope that after a short sorrow God will honour us so as to wipe away with his own hand every tear from our eyes as he promiseth in the Revelations he will and that henceforth there shall be neither grief nor labour nor pain or the like why should any now grieve either to see himself or others suffer It will not last this Tempest will soon be over and if now in this Storm the small vessel of my Body suffer shipwrack or some others the like vessels if our Souls can but carry off our goods of Faith Hope and Charity all is very well For as soon as the vessels of our Bodies sink our Souls will come to shore at the Land of Promise and we shall be secured in the Rock which is Christ and ever remain safe in the eternal Hills where neither winds nor waves of Persecution can ever reach to assault us then welcome shipwrack that sinks the vessel of the Body to bring the Passengers and their Goods so happily to the Haven the Heaven of Bliss Let us therefore weigh these things in a prudential Balance and see which Scale is the heaviest of present Fears or future Hopes of present Sufferings or future Glories Let us remember our Saviours words to his Apostles You are those that remained with me in my temptations or tryals for which said he their reward was he disposed the Kingdom of Heaven to them Partners in Sufferings Partners in Glories which if well considered we shall say with St. Paul The sufferings of this present time are not condign or of equality to the future glory which shall be revealed in us and we shall with his joyful Spirit say 2 Cor. 4. 17. Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh in us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 'T is a happy weight that lifts both Sufferings and Sufferers up as high as Heaven to eternal Crowns of which we are all assured of as a reward for our Faith if we will make good use of our Christian hope which that we may the better do let us endeavor to help our selves by the third and greatest Virtue that follows our Faith and Hope which is Charity This is that greatest Virtue of which all sorts of Christians speak much understand little and practise less though without the practice of it 't is in vain for any to pretend 1 Cor. 13. to have a saving Faith or Hope For as St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 13. Though he speak with the tongues of Men and Angels and have not Charity he is but as sounding brass and although he should know all Mysteries and have Faith to remove Mountains and though he should have such hope understand for reward that he should give all to the Poor and deliver his body to burn and yet not have charity it profiteth nothing Charity as he saith ver 7. suffereth all things believeth all things hopeth all things beareth all things Do all that pretend to Charity do thus If to speak with the tongues of Angels without Charity be nothing but vanity what Charity is there in those that speak with the tongues of Detraction Scandal Slander False-witness and Perjuries against their Neighbors If those that give all to the Poor may want Charity so that all which they give profits them nothing what Charity is there in those that take all from their Neighbors to force them to forsake their Faith If Alms profit nothing without Charity can such Injuries profit Persecutors that take all away against Charity If a man may give his own Body to burn and yet be cold in Charity what Charity is there to kill others Bodies take away their Lives with ignominy and violence because they will not kill their own Souls by acting against God and their Conscience If Charity consists only in those that suffer all things believe all things hope all things what Charity is there in those who will make their Neighbor suffer all things of Persecution because they believe and hope according to their Conscience and profess their Faith and Hope as they are bound before God upon their salvation so to do 'T is certain that though men may pretend persecution of others for Gods sake to reduce others to him yet 't is evident that for any Kingdom to persecute any meerly for Conscience-sake is against the Law of God and therefore whil'st they would seem so zealously to keep the first Command of loving God above all and force others to conform to their opinions they break the second Command because they do not love their Neighbor as themselves because they persecute them and so they dash one Commandment against the other and so crack both Commandments together For wheresoever the second Command is broke by not loving our Neighbor as our selves the first is broke with it because did they love God above all they would do better by their Neighbor But I do not come here to beat down others pretence to Charity but endeavour to advance Charity in my self and others and the way to do this is not to reckon what others have not done according to Charity but to call to mind what others have done to raise Charity towards God and their Neighbors We read in Holy Writ that Moses love was so to God and his Neighbor that to repurchase a Peace and Charity 'twixt God and the People after they had offended he desired that his own name should rather be blotted out of the Book of life than that the Peoples names should not be put in by obtaining Forgiveness and therefore he saith to God Either spare the People or blot me out of the Book which thou hast writ How superlative a Motive is this to move Christians to a perfect Charity towards their Neighbors well may a Christian be willing to lay down his temporal life for
is said That whosoever will be saved 't is necessary before all things that he hold the Catholick Faith and that if he keep not that Faith whole and undefiled he shall perish everlastingly And as St. James saith Jam. 2. 10. He that keepeth the whole Law and yet offendeth in one point is guilty of all so they that believe must be all of the same Faith And that this ought to be done I appeal to all the Saints that are gone before of whom it is said That their Faith was such as by it they stopt the mouths of Lyons they turned the edge of the Sword and caused the Fire to cease that it should not burn so they were oppressed they wandered about in Sheeps-cloathing and Goats-cloathing Heb. 11. Therefore I say there must be an unity of Faith I desire all Catholiques to consider this That it is better to be reviled by man now in this World than be reviled by God in the World to come Mat. 16. it is said The Catholique Church is built upon a Rock And Mat. 18. He who will not believe the Church let him be as a Heathen and Publican This Faith must be establisht so in every one because Christ said He would send the Holy Ghost and he will shew us or them what to do This is the Rule of Faith This Faith was publisht at Rome And St. Paul writing to the Christians there rejoyceth that their Faith was renowned in the whole World Go ye therefore Baptizing all Nations in the Name of the Father And this is the Faith I confess and believe in and which I dye for I come now to speak of the second Virtue which is Hope I hope I shall have such Reward that neither eye hath seen nor ear heard nor can it enter into the heart of man to conceive Those that have Hope shall be as Mount Sion that shall not be removed Those that have firm Hope there 's nothing can disturb them as David faith God is round about those that do hope in him as the Mountains are round about Hierusalem I come to the third Virtue and that is Charity It 's true now this Body of mine in this shipwrack is full of sin but when that shipwrack is over I shall come to inherit that Rock that shall never fail Now welcome shipwrack that makes the Body suffer but brings the Soul to that Haven which is joyful Now many there be that talk much of Charity few understand it and fewer that practise it This is the greatest Virtue 1 Cor. 13. Though ye speak with tongues of Men and Angels and have not Charity it availeth nothing So then we ought to have Love and Charity or else it prevaileth nothing 'T is expected I should say something of the Plot. As to this I shall declare two Points of my Faith First I believe that all are bound to obey the King's Laws Secondly I do declare That those that do break the Law in word or any action or that do act any thing against His Majesties Life that is a Sin unto damnation as much as it was a Sin in Judas to betray Christ An Oath is a taking God to witness and is as much as if he took his Life and Justice to stake So that he who takes a false Oath is guilty of destroying the Life of God and his Justice and of his own Damnation And if I were but guilty of this I do declare That all the Sin of Damnation would fall upon me because I denied the Truth and so struck at God by my Sin in denying the Truth that 's one Damnation A second Damnation is That if any man know of an Evil against His Majesty His Kingdom and Nation and to hide and not discover it he shall answer for those mischiefs that come thereby so that a man would have made and committed as many Sins as there be men in England that had suffered A third Damnation is to dye in this Lye and with this Perjury in his mouth whereby he loses Heaven and all its enjoyments and dies in greater Sins than the Devils themselves Fourthly I should have been guilty of my own Death For that Judge Atkins offered me my Life if I would confess what I knew of the Plot which had I known and not discovered would have made me the cause of my own Death which would have been a fourth Damnation I would have said more but that I gave my Speech to a Friend to be Printed Mr. Sheriff I pray Sir speak on what you have to say and none shall interrupt you Mr. Johnson Now I have no more to do but to make my Address to Almighty God with all the powers of my Soul that I may have his mercy and pardon of my Sins And therefore I beg that all Catholiques who join in union of this same Faith would make an address unto God for me that we may receive pardon for our Sins I have nothing now but wishes left I wish I may imitate David in his Repentance and that my eyes may run down with tears because I have not kept God's Law I wish with the Prophet Jeremiah That Rivers of waters may fall from my eyes by reason of sin Lam. 3. 48. But Tears will not be proper for me at this time I have kept my self from them lest by shedding Tears some might say I was unwilling to dye or feared Death But instead of Tears I offer all the Blood in my veins and I wish every drop were an Ocean and I would offer it up to God I wish I might become a man like David I wish I had Mary Magdalens penitential Tears I wish I had her arms to embrace the feet of mercy I wish I had all the graces of Saints and Angels I would offer them all to God for the remission of my sin This is my desire and this I wish for as much as is in me I offer first my Life and I beseech and desire of God to turn his Face from my Sins but not from me I offer up my Life in satisfaction for my Sins and for the Catholick Cause And I beg for those that be mine Enemies in this my Death and I desire to have them forgiven because I go to that world of happiness sooner than I should have gone And I humbly beg Pardon from God and the world And this I beg for the merits and mercy of Jesus Christ I beseech God to bless His Majesty to give Him a long Life and a happy Reign in this world and in the world to come I beseech God to bless all my Benefactors and all my Friends and those that have been any way under my charge I beseech God to bless all Catholicks and this Nation and His Majesties Privy Council and grant that they may Act no otherwise than what may be for the glory of God who will bring to light and to judgment all both good and evil Luke 12. So I beseech God that he will
good example sake rather than offend God and scandalize others by deserting his Faith since others could be willing to hazard their eternal lives to reduce their Neighbors to God by Charity The like examples of love to God and his Neighbors we have in St. Paul in his manifold expressions both towards God and men first to God as Rom. 8. where he makes this Proclamation Who shall saith he separate us from the Charity of Christ Shall Rom. 8. Tribulation or Distress or Persecution or Famine or Nakedness or Peril or Sword As it is written for thy sake we are kill'd all the day long we are accounted as sheep to the slaughter He adds I am certain that neither Death nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor heigth nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And for this Charity in order to his Neighbor let what he suffered to serve them testifie as he relates 2 Cor. 11. by being in Labors and Stripes in Prison in Death in Scourgings in Shipwracks being day and night in the bottom of the Sea in Perils in 2 Cor. 11. Weariness in Painfulness in Hunger in Thirst in Fasting in Cold and Weariness besides what he suffered through his care of all Churches ver 28 29. where he saith Who is weak and I am not weak understand by compassion as Fellow-sufferer Who is scandalized and I burn not understand by zeal Let those now consider this who never more rejoyce than now when they see their passive Neighbors scandalized and were never better content in their own apprehensions than now when they behold us suffering though before God we are innocent Were St. Paul on earth again he would rather give himself for others to ease them of their sufferings according to his wonted 2 Cor. 12. 15. Coloss 2. 4. charity exprest 2 Cor. 12. 15. saying I will very gladly spend and be spent for you and he would rejoyce to suffer in charity for his Neighbor as he abundantly declares Colos 2. 4. saying I rejoyce in my sufferings for you and fill up that which is wanting of the passions or afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church and this example is given for us to do the like and therefore he saith 1 Cor. 1 Cor. 4. 9. 4. 9. We are made a spectacle to the World to Angels and to men and therefore God forbid but some of us if we be Christian men should endeavor to imitate some of his examples though we cannot all For he ascended to so superlative a degree of Charity towards his Neighbor that he declares to the World that he could be a Cast-away himself to save others for thus he saith Rom. 9. 3. I could wish my self were Rom. 9. 3. accursed from Christ for my Brethren Christians do not then henceforth so easily ruine your Neighbors neither in their Lives nor Estates or Credits by Persecutions and Scandals the Scripture holds forth no such Doctrine nor gives any such examples but as you see the contrary but if our Persecutors will not imitate these examples let us that are persecuted and suffer endeavor to imitate them by choosing rather to lose all we can call our own in this World and Life also rather than to break Charity to God and our Neighbor either by denying or dissembling our Faith and scandalizing the Church or bearing false Witness against our selves or our Neighbors to save our Lives or Fortunes or enrich our selves by false Witness And if we will put in practice the Virtues of Faith Hope and Charity I have spoke of we ought to do it thus what we profess by words we must confirm by deeds and actions Our profession of Catholick Faith is this I believe all Divine Revelations delivered to the Prophets and Apostles proposed by the Catholick Church in Her General Councils or by Her Universal Practice to be believed as an Article of Catholick Faith knowing this to be our Faith the confirmation of this knowledge or the practice of this by our deeds is as St. Paul teacheth Ephes 3. 8. To esteem all worldly Eph. 3. 8. things as dirt in respect of this eminent knowledge of Christ and his Faith and therefore for my own part I now being ready to leave all in the World and my Life in testimony of my Catholick Faith which I profess I desire and hope to manifest to all I value my knowledge of Christs Faith more than I value the universal World And as for my Christian Hope I profess to have the confirmation of it or the practical 1 Pet. 3. 15. part is to be fulfilled thus being that we must as St. Peter saith 1 Pet. 3. 15. Be always ready to give an account to every one concerning the hope which is in us I have already by words expressed it and by deed I express it thus That whereas I do believe that God as the Scripture saith kills and brings to life again carrieth down to the depth and bringeth back again so now I do by this my present Execution which I am now to undergo willingly give my Body to be mortified in death for my Faith hoping in Gods infinite mercy he will restore my Body and Soul to eternal life and I do willingly resign my self to be carried down to my Grave hoping by my Saviours Cross and Passion Death and Burial he will raise me up again to a glorious Resurrection And as for the confirmation of my Charity to shew by deeds the love I owe to God and my Neighbor it hath pleased my Saviour by his own words to declare which is the best proof or practice of Charity where he saith No man hath a greater Charity than he that lays down his life for his Friend I therefore do willingly undergo this death I am to suffer now to testifie I love my Friend my Neighbor as my self whil'st I undergo this death for my self and them that seeing it is for the profession of my Faith I dye they whil'st they live may the more happily serve God in the same belief and I testifie I love God above all because I forsake the World and my self in death rather than offend him by doing any thing against my Conscience And forasmuch as for these many years I have had occasion by discoursing and reading the Holy Scriptures with others who desired to find out the true Faith I have by words declared what Faith I did believe and what Faith they ought to believe I now declare that for every Point of Faith that ever I believ'd my self or read to others or told them that they might believe as a Point of Faith for all and every such Points of Faith in confirmation of them as well to my self as others I here lay down my Life and omitting all other particular Points I