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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30964	The speeches and prayers of John Barkstead, John Okey, and Miles Corbet together with severa[l] passages at the time of their execution at Tyiburn [sic], the nineteenth of April, 1662, with some due and sober animadversions of the said speeches.; Selections. 1662	Barkstead, John, d. 1662.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.; Okey, John, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B816; ESTC R305	18,945	39

I hope God will hear their Prayers In the peace of our Nation we are to rejoice privat interests should give way to publick I desire from my very soul to forgive every man I desire if I have wronged any man that they will forgive me particularly the Court that past Sentence upon me I forgive them both Judge and Jury I think they did acording to their places I commend you all to God Farewell Corbet having ended his speech Coll. Okey spake further Okey Gentlemen as God hath given us of this Nation such Ministers as neither are nor have been in any other Nation that I know or have read of I cannot but begg of God that ye may all walk worthy of them I was sixteen years in the Army I do not know whose Oxe or whose Ass I took away whom I have wronged if I have wronged any I heartily begg theer forgiveness not knowing whom I have wronged if any one hath wronged me I do the same particularly my Chaplaine who pursued my life to the Death I forgive both Judge and Jury and all others and those of Holland who did that which they engaged not to do I pray that our Blood may not be layd to any ones charge Barkstead Mr. Sheriff I would not willingly speak any thing that should give offence my weakness being such that I cannot speak much but were I able I should but speak over again what my Brethren have spoken before As to the Cause I hope I may speak it without offence God hath owned it I confess I ingaged very farr in it being chosen by them to Matters of great Trust I bless God I was Faithfull to them whom I Served Before I came hither I begged of God that he would pardon all my Sins which through Mercy and Grace I trust he hath done otherwise I could not have stood here with so much Comfort as I do where God speaks Peace none can speak War or trouble I conceive it is not proper to give an account of my faith otherwise I would only in the general I declared the way I have walked in and which I own is the Congregational way in which I have found much Comfort I would be glad that they which walke in that way and all others would walk more answerable to that great Gospel mercy I do not know any place in the World where it is so perfect as in England would to God we had hearts to walk worthy of that Mercy As to the Government as it now is I have and will so long as I have breath pray for it and that the Lord would give the King a wise and understanding heart to Reigne for God and that he may Reigne in glory hereafter As to the people my desire is that God would make them all of one minde that is the work of the Lord and in his time he will do it I speak the rather of this because there hath formerly been somthing done by me for which I am sorry I do desire that all that fear the Lord would love God and one another more The work of the people of God in this day is to sit still for the Lord will do his own work in his own time we have had experience of it I must own it I am sorry my strength will not suffer me to speak more as to this my weakness hath been long upon me as many know Then looking upward he said Thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory O Lord. Thou hast been giving the Kingdomes of the Earth to Jesus Christ he shall Reigne His Majesty to Reigne under him is no dishonour it is my desire that they all would live peaceably under him As for that for which we come to suffer I can say I was no Contriver of it within nor without at that time I was many miles from the place and did not know of it until I saw my Name in a Paper I being put in by the Authority that then was which then was looked upon as a good Authority What I did I did without any malice I did pray for him from my very soul OKEY It is no● onely our Judgments now but was our Practice beyond the Sea's to shun even our own Country-men because we would not have any thing to do with any affairs in England I may say as S. Paul in another case They neither found us in the Temple disputing neither raising up the People neither in the Synagogues nor in the City We medled not with the Government CORBET Having done speaking to Men we desire to speak to our God he must help us and give us his own Spirit it is no easie matter to pray we may easily say Prayers but to pray by the Spirit is a hard work we must have strength from God to do it CORBET'S Prayer OH Lord our God our dear and heavenly Father thou that art the great and mighty God the God of glory all the Nations of the Earth are unto thee as the drop of the Bucket and as the smal dust of the Ballance Oh Lord what are we sinful dust and ashes Look upon us in our Lord Jesus the great Mediatour we desire to come to thee in the name of that blessed Redeemer we pray thee accept of us through him Oh that we may come to the Throne of Grace and obtain mercie with thee and find grace and help in this time of need Truly Lord it is a day of misery to thy poor worms we are despised of men we are condemned of men as being not worthy to live upon the Earth thou mayst also justly condemn us and then woe would be to us But Oh Lord forgiveness belongs to thee mercy belongs to thee we acknowledge our iniquities before thee against Thee Thee onely have we sinned our iniquities are gone over our head● they are a burthen too heavie for us to bear We desire to bewail our Gospel sins our barrenness under the means of grace our unthankfulness for those glorious appearances of thy self in these Nations Oh we have held thy truth in unr●ghteousness we desire to be●ail our sins against right and love and mercie ●hough we have profest the Gospel of Christ where ●ath been that love to it which ought to have been ●here hath been that fruitfulness that should have ●●en amongst us We desire to be humbled for our ●amily-sins our personal sins the sins of our callings ●●at thou God calledst us unto Oh our God! thou art just and righteous in all thy ●hastisements we desire to humble our selves and ●●cover our faces with shame here in thy presence ●o unto us because we have sinned against thee Are ●ere not mercies with thee that thou maist be feared ●●h the sins of every one of us and particularly the multitude of the sins of thy poor worm that sp●●●s to thee Yet Lord was not Jesus Christ made si●● Where si●● there is shame death and a curse H●●● not he born our sins and