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A30965	The speeches, discourses, and prayers, of Col. John Barkstead, Col. John Okey, and Mr. Miles Corbet, upon the 19th of April being the day of their suffering at Tyburn : together with an account of the occasion and manner of their taking in Holland : as also of their several occasional speeches, discourses, and letters, both before, and in the time of their late imprisonment : faithfully and impartially collected for a general satisfaction.; Selections. 1662	Barkstead, John, d. 1662.; Okey, John, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing B817; ESTC R22773	95,595	102

O blessed Father we beseech Thee for Christs sake draw nigh to us that we may draw nigh to Thee our God O that Thou wouldst pour down Thy holy Spirit that we may pour out our souls before Thee O Lord we pray Thee for Christ's sake give us the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit of Understanding and the Spirit of Knowledge and the Spirit whereby we may cry Abba Father We are not now come to tell long stories of our Iniquities time and strength would fail us they are as the hairs of our heads and as the sands of the Sea-shore but O Lord we are before Thee in the Name of Jesus Christ humbly to intreat and beseech Thee O for the Lord's sake to look upon us there was never any more unworthy of Mercy than we are yet never any poor Wretches stood in more need of Mercy than we do We humbly pray thee for the Lord's sake extend Mercy to us O Lord do not remember against us what we have done but remember what the Lord Jesus Christ hath suffered and when Thou hast look'd upon thy dear Son then look upon thy poor Worms O Lord we humbly pray Thee for Jesus sake forgive whatever is past cover us with the Righteousness of Jesus Christ let none of our nakedness appear we beg for the Lord's sake O that the Lord would be pleased to speak Peace now to our souls Blessed Father we have in some measure blessed be thy Name the assurance of thy Love sealed to our Souls by thy glorious Spirit we humbly pray Thee O Lord we beseech Thee for Christ's sake look upon us and come and pour down thy glorious and holy Spirit upon us and let us we beseech thee have yet more Assurance that our Sins are pardoned that Thou hast found out a Ransom for us that our Names are written in the Book of Life and that we shall not die but live for evermore because we are washed with the Blood of Christ even with the Blood of thy dear Son who hath loved us and died for us and washed us with his own Blood O that the Lord would be pleased now to come and warm our souls with thy Love that they may never be cold more O Lord we beseech thee receive us into the Everlasting Arms of thy Mercy O Lord we beseech Thee for Christs sake that Thou wouldst now let us see as Stephen once did by the eye of Faith even Heaven opened and the Lord upon the Throne and Jesus Christ at his Right-hand and the glorious Angels receiving our souls into thy everlasting Mercy Blessed Father we beseech thee for the Lord sake that Thou wouldst be with us and bless us and the Lord shew us Mercy onely upon the account of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we pray Thee bless us and with us all Thine all the World over Remember thy Churches from the rising of he Sun to the going down of the same Think upon this Nation wherein we live we humbly beg for the Lord's sake that England Scotland and Ireland might live in thy Glorious Presence and that England may be a quiet Habitation for thy People to dwell in O for the Lord's sake as Thou hast given them a Name and a Gospel above any other Nations that we have heard of or seen So pour down abundance of thy Spirit and give them Grace and hearts that they may walk answerable to the Gospel and be a Nation for thy Glory more zealous than any other Nation And Lord we humbly pray Thee continue the Mercies they yet enjoy and remove and divert any Judgements that they feel or fear And for the Lord's sake bless him that Thou hast been pleased to set over us let the King live in Thy sight we humbly beg that he may reign so here that he may reign in Glory for ever that he may be a nursing father to thy Israel and that he may be a Friend to those that are thy Friends and an Enemy to those that are thy Enemies and Enemies to thy Gospel let him remember that he is but a Steward and he must ere long give an account and the Lord grant that he may do it with much joy and not with grief and bless the Council do thou pour down thy Spirit upon them and guide and direct them to do the things that may be for thy Glory and for the Comfort of their own souls And bless the Faithful Ministers of the Gospel O that the Lord would double his Spirit upon them and that the Lord would be pleased abundantly to encrease the number of them let not that Judgment come upon the Nation that the Godly Faithful and Holy Ministers should be removed from us that their eyes should not behold their Teachers Lord let us not have a famine of thy Word for the Lord's sake but that the Gospel may continue in more splendor and glory than ever it hath done heretofore O that the Lord would be pleased to keep Idolatry out of this Nation O let not that Judgement befall this poor Nation for the Lord's sake And we humbly beg for thy Name sake that the Lord would be pleased to look upon this great City Thou hast made them famous for Religion and for owning the Gospel but Lord grant that they may not decline but that they may abundantly improve their gifts and graces and that they may walk humbly and thankfully and O that the Lord would be pleased to bless the City and the Nation from one end to another and that he would give them the blessings of the right hand and the blessings of the left that they may have the dew of Heaven and the fatness of the Earth and that they may provoke and stir up one another to praise thy holy Name and to live in Love Unity and Peace O Lord we pray thee for Jesus sake look upon us in thy presence and shew Mercy to us and look in love and mercy upon any that are near unto us we leave them with Thee we commit them into thy hands we beg for the Lord's sake shew Mercy to us and be with thy poor Servants and Lord we pray thee accept of us and our services in Jesus Christ and pardon our deadness and pardon our weakness our wanderings and all our sins even for our Lord Jesus Christ's sake since we came into Thy glorious presence and we pray Thee to accept of us and do us good and receive us to Mercy and Glory and all only for the glory of thy Name and for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us and rose again and lives for ever at Thy right hand to whom be all Honour and Glory and Praise for evermore Then Col. Barkstead addressed himself to Prayer having first spoken to the Sheriffs these few words following Mr. Sheriff I do see your time is spent and we are drawn up into a very narrow compass And I hope you will take my word now as before I

shall only speak a word or two unto the Lord and no more Colonel Barkstead's Prayer O Eternal and ever-blessed Lord God Thou who sittest upon the highest Heavens who hast the highest Heavens for thy Throne and the Earth for thy Footstool We poor Creatures are here by thy Providence brought at this day to this place at this time and by Thee it is that we are in the Condition we are now in for which O Lord we blesse Thee and for which we can blesse thy Name Blessed be thy Name O Lord that Thou wert pleased before Thou broughtest us hither to speak Peace to our poor souls in the Blood of Jesus Christ and blessed for ever be thy Name that thou givest-in Assurance of Peace Pardon and Reconciliation to our Souls at this very minute blessed be thy Name Dear Father for the Lord's sake continue it and ô draw forth the hearts of thy poor Creatures even while one blast of breath is in us to blesse thy holy Name Father we pray Thee remember the Nation in which we live the King whom Thou hast set over the Nation Lord make him Thine and cause him to rule for Thee in Righteousness and for thy Glory that so Lord he may rule to the Comfort of all that fear thy Name O dear Father look in mercy upon all that fear thy Name in the Nation make them all of one heart and mind to advance thy Name and Glory to live in Unity one with another and to make it their business to seek Peace and pursue it that so they may thereby truly advance the Kingdom and Scepter of Jesus Christ who is coming and will come O dear Father carry forth the spirits of thy People to love Thee and one another and to walk closely and humbly and holily before Thee all their dayes Remember the Relations of thy poor Creatures here before Thee Lord do good to them that we leave behind us we commit them into thy Arms Lord take them into thine Arms O Lord thou hast said in thy Word Leave thy fatherless Children I will preserve them alive and let thy Widows trust in me Lord it is thy Word and this is thy Command that we should leave them with Thee therefore we leave them in thy Arms. Dear Father we desire from the bottom of our hearts freely and fully to forgive all that we any wayes think have done us wrong in any kind whatsoever freely and fully either in England or elsewhere and we pray Thee shew kindness to those that any wayes have shewed kindness to us for the Lord Jesus sake reward all their labour of love a thousand fold into their bosoms Look in mercy upon the Chief Magistrates that are here at this time dear Father pardon their sins and reconcile them unto thy self in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ in which we pray Thee wash their souls And O Lord as for the person that is now appointed to take away our lives and to destroy our Bodies dear Father do not Thou destroy his Soul but wash his Soul in the Blood of Jesus Christ Even that person that is to wash his hands in our Blood O pardon him and let not any of his sins be remembred before Thee We leave ourselves with Thee and blessed be thy Name Thou hast been good unto us and thy Presence is with us and there is nothing that gives trouble to us at this moment Father continue this thy loving-kindness to us O Lord thou hast not blessed be thy Name caused Death to be terrible to us no Lord thy poor Creature can say with freeness and comfort that there hath not been any thing of trouble or terror that hath past thy Servant since he came into this place either for what he is to suffer or the manner of his Sufferings but here he is before Thee and begs further help and strength from Thee being willing to surrender up his Soul to Thee in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. Then Col. Okey spake a few words more as followeth I did break off duty because you desired it and I would not be troublesome to you Then he very earnestly expressed himself further as followeth O love the Lord and hate all things that are evil I have found by experience more evil in the least sin than good in any thing this world can afford Therefore I beg it of all that are here To love God and to hate that that is evil The Lord give you Peace and Truth I hope our Relations shall not fare the worse for us but that you will shew them kindness And as to what my Brother said I thank the Lord I have the Assurance of his Love and the Pardon of my Sins through the Riches of his Grace and free love in Jesus Christ. After this Col. Barkstead called a young man who was known to him and taking a silver Box out of his pocket he charged him to give it to his Daughter Their Speeches and Prayers being ended the Executioner cleared the Cart of the rest of the People who were gotten in and then pulled down their several Caps over their eyes and upon the lifting up their hands the Cart was drawn away at which time Col. Barkstead especially was heard to say Lord Jesus receive our Souls and after he had hanged for a little space he lifted up his hand That which many did especially take notice of was That there was not so much as the least attempt made by any to raise a triumphant shout upon the drawing away of the Cart but there rather appeared the symptoms of an universal face of Sadness in that vast and generally tumultuous Assembly who were the Spectators of their several Deaths They all hung near about a quarter of an hour The first that was cut down was Col. Barkstead who was quartered according to the Sentence the other two hanging all the while The next cut down was Col. Okey Mr. Corbet hanging still who after Col. Okey was quartered had the Execution done upon him also according to the Sentence Their several Quarters were brought back to Newgate about five of the Clock in the Afternoon to be boyled A brief Account of Col. Okey's Funeral WHen Col. Okey's Body was quartered it pleased the King to send a Warrant to the Sheriff of London to deliver the macerated Body to be buried where his Wife should think meet Which thing being granted without Petition or Application from her or his Relations and the Rumour of his Funeral suddenly flying about the City and the place appointed at Stepney where his first Wife lieth in a fair Vault which he purchased formerly for a Burying-place for him and his Family there was a numerous Concourse of sober substantial People assembled to Christ-Church to attend the Corps and some thousands more were coming thither to that purpose so that there were in view about Twenty thousand People attending that Solemnity at and coming to the place aforesaid who in a solemn and peaceable manner behaved themselves as that affair required Yet it so pleased the King to revoke this first Grant to Mris. Okey and by the Sheriff of London to disappoint and send home again the Company attending the Funeral which Sheriff with much harshness and many bitter words did his work The People though much troubled at the disappointment yet so soon as they understood the King's pleasure departed and left the mangled Limbs to the dispose of them that had devoted them to the Gibbet and Ax the Company left many a thousand sighs to attend him to his then unknown Grave That Night the Body was carried to the Tower of London and there by Mr. Glendon Parson of Barkin was buried with the Service-Book afresh wounding his bleeding Limbs thereby but Rapes are imputed only to the Ravisher Mr. Glendon could not but say that his Body was laid there in sure and certain hope of a Joyful Resurrection His Testimony was true though a Poet of their own And now there he lyes and the Tower of London is his Tomb. His Epitaph he partly writ in the hearts of thousands at the place of Execution FINIS

Death to him taking and looking into his Bible God was pleased to set home that Scripture with his own Spirit upon his soul 2 Tim. 4.6 For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand and sayes he I can truly say in the strength of the Lord I am now ready to offer up my body to the Lord all things being very clear to me in my own Conscience He earnestly desired some Friends to seek to the Lord for him that he might have a better heart than that which he had to burn but blessed be the Lord saith he I have in a good sense a heart and a heart though still my strength is in my weakness He was wont frequently during the whole time of his Imprisonment to utter very sweet expressions to this purpose That the wayes of God are very pleasant wayes and that his sufferings were as nothing Prisons Chains Manacles with Buffetings c. were not to be accounted sufferings and that had he known before what it had been to be in Bonds for Christ and to have the Presence of God in such a condition he would never have gone beyond Sea and that he had enjoyed more of God in that Palace for so he called his close Prison than ever he did in his life before He often said likewise especially the day before his Execution to an eminent Minister That it was his great burden at this time that ever he lifted up a finger against any of the People of God that were heretofore of another Perswasion different from his and exhorted all his Friends that were present to love the Image of Christ where-ever they see it A Minister being with Col. Barkstead the day before he suffered and having heard that whilst he was Lieutenant of the Tower he had been somewhat severe and harsh to certain godly persons called Fifth-Monarchy-men then in his custody asked him this Question Sir Had not you some good men in your custody once when you were in power and intended further to have said and were you not then somewhat harsh and severe to them But Col. Barkstead anticipating his meaning prevented him with this affectionate Reply Oh Sir that very thing hath cost me many a tear when I was some hundreds of miles from this place and before I came into this condition indeed they held forth an opinion concerning the Fifth Monarchy or Kingdom of Christ upon Earth which I was then much prejudiced against and so prejudiced that I was not willing to hear or reade any thing in favour of it but now I am so far perswaded of the truth of it that I could freely lay down my life for it Oh Sir saith he many hours would not suffice to tell you all my Experience as touching this particular it was since I came into Prison that the Lord hath led me into the light and knowledge of this Truth and when I many times opened my Bible such places of Scripture presented themselves to me as preached this Doctrine which I several times out of prejudice waved and would not look into but notwithstanding the Lord did so overcome my heart to the faith and love of this Truth and Doctrine of Christ's visible Kingdom here on Earth or the Fifth Monarchy that now I could as I said before freely lay down my life for it and I hope the Lord will help me to speak something to this particular to morrow but if through weakness I should not then speak so fully to it I have left a Testimony behind me to that glorious Truth When he saw his Friends at any time sad about him he would often say to them Be sad for nothing but Sin fear nothing but Sin There is more evil in the least Sin than in the greatest Sufferings this was as he said his own experience The Sheriff's man bringing him word of his Execution and telling him he was sorry to bring him the ill news he smiled and very chearfully returned him this answer Blessed be the Lord I am ready and therefore it is no ill news to me After which time until Execution he behaved himself with much Joy and Chearfulness so that many that came to see him with tears in their eyes went away rejoycing for that of God they saw in him At another time to a Friend speaking to him of the greatness of his Afflictions he returned this Answer My greatest Affliction sayes he hath been my Opposition to those of the People of God who were contrary-minded to me And said further that he was much comforted and helped by the Prayers of the Saints yea of those Saints said he which considering my dealings with them had more cause to curse me than to bless me when I heard that such prayed for me I believed they would prevail and that God would answer his own Spirit in his People for me He also desired a Friend to use his interest to reconcile him to those Saints whom he had offended and dealt hardly with viz. those who are in a proper Scripture-sense for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ a Truth which he confessed he so much opposed together with the Professors of it which Opposition saith he I have often felt in my very bones in regard of the sorrow it cost me But now sayes he I rejoyce that the Lord hath enlightned me in it though much without humane means only by the Bible in the time of my Sufferings The day before his Execution he dined and supped with his Friends as heartily and chearfully as ever they saw him and slept as well that night as he had done these many years being still much refreshed and kept up with that Scripture He that believes in me shall never dye In the morning he arose early and the Gentleman-Jaylor bringing him word that the Sheriff was come desired him to be ready He answered Blessed be the Lord I am ready but he staying a little longer than was expected he was as one in haste to be gone and often looked out at the windows still wishing for the coming of his Chariot for so he called the Sled and when the Jaylor came for him he went with that readiness and chearfulness as was to admiration These following Scriptures he left written upon the walls of his Prison-Chamber in the Tower viz. Exod. 32.14 And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his People Numb 14.19 20. Pardon I beseech thee the Iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy Mercy and as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even until now And the Lord said I have pardoned according to thy word Psal. 73.25 26 27 28. Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon Earth that I desire besides thee My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever For lo they that are far from Thee shall perish Thou hast destroyed all them that go a

their leaves of them seemed to have a better opinion both of their Persons and their Cause then they had before and did withal give them assurance that they should not be delivered up to be sent for England untill they had had a more Publique Hearing of what they could say in their own defence But by the extream Officiousness of Sir Ge●rge Downing and his continued Sollicitations accompanied as is reported with strange menaces these persons were soon after not only contrary to the particular engagements of the Lords before mentioned but also against the very Laws of Nations and of all humane Society and Commerce yea against their own former practise in the Case of Ravilleak who murdered the King of France By order from the States General at two of the clock in the Morning taken out of Prison and being manacled with wrist-Irons chayns and locks were thrust into a Vessel lying at Delst and from thence conveyed into one of the King of Englands Frigots provided for the purpose and so in a few dayes were brought for England where they Arrived at the Tower of London upon the Lords Day in the Evening being the day of where they were forthwith disposed of by Order of the Lieutenant to their several Prison Lodgings and there continued in a very comfortable Condition in respect of the Peace Joy and Patience in which they did possesse their Souls as will more fully appear in the ensuing part of this Narrative untill the 16. of April 1662. Upon which day they were carried up by Water to the Kings Bench Bar to receive Judgement having been already by Act of Parliament attaynted of High Treason for compassing the death of the late King Charles the First After a very short dispute whether the Prisoners at the Bar were the Persons named in the forementioned Act of Attainder yea or no Witnesses being produced who made full proof in the Affirmative and the Prisoners themselves confessing it the Jury without going from the Bar gave in their Verdict that they were the Persons named in the said Act whereupon Judgement was given against them accordingly After Sentence was given they were remanded back to the Tower and in what frame of Spirit they were and how full of Joy and Peace in believing and how sweetly and patiently both to themsel●es and others they spent that little time which remained from the day of their Tryal to the day of their Suffering the following Collection of the occasional Speeches and Discourses which fell from them will abundantly testifie Their Opinion of the Covenant In Satisfaction to many Friends that much desired to know what their opinions were as to the Covenant and the late proceedings against it and also what they thought of the Condition of these Nations they freely and fully upon occasion still answered and largely discoursed to this effect Truly said they we can affirm and do affirm it that it was in pursuance of the Covenant that we acted and that in defence of it we now suffer and doubt not but in due time God will own his Cause and this Covenant and in such a manner too as shall be to the amazement yea to the Horrour and Confusion of them that oppose it and of others also the heretofore professed Friends of it who have lately acted so strangely upon it Was it ever imagined that any of the very first and strictest Composers and urgers of this Covenant either Here or in Scotland should deal with it as they have done That they should divide the civil part of it from the Religious and whilst their Zeal is all in a flame for the former they should be key-cold for the latter leaving that to the utmost Hazzard which was the main if not almost the whole Concernment and Intendment of it Is it likely that God will long bear with such juggling as this Or can any expect that it will passe in the Day of their Accounts Men may think to baffle with God and their own Consciences to invent shifts distinctions pretenses and put fair glosses on their Actions but let them not be deceived God is not mocked he never was and never will be as they will find at last if they repent not When some mentioned the burning of the Covenant and by Authority of Parliament too Why what then said they what though the Common Hangman hath made Bonefires of it yet is the Obligation to it burned also No verily it neither is nor can be nor is it any humane Law that can take it off but still it doth and will abide in full force and virtue either to be conscientiously performed by them that are under it or to be severely pleaded against them if they neglect it But it seems the Covenant must be abjured also and is abjured already by some and this by a Publick Law too from the Peoples representatives in Parliament and so is made the Act of the whole Nati●n Be astonished Oh Heavens and tremble Oh Earth Let the Sun it self be cloathed in blacknesse at this so horrid an impiety what abjure such a Covenant a Covenant so Solemnly taken a Covenant for the matter of it so Religious so Holy so universally owned by three Nations and owned in yea Authorized by Parliament sworn to by the King himself a Covenant so zealously pressed upon Peoples Consciences ●he force of which hath been so strongly urged and improved for the bringing his Majesty to the Throne what a Covenant that engageth to a Reformation and a Reformation according to the best and highest Patterns This Covenant abjured and thus abjured even by a Law and upon such deep and and sore penalties What is this but to bid defiance to God himself yea to put it to the Tryal whether there be a God or no that doth indeed look down from Heaven upon the doings of men Psal. 14.2 and whether he be such a God as will avenge these things Is it not his word that is made the Rule of this Covenanted-Reformation and was it not he himself even his own Al-knowing Divine Majesty that was attested and called in as a Witnesse to the sincerity of their hearts that took this Covenant and that upon their own eternal Damnation or Salvation And must this Covenant be abjured now This Covenant Is not Gods own Word and God himself too after a sort abjured in that Act whoever are gulty of it and what if some of those that do or shall abjure it or urge the abjuring of it upon others have formerly been Professors of Religion and so far Professors of it that they have seemed to have been in love with it delighted in it and so to have tasted of the powers of the World to come will not these of all others be the very chief of sinners whilest they become guilty of no lesse than the very sin against the Holy Ghost or at least border as near to it as possibly may be Oh amazing vengeance oh most dreadful of all

therefore I do desire that all that fear the Lord would make it their work and their business to study to love God and to love one another and to love the Nation wherein they live and to give no disturbance to it For certainly Sir I should leave this as that which the Lord hath setled upon my heart their work is to sit still yea their strength is to sit still for the Lord will do his work in his own time and when he comes to do the work there is none shall hinder I think you have had all experience of it in the late works which the Lord hath done for I must own it his Indeed Sir I am sorry that my weakness of body doth prevent me from speaking more to you yet I do bless God that I have this opportunity All I shall say further is That there is a Truth and I hope I may speak it without offence that is much upon my spirit and I am confident I shall speak it without any offence at all I think we are all here Christians and there is none here I think but saith the Lord's Prayer and sayes Thy Kingdom come Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven c. and I hope they go through the Prayer and say why they do pray that Prayer also say For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen God hath given the Kingdoms of the Earth to JESUS CHRIST He shall Reign and happy and blessed is that King and Nation that hath Him for their King And certainly for his Majesty that now is to reign under Jesus Christ is no dishonour at all to him For CHRIST doth and shall Rule over all the Kings Princes and Nations in the World And therefore indeed this is that Kingdom that is most certain and that we do desire and all pray that it may come and I do wish that all persons would have a tenderness and not to be at enmity with nor hate nor as much as they can cut the throats of those that own that Kingdom and the coming of that Kingdom As to other things there hath been so much said that I shall forbear speaking only this as to the business of the King I bless God I can say it I was no Actor or Contriver either within or without I was many miles from this place when that was doing I was put in by the Authority that then sat and I was called and chosen to that work and truly what I did I did without any Malice without any Contrivement in the least and did even to the very last pray for him And since his Majesty that now is came to the Throne I have as I have prayed for my own soul prayed for him and that he may reign in Peace and Righteousness to the Glory of God and the good of all the people of the Nation I shall not trouble you with more because I see your time is past and my weakness is such that I am necessitated to break off Then Col. Okey spake further as followeth Mr. Sheriff It is not only our Judgments now but it was our Practice when we were beyond the Seas we did shun any Disputes nay we avoyded occasions of seeing our own Countrymen because we would have nothing to do with the affairs in England but to pray for them and to perswade to be quiet and to sit still so that we may say as Paul did in another case They neither found us in the Temple disputing or wrangling or stirring up the People only our work was to pray for them Then Mr. Corbet said Now we have done speaking to men we may now speak unto our God truly he must help us and give us his own Spirit men may say prayers and reade them but to pray in the Spirit and to pray so as to be accepted with God requireth much strength and assistance from Him Then Mr. Corbet addressed himself to Prayer Mr. Corbet's Prayer O 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 World are unto thee as the drop of the bucket and as the dust of the ballance O Lord what are we then that are dust and ashes sinful dust and ashes O! look upon us look upon us in our Lord Jesus Christ that great Mediator O we desire to come to thee in the Name of that blessed Mediator we pray thee let us have acceptance through Him O that we might come unto the Throne of Grace through Him and obtain Mercy at thy merciful hand and finde Grace and Help now in this time of need Truly Lord it is a day a day of need for thy poor Worms that stand in thy presence that are despised of men that are condemned of men as not worthy to live in the world O our God thou mayest also justly destroy us and thou mayest justly condemn us and then wo be to us Oh! Forgiveness belongs unto thee Mercies belong unto thee O Lord we acknowledge our Iniquities here in thy presence and in the face of this great People O Lord against thee against thee only have we sinned our Iniquities are gone over our heads they are a mighty burden too heavy for us O Lord we desire especially to bewail our Gospel-sins our walking unworthy of the Gospel our Barrenness under all the means of Grace that we have enjoyed our Unthankfulness for those Glorious Appearances of our God in these dayes in these Nations O we have withheld thy Truth in unrighteousness O we desire to bewail our sins against Love and our sins against Light and our sins against thy Mercies though we have professed the Gospel and the Truths of Jesus Christ yet O Lord where is that Love and that Fruitfulness that should have been found among us O how much dishonour hath thy holy Majestie had from us in all our stations O we desire also to be humbled for our Family-sins and the sins we committed in our stations that thou our God didst call us to O Lord we desire to acknowledge that thou art just and righteous in all thy Chastisements thy great Chastisements that have been upon the Nation and upon us and our Families We desire Lord to humble our selves before thee and to cover our faces with shame here in thy presence and in the presence of this great Assembly Wo unto us for we have sinned against thee But Lord are there not Mercies with thee are there not tender Mercies multitudes of tender Mercies that thou mayest be feared Truly such poor Wretches as we are coming in unto thee have Mercy from thee through Jesus Christ. O these sins of ours and of every one of us and those multitude of sins that thy poor Worm that now speaks is guilty of in thy sight our Lord Jesus Christ he hath born He was made sin for us Now Lord where sin is there is shame and grief and