Obligations the least I can expect is to know by what Authority this is broken To this I got no Answer they declined further Questioning causing and commanding the Jury to be called and after they had asked if I had any thing to say against them they swore them desiring me that if I had any thing to say to the Jury to proceed I said my Lords its hard to devolve me upon a Jury before I be heard for which I charge you all to make ready to Answer before my Great Master at the Great Day and this Jurie also as to what ye do in this Affair Then they desired me to speak to the Jury for the Advocat was to have the last word then I thinking I should have occasion to have Reasoned with the Advocat anent my Lyble told the Jury That the Principle I held in my Declaration was of such a Nature as I durst not if I had as many Lives as there are Pickles of Sand on the Sea Shoar to redeem them all with the quitting of the least hair-breadth thereof Then I pressed the Obligation of the Covenant expecting the Advocat's Answer They asked if I had done I answered Yes as to this Then the Advocat began his Course wherein he did little more than Repeat my Declaration without offering any thing against any Article therein except against that of Defensive Arms his Defence against which was this that he had read of Defensive Arms betwixt two single Men But for multitudes he knew no Defensive Arms against standing Laws Then did I offer to Reply but they would not suffer me but recommended me to the Jury strictly Tying them that the Condemners should put it to after their Name and Assizers likewise Then I came conveyed to the Outter-House by the Guard where my Father came to me within a little and told me he had been dealing with the Lords for a Delay but had not got it so long as he expected I told him that whatever my good Lord's will was I was satisfied but I'le speak nothing of that my self He says well I knew that and so he leaves mâ— I am called in again within half an Hour and my Sentence intimated to be Hanged at the Grass-Mercat upon the 26th instant I said my Lords without a Hearing either before the Justices or Jurors this Practice was never parallel'd among Heathens and further my Lords and Jurors I declare and that upon good grounds that if upon this Sentence you Hang me you shall not be innocent of Crucifying the Lord afresh in me his poor and insignificant Member They called suffer him to speak no more This is the sâ—me so far as my brittle Memory will allow and I am confident there wants little or nothing of Moment Now for satisfaction both to Friends and Foes I have Judged it my Duty to add what follows My blessed Lord and Master hath determined mine Heart in all this my my Tryal next to his own Glory to have my Eye upon the Edification and Confirmation of his poor Distrest and Opprest People my Companions in Trâ—bulation as also to design as much as possible the Conviction of hâ—s and our profest and avowed Enemies moved me without any previous Deliberation to assert these Principles and â—ractices contained in my Indictment and to add that other assertion which I did before my Sentence before the Justices and Assize I say my blessed Lord having thus determined and moved me for which I bless his Name has not left me in the Dark as to Grounds and Warrants for what in and through such a poor and empty Reed as I am he hath done which Grounds while I offered to the Justices and Assizes for my Vindication I am contrare to all Law Equity and Reason refused that Privilege a Privilege granted even by the Heathens These Grounds I have thought fit to leave under my Hand for the comfort of the Lords People and if not the conviction the Terror of his and ours for his sake Proud insolent Enemies as follows You Remember that before I offered any Defence I Demanded of the Justices that they would grant me the these two Principles to wit First that the Almighty God Jehovah was Supreame Lord and Master over all in Heaven and in Earth and that all Kings and other Rulers in the Earth are his Deputes and Servants this they granted The second is that all Laws in the Earth must strike-Sail and Vail their Caps to the Supream Law the Word of God and be Regulate by it this they refuse to grant which I lookt upon as most Horrid Blasphemy and took Instruments on the Refusal thereof which I know stands Recorded in Heaven to be produced against the Denyers at the Great Day of the Lord I doubt not if that Young Noble Man who Refused me this had been present when Mr. John Paterson Proposed the Question to me if our King was Comptable to any to whom I Answered he was He asked to whom I said to these by whom he was Intrusted He Answered then he could not be Soveraign Intimating that there could be no Soveraign but one whom we Presbyterians hold to be the Almighty God Jehovah to whom alone indeed it is high Treason for any Mortall to say what doest thou It being lawful de jure to ask any Mortall King an Account of his doings as need Requires though de facto in the case of Cruel Tyrany this be Dangerous I say if this Noble Man had heard this he had not so rashly Refused my Assertion But whatever our Rulers do I do and I hope with me all that has the least Smattering of Religion will both grant and firmly in his strength hold both these Principles for to me to grant the former and refuse the Latter implys a Contradiction now laying these for two sure and inviolable Foundations I go on as if I were before the Justices and Jury to deliver my own grounds which my God laid to my Hand and answer any thing of Objections I meet with either before the Secret Council or Justices Now my Lords of Justicary and you Jurers taken these Principles for granted my first Assertion I have to Vindicate is this that I own the work of Reformation as the same is contained in the Confesion of Faith and Catechisms conform to the Covenant against Popery Prelacy and Erastianisme and am Resolved by the Lords Strength to bide by the same and seing that it is Lawful for any Man to Weild his Arms for his best Advantage to this I Subjoin the Involable Obligation of the Covenant to adhere to these Principles and Practices Now my Lords this work of Reformation these Principles and Practices being such as I find Warranted from the practice of Christ and his Apostles and not only I but his Majesty and all under him in theâ—â— Nations being by the Oath of God which shall never be Disolved by any Humane Power the least I can expect of your Lordships is that
Restoration there has been no free nor Lawful Parliaments and he thinks by reason albeit the Members thereof were Elected in the ordinary way Yet when the Members Meet there was unlawful Oaths imposed upon them and there upon severals of them left the Parliament and so he understands that it is not a free nor lawful Parliament and thinks that Episcopacy and Erastianisme is established in that and subsequently Parliaments were contrary to the Word of God and that the Supremacy herein established is most horrid Blasphemy I added here to the Chancellor that I hoped his Lordship would not be offended at this seeing he had sworn the same in the Test but they refused to write this in my subscribed Declaration Being Interrogate if he owned the Proclamation and Declaration at Sanquhair and Hamilitoun Declares he does not own the Sanquhair Declaration as being inconsistent with his Principles such as the cutting off of the wicked and having himself read the Hamiltoun Declaration Declares he owns the same and that when they were invaded and assaulted by any Persons whatsoever in their Exercises of Reformed Religion and Worship they were obliged to stand to their own Defence and owns the Lawfullness of Field Conventicles and their being in Arms to Defend themselves in case of being Molested And he himself was ever ready to own and defend his Brethren in Arms when invaded for Religion And declares that the Invasion made against them at Pentland and Bothwell they being in the Exercise of his Religion was Service done to the Devil and Resistance made by them was Service done to GOD. Confesses that before Bothwell Bridge he had riden in Arms with Mr. Welsch through the Countrey and blesses God for it Confesses he was at a Meeting at Lesmehago before Bothwell when Lieutenant DalÈiel with a Party came upon them and was one of these that engaged against that Party Denies he was at Drumclogg But confesses he was at Bothwell and thinks that Mr. John Welsch stayed about half a year in the Countrey thereafter but he was only about eight days in Company with him after Bothwell in this Kingdom Confesses the King is lawful King Born and came Lawfully to the Crowns of these Kingdoms and that he is lawful King of this Kingdom and owns the Kings Authority conform to the Word of GOD that is to say That he is impowered to Govern for GOD's Glory and the good of his People and to be a Terror to evil doers and encourager to well and Declares that the Act of Supremacy as it is explained by the Act of Parliament that the turning out of Presbyterian Interest and overturning the Work of Reformation most unlawful Acts and being expresly contrary to the Word of God can not be Binding upon the Declarent and that Covenants are binding upon the Nations and shall be so while Sun and Moon endures and that that Oath called the Test is a most unlawful and horrid Oath and he is not obliged to take the same He Declares As to killing the Archbishop of St. Andrews he cannot give Judgment anâ—â—nt it it not being an Act of his own but that some of these that were called the Actors whom he knew and particularly one William Dingwal were Godly and Just Men. sic subscribitur John Dick. The last Day of August 1683 There being many Noblemen in the Court which day Mr. John Dick being present was Examined in presence of the Justices then sitting in Judgment and the abovewritten Confession â—mitted by him in presence of the Council being read he acknowledged the same and every particular of the same in presence of the said Justices Sic subscribitur John Dick Maitland James Fowls John Lockhart Alexander Seton Upon September 4 1683 I Mr. John Dick Son to David Dick Writer in Edinburgh being Called before the Lords of Justiciary being then present it was demanded if I had any thing to say for my self I answered Yes my Lord I have somewhat to add to my Lyble they asked what was that then I proceeded as follows I Mr. John Dick Prisoner in Name and by the Appointment of Our Blessed Lord and Master Jesus Christ Declare That the Blood of all the Presbyterians that have been Executed for their Principles is horrid Murder by whatsomever Law they have been judged and that in the Person of every Individual one who have suffered simply on this Account Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ hath been as really crucified as He was by Pilate and the Jews at Jerusalem And this I desire may be holden as a part of my former Declaration and Confession emitted before the Council and Justices This I called for and subscribed blessing the Lord that had given me a hand so to do They refused to add it to my Declaration judging they had too much already I required all that were present Witnesses that I had declared the same and Appealled them all to Christ's Bar at the Great Day to Answer for what they had done and were doing They asked if I would have an Advocat I said My Lords that is ordinarly denied to Persons in my condition they declared I should have as many as I pleased I said I would have none but my Blessed Lord Jesus Christ Blessed be His Holy Name for it He is both with me and in me The Justice Clerk asked if I was a Quaker or a Fifth Monarchry Man I told him I abhorred both yet my Affection was relevant being Blessed of my God with the Grace of Faith And then they read my Indictment and asked at every Article to which I answered affirmatively Then did the Justice Clerk ask if I had any thing to say for my self I said I Blessed the Lord I had they Desired me to proceed Answer I expect my Lords being a Free Born Scots Man I shall have the Priviledge allowed me that the Christians in former days had among the Heathens the Justice Clerk bids me proceed there are two things which I hope your Lordship will grant e're we proceed further first do you not Acknowledge that the Almighty God Jehovah is Supream Lord Governour of Heaven and Earth that all Kings in the Earth are but his Deputs Servants the Justice Clerk sayes yes The Second Do ye not Acknowledge that all the Law in the World among Christians must Strike Sail to the great Law the Law of God to which I got no Answer whereupon I took Witnesses and Protested that it might be Recorded in Heaven then they press'd me to proceed I told him the Advocat offering to follow his own method had drawn out my Declaration my Lords you have been at much pains to seek my Accusation I have been so Ingenuous to Exhibite it to you my self for which I Bless the Lord first Article that I own my self to a Presbyterian and to be bound to continue so conform to a Covenant that can not be Infringed by no Power under Heaven Now my Lords I being under such strong Impressions of those my
Adhered to of as Glorious effects I say I must make bold to ask by what Authority this is broken and unless you be so bold as to run your self upon Bosses of the Buckler of the Almighty in refusing that which the Justice Clerk but faintly granted which the Lord avert I mean unless you deny Jehovah to be Supreme Lord and Master of Heaven and Earth and all the Kings and Governors in the Earth to be his Deputies and Servants I shall defy you or any Mortal to satisfy me in this if you consider what is said before on this Subject and what is contained in the several Authors abovementioned on this Matter Now we shall take it for granted that these Covenants stands still binding and I am sure we have good ground so to do for any thing we have either read or heard to the contrary Then great Sir must I in the next place ask how it comes to pass that over the belly of these Covenants Episcopacy and Erastianisme against which as to the unlawfulness thereof and their inconsistency with the Word of God who have so many Testimonies standing in Record not only in the Word of God but in other Humane Writings drawn and founded thereupon without the least satisfaction offered by our Adversaries come to be introduced amongst us who beside the unlawfulness of the things themselves have this to say that we have Sworn with Hands lifted up to the Almighty not only never to join wâ—th but with our Lives and Fortunes to oppose either I say how comes these not only to be introduced but we by Armed force Hunted Harassed Plundered Tortured and Hailed to Scaffolds for no other Reason but our refusing Anenâ— which the unlawfulness of the things were to us sufficient Warrand though we had not been in Covenant but much more being under the same as for my part I can Dream of no Reason for introducing of these being strangers in the Church of Christ not only in his own blessed time and the time of the Apostles who survieved him But also for three hundred Years thereafter Nor do I ever hear or Read that any other use they were introduced but for that Antichrist that Man of Sin his Exaltation being made use of the one for his Advancement is that damnable absolute Supremacy of his in the Church and the other for the same and in the State and truely if this be the thing it does not a little confirm me in the Belief of that second Covenant you and your Brother have made with the Pope which I mentâ—â—â—â— a little above Bâ—â— I say How come the Subjects of Britain and Ireland to be forced to a Complyance with these Sure you say by your Principles that you allow not of the forcing of Mens Consciences by the Sword looking upon it as a Turkish way as Prelate Paterson said to my lately Martyred Brother John Wilson and why are you worse than Turks in this violently Practising contrary to your Principles In the next place I come to enquire at your Majesty why this Monstruous abominable Test which the Turk himself could not but Scunner at is not only Enacted to be taken by all his Majesties Subjects here in Sâ—otland but also by Violence and Force obtruded on many both Gentle and Semple Rich and Poor Why this is done I cannot Divine if it be not to let the World see you mind to out-do Prouâ— Pharoch in daring the Almighty And why Pray you is there a thing called An Act made Discharging People to Associâ—te togâ—ther upon any pretence whatsoever for their own innocent and necessary self Dâ—fence without your Majesties special Command and this also Sworn to in that horred Test It is not unknown to any that there may many Emergents fall out that may make this which is by that pretended Law made no less than Treason become a most necessar and indispensible Duty as in the case of a sudden Invasion by an Enemy your Majesty being at a great distance and who knows but the Alarm may be keeped from your Majesty by some keeped about Court for that end Who doubts but in such a Case absolute Necessity will become a Law to the People And who doubts but if for fear of this Law any should ly by but they might be arraigned as yet greater Traitors And if in this case this should be justifiable why not in ours being so in humanly Assaulted by a company of Murdering Papists Atheists or worse And for any thing we know his Majesty being all this while a great stranger to our Affairs through the industry of some disaffected to the way of GOD who are keeped about Court for that end I say this as also that by the Instigation of suth there is a pretended Law made Discharging any under the Pain of Treason to meet or Consult in order to the Remonstrating of our Case to his Majesty will to all unbyassed sufficiently Warrand our innocent self Defence as to what may be objected against this having hinted a little in the fore part of my Testimony and the whole of our business in these being sufficiently justified by the several Authors above-mentioned without any Answer as yet I say again Why are all these things done And now further let me ask at your Majesty Why are our Prisons keeped still throng with Prsoners some Aged some Infirm and Tender some out of Capacity to mantain themselves for no other cause but that they desire to keep a Conscience void of Offence towards GOD and towards Man and some Honourable Ladies also for no other Reason than for Resetting and hearing of some honest and faithfull Ministers in their Houses or Resetting or Refreshing some of the LORD'S People in their Necessities I am sure none who ever read the 25 Chapter of Matthew from the 31st Verse to the end will look upon this as a capital Crime but as an indispensible Duty I say it again why are all these things done is it to satisfie these Blood-thirsty Prelats of yours or some of the Popish Party whom your Brother has flocking about him in Swarms Great Sir all these small Sins And besides are these Inumerable other Sins have you and all these to whom with you I Address my self to answer for and that the Weight thereof may be a little better laid open to your Majesty and these others I pray be at the pains with me to Recapitulate the same yet once more it is no small Sin do you think to break the Covenant with GOD and to force your Subjects to do also Is it no small sin to cast off the way of GOD and to Banish that Religion of his own Appointment and introduce that amongst us which both your Majesty and all under you have Vomited up and thrown out by that Solemn Oath Is it no small Sin do you think to Impose Contradictory Oaths upon your People and so to force them to open Rebellion against the Almighty Is it no small thing
to be the Supream Judge and his Word the Supream Law which both were Refused in that the Lâ—tter was not Granted and yet both by my Blessed Lord and Master in my Escape proâ—â—â— The first in this that though the Great one in the Earth Bad Decreed my Death upon the 26 of Sept. 1683 â—et now see my blessed Master having Decreed the contrary has proven himself Supream The latter in this that though the same was Enacted in a Law by you yet by his Word which is yet the Supream Law my GOD having moved me to cast mine Eye upon that Promise He that loseth his Life for my sake shall save it and upon the back of this on that Word in the Psalms According to thy Righteousness do thou deliver me I say my blessed Lord helping me to cast mine Eye and not a little to Confide in the Promise though I must confess by my too eager gripping thereto at first and in so doing limitting my blessed Lord I Bred my self not a little Disquiet yet I say my Lord according to this his Word having set me at Liberty though you had Enacted the contrary has ad hominem sufficiently proven my second Principle also I say are you at a Point what to answer when all this Blood comes to be inquired into Know you not that the Blood of Saints is precious in the Lord's sight Or will ye yet with Pharaoh harden your hearts possibly under this consideration that you live Remote from the Red-Sea But know you not that our Omnipotent Master can for you make a Sea of your own Blood if it be Red enough for you to Drown in And who knows but such a thing may come to pass Especially considering that it is an ordinary thing with the Lord in punishing either Friends or Enemies to do it so as their sin may be Reâ—d in their Judgement and I am indeed the rather inclined to think it shall be so when I remember the saying of that Worthy Man of GOD I mean Mr. Semple late Minister of Corsfairn in Galloway who fell under no small Eclipse in his Latter Days through his closing with that fatall Indulgence fatall indeed to the poor Churches in Britain and Ireland who in his better days had this Expression As the Lord lives for every Drop of the Saints Blood has been or shall be shed by these his Cruel Enemies speaking of the Malignant Prelatical Papistical and Atheistical Party in these Kingdoms there shall Tuns Tuns Tuns of their's fall to the Ground and I know few of this Great Seer Threatnings have fallen to the Ground What Dream you I say you shall have to Answer in that Day Dare ye whisper these things were done conform to your Laws which upon the Matter was all I got answered to me standing at your Bar here upon Earth for which I have no fewer than 500 Witnesses and upon which I have an Instrument standing Recorded in Heaven do you think you will dare to Mutter this then Sure if you knew what you were saying you would never do it here nor there for it is no less upon the Matter than to Ratifie the Sentence past upon our blessed Lord and Master himself by the Jews for which he got no other reason but we have a Law the same I get but what if our blessed Lord your Judge say but you know I had a Law to the contrary and your Law should have Ceded to mine dare you think you shall contradict this there as you have indeed done here upon Earth I know you dare not consider then what you will answer for I can assure you it is of your Concern May Sixth Question shall be what think you to Answer for your Mock Thanksgivings of which I shall Instance two one is for Gowries Conspiracy the other for this Pretended Deliverance from a Mock Plot these two Twins I bring in together the rather that they resemble other as much as ever Twins did and no wonder since they are of one Father I mean the Devil one Mother the Pope of Rome one Nurse the Jesuitical Papists who having brought up these Brats till they are able to walk alone send them over here to their Friends in Britain and Ireland and what day is pitched upon here for bringing them forth to publick View Even the Lords day in which these young Monsters must get on all their Gay Cloathes and of them must all the Churches in the Nations spend that day in speaking though to the mocking of GOD with abominable Lies yet to the admiration of this Monstrous Birth And then when all is done there must be Bonefires Ringing of Bells and fireing of Cannons and what not that this Monstrous Generation can devise for provocking of and fighting against Jehovah O Heaven shake Earth tremble and all flesh be astonished at such Hellish madding against our glorious Master and because contravia juxta se posita clarius elucescunt I would have you to take a glance of the industrie of that Limb of Antichrist the Duke of York in hindering the procedure of the Parliament of England in their so just and Legall procedure in inquiring into that Hell-hatched Popish Plot which is in no small measure now advanced by this last mock one of yours And I am sure none who are not altogether Strangers to the Constitutions of England will refuse that Treason of the Nature that a Popish Plot is really and this mock Plot of theirs as to its pretended Nature is pretended to be ought to come under Tryal by his Majesty and the two Houses of Parliament as only competent Judges thereto but there is no remedy for open and irresistible violence but patience I say what are you at a Point what to Answer for these things I fear not and I hope none who knows that I am a Presbyterian and Consequently whom I am concerned to Defend here I mean all such as are either indeed Presbyterians or longing for the time when the Nation shall be Universaly such which the LORD hasten and Pardon any who have been any way Instrumental in hindering when the matter was brought to a very hopefull pass will think I have been out of the Road in medling in matters wherein the Glory of GOD is so much concerned for to Charge any such Plotts upon such as are indeed of our Principles I dare Averr to be not only a wrong for us but of our Blessed LORD also in and though us Now I Pray you consider what you shall Answer for these things My Seventh Question is what you think to Answer who have Refused our Blessed LORD and his People a Spot of your Ground to meet together upon who have Refused his People a Nights Lodging who have Concurred in Dragging his People to Scaffolds and Prisons and others whom we have Classed together with you above when you shall meet that Day with your Particular Charges Is it not of your concern to consider this especialy the rather
time My Lords if ye had no other to Enquire at then me ye might have caused take me from the Court of Guard to the Gibbet Do ye own and adhere to all your former Actings I both own and adhere to all that I have done in the Vindication of my Principles and in the Reproving if not the Converting of Christs Enemies either with my Tongue or Pen and am willing to Seal the same with my Dearest Blood Follows an Account of what passed betwixt the Lords of Justiciarâ— and Mr. John Dick when his Sentence was reintimate to him the next Day after he was taken THE Lords hearing of it being Conveened he was brought from the Tolbooth and put in the Pannel before them to whom he gave a Bow and so the Clerk at the Command of the Lords Cryed to the Macer saying Macer Command Silence then they called Mr. John Dick to whom he Answered here I am and so the Clerk Read as follows Mr. John Dick now standing in the Pannel having been apprehended before to wit in August last and having been several times before the Lords of Council and Justiciary was Sentenced and Commanded upon the fifth Day of September 1683 to be Hanged at the Grass Mercat of Edinburgh upon the 26th of of that instant but the said Mr. John Dick having Broken the Toolbooth of thâ—s Brugh upon the 16th of that instant and several others with him and so made his Escape before the time that he should have been Hanged and he being apprehended and now standing in the Pannel these are to Warrand Authorize Command and Charge the Magistrates of this Burgh to Cause Carefuly Conduct him to the said Grass-Mercat of Edinburgh to Morrow between two and four in the Afternoon and there to be Hanged up till he be Dead under the pain of the Act. c. At the hearing of which he gave a Bow to the Lords and said now my Lords the Sentence that your Lordships passed upon me both before and now is both unreasonable and unjust and contrar to the Laws of this Nation however it is very welcome to me upon Christ's Account But I remember two things that I demanded before and now I demand them again The first was That the great Jehovah is Judge of Heaven and Earth and that all the Kings and Princes therein are but his Deputes and Servants this was granted me before The Second was That the Scriptures are the Supream Law and that all the Laws of this Nation and all other Nations are to be regulate thereby and strike and Vail their Capes to this this they refused me before and now I demand it again but he got no Answer So he cryed now my Lords I take the Great GOD to Witness and each of your Consciences to Witness against your and all of you and the rest of this multitude to Witness against you that hears me that ye have again refused me this to grant it to me and tho ye have judged me once before and now again unjustly Yet remember that at one Day GOD will Judge you and Reviving my Blood and the Blood of all my Brethren that has been shed unjustly and they cryed that they would take him away and not suffer him to speak any longer so he rapped upon the Breast of the Pannel and cryed out GOD even my GOD shall Judge you as ye have Judged me and that ye shall find but GOD forgive you and I forgive you if it be agreeable to his Eternal Decree and so he was taken away crying as he went to the Door of the Outter House saying well I am refused of that which none but Heathens could have refused me of but I bliss the LORD for it and many of my Christian Friends knows my Mind of these things and others may know it when I am gone Followes his Words and Carraige in the Laigh Council House that Afternoon he came from the Tolbooth before he went to the Scaffold as was there present after the Reading of the Sentence Mr. Ramsay one of the Ministers of the Old Kirk of Edinburgh offered to Pray to him to whom he Replyed Sir how dare you presume or how dare you have the Confidence to pray in my Presence since ye are Fighting against GOD and Persecuting Christ in his Members ye have not only Abjured the Covenant but is Murdering the Souls of the LORD's people and to Crown all your Abjured ones and Abominations Have he not taken that Abominable Test. Mr. Ramsay Answers Well Sir will ye pray your self then Yes if the Bailie suffer me I will if ye will promise to make no Reflections in Prayer But he Answered that he would make no such promises But said he whatsoever GOD gives me to pray that will I pray And so the Baillie again Refused to suffer him if he would not promise not to have any Reflections in Prayer but he Answered as before But Mr. Ramsay pressed the Baillie to give him Liberty to pray and he began to pray thus O Lord God the Great God and my Covenanted God and the Covenanted God of Scotland For Christs Sake come with Deliverance to thy Church and People and help them Vindicate and make great thy Glory And so the Bailie cryed to take him away The last Words and Carriage of Mr. John Dick who Suffered in the Grass Market of Edinburgh upon the Fifth of March 1684. WHen he went upon the Scaffold he Beckned to the Multitude beginning at North side thereof and so turning himself Round with a Smiling Countenâ—nce and no less Couragious then pleasant Demonstrations without the least of Terrour or being Troubled either with Death near approaching or the manner of he Death he was to Die this in a Princely like Posture he presented himself in the â—ight of all there present And then with his hands Falded together and his Eyes â—fted up to Heaven for a little looking not only stedfastly but Eagerly and so treaching furth his hands he began thus The great Confluence that are gathered together here manifestly declares to me that many if not the great part of this Multitude expects and looks for some thing more than Ordinary but ye may be disappointed I nothing doubt but all of this Multitude at least the most part knows and have heard that I have had near six Months Respite more than was allowed me by Men which time was granted me in the Goodness and Mercy of GOD through my Escape which Mercy I mean this time that I have had since my escape I look upon it to have been given me for these two and in both these that GOD may be Glorified And First That having so much more time I might have the Liberty and Priviledge more fully to exhibite and give in my Judgment At which Bailie Chancellor called to Bear but he stops him saying Beat not and so he proceeded saying Secondly That having so much more time I might the better make ready and prepare my self for that