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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

against thee VVe pray thee for Jesus Christ his sake blot out our iniquities let none of our nakedness appear cover us with the Robes of his Righteousness speak peace to our souls O seal to us the assurance of the pardon of all our sins O seal to us the assurance that thou lovest us then it shal go wel with us Pour upon us t●y holy Spirit that he may teach us how to pray acceptably Let us see our Names written in the Lambes book of Life O wash us in his Blood which is able to take take away all our Sinnes of what nature or kind soever O Lord we beseech thee receive us into thy everlasting Armes of Mercy O that thou wouldst let us see by the eye of Faith Heaven opened and the Lord upon his Throne and Jesus Christ at thy right hand and his holy Angels ready to receive our Souls We beseech thee be with us it is but a little time that we are to be here O leave us not shew us mercy only in and upon the account of Jesus Christ With us bless thine all the World over think upon these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland O that they may live in thy sight that England may be a happy peaceable and quiet Nation give the Nation of England a heart to walk answerable to the Gospel which they have so long enjoyed that it may be a Nation fruitfull in all good works and more zealous than ever it hath been yet remove the judgements felt prevent the judgements feared To this end we beseech thee blesse Him whom thou hast set over us we begg that he may live in thy sight and Reign here for thee and Reign hereafter with thee O Lord make Him a Friend to thy Friends let Him see that His Interest lyeth there Blesse the Great Councell of the Land the Lord guide them and direct them that they may do nothing against thy Truth The Lord blesse the faithfull Ministers of the Word O that thou would double thy Spirit upon them and let not thy Judgement come upon this Nation that the Godly faithfull Ministers should be driven or removed out of it O do not bring a famine of thy Word whatever Judgement thou bringest upon this Nation We humbly begg that Popery may not return hither again We begg for thy Names sake that thou wouldst look in mercy upon this great City and as thou hast made them famous for Religion and owning the Professors thereof the Lord grant that they may not decline but increase more and more therein the Lord give them the Blessings of the Right Hand and of the Left that they may dwell together in Love Unity and Peace The Lord look upon any that is near and dear to us our dear Relations we leave them with thee Lord do thou take care of them and provide for them according to that good Promise which thou hast made Now we beseech thee Lord accept of us and our Services pardon the sins of our holy things our wandering and starting aside from thee accept of us and do us good and receive us into the arms of thy mercy This and whatever else thou seest in thy Wisedom to be good for us we begg in the name and for the sake of Iesus Christ to whom be honour and glory and praise both now and for evermore Amen After he had done he gave the Sheriffs thanks for their Civilities to them BARKSTEADS Prayer O Eternal and ever blessed Lord God thou who sittest upon the highest Heavens and hast the Heavens for thy Throne and Earth for thy Foot-stool we are here by thy Providence brought to this place in which we blesse thee and for which we blesse thy name we blesse thy name that thou hast kept us hitherto that thou hast preserved us thus long that thou hast given us peace and pardon forgive to us the iniquities of our holy things that thou hast enabled us to own thee Remember the Nation where wee live the Lord blesse the Kings Majesty and make him to Rule for thee to the Comfort of all that fear thy Name Look in mercy upon all that fear thy name make them of one mind and of one heart Let them seek peace and pursue it Advance the Kingdome of Iesus Christ that is comming and will come Carry forth the Spirits of thy People to honour thee more and love one another more Remember the Relations of thy poor Creatures Doe good to them that wee leave we leave them in the assurance of the Faithfullnesse of th● promise Thou ●ast said Leave your Fatherlesse Children to me and I will keep them alive and provide for them and let your Widdowes trust in me We desire that thou wouldest pardon all that have done us wrong we freely and fully forgive them and begg that thou wouldest doe so too whether in ENGLAND or elsewhere Shew kindnesse to those who have shewed kindnesse to us Look in Mercy upon the Magistrates here present pardon the Sinns of him who is appointed our Executioner he that is to wash his Hands in our Bloud lay not our Bloud to his charge nor to any ones else We leave our Selves with thee we bless thee for thy Mercies to us at this Hour that Death is not terrible to us that thy poor Creatures can in truth say There is no trouble of Soul upon us Wee begg further supplyes from thee that wee may be enabled those few minuts wee have to live that thou wouldest still be with us and this we begg for Jesus Christs sake Amen After their Speeches and Prayers ended the Executioner cleared the Cart of the rest of the people who were gotten in and pulled downe their several Caps over their Eyes and upon the lifting up their hands the Cart was drawn away and which was wondred at without any shout at all They all hung near about a quarter of an hour the first that was Cut down was Colonel Barkstead who was quartered according to the Sentence the other two hanging all the while The next Cut down was Col. Okey Miles Corbett hanging still who after Colonel Okey was Quartered had the like Execution done upon him according to the Sentence Their several Quarters were brought back to Newgate about 5 a Clock in the afternoon to be Boyled THus ended they with an apparent Zeal for the Prosperitie of their Nation which themselves so mainly opposed out of cajole to the People whose detestation and hatred they were for that very Cause If they build again the things they destroyed what are they And now when there was no need of their devotion while all along they have lifted up and stretched out their Arms to violence they lift up their voices in prayer that they may be heard of men For where 's one word of repentance for all the mischief and bloudshed they have caused It is insensible to believe these fine Ejaculations for Pietie while there appears no sense of any publique sin Indeed

our sh●m● and carried our sorrow Thy poor Worms are a shame in the eyes of men Jesus Christ he was despised and rejected of men he suffered the bitterness of death he poured out his soul to death it pleased thee to put him t● death He hath born our sins oh Lord the chast sement of our peace was upon him We desire thou wouldst lay our sins upon him the onely true Scape-Goat We desire through his blood we may be pardoned for by one offering he is able to save all that come to him We desire to lay hold of his Merit and of that full satisfaction he hath made to thy Justice for sinners He that knew no sin was made sin he dyed that we might live Oh accept of his satisfaction for us and as he is risen and ascended up to thy right hand and even lives to make intercession for us that was the Blood o● God God-Man he died that we might live he bore thy wrath that we might be delivered from wrath Oh God thou God of Mercy shew mercy to the Souls of thy poor creatures for thy Mercies sake and to the Souls of all this great Assembly Christ he died but once yet he ever lives to make intercession for sinners O there there is comfort for poor sinners that the great Mediator him thou hearest alwayes O now now now and accept of us we make our request known to thee it is pardoning mercy we seek we believe Lord help our unbelief O come and sprinkle our souls with his precious blood that we may stand before thee in his Righteousness Thou hast made him our righteousness O cover us with the Robe of his Righteousness that we be not found in our own Righteousness that we may be presented before thee as having neither spot nor wrinkle Thou hast made him our King come and tread his Enemies under his F●e● he hath condemned sin he took the likeness of sinful flesh and in that likeness condemned sin in the flesh O that through him we might stand righteous in thy sight Thou hast set before us the hopes of eternal life which thou hast promised to give to all those that love thee Thou hast said we shall reign with thee we flie to thee in this day of our distress Oh that we might have strong consolation Seeing thou hast confirmed thy promise with thy oath O make good that to all of us say to us We are thine though we are despised Worms Lord do thou speak peace to us and we shall have peace Thou alone givest true peace this is onely given by our dear Lord Jesus himself O come and comfort our hearts with thy love Lord let thy Banner over us be Love thou dost not despise the afflictions of the afflicted We bless thy Name for that we are able to bear witness of thy faithfulness mercy and goodness before this great Congregation and this great City Thou hast been good to us do not leave us Thy poor Worms are now to go through a great storm O that we may find thy strength enabling us in this great Work O that we may find Death a passage to Life VVhen our Souls are coming to thee give thy Angels charge over us Let fresh-springs come from Jesus Christ at this time if it seem good to thee Let us hear those joyful tydings saying Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you Though some despise us we desire to bless thy Name that we are not despised of thee Lord pardon their sins There is a Crown of Life laid up for those that fear thee VVe desire to love thee for thy Chastisements Let our cry pierce the Heavens We come in hopes of the appearance of Jesus Christ He that shall come will come and will not tarry Lord Jesus come quickly Thy Servant Stephen saw the Heavens opened and Jesus Christ sitting at thy right hand though we cannot see thee with our bodily eyes oh that we could see thee by the eye of faith we pray thee let not that fail O that thou wouldst strengthen us wit hs all Might in this hour without thy strength our heartr and our flesh will fail us Thou art the God of ous strength come and save us let thine everlasting armn be under us We pray thee Lord let us see thee ir mercy do not correct us in wrath We are unde the wrath of men good Lord do thou forgive them Lay no more upon thy poor Worms then thou wilt enable them to bear Our Fore-runner is gone before us O that we may follow him accept of us in him The Lord bless this Nation continue thy gospel thy gospel is the glory of this Nation let thy people glorifie that gospel and do thou prevent those heavy Judgements that hang over it Pardon the great sin of the prophanation of thy day which is so general throughout the Nation Continue thy gospel in power and purity The Lord forgive the sins of those that bear thy Name Thy wrath is ki●●e● 〈◊〉 us but do not thou destroy us Heal our backslidings give a spirit of love to them that they may love one another Take away the enmity that is between Ephraim and Judah Let thy people be of one mind and of one heart Prevent the growth of Popery and Superstition Shew mercy to the Kings Majesty whom thou hast set over us O that he may rule for thee as he rules from thee that his Throne may be established in Judgement The Lord bless all thy faithful Ministers and continue them to thy people encrease their gifts and graces And now O Lord we commit our selves to thee we are coming Lord meet us take us into thy arms What ever else thou knowest needful and necessary for us thy Church and all the Israel of God we beg in the Name and for the sake of Jesus Christ OKEY'S Prayer MOst Holy Glorious and Eternal Lord God who art the blessed Maker of all things who art from everlasting to everlasting blessed for evermore thou art worthy to be praised from the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof thou art cloathed with Honor and Majesty as with a Garment thou art the Fountain of all good the Well-spring of Life and Happiness We bless thy Name that thou hast been pleased to give us this opportunity once more to pour out our souls before thee before we go hence and be no more seen For Christ's sake thou that hast put a price into our hands give us hearts to improve it enable us to pour out our souls before thee at this time Draw nigh to in that we may draw nigh to thee O Lord we pray thee for Christ's sake give us the Spirit of VVisdom Vnderstanding and Knowledge whereby we may be enabled to come to thee in the Name of Jesus Christ we beg a supply of all our wants humbly beseeching thee for his sake to shew mercy to us Do not remember against us what we have done

be and approves himself of the Congregational way that allows those Sects and prospered by them and thinks so to rise again He acknowledgeth the King ruleth from God not from the people yet grieveth not that he murdered his most God-like Father He confesseth a scruple nay his aversness at the first mentioning of this murther in the House or Juncto of Commons yet is not sorry at all after the bloody perpetration See Colonel Berkstead As to the Cause God hath owned it As to the Government as now it is I have and shall as long as I have breath pray for it I was no Contriver in the murder of the King Seriously such absurdities as these are would become no crime but this for should an ordinary malefactour have said so they would have judged him fit onely for Bedlam First the Good Cause is justified that 's the Major God hath owned it as it was the Canting term in all their successes and which Needham the great Friend of this Person hath used in every Pamphlet That 's not yet done with they will adhere to that still there 's no pitty to be had from any but such as were Complices in that Next as to the Government he hath and shall as long as he lives pray for it The time is not set when he begun it is determined when it shall end And now he will pray as long as he lives But why not this before or else why now This Government was the same which he endeavoured to extirpate and our late blessed Soveraign's vertues and goodness as great pardon this just Comparison as any Prince's living What new incongruous strange kindness and affection is this of a sudden Reader be not partial These words are his own not foysted in or disjoynted from the entire sense preceeding as upon the review you will find And then for a Corollary or Conclusion He was no contriver of the King's Death This is a tacite confession of his guilt because he would so ward the imputation of it he seems to disallow it in saying he Contrived it not he appears to have liked it in that he sealed it 'T is the same thing when a piece of work passeth through many hands and is finished by another for that man to say he medled not with it yet certainly Col. Berkstead a man of that Toust as he saith here of himself could not but know what was a doing from the time of that Contrivance as he terms it if he consented not to the first beginnings which may well be presumed from those endearments and neerness of Cromwell and he afterwards which may mind the Reader of a passage betwixt them One Time some Gentlemen coming about business to this Colonel then Lieutenant of the Tower and having stayed in Expectation of an Answer which they were Promised He at last came out in hast and told them that now he could not tarry by any means for that the Protectour had sent for him with this word that he would not stir one foot from the place where he stood till he came to him Besides may other mutual kindnesses betwixt them of which there may be occasion to speak hereafter It is time now to consider these persons and their Speeches more particularly wherein not to follow the order of their Sledges or their precedency in their way thither and because Col. Okey both for the priority and length of of his Speech which comprehends most of what the other said doth require it we will consider him first with this protestation that the Animadverter with many more serious persons is sorry the Col. hath given this only occasion to rake in his ashes for that he will not deny him his p●rsonal worth which ●●deed for true valour was very eminent But all those Jewells are buryed in a Dunghill where a Hens foot not this Pen must scrape for them It is observable in him that he came nearer the purpose then any of the rest did confess from whence the designing of the Subversion of the Goverment came and what was the original of the Kings death viz. some mens Aims to make themselves great but whether this was not from some grudge to them being the same with Harrison's defence that he had snared nothing by the Revolution is thought no great a question For consider him from the rise of the War of so mean and despicable a Fortune and so unfit to reform any thing but his own condition by his Sword and no way remarkable for any Zeal save that of mony but for that that he was bred 16. years in the Discipline of our purer times when such Expressions and Countenances of Religion and Piety were as necessary as a Colonels Pay he had never been so throughly versed in the Concerns of gainful Godlinesse And it will and must seem a Paradox to all knowing-men for persons to become truly devout in an Army which certainly for Perjuries Sacriledge Disloyalty and Hypocrisies was the most notorious in all ages This is mentioned the rather because he so vehemently declaims against the vices of these times and presseth the practice of and living up of the Gospel and very notable is that place therein which he hath cited for his justification of his rebelling against the King His words with those are these I am justified to the Cause as the Parents of him that was born blind being asked how his sight came said he is of age let him speak for himself so say I. For here 's another miracle his eyes are now opened too he begins to see neer at hand he sees Trees and Men but so blind was he before that he could see nothing He now sees the King is to be prayed for and he confesseth he hath done it a good while but he could not see afar off to prevent I will not say everlasting Darknesse by a dutiful submission to his late Majesty 'T is to be confessed and deplored that the Sins of the Times are great and so much the worse that they are justly censured and taxed by such men as these whom the reprehended condemn as the most perdite sort of people in the world Yet notwithstanding t was a very remarkable something revengeful kind of censure in that time assembly and the after words that England with such sins could not stand 3 years was a kind of an Angry Prophetical menace and did seem to interpret that he would have it so but for his 3 Years prophecy of Desolation we may reckon them with the 3 days of Harrison's Resurrection and our late posterity may read them 300. years hence with old mother Shipton and Father Merlin He seems indeed very ingenuous in one place and as clear where he saith these words You see we have had many troubles c. and there was a vacancy to a single Person a great while and then the Nation earnestly desired Him who now reigneth and I wish he may reign gloriously for ever Again he