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A63192	The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt. at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2d. and 6th, 1662 together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment (had he not been interrupted and over-ruled by the court) and his bill of exceptions : with other occasional speeches, &c. : also his speech and prayer, &c. on the scaffold.	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662, defendant.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2216; ESTC R21850	115,834	133

even whilst here in the body be made partaker of Eternal Life in the first fruits of it and at last sit down with Christ in Glory at his right-hand Here I shall mention some remarkable passages and changes of my Life In particular how unsought for by my self I was called to be a Member of the Long Parliament what little advantage I had by it and by what steps I became satisfied with the Cause I was engaged in and did pursue the same What the Cause was did first shew it self in the first Remonstrance of the House of Commons Secondly in the Solemn League and Covenant Thirdly in the more refined pursuit of it by the Commons House in their Actings single with what Result they were growing up into which was in the breast of the House and unknown or what the three Proposals mentioned in my Charge would have come to at last I shall not need now to say but only from all put together to assert That this Cause which was owned by the Parliament was the CAUSE of GOD and for the Promoting of the Kingdom of his dear Son JESUS CHRIST wherein are comprehended our Liberties and Duties both as Men and as Christians And since it hath pleased God who separated me from the womb to the knowledge and service of the Gospel of his Son to separate me also to this hard and difficult service at this time and to single me out to the defence and justification of this his Cause I could not consent by any words or actions of mine that the innocent Blood that hath been shed in the defence of it throughout the whole War the Guilt and moral evil of which must and does certainly lye somewhere did lye at my door or at theirs that have been the faithful Adherers to this Cause This is with such evidence upon my heart that I am most freely and chearfully willing to put the greatest Seal to it I am capable which is the pouring out of my very Blood in witness to it which is all I shall need to say in this place and at this time having spoken at large to it in my Defence at my Tryal intending to have said more the last day as what I thought was reasonable for Arrest of the Judgment but I was not permitted then to speak it Both which may with time and God's providence come to publick view And I must still assert That I remain wholly unsatisfied that the course of proceedings against me at my Tryal were according to Law but that I was run upon and destroyed contrary to Right and the Liberties of Magna Charta under the form only of Justice which I leave to God to decide who is the Judge of the whole World and to clear my Innocency Whilst in the mean time I beseech him to forgive them and all that have had a hand in my Death and that the Lord in his great mercy will not lay it unto their charge And I do account this Lot of mine no other than what is to be expected by those that are not of the World but whom Christ hath chosen out of it for the Servant is not greater than his Lord And if they have done this to the green tree they will do it much more to the dry However I shall not altogether excuse my self I know that by many weaknesses and failers I have given occasion enough of the ill usage I have met with from men though in the main the Lord knows the sincerity and integrity of my heart whatever Aspersions and Reproaches I have or do lye under I know also that God is just in bringing this Sentence and Condemnation upon me for my sins there is a body of sin and death in me deserves this Sentence and there is a similitude and likeness also that as a Christian God thinks me worthy to bear with my Lord and head in many circumstances in reference to these dealings I have met with in the good I have been endeavouring for many years to be doing in these Nations and especially now at last in being numbred amongst transgressors and made a publick Sacrifice through the wrath and contradictions of men and in having finished my course and fought the good fight of Faith and resisted in a way of suffering as you see even unto blood This is but the needful preparation the Lord hath been working in me to the receiving of the Crown of Immortality which he hath prepared for them that love him The prospect whereof is so chearing that through the Joy in it that is set before the eyes of my Faith I can through mercy endure this Cross despise this Shame and am become more than Conquerour through Christ that hath loved me For my Life Estate and all is not so dear to me as my Service to God to his Cause to the Kingdom of Christ and the future welfare of my Country and I am taught according to the Example as well as that most Christian saying of a Noble Person that lately died after this publick manner in Scotland How much better is it to chuse Affliction and the Cross than to sin or draw back from the Service of the Living God into the wayes of Apostacy and Perdition That Noble Person whose Memory I honour was with my self at the beginning and making of the Solemn League and Covenant the Matter of which and the holy Ends therein contained I fully assent unto and have been as desirous to observe but the rigid way of prosecuting it and the oppressing Uniformity that hath bin endeavored by it I never approved This were sufficient to vindicate me from the false Aspersions and Calumnies which have been laid upon me of Jesuitism and Popery and almost what not to make my Name of ill savour with good men which dark mists do now dispel of themselves or at least ought and need no pains of mine in making an Apology For if any man seek a proof of Christ in me let him reade it in his action of my Death which will not cease to speak when I am gone And henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus I shall not desire in this place to take up much time but only as my last words leave this with you That as the present storm we now lie under and the dark Clouds that yet hang over the Reformed Churches of Christ which are coming thicker and thicker for a season were not un-fore-seen by me for many years passed as some Writings of mine declare So the coming of Christ in these Clouds in order to a speedy and sudden Revival of his Cause and spreading his Kingdom over the face of the whole Earth is most clear to the eye of my Faith even that Faith in which I dye whereby the Kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ Amen Even so come Lord Jesus Some Passages of his PRAYER on the Scaffold

THe Heaven is thy Throne O Lord and the Earth is thy footstool but to this man wilt thou look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at thy Word Thou O Lord art the great God of Heaven and Earth thou fillest all places with thy presence art the Judge of the whole World and dost Righteousness We are poor unworthy sinful creatures by nature children of wrath as well as others We are wise to do evil but to do good we have no knowledge If to will be present with us yet how to perform and go through with that which is good and not be weary of well-doing we find not Bring us O Lord into the true mystical Sabbath-state that we may cease from our own works rest from our labors not think our own thoughts find our own desire or walk in the way of our own hearts but become a meet habitation of thy Spirit by the everlasting Covenant the place of thy Rest Let the Spirit of God and of Glory that is greater than he that is in the world rest upon us work in and by us mightily to the pulling down of flesh and blood the strong holds of Sin and Satan in our selves and others causing us so to suffer under the Fire-Baptism thereof as that we may cease from sin for ever or from that fleshly mutable temporary state of life and righteousness which at best is liable to roul back into sin again to be intangled overcome and finally triumphed over by the pollutions of this world Deliver us O Lord from the Evil One deliver us from our selves take us out of our own dispose our own liberty and power the freedom the mutable holiness and righteousness of the sons of men at its best and bring us into the most glorious Liberty the most holy immutable and righteous state of the sons of God a freedom to Good only and non at all to evil attended and accompanied with a power in us through thy Spirit of doing all things for the Truth and a disability brought upon us as to the doing of any thing against the Truth in the single power and freedom of our own spirit Then the prince of this world coming to us will find nothing in us at least no prevailing activity of self nature or flesh which at best is capable to be made by him an ergin of opposition to the Kingdom of Christ and our own true blessedness Thou hast laid on thy Son the iniquities of us all by his st●ipes we are healed We must all stand before the Judgment-Seat of Christ to give an account of what we have done in the body whether it be good or whether it be evil He will bring every secret counsel to light things that are wrought in darkness he maketh plain and evident Thine eyes O Lord run to and fro through the whole earth Thine eyes do behold thine eye-lids try the children of men The wicked and him that loveth violence thy soul hateth But thou upholdest the poor and needy him that is of a broken heart and of a contrite spirit The humble and lowly thou wilt teach the meek thou wilt guide in Judgment thou wilt beautifie the meek with Salvation Thou art the supream disposer of all the Kingdoms of men giving them to whomsoever thou wilt Whatever cross-blows thou sufferest to be given thy People for a season thou orderest all to thy own glory and their true advantage But thou hast a set time for Sions deliverance in which the greatness of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given unto the best and choicest of men the people of the Saints of the most high whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom Let the exceeding near approach of this bear up the spirits of thy poor despised ones in this day of extremity and suffering from sinking and despondency Carry them through their suffering part with a holy triumph in thy Chariots of Salvation How long O Lord holy and true make hast to help the Remnant of thy People Break the Heavens and come down touch the Mountains of prey the Kingdoms of this evil world and let them smoak Let the mouth of all Iniquity be stopped Silence every one that stands up against thee Rebuke the debauched prophane spirits of men that set themselves to work wickedness running with greediness into all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness They eat thy People as they eat bread They are profound to make slaughter skilful to destroy though thou hast been the rebuker of them all But Lord be this dispensation of what continuance it will for the serving of thy most gracious and wise designs let the spirit and resolution of thy Servants be steady and unchangeable that whether they live they may live to the Lord that died for them or whether they die they may die to the Lord who lives for ever to make intercession for them that they may glorifie thee with their bodies and spirits whether by life or by death Thou knowest O Lord that in the Faith of Jesus and for the Truth as it is in Jesus thy Servant desires to die walking in the steps of our father Abraham and for Righteousness and Judgment following the Lord in all his wayes whithersoever he goes worshipping the God of his believing fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob in that way which men call Heresie In this Faith dear Lord I have lived and in this Faith and Profession I die as one that hath herein stood up for the Testimony of JESUS against all Idolatry Superstition Prophaness and Popery or whatever is unsound or unfit to be brought before the Throne of so great and glorious a Majesty 'T is in this Faith that thy Servant dies Now set thy Seal to it and remove the reproaches and calumnies with which thy Servant is reproached for thou knowst his innocency Dear Father thou sentest us into this world but this world is not our home we are strangers and pilgrims in it as all our fathers were We have no abode here but there is a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens that when this tabernacle is dissolved we may enter into In our Fathers house are many mansions Oh! whatever the curses and condemnations of the Law are be thou near to us and spread the Righteousness of Christ over us and we shall be safe Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered Who wil speak who will take on him to say any thing or to plead with Thee upon any other terms but in the Name and Merits of the mighty Redeemer on whom our help is laid We desire to lie low to be abased and take shame confusion of face to our selves as that which properly belongs to us that Thou alone maist be exalted and advanced 'T is of meer Grace O Lord that thy Servant hath now some sign of thy special Salvation even thy free-Grace O God whereby thou dost accept him in thy

a final Decision of the Controversie between his People and the Inhabitants of the earth by his own Judgement This is there called The Valley of Jehoshaphat in which the Lord will sit to Judge all his enemies round about In this Battel and great Decision of his Peoples Controversie he will cause his Mighty Ones to come down from Heaven to put in their sickle as reapers in this Vintage and Harvest when the wickedness is great Unto this Revel 14. 14 20. refers which doth plainly evidence that this grand Decision is to fall out in the very last of times and probably is that which will make way to the Rising of the Witnesses and will be accompanied with that Earthquake in which shall be slain of men seven thousand and the tenth part of the City will thereupon fall Rev. 11. It is expressed Joel 3. That in this day of the Lord wherein he will be near in the Valley of Decision the Heavens and the Earth shall shake by the Lords own roaring out of Sion and he himself will be the Harbour Hope and Strength of his People The Sun and Moon of earthly Churches and Thrones of Judicature that contest with them shall be darkened and the Stars even the choicest and most illuminated gifted Pastors Leaders in the earthly Jerusalem Churches with their most refined Forms of Worship resisting the power of true spiritual Godliness shall withdraw their shining Even their holy flesh will pass off from them and consume away upon their spiritual lewdness and confident opposing the Faith of Gods Elect Jer. 11. 17. Their very Eyes will consume away in their holes with which they say we see and for which Christ tells the Pharisees in like case that therefore ther sin remaineth John 9. 41. Or there remaineth no more benefit from Christ's Sacrifice for their sin and therefore onely a fearful looking for of the fiery and devouring indignation Heb. 10. 26 27. Here 's that the great confidence and boast of many professing Churches and eminent Pastors in the earthly Jerusalem Fabrick or House on the sand will come to Ezek. 13. and Mat. 7. Their very Eyes their high enlightenings and excellent spiritual Gifts their supernatural or infused humane Learning that 's admitted only as an adorning and accomplishment of the natural man unaccompanied with that Fire-Baptisme that 's performed by the unspeakable gift of the Spirit it self for the transforming of the natural man into spiritual even these Eyes becoming evil Mat. 6. 23. and this light opposing and preferring it self to the more excellent discerning and marvellous light in spiritual Believers are turned by the just Judgement of God into the greatest and most fatal blindness and darkness of all Their tongues also though the tongues of men and angels for excellency and dexterity of expressing what they see with the forementioned eyes will consume away in their mouth Zech. 14. 12. and leave them exposed to become and accordingly be dealt with as meer sounding brass and tinckling Cymbals 1 Cor. 12. 31. and 13. 1. giving no certain sound and right warning to the Battels of the Lord the good sight of Faith This comes to pass through their confidence in those attainments which may be and oft are turned into an Idol of jealousie and spiritual whoredom Ezek. 16. 1 15. All these considerations of Church and State put together afford great ground of enquiry as to the Condition of the times in which we live how far the face which they bear and which God hath put upon them in the course of his Providences for some years now past doth speak or signifie the near approach of any such extraordinary and signal appearance or day of Gods Judgement for the Decision of his own or his Peoples quarrel and controversie with the prophane Heathen that are round about them waiting for an advantage utterly and universally to remove and root them out from off the face of the whole earth That which hath been acted upon the Theater of these Nations amongst us in the true state of our Controversie seems to be reducible to this following Querie Whether the Representative Body of the Kingdom of England in Parliament assembled and in their Supream Power and Trust made indissolvable unless by their own Consent and free Vote and this by particular and express Statute have not had a just and righteous Cause A Quarrel more God's than their own 1. It may appear they had First from the Ground of their undertaking the War Was it not in their own and the Kingdoms just and necessary defence and for the maintaining of the publick Rights and Liberties of both 2. Secondly Was it not undertaken upon mutual Appeals of both Parties to God desiring him to judge between them to give the Decision and Issue by the Law of War when no other Law could be heard as the definitive Sentence in this Controversie from the Court of Heaven 3. Thirdly Pursuant to such Decision did they not recover and repossess the Kingdoms original and primitive freedom Did they not endeavour to conserve and secure it as due to them by the Law of God and of Nature For man was made in God's Image and all Adams Posterity are properly one Universal Kingdom on earth under the Rule and Government of the Son of God both as Creator and Redeemer By virtue of this original and primitive Freedom so recovered they were at their own choice whether to remain in and retain this their true freedom unresigned and unsubjected to the Will of any Man under the Rule of the Son of God and his Lawes or else to set up a King or any other Form of Government over them after the manner of other Nations In this latter case it is acknowledged that when a Common-wealth or People do choose their first King upon condition to obey him and his Successors Ruling justly they ought to remain subject to him according to the Law and tenor of the Fundamental Compact with him on whom they have transferred their Authority No Jurisdiction remaineth in them after that free and voluntary Act of theirs either to Judge the Realm or determine who is the true Successor otherwise than is by them reserved and stipulated by their Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of Government And though the righteousness of this Cause contained in the forementioned particulars be such as carries in it its own evidence yet as as things have fallen out it is come to be oppressed and buried in the grave of Malefactors in the room of which a contrary Judgement and Way is visibly owned upheld and intended to be prosecuted to the utmost for its own fast-rooting and establishment and this by the common Consent and Association of Multitudes What then remaines for the recovery and restitution of that good old Cause and Way but such a seasonable and signal appearance of God as aforesaid in the Valley of Jehoshaphat What but the taking things immediately into his own hands for administration

Soveraign or General Vicegerent of his Supremacy over all in Heaven and in Earth He therefore is the true Universal King and Root of all Soveraign and just Governing Power whether in Heaven or on Earth His Soveraignty is unquestionable and unaccountable because of the Perfection of his Person carrying in it an aptitude and sufficiency to Govern without possibility of Error or Defect of any kind Soveraign and Governing Power doth necessarily relate to Subjects that are to be the Ruled and Subjects capable of such Government Therefore when God himself purposes within himself to be Supream Legislator and Governour he doth withal purpose the Being and Creation of both Worlds as the Subject matter of his Kingdom He propounds to Govern his Subjects by and with their own consent and good liking or without and against it in the way of his revenging Justice Governing by Laws clearly stating and ascertaining the Duty or the Offence as also the Rewards and Penalties Herein Just Government consists or the Justice of Government for he that Rules over others must be Just and indeed should be seen to be so in all his Commands so seen as to render the Consciences of the Ruled and those whose duty it is to Obey inexcusable before God and before Men if they Dissent or Resist Inexcusable they are before God because the matter Commanded is the matter of God's Law therefore just to be obeyed They are also Inexcusable before Men that which is required of them being generally acknowledged and affirmed by those in whom the common consent of the Subjects is intrusted to that end to be Just and Reasonable and therefore to be Obeyed For the end of all Government being for the Good and Welfare and not for the Destruction of the Ruled God who is the Institutor of Government as he is pleased to Ordain the Office of Governors intrusting them with Power to command the Just and Reasonable Things which his own Law Commands that carry their own evidence to common Reason and Sense at least that do not evidently contradict it so he grants a Liberty to the Subjects or those that by him are put under the Rule to refuse all such Commands as are contrary to his Law or to the judgement of common Reason and Sense whose trial he allows by way of assent or dissent before the Commands of the Ruler shall be Binding or put in Execution and this in a Co-ordinacy of Power with Just Government and as the due Ballance thereof The Original Impressions of Just Laws are in Mans Nature and very Constitution of Being Man hath the Law in his Mind or the Superior and Intellectual part of him convincing and bringing that into obedience and subjection to the Law of God in Christ himself He hath also that which is a Law in his Members that are on the Earth or his earthly and sensual part whose Power is Co-ordinate with the other but such that if it be not gained into a Harmony and Conjunction with its Head the Spirit or Mind of man hath ability to let and hinder his Mind or Ruling part from performing and putting in execution that which is good just fit and to be acknowledged as the righteous dictates of the Mind which ought to be the Ruling Power or Law to the Man So in the outward Government over Man the secondary or co-ordinate Power concurring with that which is the chief ruling Power is essential to Just Government and is acknowledged to be so by the Fundamental Constitution of the Government of England as well as in the Legal Being and Constitution of Parliaments whether that which hath been usual and ordinary according to the Common Law or that which of late hath been Extraordinary by express Statute for the continuance of the Parliament 17. Car. until dissolved by Act of Parliament For together with the Legal Being which is given to Regal Power and the Prerogative of the Crown there is the Legal Power and Being reserved also unto that Body which is the Peoples or Kingdoms Representative who are the Hands wherein that which is called Power Politick is seated and are intrusted with giving or with holding the common Consent of the whole Nation according to the best of their Understandings in all matters coming before them and are to keep this Liberty Inviolate and Entire against all Invasions or Encroachments upon it whatsoever This second Power in the very Writ of Summons for calling a Parliament is declared to be of that Nature that what the first doth without obtaining the Consent and Approbation of the second in Parliament is not binding but ineffectual And when the Representative Body of the Kingdom in and with whom this Power is intrusted as the Due and Legal Ballance and Boundary to the Regal Power set and fixed by the Fundamental Constitution is made a standing Court and of that Continuance as not to be dissolvable but by its own consent during such its continuance it hath right to preserve it self from all violent and undue Dissolution and to maintain and defend its own Just Priviledges a chief of which is to binde or loose the People in all matters good or hurtful to them according to their best Judgement and discretion In the exercise of this their Trust they are Indemnified by Law and no hurt ought to come unto them that Governing Power which is originally in God and slowes at first from him as the sole and proper Fountain thereof is brought into exercise amongst men upon a differing and distinct account First As it is a Trust and Right derived conditionally from God to his Officers and Ministers which therefore may be lost who being called by him and in the course of his Providence to the exercise of it are to hold it of him the Universal King and to own themselves in the exercise thereof as his Vicegerents to cut off by the Sword of Justice evil-doers and to be a Protection and encouragement to them that do well But because it is part of God's Call of any person to this high Trust to bring him into the possession and free Exercise thereof by the common consent of the Body of the People where such Soveraign Power is set up unless they have forfeited this Liberty Therefore Secondly God doth allow and confer by the very Law of Nature upon the Community or Body of the People that are related to and concerned in the right of Government placed over them the Liberty by their common Vote or Suffrage duely given to be Assenters or Dissenters thereunto and to Affirm and make Stable or Disallow and render Ineffectual what shall apparently be found by them to be for the good or hurt of that Society whose welfare next under the justice of God's Commands and his Glory is the Supream Law and very end of all Subordinate governing Power Soveraign Power then comes from God as its proper Root but the restraint or enlargement of it in its Execution over such or