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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67695	The last discourse of the Right Honble the Lord Warestoune, as he delivered it upon the scafford at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh, July 22. 1663. being immediately before his death Whereunto is added a short narration of his carriage during the time of his imprisonment, but more especially at his death: all which is very comfortable and refreshing to all those that take pleasure in the dust of Zion, and favour the stones of our Lord's broken-down building amongst us. By a Favourer of the Covenant and work of reformation.	Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord, 1611-1663.	1664 (1664)	Wing W984; ESTC R222558	17,646	20

I can wish no better to my self 9. I do most humbly and earnestly begg the Fervent Prayers of all His Praying Children Servants and Instruments wheresoever they be whether absent or present to be put up in behalf of His Name Cause Covenant Work and People and also in behalf of my Wife and Children and their Posterity and that the Lord would Glorifie Himself Edifie his Church Encourage his Saints further and accomplish his Good Work by all his Doings and Dealings in Substances towards all his own 10. Whereas I heard that some of my own Friends have Slandered and defamed my Name as if I had been accessary to his late Majesties death and to the making the change of the Government thereupon I am free as I shall now answer before his Tribunal from any accession by counsel or contrivance or any other way to his late Majesties death or to their making that change of the Government and the Lord judge between Me and mine Accusers And I pray the Lord to preserve our present King his Majesty and to pour his best Blessings upon him and his Royal Posterity and the Lord give unto them good and faithful Counsellors Holy and Wise Councils and prosperous Successors to God's Glory and the Good of his Interest and People and to their own Honour and Happiness 11. I do here submit and commit my Soul and Body VVife and Children and their Childrens Children from Generation to Generation for ever with all others our Lord's Friends and Followers and all his doing suffering witnessing and sympathizing Ones in the present and subsequent Generations unto the Lord 's choicest Mercies Graces Favours Services Imployments Impowerments Injoyments Improvements and Inheritments in Earth and in Heaven in Time and Eternity All which suits with all others which he hath at any time by his Spirit moved and assisted me to make and put up according to his Will I leave before the Throne and upon the Father's merciful Bowels and the Sons mediating Merits and the holy Spirits compassionating groans for now and for evermore Amen When he had delivered this Discourse at the North-side of the Scaffold he went about to the South-side where he delivered it again with the like admirable courage to the astonishment of all Then did he pray most fervently as his manner had alwayes been with much faith and humility calling upon God as a childe upon his tender-hearted father beginning his supplications according to the Rule appointed by Christ for direction in Prayer thus Abba Abba Father Father accept this thy poor sinful Servant coming unto thee through the Merits of Iesus Christ c. and when speaking of himself spake most humbly as if he had been the chief of sinners forgetting the many honourable pieces of Service the Lord had put upon him wherein he made him eminently instrumental for promoting of his Kingdom in the world Thereafter he stood very patiently till the Napkin was tyed about his head Now said this meek Lamb you will take it up till I be up the Ladder Yea my Lord that shall be done Then said he How will I get it drawn down upon my face My Lord it shall be done for you do not trouble your self Then coming to the foot of the Ladder he prayed as formerly resigning God's Interests and his own soul into the hands of his heavenly Father Then said one who had tyed the Cloth about his head There is no missing of Ministers here this day Christ hath made good that blessed word Phil. 4. 19. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Iesus And as tribulation hath abounded for Christ's sake so hath comfort been encreased by Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. For howbeit he had often supplicated for some Ministers to be with him there yet they would grant a liberty to none unless he would have accepted of those that had broken in upon the Labours of other faithful Ministers whom he refused neither would he have any that approve of or seem to connive at the present defection so that no Minister was upon the Scaffold Then came the Executioner desiring him to forgive him to whom he answered The Lord forgive thee poor man which I also do and giving to him some money in a cloth bad him do his work aright After this one desired the Executioner to go up to the head of the Ladder said he I must go up with him else he cannot get up Nay said he again Go you up and do not offer to touch him till it come to your own work for we shall get him helped up so the Executioner went up Then he was conveyed by some in side-mourning to the head of the Ladder who staid with him and spake with him all the time he was upon the same As he ascended he said Your prayers your prayers I desire your prayers in the Name of the Lord so great had alwayes his esteem been of Prayer As the Cord was going about his precious neck being told that many precious Friends were looking on which seemed to refresh him for he answered and said Is there indeed and considering that his chearfulness did much tend to the credit of the Work of God for which he suffered he cryed out with a very loud and chearful voice I beseech you all who are the Lords People not to scar at suffering for the Interests of Christ because of any thing you see fall out in these dayes as to the Sufferings of his Servants but be encouraged to do and endure in suffering for him and his Interests for I assure you in the Name of the Lord he will bear all your charges The Cord being about his neck he spake to the same purpose again I pray you that are the Lord's People be encouraged to do and suffer for the Interests of Christ yea even for the smallest point of Truth in your several stations for he may revive his Work by a very unexpected mean And I do again assure you in his Name he will furnish all your expences and bear all your charges and he hath graciously comforted me Then he enquired if the Executioner was ready Yes if your Lordship be then said he to the man Do your Office and so cryed out again Your prayers your prayers c. and with unspeakable composedness and tranquility of mind chearfully committing himself into the hands of his tender-hearted heavenly Father the Executioner turned him off the Ladder at which sight there arose a very lamentable Cry of many thousand Spectators Immediately thereafter he lifted up his two precious hands to Heaven as they had been often lifted up in prayer not only in the day-time but also in the silent watches of the night and without the least motion trembling or shaking of body which is most ordinary in that condition peaceably sleeped away to glory One of his Sons standing on the Scaffold weeping one present took him by the hand and said Sir be encouraged for

Service to the hearts of his most fainting People and for the astonishment of their Adversaries bestow most large furniture upon them suitable to the great and honourable piece of Work given them to perform Yea if ever the fulfilling of that promise Matth. 10. 19. may be expected In that hour it shall be given you what ye shall speak for it is not ye that speak but the Spirit of your Father Without all doubt it is then to be expected when sealing his Truth on a Scaffold or Pillory for his sake Comforts run most sweetly and abundantly in that hour When Jesus is to suffer Luke 22. 43. an Angel is sent to comfort him When Stephen is to deliver his last speech and to suffer he is filled with the holy Ghost so that all that sat in the Council looking stedfastly on Stephen saw his face as if it had been the face of an Angel his soul was so warmed by the Love of God that he looked both his Adversaries and the tempestuous approaching Storm out of countenance O but when he is to be stoned he gets a larger sight he saw the Heavens opened and his majestick glorious Master the Light-giving Diamond of Heaven standing at his Fathers right-hand Act. 7. 55. If his face was as the face of an Angel chap. 6. 5. O how chearfull hath his countenance and lovely smiles been now I think I see him smiling on Heaven while the stones were going about his ears and this he got no doubt as for himself so to hearten all those that were to come after he being the first Martyr after Christ and no Martyr or slain Witness hath left a discouraging report behind them of a suffering lot since that day but all have had an encrease of Comfort from Christ as Trouble for Christs sake encreased unto them they had more Comfort when in Prison than formerly more strength when before the Council than oftentimes in the Prison but most of all upon the Scaffold at their suffering according to that comfortable experience of the Apostles 2 Cor. 1. 5. As our Tribulation aboundeth for Christ so doth our Consolation abound by Christ they have not all in hand ere they enter in a suffering condition that 's needful to carry them thorow but the Lord lets it out to them as need requireth which is very comfortable to such faint-hearted ones as think they will never have courage to suffer for the Apostle adds ver 7. our hope of you is stedfast that as ye are partakers of the Suffering so shall you be also of the Consolation i. e. as you share of such sufferings as we meet with so shall ye also have a share of such Consolations under your Sufferings as the Lord alloweth upon us Thus the Lord doth to this very day as our eyes have seen our ears have heard and our tongues have been made from such infallible experiences to confess to God's Glory and our Comfort And as this Consideration is very comforting and quieting to our mind so also should it make us have a very good esteem of Scaffold-Sermons seeing it 's the Lord enableth them by his comforting presence to speak Cons. 3. The Lord hath a very great care of what his staged dying Witnesses say and that they speak nothing there but what is true he ordereth the whole matter of the Discourses of sincere Witnesses so that as they are Witnesses for Truths as formerly owned by them so are they Witnesses in like manner as to what they deliver at their death concerning those Truths for the time to come they are sealing Witnesses as to what expectation they give the People of God ground to have for the time to come whether as relating to the punishment of them that oppose or fail away from those Truths or as to the encouragement of the owners of and sufferers for the same Hence is it that some faithful dying Martyrs have adventured to say much more and been more peremptory in their encouraging the Lord's People on the Scaffold than in their written Discourse ere they were led from Prison He changes their premeditations when they come to the Scaffold and giveth them what is his mind in that hour So he did with his faithful and constant Witness Mr. Ia. Guthrie that which was written in his discourse by way of hope as it is also in the printed discourse was delivered on the Scaffold by way of full assurance thus Howbeit our Cloud may be long or dark yet I am perswaded that the Lord shall once more shine with the glorious Light of the Gospel upon these Lands c. And the Lord did in a manner confirm this from Heaven for whereas there had been a very thick Rain from the time of his coming upon the Scaffold till he had uttered these words and then with that very Assertion of his Assurance as if it had been in one moment the Rain was ceased the whole Firmament of Heaven cleansed of all Clouds and the Sun shining as clear as if it had been after an Eclipse and so continued til setting This divers faithful Witnesses did observe as an encouragement to wait for the performance thereof So we may see that as he gives quiet and peace of mind anent their owning these Truths formerly and power to suffer for the same He likewise giveth Light strength of Faith as to what they say of God's owning the same for the time to come and so are dying sealing Witnesses of what they encourage the Lord's People to look for It 's true the thing they witness for the time to come consists most in the strength of Hope which God ordereth beyond their most lively apprehension and what they own as to what is past hath the more clearness in this respect that there is a certain infallible knowledge of the truth of it being according to the Word of God and already come to pass We will find something in Scripture to confirm what we have said in this Consideration for we will find that what hath been asserted by suffering dying Witnesses hath most speedily come to pass 2 Chron. 24.20 Zachariah told the children of Israel Because ye have forsaken the Lord he hath also forsaken you and for this he was immediatly stoned and the Lord sealed his word very speedily thereafter for ver 24. the Assyrians coming with a small company against them the Lord delivered a very great multitude into their hand and so without delay in their sight sealed the words of his dying Witness Zachariah And why his word sooner than Isaiahs Ieremiahs Ezekiels c. for by them he pleaded much longer as would seem with his Apostatizing Church it may be that he might shew that whatever fail the words of dying Witnesses shall not fall to the ground Obj. But some may object here and say Simple Instances from Scripture cannot prove an Assertion of this nature and besides this of Zachariah and others of this kind were Prophecies directed from God