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justice_n	king_n	lord_n	person_n	4,136	5	4.8948	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27497	The penitent death of a woefull sinner, or, The penitent death of John Atherton, late Bishop of Waterford in Ireland who was executed at Dublin the 5. of December, 1640 : with some annotations upon severall passages in it : as also the sermon, with some further enlargements, preached at his burial / by Nicolas Barnard ...	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1642 (1642)	Wing B2015; ESTC R3687	79,120	190

disconsolate c. To another of his friends who had told him the night before of that knowne story in the booke of Martyrs of one who after much prayer wanted comfort till he saw the stake who had also desired him as that Martyrs friend had done him whensoever he should finde any to declare it were it at the place of Execution it selfe As soone as he saw him this morning his first salute with great exultation was in the said Martyrs words to his friend Oh he is come he is come telling him also what God had done for his soule After this wee fell into many heavenly discourses concerning the state of the soule separated from the body the translation of it out of this world the happinesse of Heaven by what we shall be rid of by what we shall be perfected in the company we shall be admitted into not only to the spirits of iust men but to the society of glorious Angels concerning the beatificall vision in the fruition of Gods presence the sight of the blessed body of our Saviour c. in the thought of which he was much ravished and fell into a long continued weeping from this ground that he should have offended one that had prepared such inestimable things for him which he now thirsted to enjoy Then he desired the Prisoners of the Castle might be called together to take his last leave of them to whom as he had done formerly he would once more read the Morning Service which I was the more willing to were it but to professe the Faith and Religion he dyed in before many witnesses against the expected calumny of the adversaries if any extraordinary good should appear in him at his last The Psalms he chose were such as are usually read at Burials the lesson the 15. of the first Epistle to the Corinthians some prayers he selected out of the Visitation of the sick the two last prayers at the Buriall with other passages in it and els where which with some alterations and additions he turned very apt for himself and so with the like advice he had given to others took leave of them And now saith he as God hath refreshed my soule I will a little refresh my body the better to enable me to speak at the place of Execution which was to be about three hours after and so called for a little salt-butter and brown-bread and the smallest beer a very little of which he eat as his last chearfully hoping at night to be invited to the Supper of the Lambe in another world when he should need none of these things When the time drew nigh and he heard the noyse of the people gathering for a quarter of an hour he told me his heart began to quiver and his naturall affection with teares to yern upon his children which he was pleased still to find within him considering that Grace though it be supernaturall yet doth not dry up nature St. Peter even going to Martyrdome was led whither naturally he would not He complained that his former comfort did abate in the strength of it but he trusted that God in whose custody was the key of the Spirit whose act it is only to open and shut had reserved it for him for that place and time where he should have most need Yet not long after he recovered a great degree of cheerfulnesse again repeating the last verse in the 42. Psalme which he had used to reade often and saying now the Sheriffe should be a welcome messenger and so continued Some few things he had about him hee then disposed of as tokens of remembrance to his friends his gloves staffe girdle books about seven or eight of some pious Devotions he gave and sent to divers with his name inscribed and his last act after he was pinioned was the giving me his seale-ring off his finger with such affectionate expressions as it draws tears from me in the now remembring it More I might adde but thus much may suffice to declare his Repentance and the fruit of it in the Castle before his Execution Now the Sheriffe of the County a Papist was come to receive him the two Sheriffs of the City with a great company of Halberts to assist him At Christ-church according to his desire told his passing-bell the whole Town and Castle so thronged as was never the like seen that if there had not bin a Coach allowed him it would have bin impossible to have gone through And here I must not forget the hard usage of the said Sheriffe of the County in some crosse passages which after all this his preparation might have prooved a distraction to him though it did not his intentions I will not judge yet whose instrument he was I may conceive The night before he had desired the favour he might not be pinioned till he came to the place of Execution for which I went my self betimes that morning to the Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench and Iustice Cressey both of them upon my relation of the change found in him readily granted it and sent that command by me to the Sheriffe but he refused and notwithstanding would have him pinioned in his lodging Again I sent one to the Innes who presently brought a command to him under the Lord Chiefe Justice his hand with the consent of all the Judges then being at Dinner this also he disobeyed for his pretence in the security of his person one of the Sheriffes of the City offered body for body and assured him that with such a guard and by fitting himselfe in the Coach with him there could be no danger of an escape For himselfe howsoever his friends thus stirred for him he was contented and long before the Sheriffe came told me he was very sorry he had mooved me in any such businesse using this speech Our Saviour carried his Crosse in the way and why should I desire to be freed When he had pulled of his mourning gown he presented a strong black Ribband which he had provided of purpose for the more decency and in case it should not be thought strong enough a black girdle was offered or any other the Sheriffe refused all and had him bound with a three penny cord as a common Rogue and would have had the hang-man or some other base fellow come in and done it Nay he would have had one to sit in the Coach behind him to have held him by the cord also but that the Constable of the Castle would not suffer him These things being very suspitious if not apparent out of malice either in regard of his Religion Profession or some private cause I feared might have disturbed his charity as it enraged most of the standers by but as soon as I put him in mind of some former discourses that this might be the Divels interrup●ion and prosecution of him in a way unexpected he apprehended it fully and so told the Sheriff