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mercy_n	death_n	lord_n	sinner_n	2,648	5	7.4070	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69768	Excellent contemplations, divine and moral written by the magnanimous and truly loyal Arthur Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham ; together with some account of his life, and his letters to several persons whilst he was prisoner in the tower ... likewise his affectionate letters to his lady, the day before his death ... March 9, 1648, with his pious advice to his son the late Earl of Essex.	Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649. His speech on the Scaffold, March 9, 1649.	1683 (1683)	Wing C469; ESTC R4075	81,286	218

have nothing but sin and corruption in me I have nothing but that which in stead of being carried up into the Arms of God and of Glory I have nothing but may throw me down into Hell Bolton But my Lord when you are cloathed with the Righteousness of another you will appear glorious though now sinful in your self The Apostle saith I desire not to be found in my own righteousness and when you are cloathed with another the Lord will own you and I shall say but thus much Doubt not that ever God will deny salvation to sinners that come to him when the end of all his Death and Sufferings was the Salvation of Sinners when as I say the whole end and the whole design and the great work that God had to do in the world by the death of Christ wherein he laid out all his counsels and infinite wisdom and mercy and goodness beyond which there was a Non ultra in Gods thoughts when this was the great design and great end the salvation of sinners that poor Souls should come over to him and live certainly when sinners come he will not reject he will not refuse And my Lord do but think of this the greatest work that ever was done in the World was the Blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it And this blood of Christ that was shed never any thing like it And this Blood of Christ that was shed was shed for them that come if not for them for none it was in vain else you see the Devils they are out of capacity of good by it the Angels they have no need of it wicked men will not come and there are but a few that come over but a few that come over and should be deny them there were no end nor fruit of the Blood and Sufferings of the Lord Jesus and had your Lordship been with Christ in that bloody agony when he was in that bloody sweat sweating drops of blood if you had asked him Lord what art thou now a doing art thou not now reconciling an angry God and me together art thou not pacifying the Wrath of God Art not thou interposing thy self between the Justice of God and my Soul Would he not have said yea And surely then he will not deny it now My Lord His passions are over his compassions still remain and the larger and greater because he is gone up into a higher place that he may throw down more abundance of his mercy and grace upon you and my Lord think of that infinite Love that abundance of riches in Christ I am lost I am empty I have nothing I am poor I am sinful be it so as bad as God will make me and as vile as I possibly can conceive my self I am willing to be but when I have said all the more I advance that Riches and Honour that Grace of God And why should I doubt when by this he puts me into a capacity into a disposition for him to shew me mercy that by this I may the better advance the Riches of his Grace and say Grace Grace to the Lord to all Eternity that God should own such a Creature that deserves nothing and the less I deserve the more conspicuous is his Grace and this is certain the Riches of his Grace he throweth amongst men that the Glory of his Grace might be given to himself if we can give him but the Glory of his Grace we shall never doubt to partake of the Riches of it and that Fulness My Lord that Fulness be your Comfort that Fulness of Mercy that Fulness of Love that Fulness of Righteousness and Power be now your Riches and your only Stay and the Lord interpose himself between God and you as your Faith hath indeavoured to interpose him between God and your soul so I doubt not there he stands my Lord to plead for you and when you are not able to do any thing your self yet lie down at the Feet of him that is a Merciful Saviour and knows what you would desire and wait upon him while you live trust in him when you die there is Riches enough and Mercy enough if he open not yet die at his door say there I 'le die there is mercy enough Holland And here is the place where I lie die down before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an Eternal Glory through my Saviour upon whom I rely from whom only I can expect mercy into his Arms I commend my Spirit into his bleeding Arms that when I leave this bleeding Body that must lie upon this place he will receive that Soul that ariseth out of it and receive it into his Eternal Mercy through the Merits through the Worthiness through the Mediation of Christ that hath purchased it with his own most precious Blood Bolton My Lord Though you conclude here I hope you begin above and though you put an End here I hope there will never be an End of the Mercy and Goodness of God And if this be the Morning of Eternity if this be the Rise of Glory if God pleaseth to throw you down here to raise you up for ever say Welcom Lord Welcom that Death that shall make way for Life and welcom any Condition that shall throw me down here to bring me into the Possession of Jesus Christ Hodges My Lord if you have made a Deed of Gift of your self to Jesus Christ to be found only in Him I am confident you shall stand at the Day of Christ My dear Lord we shall meet in Happiness Holland Christ Jesus receive my Soul my Soul hungers and thirsts after him Clouds are gathering and I trust in God through all my Heaviness and I hope through all Impediments he will settle my Interest in Him and throw off all the Claim that Satan can make unto it and that he will carry my Soul in despight of all the Callumnies and all that the Devil and Satan can invent will carry it into Eternal Mercy there to receive the Blessedness of his Presence to all Eternity Hodges My Lord It was his own by Creation it is his own now by Redemption and Purchase and it is likewise his own by Resignation O my Lord look therefore up to the Lamb of God that sits at the Right Hand of God to take away the Sins of the World O that Lamb of God! Holland That Lamb of God into his Hands I commit my Soul And that Lamb of God that sits upon the Throne to judge those Twenty Four that fall down before Him I hope he will be pleased to look downward and judge me with Mercy that fall down before Him and that adore Him that only trusts upon his Mercy for his Compassion and that as he hath purchased me he would lay his Claim unto me now and receive me Bolton My Lord Think of this There is no Condemnation to them who are in Christ Who is it that can condemn It is

present Affairs as they are I cannot tell how to judge of them and truly they are in such a condition as I conceive no body can make a judgment of them and therefore I must make use of Prayers rather than of my Opinion which are That God would bless this Kingdom this Nation this State that he would settle it in a way agreeable to what this Kingdom hath been happily governed under by a King by the Lords by the Commons a Government that I conceive it hath flourished much under and I pray God the change of it bring not rather a prejudice a disorder and a confusion than the contrary I look upon the Posterity of the King and truly my Conscience directs me to it to desire that if God be pleased that these people may look upon them with that affection that they owe that they may be called in again and they may be not through blood nor through disorder admitted again into that Power and to that Glory that God in their birth intended to them I shall pray with all my Soul for the Happiness of this State of this Nation that the blood which is here spilt may even be the last that may fall among us and truly I should lay down my life with as much chearfulness as ever Person did if I conceived that there would be no more blood follow us for a State or Affairs that are built upon blood is a Foundation for the most part that doth not prosper After the Blessing that I give to the Nation to the Kingdom and truly to the Parliament I do wish with all my Heart Happiness and a Blessing to all those that have been Authors in this business and truly that have been Authors in this very work that bringeth us hither I do not only forgive them but I pray heartily and really for them as God will forgive my sins so I desire God may forgive them I have a particular relation as I am Chancellor of Cambridge and truly I must here since it is the last of my prayers pray to God that that University may go on in that happy way which it is in that God may make it a Nursery to plant those persons that may be distributed to the Kingdom that the souls of the people may receive a great benefit and a great advantage by them and I hope God will reward them for their kindness and their affections that I have found from them I have said what Religion I have been bred in what Religion I have been born in what Religion I have practised I began with it and I must end with it I told you that my Actions and my Life have not been agreeable to my Breeding I have told you likewise that the Family where I was bred hath been an Exemplary Family I may say so I hope without vanity of much Affection to Religion and of much faithfulness to this Kingdom and to this State I have endeavoured to do those Actions that became an honest Man and a good English man and which became a good Christian I have been willing to oblige those that have been in trouble those that have been in persecution and truly I find a great reward of it for I have found their Prayers and their Kindness now in this distress and in this condition and I think it a great reward I pray God reward them for it I am a great sinner and I hope God will be pleased to hear my Prayers to give me faith to trust in him that as he hath called me to death at this place he will make it but a passage to an Eternal Life through Jesus Christ which I trust to which I rely upon and which I expect by the mercy of God And so I pray God bless you all and send that you may see this to be the last Execution and the last Blood that is likely to be spilt among you And then turning to the side-rayl he prayed for a good space of time after which Mr. Bolton said My Lord Now look upon him whom you have trusted My Lord I hope that here is your last prayer there will no more prayers remain but praises and I hope that after this day is over there will a day begin that shall never have end and I look upon this my Lord the morning of it the morning of that day My Lord You know where your fulness lies where your riches lie where is your only rock to anchor on you know there is fulness in Christ If the Lord comes not in with fulness of comfort to you yet resolve to wait upon him while you live and to trust in him when you die and then say I will dye here I will perish at thy feet I will be found dead at the feet of Jesus Christ Certainly he that came to seek and save lost sinners will not reject lost sinners when they come to seek him He that intreateth us to come will not slight us when we come to intreat him My Lord there is enough there and fix your heart there and fix your eyes there that eye of Faith and that eye of Hope exercise these Graces now there will be no exercise hereafter As your Lordship said here take an end of Faith and take an end of Hope and take a farewel of Repentance and all these and welcome God and welcome Christ and welcome Glory and welcome Happiness to all Eternity and so it will be an happy passage then if it be a passage here from Misery to Happiness And though it be but a sad way yet if it will bring you into the presence of joy although it be a Valley of Tears although it be a Shadow of Death yet if God will please to bring you and make it a passage to that Happiness welcome Lord. And I doubt not but God will give you an heart to taste some sweetness and love in this bitter Potion and to see something of mercy and goodness to you and shew you some sign and token of good so that your soul may see that which we have had already of experience of blessed be God for it many experiences many expressions not only in words nor tears God hath not left us without much comfort and evidence and I hope my Lord You that have given so many Evidences to us I hope you want none Your self but that the Lord will be pleased to support You and bear up your Spirit and if there want Evidence there is reliance my security lies not in my knowing that I shall come to Heaven and come to Glory but in my resting and relying upon him when the Anchor of Faith is thrown out there may be shakings and tossings but there is safety nothing shall interrupt safety although something may interrupt security my safety is sure although I apprehend it not and what if I go to God in the dark What if I come to him as Nicodemus did staggering in the night It is a

wish the Kingdoms happiness I wish it peace and truly Sir I wish that this blood of mine may be the last that is drawn and howsoever I may perhaps have some reluctancy with my self as to the matter of my Fact for my suffering for my Fact yet I freely forgive all Sir I earry no rancour along with me to my Grave His Will be done that has created both Heaven and Earth and me a poor miserable sinful Creature now speaking before him For me to speak Sir to you of State-business and the Government of the Kingdom or my opinion in that or for any thing in that nature truly it is to no end it contributes nothing My own inclination hath been to peace from the beginning and it is known to many that I never was an ill instrument betwixt the King and his people I never acted to the prejudice of the Parliament I bore no Arms I medled not with it I was not wanting by my Prayers to God Almighty for the Happiness of the King and truly I shall pray still that God may so direct him as that may be done which shall tend to his Glory and the Peace and Happiness of the Kingdom I have not much more to say that I remember of I think I have spoken of my Religion D. Sibbald Your Lordship has not so fully said it Camb. Truly I do believe I did say something D. Sibbald I know you did it is pleasing to hear it from your Lordship again Camb. Truly Sir for the profession of my Religion that which I said was the established Religion and that which I have practiced in my own Kingdom where I was born and bred my Tenents they need not to be exprest they are known to all and I am not of a rigid Opinion many Godly men there is that may have scruples which do not concern me at all at no time they may differ in Opinion and now more than at any time differing in Opinion does not move me not any mans my own is clear Sir The Lord forgive me my sins and I forgive freely all those that even I might as a worldly man have the greatest animosity against We are bidden to forgive Sir 'T is a command laid upon us and there mentioned Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us D. Sibbald 'T is our Saviours rule Love your Enemies Bless them that curse you pray for them that persecute you do good to them that despightfully use you Camb. Sir it is high time for me to make an end of this and truly I remember no more that I have to say but to pray to God Almighty a few words and then I have done Then kneeling down with D. Sibbald he prayed thus MOst Blessed Lord I thy poor and most unworthy servant come unto thee presuming in thy infinite Mercy and the Merits of Jesus Christ who sits upon the Throne I come flying from that of Justice to that of Mercy and Tenderness for his sake which shed his Blood for sinners that he would take compassion upon me that he would look upon me as one that graciously hears me that he would look upon me as one that hath Redeemed me that he would look upon me as one that hath shed his Blood for me that he would look upon me as one who now calls and hopes to be saved by his all-sufficient merits For his sake glorious God have compassion upon me in the freeness of thy infinite mercy that when this sinful soul of mine shall depart out of this frail carcass of clay I may be carryed into thy Everlasting Glory O Lord by thy free Grace and out of thy infinite mercy hear me and look down and have compassion upon me and thou Lord Jesus thou my Lord and thou my God and thou my Redeemer hear me take pity upon me take pity upon me Gracious God and so deal with my soul that by thy precious merits I may attain to thy joy and bliss O Lord remember me so miserable and sinful a Creature now thou O Lord thou O Lord that dyedst for me receive me and receive me into thine own bound of mercy O Lord I trust in thee suffer me not now to be confounded Satan has had too long possession of this soul O let him not now prevail against it but let me O Lord from henceforth dwell with thee for evermore Now Lord it is thy time to hear me hear me Gracious Jesus even for thy own Goodness Mercy and Truth O Glorious God O Blessed Father O Holy Redeemer O Gracious Comforter O Holy and Blessed Trinity I do render up my soul into thy hands and commit it with the Mediation of my Redeemer Praising thee for all thy Dispensation that it has pleased thee to confer upon me and even for this Praise and Honour and Thanks from this time forth for evermore D. Sibbald My Lord I trust you now behold with the Eye of Faith the Son of Righteousness shining upon your Soul and will cheerfully submit unto Him who hath Redeemed us through his Blood even the Blood of Jesus Christ that you may appear at the Tribunal of God cloathed with the White Robe of his Unspotted Righteousness The Lord grant that with the Eye of Faith you may now see the Heavens opened and Jesus Christ standing at the Right Hand of God ready to receive you into his Arms of Mercy Camb. Then the Earl turning to the Executioner said Shall I put on another Cap Must this Hair be turned up from my Neck There are Three of my Servants to give Satisfaction D. Sibbald My Lord I hope you are able to give all that are about you Satisfaction you are assured that God is reconciled unto you through the Blood of Christ Jesus and the Spirit of the Lord witnesseth to you that Christ is become now a Jesus unto you My Lord fasten the Eyes of your Faith upon Jesus the Author and Finisher of your Salvation who himself was brought to a violent Death for the Redemption of Mankind He chearfully submitted to his Father's good Pleasure in it and for us Blessed and Holy is he that hath part my Lord in the first Resurrection that is in the first Riser Jesus Christ who is both the Resurrection and the Life Over him the Second Death shall have no Power 'T is the unspeakable Joy of a Believer that at the Hour of Death his Soul hath an immediate Passage from this earthly Tabernacle to that Region of endless Glory yea to the Presence of God himself in whose Presence is fulness of Joy and at whose Right Hand there are Pleasures for evermore Then the Earl of Cambridge turning to the Executioner said Which way is it that you would have me lie Sir Execut. The Executioner pointing to the Front of the Scaffold the Earl replied What my Head this way Then the Undersheriffs Son said My Lord the Order is That you should lay your Head towards the High Court

Christ that justifies And therefore look now upon this My Lord upon this Christ upon this Christ that justifies Hell Death Sin Satan nothing shall be able to condemn It is Christ that justifies you Holland Indeed if Christ justifie no Body can condemn and I trust in God in his Justification Though there is a Confusion here without us and though there are Wonders and Staring that now disquiet yet I trust that I shall be carried into that Mercy that God will receive my Soul Bolton I doubt not my Lord but as you are a Spectacles of Pity here so you are an Object of God's Mercy above Holland Then the Earl of Holland looking over among the People pointing to a Souldier said This honest Man took me a Prisoner You little thought I should have been brought to this when I delivered my self to you upon Conditions And espying Captain Watson on Horse-back putting off his Hat said to him God be with you Sir God reward you Sir Bolton My Lord Throw your self into the Arms of Mercy and say There I will anchor and there I will die He is a Saviour for us in all Conditions Whither should we go He hath the Words of Eternal Life And upon Him do you rest wait while you live and even trust in Death Holland Here must now be my Anchor a great Storm makes me find my Anchor and but in Storms no Body trusts to his Anchor And therefore I must trust upon my Anchor Vpon that God said Mr. Bolton upon whom your Anchor trusts Yea God I hope will anchor my Soul fast upon Christ Jesus And if I die not with that Clearness and that Heartiness that you speak of truly I will trust in God though he kill me I will rely upon Him and in the Mercy of my Saviour Bolton There is Mercy enough my Lord and to spare you shall not need to doubt they shall never go begging to another Door My Lord that come to Him Then the Earl of Holland speaking to Mr. Hodges said I pray God reward you for all your Kindness and pray as you have done instruct my Family that they may serve God with Faithfulness and Holiness with more Diligence than truly I have been careful to press them unto You have the Charge of the same Place you may do much for them and I recommend them to your Kindness and the Goodness of your Conscience Dr. Sibbald standing upon the Scaffold in his Passage to Collonel Beecher expressed himself thus to his Lordship Dr. Sibbald The Lord lift up the Light of his Countenance upon you and you shall be safe Holland Then the Earl of Holland embraced Lieutenant Collonel Beecher and took his Leave of him After which he came to Mr. Bolton and having embraced him and returned him many Thanks for his great Pains and Affections to his Soul desiring God to reward him and return his Love into his Bosom Mr. Bolton said to him The Lord God support you and be seen in this great Extremity The Lord reveal and discover himself to you and make your Death the Passage unto Eternal Life Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Here my Friend let my Cloaths and my Body alone there is Ten Pounds for thee that is better than my Cloaths I am sure of it Executioner Will your Lordship please to give me a Sign when I shall strike And then his Lordship said You have Room enough here have you not And the Executioner said Yes Bolton The Lord be your Strength there is Riches in him The Lord of Heaven impart himself to you he is able to save to the uttermost We cannot fall so low as to fall below the everlasting Arms of God and therefore the Lord be a Support and Stay to you in your low Condition that he will be pleased to make this an Advantage to that Life and Glory that will make amends for all Holland Then the Earl of Holland turning to the Executioner said Friend do you hear me If you take up my Head do not take off my Cap. Then turning to his Servants he said to one Fare you well thou art an Honest Fellow and to another God be with thee thou art an Honest Man And then said Stay I will kneel down and ask God Forgiveness And then prayed for a pretty space with seeming Earnestness Bolton The Lord grant you may find Life in Death Holland Which is the way of lying which they shewed him And then going to the Front of the Scaffold he said to the People God bless you all and God deliver you from any such Accident as may bring you to any such Death as is violent either by War or by these Accidents but that there may be Peace among you and you may find that these Accidents that have happened to us may be the last that may happen in this Kingdom It is that I desire it is that I beg of God next the saving of my Soul I pray God give all Happiness to this Kingdom to this People and this Nation And then turning to the Executioner said How must I lie I know not Executioner Lie down flat upon your Belly And then having laid himself down he said Must I lie closer Executioner Yes and backwarder Holland I will tell you when you shall strike And then as he lay seemed to pray with much Affection for a short space and then lifting up his Head said Where is the Man And seeing the Executioner by him he said Stay while I give the Sign And presently after stretching out his Hand and the Executioner being not fully ready he said Now now And just as the Words were coming out of his Mouth the Executioner at one Blow severed his Head from his Body Arthur Lord Capel his Speech on the Scaffold immediately before his Death March 9. 1649. The Execution of the Lord of Holland being thus performed the Lord Capel was brought to the Scaffold as the former and in the way to the Scaffold he put off his Hat to the People on both sides looking very austerely about him And being come upon the Scaffold Lieutenant Collonel Beecher said to him Is your Chaplain here Capel NO I have taken my Leave of him And perceiving some of his Servants to weep he said Gentlemen refrain your selves refrain your selves And turning to Lieutenant Collonel Beecher he said What did the Lords speak with their Hats off or no Coll. Beech. With their Hats off And then coming to the Front of the Scaffold he said I shall hardly be understood here I think And then began his Speech as followeth Capel The Conclusion that I made with those that sent me hither and are the Cause of this violent Death of mine shall be the Beginning of what I shall say to you When I made an Address to them which was the last I told them with much Sincerity That I would pray to the God of all Mercies that they might be Partakers of his inestimable