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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

O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death and to lie low in the dust mourning and lamenting over the same deprecating God's Wrath and begging his tender Mercies to pardon and his powerful Grace to cure all these evils I must confess withal that it doth not a little trouble me lie heavy upon my spirit and will bring me down with sorrow to the grave though I was not alone in this offence but had the Body of the Nation going before me and the example of persons of all ranks to ensnare me that I suffered my self through the power of temptations too much fear anent the straits that my numerous family might be brought into to be carried into so great a length of complyance in England with the late Usurpers which did much grieve the hearts of the Godly and made those that sought God ashamed and confounded for my sake and did give no small occasion to the Adversary to reproach and blaspheme and did withal not a little obscure and darken the beauty of several former Actings about his glorious and blessed Work of Reformation so happily begun and far advanced in these Lands wherein he was graciously pleased to imploy and by imploying to honour me to be an Instrument though the least and unworthiest of many whereof I am not at all ashamed this day but account it my glory howevet that work be now cryed down opposed laid in the dust and trod upon And my turning aside to comply with these men was the more aggravated in my person that I had so frequently and seriously made profession of my aversness from and abhorrency of that way and had shewed much dissatisfaction with others that had not gone so great a length for which as I seek God's mercy in Christ Jesus so I desire that all the Lord's People may from my example be the more stirred up to watch and pray that they enter not into temptation 2. I dare not deny on the other hand but must testifie in the second place to the glory of his free Grace that the Lord my God hath often shewed ensured into and engraven upon my conscience the Testimony of his reconciled Mercy through the Merits of Jesus Christ pardoning all my iniquities and assuring me that he would deliver me also by the Grace of his holy Spirit from the spait tyranny and dominion thereof and hath often drawn forth my spirit to the exercise of Repentance and Faith and hath often engraven upon my heart in legible characters the merciful pardoning and gracious-begun cure thereof to be perfected thereafter to the glory of his Name Salvation of my own soul and Edification of his Church 3. I am pressed in conscience to leave here at my death my true and honest Testimony in the sight of God and man unto and for the National Covenant the Solemn League and Covenant the solemn Acknowledgments of our Sins and Engagements to our Duties and to all the Grounds and Causes of Fasts and Humiliations and of the Lord's Displeasure and Contendings with the Land and to the several Testimonies given for his Interests by General Assemblies Commissions of the Kirk Synods Presbyteries and other faithful Ministers and Professors 4. I am also pressed to encourage his doing suffering witnessing People and sympathizing ones with those that suffer that they would continue in their duties of mourning praying believing witnessing and sympathizing with others and humbly to assure them in the Name of the Lord our God the God of his own Word and Work of his Covenant Cause and People that he will be seen found and felt in his own gracious way and time by his own means and instruments for his own honour and glory to return to his own Truths Interests and Servants to revive his Name his Covenant his Word his Work his Sanctuary and his Saints in this Nation yea even in these three Covenanted Nations which were by so solemn Bonds Covenants Subscriptions and Oaths given away and devoted to himself 5. I exhort all those that have been or are enemies or unfriendly to the Lord's Name Covenant or Cause Word Work or People in Britain and Ireland to repent and amend before these sad Judgments that are posting fast come upon them for their sinning so highly against the Lord because of any temptations of the time on the right-hand or on the left by baits or straits whatsoever and that after so many Engagements and professions of not a few of themselves to the contrary 6. I dare not conceal from you who are friendly to all the Lord 's precious Interests in Britain and Ireland that the Lord to the commendation of his Grace be it humbly spoken hath several times in the exercise of my Repentance and Faith during my troubles and after groans and tears upon these three notable chapters viz. the ninth of Ezra ninth of Nehemiah and the ninth of Daniel together with other suitable Scriptures even in the very nick of humble and fervent prayers and supplications to him for reviving again of his Name Covenant Cause VVord and Work of Reformation in these Covenanted Nations and particularly in poor Scotland yea O dear Scotland which solemnly re-engaged unto him to the good example and encouragement of his People in the other two Nations to covenant with him also That the Lord I say hath several times given me good grounds of hope lively expectations of his merciful gracious powerful wonderful renewing reviving again of all his former great Interests in these Covenanted Nations and that in such a way by such means and instruments with such antecedents concurrents consequences and effects as shall wonderfully rejoyce his mourning Friends and astonish his contradicting and contra-acting Enemies I do earnestly recommend my poor afflicted Wife and Children and their Posterity to the choicest Blessings of God and unto the Prayers and Favours of all the Lord's Children and Servants in their earnest dealihgs with God and man in their behalf that they may not be ruined for my sake but that for the Lord my Gods sake they may be favoured assisted supplied and comforted and may be also fitted by the Lord for his Fellowship and Service whom God himself hath moved me often in their own presence and with their own consents to dedicate devote resign alike and as well as I devoted and resigned my own soul unto him for all time and eternity 8. Now here I beseech the Lord to open the eyes of all the Instruments of my Trouble who are not deadly irreconcilable Enemies to himself and his People that they may see the Wrong done by them to his Interest and People and to Me and Mine and may repent thereof return to the Lord and more cordially maintain own and adhere unto all his Interests in time to come The Good Lord give unto them Repentance Remission and Amendment which is the worst wish I do and the best wish I can wish unto them for

The LAST DISCOURSE Of the Right Hon ble the Lord Warestoune As he delivered it upon the Scaffold at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh Iuly 22. 1663. being immediatly 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 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet will I fear no evil for thou art with me Psal. 23. 4. I say unto you my friends Be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do but I will forewarn you whom you shall fear Fear Him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell yea I say unto you Fear Him Luke 12. 4 5. c. And they stoned Stephen calling upon God Acts 7. 59. And devout men carried Stephen to his Burial and made great lamentation for him Acts 8. 2. Printed in the Year 1664. Here followeth a short Narration of the Lord VVareston's Carriage before and after the delivery of his last Discourse upon the Scaffold at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh Iuly 22. 1663. HIs Carriage all the time from his coming from London was most convincingly Christian full of tenderness of spirit and meekness towards all so that all who were in his company both in the Ship and at other times asserted they were never in the company of a more godly sincere fervent seeker of God and one that was most sensible of the least tenderness exercised towards himself Before he came out of the Ship he prayed for a blessing upon his Majesty and upon State and Kirk When landed at Leith he enquired for the Ministers of Edinburgh To which it was answered They are all silenced and put out of the Town Well said he their silence does preach and truly Mr. Douglas c. might have preached either before State or Kirk During the whole time of his Imprisonment the Lord keeped him in a most spiritual tender frame even to the conviction of some that hated him formerly The great thing he most desired was gracious through-bearing which he said was onely to be had through the supply of the Spirit and intercession of the Saints and the thing he most feared was fainting in the hour of tryal and for that cause did earnestly desire that prayer might be fervently put up to God for him which was indeed done in all parts of the Land which had its good success in God's own way When he received his Sentence he did receive it with exceeding great meekness to the admiration of all desiring the best blessings of Heaven to be upon his Majesty and upon State and Kirk whatever befel himself and that God would give his Majesty true and faithfull Counsellours c. The nearer he was to his death he was the more quieted in his mind which had been discomposed by Poison and the drawing of threescore ounces of blood the Physicians intending hereby to distract him or make him an ideot fool The night before his death he sleeped very sweetly and in the morning was very full of comfort uttering many sweet expressions as to his assurance of being cloathed with a long white Robe before night and of getting a new Song of the Lambs praise put in his mouth He dined very chearfully hoping to sup in Heaven and to drink the next cup fresh and new in his Father's Kingdom Thereafter he was alone till the time of his being brought forth As he was led from the Prison the streets being very full of people bemoaning that sad sight he cryed Your prayers your prayers As he was conveyed by the Cross to the Scaffold there was a great noise made by the Guards beating off the people and battering with their Partizens over his head which was somewhat terrible to Spectators yet not to him for the Lord kept him very composed so that he never did so much as once look about to them but walked forwards with them very peaceably as a Lamb led to the slaughter and coming chearfully to the North-side of the Scaffold spake to the people after this manner I entreat you be pleased to quiet your selves a little till this dying man deliver his last words among you Likewise he desired his Auditors not to be offended that he was necessitate to make some use of his Paper for the help of his memory which had been fully wasted with long sickness and the malice of Physicians who had taken threescore ounces of blood from him at one time and had given him bad Physick so called he the Poyson that was given to him thereafter Then did he begin this following Discourse which he delivered with very much undaunted courage audaucity and quiet of mind without the least appearance of distemper but as chearful as ever he had been at any time formerly when giving any publick Testimony to the Truth with which singular piece of honour the Lord had often dignified him The last SPEECH and TESTIMONY of the Right Honourable the Lord WARESTOUNE as he delivered it at the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh Iuly 22. 1663. immediately before his Death RIght Honourable much honoured and beloved Auditors and Spectators That which I intended and prepared to have spoken at this time and in this condition immediately before my death if it should be so ordered that this should be my lot is not at present in my power being taken from me when apprehended but I hope the Lord shall preserve it to bear my Testimony more fully and clearly than now I can in this condition having my memory much destroyed through much sore and long sickness melancholy and the excessive drawing of my blood yet I bless the Lord that notwithstanding all these fore-mentioned distempers I am in any capacity to leave this weak and short Testimony 1. I desire in the first place to confess my sins so far as is proper to this place and case and to acknowledge God's Mercies and to express my repentance of the one and my faith of the other through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ our gracious Redeemer and Mediator I confess that my natural temper hath been hasty and passionate and that in my manner of going about and prosecuting of the best pieces of work and service to the Lord and to my Generation I have been subject to my excesses of heat and thereby to some precipitations which hath no doubt offended standers-by and lookers-on and exposed both me the work to their mistakes wherby the beauty of that Work hath been much obscured Neither have I in following the Lord's Work his Good Work been altogether free of self-seeking to the grief of my own conscience which hath made me oftentimes to cry out with the Apostle