my Soul that God would forgive all those that upon so slender and small Grounds adjudg'd me to dye taking Advantage of such simple Ignorance as I was in And I had at the very beginning of my pleading engaged their Honours no Advantage should be taken against me to my Prejudice that in as much as I understood nothing of the Law And having heard that a Man in the Nicety of the Law might be lost in the Severity thereof meerly for speaking a Word out of simple Ignorance I made it my Prayer to them that no Advantage might be taken against me to the Prejudice of my Person And there was to me a seeming Consent for the President told there should be no Advantage taken against me and upon these Considerations I am afraid there was too great Uncharitableness but I pray God forgive them from the very bottom of my Soul and I desire that even those that shed my Blood may have the Bowels of the God of Mercy shed for them And now having given you the Occasion of my coming hither it is fit I should give you somewhat as concerning my self as I am a Christian I thank God I was Baptized to the Holy Church so I was Baptized to be a Member of the Holy Catholick Church that is the Church of England which I dare say for Purity of Doctrine and orderly Discipline till a sad Reformation had spoiled the Face of the Church and made it a querry whether it were a Church or no I say it was more purely Divine and Apostolical than any other Doctrine or Church in the Christian World whether National or Classical or Congregational And I must tell you That as I am a Member of this Church so I am a Member of the Holy Catholick Church and shall give a most just Confession of my Faith both negatively and affirmatively negatively I am so a Member of the Holy Catholick Church that I abhor all Sects Schisms Sedition and Tyranny in Religion Affirmatively so that as I hold Communion with so I love and honour all Christians in the World that love the same Lord Jesus in Sincerity and call on his Name agreeing with those Truths that are absolutely necessary and clearly demonstrated in the Word of God both in the Old and New Testaments tho' in Charity dissenting from some others that are not necessary And I as I am thus a Christian I hope for Salvation through the Merits of Christ Jesus his Blood I rely on his Merits I trust to for the Salvation of my own Soul Though to this Faith good Works are necessary not meritorious in us but only made meritorious by Christ his Death by his all sufficiency by his satisfaction and his righteousness they become meritorious And truly as I am a Member of this Church so I am a Member of this Community and so pleaded for the Liberties and Priviledges thereof I must now answer something I am aspersed withal in the World They talk of something of a Plot and a Treasonable Design and that I had a great Interest in the Knowledge and Practice thereof and that for the saving my Life I would have discover'd and betray'd I cannot tell what I hope my Conversation hath not been such here in this City where I have been a long Time very well known as to make one imagine I should intermeddle in such an Action and go so contrary to the Practice of my Profession and I hope there are none so uncharitable towards me as to believe I had a Knowledge of that Design Here I must come to particulars for a Plot of having a Design upon the City of London for the Firing of it I so much trouble at the Thought of the Thing that should have been done as they say for the carrying on of such a Design if my Heart deceive me not had I known it I so much abhor the Thing I should have been the first discoverer of it Nor ever had I Correspondency or Meetings with such Persons as would have carried on such a Design It is said likewise I entertained the Earl the Marquess of Ormond to my Remembrance I never saw the Face of that Honourable Person in my Life It is said One Lords Day I did preach at Saint Gregory's and the next Lords Day I was at Brussels or Bruges and kist the Kings Hand and brought I cannot tell what Orders and Instructions from him this I shall say For these three Years last past together I have not been sixty Miles from this City of London and I think it is somewhat further to either of those Places then threescore Miles It is said that I kept Correspondence with one Barrow and Bishop they are Persons I have heard of their Names but never saw their Faces and to my Knowledge I do not know they knew me nor do I know them at all but only as I have heard of their Names And whosoever else hath suggested such things against me I know not His Highness was pleased to tell me I was like a flaming Torch in the midst of a Sheaf of Corn he meaning I being a publick Preacher was able to set the City on Fire by Sedition and Combustions and promoting Dâ—signs Here truly I do say and have it from many of those that are Judges of the High Court that upon Examination of the Business they have not found me a Meddler at all in these Affairs And truly I must needs say therefore that it was a very uncharitable Act in them who ever they were that brought such Accusations against me and irritated his Highness against me I will not say it was Malice it might be Zeal but it was rash zeal which caused me to be sentenced to this Place the God of Mercy pardon and forgive them all and truly as I am a Member of the Church and as a Member of the Community whereon behalf I have been speaking I cannot but do as our Saviour himself did for his Disciples when he was to be taken from them he blessed them and ascended up to Heaven My Trust is in the Mercy of the most High I shall not miscarry and however my Days are shortned by this unexpected doom and shall be brought untimely to the Grave I cannot go without my Prayers for a Blessing upon all the People of this Land and cannot but bless them all in the Name of God and beseech God to bless them in all their Ways and his Blessing be upon them Let us Pray O Most glorious Lord God thou whose Dwelling is so far above the Highest Heavens that thou humblest thy self but to look upon the Things that are in Heaven and that are in Earth and thou doest whatsoever thou wilt both in Heaven in Earth in the Sea and in all deep Places in thy Hands are the Hearts of all Men and thou turnest them which way soever thou wilt O Lord look in Mercy and Compassion we beseech thee on this great and innumerous People of
Obstruction of it upon nothing more than my own Sin and seeing God sees it fit having not glorified him in my Life I might do it in my Death which I am contented to do I profess in the fear of God particular Malice to any one of State or Parliament to do them a bodily Injury I had none For the cause in which I had long waded I must needs say my engagement or continuance in it hath laid no scruple upon my Conscience it was on Principles of Law the Knowledge whereof I profess and on Principles of Religion my Judgement satisfied and Conscience rectified that I have pursued those ways which I bless God I find no blackness upon my Conscience nor have I put it into the Bed-roll of my Sins I will not presume to decide controversies I desire God to honour himself in prospering that side that hath right with it and that you may enjoy Peace and Plenty beyond all you possess here In my Conversation in the World I do not know where I have an Enemy with cause or that there is such a Person whom I have to regret but if there be any whom I cannot recollect under the notion of christian Men I pardon them as freely as if I had named them by name I freely forgive them being in free Peace with all the World as I desire God for Christs sake to be at Peace with me For the business of Death it is a sad Sentence in it self if Men consult with Flesh and Blood But truly without boasting I say it or if I do boast I boast in the Lord I have not to this minute had one consultation with the Flesh about the blow of the Axe more then as my passport to Glory I take it for an honour and I owe thankfulness to those under whose Power I am that they sent me hither to a place however of Punishment yet of some Honour to die a death somewhat worthy of my Blood answerable to my Birth and Qualification and this courtesie of theirs much helped towards the pacification of my Mind I shall desire God that those Genâ—lemen in that sad Bed-roll to be tryed by the High Court of Justice that they may find that really there that is nominal in the Act an High Court of Justice a Court of High Justice high in its Righteousness though not in its severity Father forgive them and forgive me as I forgive them I desire you now that you would pray for me and not give over praying till the Hour of my Death not till the Moment of my Death for the Hour is come already the instant of Time approaches that as I have a great load of Sins so I may have the wings of your Prayers to help those Angels that are to convey my Soul to Heaven and I doubt not but I shall see my Saviour and my gallant Master the King of England and another Master whom I much honoured my Lord Capel hoping this Day to see my Christ in the presence of the Father the King in the presence of him my Lord Capel in the presence of them all and my self there to rejoyce with all other Saints and Angels for ever more After the uttering of these and many the like Words declaring his Faith and Confidence in God with as much undaunted yet Christian Courage as possibly could be in Man he exposed his Neck to the fatal Ax commending his Soul into the Hands of a faithful and merciful Creator thro' the meritorious Passion of a gracious Redeemer and having said Lord Jesus receive me the Executioner with one Blow severed his Head from his Body For such a collateral design not long after one Master Benson was executed at Tyburn one that had some Relations to Sir John Gell who was tried for the same Conspiraccy with his Man Sir John's former Services to the Parliament being his best and most assured Intercessors for his Life and at that time were more then ordinary Advantages to him I shall in the next place give you an account of the Beheading of Sir Henry Hide He was by the Scots King commissonated as Ambassadour to the Grand Signior at Constantinople and stood in Competition with Sir Thomas Bendish then Ambassadour for the English for his Place whereupon they had a Hearing before the Vizier Bassa the result whereof was that Sir Thomas Bendish should dispose of the said Sir Henry Hide as he thought good who was to the same purpose sent to Smyrna thence into England and there condemned and executed before the Royal Exchange in London March 4. 1650. His last Words were to this Effect CHristian People I come hither to die I am brought hither to die and that I may die Christian like I humbly beseech the assistance of your Christian Prayers that by the benefit of them my passage may be the more easie Yet because Men in that condition which it hath pleased God to reduce me to give the more credit to Speech in the discharge of my Duty towards God I shall use a few Words and so conclude I pray all of you join with me to praise this Almighty God to whom I desire to render all hearty Thanks as for all his Mercies so in particular for this that he hath brought me hither that whereas I owe a Debt to Sin and and to Nature that now I can pay the Debt to Nature I can pay it upon the account of Grace And because it is fit to render the blessed account of that hope that is in me I shall tell you to the praise of Almighty God that I have been born and bred up in the Doctrine of the Church of England I have no negative Religion believing to be saved by the only merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ and whatsoever else is profest in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England authorized by Law humbly beseeching Almighay God to restore unto this Church her Peace Prosperity and Patrimony whereof I have an Obedient and a Loving however an unworthy Son and now both my Hope being consident and my Faith perfected there remains only Christian Charity Charity we carry into Heaven Charity on Earth that I leave beseeching all whomsoever I have offended to forgive me as I from the bottom of my Heart do all whomsoever blessing Almighty God for the happy advantage he takes to bring me the sooner to Heaven I bless Almighty God that he hath given me this Advantage as he hath been Merciful to me before the Foundation of the World in my Saviour so that now he hath in Mercy honoured me with a suffering for his Name in Obedience to his Commandment On this Day sevennight I was summoned before that Justice which condemned me on Friday last praised be Almighty God that by this way he hath brought me nearer to himself My charge I presume is publick as my Punishment is visible if there have been any thing in the management of my part being unskilful having
discontinued my own Countrey many Years I shall beseech the Christian Charity of all you my beloved Country-men to impute it rightly to the Ignorance of my unskilful ways of managing of affairs it was objected unto me there that I had a vanity of delighting in strange Tongues I do acknowledge that I was best skilled in the Italian but free from that vanity I thank Almighty God and therefore I would in defence of my Life if it had been the custom here or the Judges favour have used that Language which was almost as natural to me as my Mother Tongue It was objected that I did not so freely as a thorow-paced Cavalier own my Master I was told since I came into England this Skill I have in our Laws that a legal denyal in Law might be tollerable I hope I did not exceed the bounds of that in any thing for God forbid that I should be ashamed of serving so pious a Master putting off his Hat for this I rejoice and I humbly beseech Almighty God to fill my Heart and my Tongue and all that hear me this Day with thankfulness for it As to the Business that another construction had been made and believ'd here then what was there the righteous God knoweth it if any weakness were in the management that was mine I was sent to serve and protect not to injure any as God acquits me of the Intention of matter of Fact as having not done any manner of Evil that way however here understood blessed be his holy Name again putting off his Hat so those Gentlemen of the Turky Company if they would might acknowledge for they know it very well the impossibility of my doing them any manner of harm Whereas that of the Embassy objected against me that my Master honoured me with it though I was never worthy of it I was his Messenger and Internuntio for the conservation only of his good Subjects of all the Merchants until such time as he could confirm that Gentlemen now Resident or to send any other and they themselves know that there was an unpossibility as I bless God there was an innocency in me unto any such Intention to do them harm for my Masters commands were point blank the contrary I was only sent for their good as I never owned the Title so the very Letters themselves speaking no other I never did so much as think of any manner of address to the grand Signior but gave him the Letter from my Master the rest of the English Nation that were there present may when they please assert so much This I would insert that those Gentlemen as they have been Losers by the miscarriages of others may now have a breach of their Charity with me but if it be as it seems it is now in this Country a Sin to be Loyal I hope my God hath forgiven that when it is upon harmlefs Employment not invading any according to my just Masters order for indeed I have been always bred up in the Religion of Loyalty my Allegiance hath been incorporated into my Religion and I have thought it a great part of the service due from me to Almighty God to serve the King again putting off his Hat He said I need not make any Apology for any thing in relation to the present Affairs in England for were I as I spake before my Judges were I as evil as my Sentence here hath made black it were impossible for me to have prejudiced any body in England or to England belonging in that Employment But I bless God for his infinite Mercy in Jesus Christ who hath taken me to himself by this manner of way it was the best Physick for the curing of my Soul and those that have done it have no more Power than that of my Body I leave nothing behind me but that I am willing to part withal all that 〈◊〉 am going to is desirable and that you may all know that Almighty God hath wrought in me a total denyal of my self and that there is that perfect reformation of me within of my own Corruptions by the blessed Assistance of â—hs Holy Spirit I desire Almighty God in the Abundance of the Bowels of his Mercy in Jesus Christ not only to forgive every Enemy if any such be in the World here or wheresoever but to bring him into his Bosom so much good and particular Comfort as he may at any time whether the Cause were just or unjust have wished me any manner of Evil for I take him to be the happy Instrument of bringing me to Heaven I am tedious but I have an inward comfort I bless Almighty God pray Gentlemen give leave speaking to some that prest upon him I should never do it but to give satisfaction to all charitable Hearts I have been troublesome Here he made a Pause as discontented at the disturbance of those on the Scaffold when the Sheriff said to him Sir you have your Liberty to speak more if you please at length he proceeded But as to that part Mr. Sheriff that did concern the denyal as it was assirmed by Master Attorney General of my Masters Employment truly landing at White Hall I told that Council there was warrantable Commissions to an old Officer which by the Blessing of God I have by me and I have other acceptable things that God hath blessed me withal we that are Merchants abroad we allow our any sufferance that may induce to our own safety Inlargement of Trade or Preservation of what is ours Why I had by the favour of my gracious Master a confirmation of my old Comission of Consulage in Greece but as to the Embassy no more then my credential Letters did speak nor no more then that I attempted an Internucio they call it in those places which is a Messenger between the one and the other King they both unhappily dyed of several Deaths and both violent too and it is a custom not unknown to you Master Sheriff and other Gentlemen that practise in the World that Princes of course for the continuation of Amity do send Messengers where there is Pence that the transaction of those publick expressions of reciprocal affections may be performed but for Embassy God forbid I should own it I never had it however they have used it as the happy means to bring me to God this Day whom I in the Bowels of my Saviour beseech to forgive those People that have done it I owe them no harm God return better things into their Bosoms with all the good of this and an everlasting Life As for my part I have been long absent I have meddled with no Affairs in England sufficient to me is God's grace to the Salvation of my Soul I have been always fearful of offending God according to the Grace he hath given me but to learn a new Religion or new ways that I must say Mr. Sheriff to you and all others that hear me I could never dispence with my
own Cause rescue the Light of thy Truth from all those Clouds of Errors and Heresies which do so much obscure it and let the Light thereof in a free Proffession break forth and shine again among us and that continually even as long as the Sun and Moon endures To this end O Lord bless us all and bless him the Posterity which in Authority ought to rule over and be above us Bless him in his Soul and in his Body in his Friends and in his Servants and all his Relations Guide him by thy Council prosper him in all Undertakings granting him a long prosperous and honourable Life here upon Earth and that he may attain to a Blessed Life hereafter And gracious God look mercifully upon all our Relations and do thou bring them to the Light of thy Truth that are wandering and ready to fall Confirm them in thy Truth that already stand show some good Token for good unto them that they may rejoyce O let thy good Hand of Providence be over them in all their Ways And to all Orders and Degrees of Men that be amongst us give Religious Hearts to them that now rule in Authority over us Loyal Hearts in the Subjects towards their Supream and loving Hearts in all Men to their Friends and charitable Hearts one towards another And for the Continuance of thy Gospel among us restore in thy good Time to their several Places and Callings and give Grace O Heavenly Father to all Bishops Pastors and Curates that they may both by their Life and Doctrine set forth thy true and lively Word and rightly and duly administer thy Holy Sacraments And Lord bless thy Church still with Pastors after thine own Heart with a continual Succession of faithful and able Men that they may both by Life and Doctrine declare thy Truth and never for fear or favour backslide or depart from the same and give them the Assistance of thy Spirit that may enable them so to preach thy Word that may keep the People upright in the midst of a corrupted and corrupt Generation And good Lord bless thy People every where with hearing Ears understanding Hearts conscientious Souls and obedient Lives especially those over whom I have had either lately or formerly a charge that with meek Heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy Holy Word truly serving thee in Righteousness and Holiness all the Days of their Lives And we beseech the of thy Goodness and Mercy to comfort and succour all those that in this transitory Life be in Trouble Sorrow Need Sickness or any other Adversity Lord help the Helpless and comfort the Comfortless vifit the Sick relieve the Oppressed help them to right that suffer wrong set them at Liberty that are in Prison restore the Banished and of thy great Mercy and in thy good Time deliver all thy People out of their Necessities Lord do thou of thy great Mercy fit us all for our latter end for the Hour of Death and the Day of Judgment and do thou in the Hour of Death and at the Day of Judgment from thy Wrath and everlasting Damnation good Lord deliver us through the Cross and Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ In the mean Time O Lord teach us so to number our Days and me my Minutes that we may apply our Hearts to true Wisdom that we may be Wise unto Salvation that we may live soberly Godly and Righteously in this present World denying all Ungodliness and worldly Lusts Lords teach us so to live that we may not be afraid to dye and that we may so live that we may be always prepared to dye that when Death shall seize upon us it may not surprize us but that we may lift up our Heads with Joy knowing that our Redemption draws nigh and that we shall be for ever happy being assured that we shall come to the Felicity of the Chosen and rejoice with the Gladness of the People and give us such a fullness of thy Holy Spirit that may make us stedfast in this Faith and confirm us in this Hope indue us with Patience under thy afflicting Hand and withal a chearful Resolution of our selves to thy divine disposing that so passing the Pilgrimage of this World we may come to the Land of Promise the Heavenly Canaan that we may reign with thee in the World to come through Jesus Christ our Lord in whose blessed Name and Words we farther call upon thee saying Our Father c. Let thy mighty Hand and out-stretched Arm O Lord be the Defence of me and all other thy servants thy mercy and loving kindness in Jesus Christ our salvation thy true and holy word our instruction thy grace and holy Spirit our comfort and consolation to the end and in the end through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen His Speech and Prayer ended with much Meekness and spiritual Consolation He submitted his Neck to the stroak of the Ax to as great a Loss of the Church of Christ and of all good Men as hath happened in our Times I have the more enlarged my self that my Reader might not without a kind of a Consternation or Possession of strange Amazement pass by the Concernments of this blessed Heroe The same Day of Doctor Hewets Tryal was also tryed John Mordant of Clement Danes Esquire with whom he was a Fellow-Prisoner the Charge against him was for combining with Henry Bishop of Parham in Sussex Gent. Hartgil Baron and Francis Mansil with divers others for raising War against Oliver Lord Protector in the behalf of Charles Stuart and confering with J. Stapely Esq Henry Mallory and others how to effect the same and delivering Commissions to several Persons in the Name of and as from the said Charles Stuart c. He stood long upon it as did â—â—e Doctor before to have Council assigneâ— him and that he might be tryed by a Jury but finding it would not be granted he at last pleaded not Guilty many Witnesses deposited against him yet he by his Ingenuity so cleared himself that notwithstanding many Endeavours to the contrary he was discharged July the 17. following Colonel Ashton and John Betley were executed the one in Tower-street the other in Cheap-side Colonel Ashton was the first being drawn on a Sledge that Worthy Divine Doctor Warmestry submitting for the good of a poor Christians Soul to lie along with him upon the Sledge that he might lose no Time for his spiritual Converse They were drawn from Newgate to Tower-street over against Mark-lane end where a Gibbet was erected As he ascended the Ladder Doctor Warmestry said Almighty God who is a strong Tower be with thee and make thee know and feel that there is no other Name under Heaven whereby to attain everlasting Life but by the Name of Jesus The Blessing of God the Father the Son and Holy Ghost be with you henceforth and for ever Amen He being upon the Ladder exprest a great deal of Confidence he had in the
this Land look upon them O Lord withan Eye of Pity not with â—n Eye of Fury and Indignation O look not upon all those great and grievous Sins that have provoked thee most justly to Wrath and Displeasure against us Gracious God who can stand in thy Sight when thou art angry When thou with rebuke dost correct Man for Sin thou makest his Beauty to consume away like as it were a Moth fretting a Garment O Lord thy Indignation and Wrath lies heavy upon us and thou hast vexed us with thy Scourges thou hast made us a Reproach and a by Word amongst our Neighbours and the very Heathens laugh us to scorn O that thou wouldst turn us again O Lord God of Hosts that thou wouldst shew us the Light of thy Countenance that we may behold it that thou wouldst humble us for all those Sins and grievous Transgressions that are amongst us for those Atheisms for those Infidelities horrid Blasphemies and Prophaneness for those Sacriledges for those Heresies for those Schisms Errors and all those Blindnesses of Heart Pride vain Glory and Hypocrisie for that Envy Hatred and Malice and all Uncharitableness that hath set us one against another that we are so dashed one against another even to destroy each other Ephraim against Manasseh and Manasseh against Ephraim and both against Judah O Lord we are like those Moabites and Ammonites c. This thou hast done to us O Lord because we have rebelled against thee O how greatly and grievously have we sinned against thee yet for all this thou hast not requited us according to our ill deservings for thou mightest have brought us to Desolation and Destruction Fire might have come down from Heaven and destroyed us our Foreign Enemies and the Enemies of thee and thy Christ our Saviour might have swallowed us up What have we not deserved yet O the long Suffering and Patience and Goodness of our God! O Lord our God we pray thee that thy Patience and long Suffering might lead to Repentance that thou wouldst be pleased thou who delightest not in the Death of a Sinner but rather that he should turn from his Sins and live that thou wouldst turn us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned draw us and we shall run after thee draw us with the Cords of Love and by the Bands of loving kindness by the powerful working of thy Holy Spirit in our Souls working Contrition in our Hearts and a Godly Sorrow for all our Sins even a Sorrow to Repentance and a Repentance to Salvation never to be repented of Lord break those stnoy Hearts of ours by the Hammer of thy Word mollify them by the Oil of thy Grace smite these rocky Hearts of ours by the Rod of thy most gracious Power that we may shed forth Rivers of Tears for all the Sins we have committed O that thou wouldst make us grieve because we cannot grieve and to weep because we cannot weep enough that thou wouldst humble us more and more in the true Sight and Sense of all our Provocation against thee and that thou wouldst be pleased in the Blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse us from all our Sins Lord let his Blood that speaks better Things than that of Abel cry louder in thine Ears for Mercy then all those Mischiefs and Wickednesses that have been done amongst us for Vengeance O besprinkle our polluted but Penitent Souls in the Blood of Jesus Christ that we may be clean in thy Sight and that the Light of thy Countenance may shine upon us Lord be pleased to Seal unto our Souls the free Pardon and Forgiveness of all our Sins say to each of our Souls and say that we may hear it that thou art well pleased with us and appeased towards us Lord do thou by the Spirit assure our Spirits that we are thy Children and that thou art reconciled to us in the Blood of Jesus Christ To this end O Lord create in us new Hearts and renew right Spirits within us Cast us not away from thy Presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from us but give us the Comfort of thy Help and establish us with thy free Spirit Help us to live as thy redeemed ones and Lord let us not any longer by our wicked Lives deny that most Holy Faith whereof our Lips have for so long Time made Profession but let us that call on the Name of the Lord Jesus depart from Iniquity and hate every evil Way Help us to cast away all our Transgressions whereby we have transgressed and make us new Hearts Carry us along through the Pilgrimage of this World supplying us with all Things needful for us thy Grace alone is sufficient for us Lord let thy Grace be assistant to us to strengthen us against all the Temptations of Satan especially against those Sins whereunto we are most prone either by Custom or Constitution or most easily provoked O Lord with what Affliction soever thou shalt punish us do not punish us with spiritual Judgments and Desertions Give us not over to our own Hearts Lusts to our vile lewd and corrupt Affections give us not over to Hardness and Impenitency of Heart but make us sensible of the least Sin and give us thy Grace to think no Sin little committed against thee our God but that we may be humbled for it and repent of it and reform it in our Dives and Conversations and Lord keep us from Presumptuous Sins O let not them get the Dominion over us but keep us Innocent from the great Offence O Lord our Strength and our Redeemer And Lord sanctify unto us all thy Methods and Proceedings with us fitting us for all further Tribulations and Tryals whatsoever thou in thy divine Pleasure shalt be pleased to impose upon us Lord give us Patience Constancy Resolution and Fortitude to undergo them that though we walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death we may fear none ill knowing that thou O Lord art mercifully with us and that with thy Rod as well as with thy Staff thou wilt support and comfort us and that nothing shall be able to seperate us from thy Love which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. And gracious God we beseech thee be thou pleased to look mercifully and compassionately on thy Holy Catholick Church and grant that all they that do confess thy Holy Name may agree together in the Truth of thy Holy Word and live in Unity and godly Love Thou hast promised O Lord the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against thy Church perform we beseech thee thy most gracious promises both to thy whole Church and to that Part of it which thou hast planted and now afflicted in these sinful Lands and Nations wherein we live arise O Lord and have Mercy upon our Sion for it is time that thou have Mercy upon her yea the Time is come for thy Servants think upon her Stones and it pittieth them to see her in the Dust Lord maintain thine