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religion_n	church_n	papist_n	protestant_n	3,430	5	8.0447	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75331	The several arguments at lavv of Col. Eusebius Andrewe at his tryal, before John Bradshaw, president of the pretended high court of justice shewing the illegality of their proceedings, and passing sentence of death against him. Published by Francis Buckley, Gent. who was assistant to Mr. Andrewe in the time of his imprisonment, and an eye witness to all the said most bloody and execrable proceedings.	Andrews, Eusebius, d. 1650.; Bradshaw, John, 1602-1659, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing A3117A; ESTC R231612	53,671	79

as they are my desire is to make restitution but have not wherewithal Dr. If you had ability you would likewise leave a Legacy of thankfulness to Almighty God something to his poor Servants to his Lame members to his Deaf members to his Dumb members Col. My will hath been alwayes better then my ability that way Dr. Sir I shall trouble you very little farther I thank you for all those heavenly Colloquies I have enjoyed by being in your company these three days and truly I am very sorry I must part with so heavenly an associate we have known one another heretofore but never to Christianitie before I have rather been a Schollar to learne from you then an instructer I wish this Stage whereon you are made a spectacle to God Angels and the World may be a School to all about you for though I will not diminish you sins nor shall I conceal or hypocrize my own for they are great ones between God and my self but I think there is few here have a lighter load upon them then you have if we consider things well and I only wish them your repentance and that measure of faith God hath given you and that measure of courage you have attained from God and that constant perseverance God hath crowned you hitherto with Col. His Name be praised Here the Doctor prayed with him almost a quarter of an hour after which the Colonel turning himself again to the people spake as followeth One thing more I desire to be clear in There lyeth a common imputation upon the Cavaliers that they are Papists and under that name we are made odious to those of the contrary opinion I am not a Papist but renounce the Pope with all his dependencies where the distractions in Religion first sprung up I might have been thought apt to turn off from this Church to the Romish but was utterly unsatisfied in their Doctrine in point of Faith and very much as to their Discipline The Religion I profess is that which passeth under the name of Protestant though that be rather a name of distinction then properly essential to Religion but that Religion found cut in the Reformation purged from all the Errors of Rome in the Reign of Edward the 6 ●h practised in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles that blessed Prince deceased that Religion before it was defaced I am off which I take to be Christ's Catholick though not the Roman Catholick Religion Then he turned himself to the Executioner I have no reason to quarrel with thee thou art not the hand that throws the Stone I am not of such Estate to be liberal but here is 3 l. for thee which is all I have now tell me what I lack Executioner Your hair to be turned up Col. Shew me how to fit my self for the Block After which his doublet off his hair turn'd up he turned himself about to the people and prayed a good while before he lay down to the Block He spake to the people as followeth There is none that looks upon me though many faces and perhaps different from me in opinion and practice but hath something of pity in it And may that mercie that is in your hearts fall into your own bosomes when you have need of it And may you never find such a block of sin to stand in the way of your mercy as I have met with I beseech you joyn with me in Prayer Then he prayed leaning on the Scaffold half a quarter of an hour Having done he had some private conference with Dr. Swadling then he taking his leave of the Sheriff and his friends kissing them and saluting him next him he prepared himself for the Block kneeling down said Let me try the Block which he did After casting his eyes and fixing them very intentively above he said When I say Lord Jesus receive me Executioner then do thy office then kissing the Axe he lay down and with as much undaunted yet Christian courage as possibly could be in man did he expose his Throate to the fatal Axe his life to the Executioner and commended his soul into the hands of God as into the hands of a faithful and merciful creator through the Meritorious passion of a gratious Redeemer Saying the forementioned words his Head was stricken off at one blow Vera copia exam FINIS

faith and profession wherein by Gods assistance I shall be found at my death and shall seal with my blood and in which I pray to God she and all my dear friends whom I spare to name because I love them may live and die I renounce all dependance upon the Pope and Church of Rome and that out of a serious consideration of their adulterate errors and doctrines inconsistant with the truth and light of the Gospel and not meerly out of habit as being bred a Protestant nor out of the general noyse now made against them as if all the evil in the Land were from them For so abominable have been the actions of the Presbyterians on the one side and the Sectarians on the other that if I had not both found my conscience and judgment unsatisfied in the the Romish Doctrine and my soul comforted in hope of Gods returning in favour to his late mutilated Church I had long since profest my self a Roman Catholick rather then have submitted to the multiplyed Tyranny of the one or the Babylonish confusion of the other I have hitherto liv'd and resolve by Gods gracious aid to dy a true protestant that is to say a member of that Church and professor of that faith and obedient to that discipline which hath been professed and maintained and exercised in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth King James and Charles the Martyr which I trust God will again restore to its former purity and power I look upon the Presbyterian as upon one whose discipline is inconsistent with and improper for the natural and long habituated Government of this Kingdome and Church and the Author of all this Lands mischeifs in the supplanting that ancient and Apostolical Governance by Bishops and the taking away of the life of the King by exposing him to the madness of the Independent by their first opening the gap to Anarchy and confusion in Church and State by breaking the Golden Chain of either due prerogative I consider the Independent as fire out its place which is alwayes mischievous who hath already given earnest in his making a superstructure upon the Presbyterians basis for his performing the whole work of confusion upon Religion and Law if God prevent not by confounding their politick Councils as much as themselves have done their Fanatick opinions God in his good time put a hook in their nostrils and their Leviathans Of those to whom I am any wayes indebted I ask their pardon it not being my intendment in case God had pleas'd to have preserv'd me from the snare and violence under which I am fallen to have been to my power irresponsible to any I desire such who approve my profession to cover my faults in their charity and to let me be sweet in their memory As for the rest I wish them a seasonable repentance but set no price upon either their opinion or report Vivat Rex currat Lex floreat grex fiat voluntas Dei modo in ruinâ meâ EUSEBIUS ANDREWE 14. Aug. 1650. A Letter from a friend to Colonel EUSEBIUS ANDREWE Friend YOu have been long the subject of my prayers now take my councel while I am not able to do what I would accept of what I can I hope I shall not need divert your thoughts from the fears and terrors of death you are too well acquainted with that Monster to shrink at his menaces you know the Statute All men once to die your death is accellerated by the malicious machinations of a bad man under the name of friend if he had not betrayed you a Feaver or other violent disease or 1000. other mischiefs would have done it a few inches of time are cut from your life be not you offended to hasten to your immortality you would have been glad to have been freed from your prison let not your soul be clouded while it hastens to its glory do not look to the next causes of suffering so much as to that providence which orders all things wisely to the glory of his name and the salvation of your soul I attest your own conscience Had you died under the bloody hand of War or in the height and heat of your youthfull aberrations could you have appeared so chearfully before the great Tribunal as now in this time of humiliation and preparation you may May be the unworthy condition of your betrayer works your dispositions to high indignations yet your dear Saviour betrayed by as great a pretender said no more but Dost thou betray me with a kiss Strange way it was then but from that arch-traytors example it s now become familiar Do not entertain animosities against your Judges you know who said Father forgive them And that great Martyr dying Lord lay not this to their charge Be assured they must one day give an account of your sentence before an higher Court of Justice If they have rightly judged complain not If they have done you wrong you know to whom vengeance belongeth shortly In your patience possess your soul that time you have to live abandoning all thoughts and cares of this world study how to appear before the judgment seat of Christ to give account for your 42 years consider what answer to make to that Judg which renders to every man according to his works let all your disquisition be what to do to obtain Eternal Life Much I have to say to that question Reduce all to these two those two ways which Almighty God has chalk'd out for all men to Eternal Glory One of innocency the fathers before the flood had none other those after were directed by that Our blessed Saviour resolves that question What 's written in the Law that do and thou shalt live Consider first how far or right you have walked in this way but if you perceive your aberrations despair not our good God has propounded a second way unto that end it 's humble penitence If you have erred from that good way come into this Repent you truly for all your sins Afflict your soul for offending your mercifull Father Implore his pitty mercy and pardon and your Soul shall live Remember you have a most gracious God That desires not the death of a Sinner but rather that he should repent and live You have a blessed Mediator Intercessor Saviour who dyed for your sins and rose again for your Justification and be assured Whosoever believeth in him shall not perish be confident he that believeth on him shall live though he die and he that liveth and believeth on him shall not die Eternally I am straitned while I would direct you in all the steps of this way which are humble Confession hearty Contrition serious Detestation and so far as you are able real Satisfaction These four I have already exceeded the limits of an Epistle what is wanting I shall beseech you to make your addresses to the most learned and reverend Bishop of Ely intreat his help and direction follow his counsel implore