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A64894	Former ages never heard of, and after ages will admire, or, A brief review of the most materiall parliamentary transactions, beginning, Nov. 3, 1640 wherein the remarkable passages both of their civil and martial affaires, are continued unto this present year published as a breviary, leading all along, successively, as they fell out in their severall years, so that if any man will be informed of any remarkable passage, he may turne to the year, and so see in some measure, in what moneth thereof it was accomplished : for information of such as are altogether ignorant of the rise and progresse of these times : a work worthy to be kept in record, and communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing V305; ESTC R2983	53,959	61

glory of thy great name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the K. and his posterity after him in their just rights and priviledges the honour and conservation of parl. in their ancient and just power the preservation of this poor Church in her truth peace and patrimony and Sr Alexander Caron Sr. Iohn Hotham Captin Hotham the Arch Bishop of Canterbury beheaded on Tower-hill for Treason against ye Parliament 1645. the settlement of this distracted and distressed people under the ancient Lawes and in their native liberties and when thou hast done all this in mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulnes and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Jesus and I beseech thee to receive my soul to mercy Our Father c. His last Prayer on the Scaffold LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee but it is but umbra mortis a meer shadow of death a little darknesse upon nature but thou by thy merits and passion hast broke through the jaws of death so Lord receive my soul and have mercy on me and blesse this Kingdome with peace and plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood among them for Jesus Christ his sake if it be thy will And when he said Lord receive my soul which was his signe the Executioner did his Office A design to starve the City by breaking into Surrey Sussex Kent but disappointed by Sir Wil Waller and the City Regiments Feb the King granted a cessition of arms with the bloody Rebels of Ireland March a Solemn League and Covenant taken by the Lords Commons city of London and all parts within the Parl. power Nottingham Town and Castle to have been betrayed but prevented by Col. Hutchinson A ship from Denmark of 300 Tuns laden for the most part with Round-heads being half pike-slaves with a knob at the end full of iron spikes sent to the King but that yeare the Swedes fell into Denmarke and took half his Countrey from him A plot against the City of London by Sir Basil Brooke Col. Read Mr. Ripley and Mr. Vil●● two Citizens of London and others but prevented Our Army in Cornwall preserved with the losse of our Artillery A peace pretended at Vxbridge and a petition from Buckinghamshire wherein Sir Iohn Lawrence was a great stickler but frustrated Melcomb Regis to have been betrayed Col. Goring and Sir Lewis Dives were agents therein the Town and Forts recovered and two ships with rich prizes from Rhoan in France were seized on to make amends for their trouble The Service-Book Voted down Earles and Lords from Oxford submitted themselves to the Parl. Iune 1645. The famous Victory of Naisby over the Kings Forces 5000 prisoners taken a Jewel of 500. l. sent to Gen. Leven by the Parl. all the K. Commissioners taken at Shaftsbury Basing house taken and burnt August A plot in the west against the Parl. by the Clubmen A sudden plot upon Scotland by Montrosse but as suddenly recovered again by Gen David Lesley A Treaty with the Parl. for a well grounded peace and yet at that time the Earl of Glamorgan had a Commission to the ruine of all the protestants in Ireland and consequently in England also The Great Seal broken before the Lords and Commons on Tuesday the 11 of August 1646. The King Escapes out of Oxford in a disguised maner Ordered That whosoever conceals the Kings person shal be a Traytor A Letter concerning the Kings coming to the Scots Army May 5. 1646. RIght Honourable the discharging our selves of the duty we owe to the Kingdom of Engl to you as Commissioners from the same moves us to acquaint you with the Kings coming in to our Army this morning which having overtaken us unexpectedly hath filled us with amazement and made us like men that dream we cannot think that he could have been so unadvised in his resolutions as to have cast himself upon us without a real intention to give satisfaction to both Kingdoms in all their just and reasonable demands in all those things that concern Religion and righteosnesse whatsoever be his dispositions or resolutions you may be assured that we shall never entertain any thought or correspondency with any purpose or countenance any indeavours that may in any circumstance incroach upon our League and Covenant or weaken the union or confidence betwixt the Nations that union to our Kingdom was the matter of many prayers and as nothing was more joyfull unto us then to have it set on foot so hitherto have we thought nothing too dear to maintain it and we trust to walk with such faithfulnesse and truth in this particular that as we have the testimony of a good conscience within our selves so you and all the world shall see that we mind your interest with as much integrity and care as our own being confident you will entertain no other thought of us Signed May 5. 1646. LOTHIAN A Remonstrance exhibited in the name of the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of London to the High Court of Parl. 1 That some strict and speedy course may be taken for the suppressing of all private and separate Congregations 2 That all Anabaptists Brownists Hereticks Schismaticks Blasphemers and all such Sectaries as conform not to the publick discipline established or to be established by the Parl. may fully be declared against and some effectuall course setled for proceeding against such persons 3 That as we are all Subjects of one Kingdome so all may be equally required to yield obedience to the Government either set or to be set forth 4 That no person disaffected to the Presbyterian Government set or to be set forth by the Parl. may be imployed in any place of publick trust The King gave speedy Order to severall Officers for the surrender of the Towns Castles and Forts which then were in the hands of the Kings Commanders viz Oxford Worcester Litchfield and Wallingford A Petition delivered to his Excellency from the Officers and Souldiers in the Army touching their faithfullnesse in the Parl. service doing Summer Service in the Winter season c. Further presented severall desires of theirs 1 That an Ordinance of indempnity with the Royal assent be desired 2 That satisfaction may be given to the petitioners for their arrears both in their former service and in this Army before it is disbanded 3 That those who have voluntarily served the Parl. may not be prest to serve in another Kingdome c. 4 That those who have lost their lives limbs or estates may be provided for and relieved The Apology in answer to his Excellencies Letter relating their sense of a second storm hanging over their heads by the malice of a secret enemy worse then the former now vanquished expressing their sorrow that

lesse troubled with it because of those violent deaths that I have seen before Principally my Saviour that hath shewed us the way how and in what manner he hath done it and for what cause I am the more comforted I am the more rejoyced It is not long since the King my Master passed in the same manner and truly I hope that his purposes and intentions were such as a man may not be ashamed not onely to follow him in the way that was taken with him but likewise not ashamed of his purposes if God had given him life I have often dispu●ed with him concerning many things of this kind and I conceive his sufferings and his better knowledge and better understanding if God had spared him life might have made him a Prince very happy towards himselfe and very happy towards this Kingdome I have seen and known that those blessed souls in Heaven have passed thither by the gate of sorrow and many by the gate of violence And since it is Gods pleasure to dispose me this way I submit my soule to him with all comfort and with all hope that he hath made this my end and this my conclusision that though I be low in death yet neverthelesse this lownesse shall raise me to the highest glory for ever Truly I have not said much in publick to the people concerning the particular actions that I conceive I have done by my Counsels in this Kingdome I conceive they are well known it were somthing of vanity me thinks to take notice of them here I 'le rather dye with them with the comfort of them in mine own bosome and that I never intended in this action or any action that ever I did in my life either malice or bloodshed or prejudice to any Creature that lives For that which concerns my Religion I made my profession before of it how I was bred and in what manner I was bred in a Family that was looked upon to be no little notorious in opposition to some liberties that they conceived then to be taken and truly there was some mark upon me as if I had some taint of it even throout the whole wayes that I have taken every body knows what my affections have been to many that have suffered to many that have been in troubles in this Kingdome I endeavoured to oblige them I thought I was tyed so by my Conscience I thought it by my charity and truly very much my breeding God hath now brought me to the last instant of my time all that I can say and all that I can adhere unto is this That as I am a great sinner so I have a great Saviour that as he hath given me here a fortune to come publickly in a shew of shame in the way of this suffering truly I understand it not to be so I understand it to be a glory a glory when I consider who hath gone before me and a glory when I consider I had no end in it but what I conceive to be the service of God the King and the Kingdom and therefore my heart is not charged much with any thing in that particular since I conceive God will accept of the intention whatsoever the action seem to be I am going to dye and the Lord receive my soul I have no reliance but upon Christ for my self I do acknowledge that I am the unworthiest of sinners my life hath been a vanity and a continued sin and God may justly bring me to this end for the sins I have committed against him and were there nothing else but the iniquities that I have committed in the way of my life I look upon this as a great justice of God to bring me to this suffering and those hands that have been most active in it I pray God forgive them and that there may not be many such Trophies of their Victory I might say somthing of our Tryal which I think hath been extraordinary but because I would not seem as if I made some complaint I will not so much as mention it because no body shall believe I repine at their actions or my owne fortune it is the will of God it is the hand of God under whom I fall I take it intirely from him I submit my self to him I shall desire to roule my selfe into the arms of my blessed Saviour And when I come to this place pointing to the Block when I bowe downe my selfe there I hope God will raise me up and when I bid farewell as I must now to hope and to Faith that Love will abide I know nothing to accompany the Soule out of this World but Love and I hope that Love will bring me to the Fountaine of glory in Heaven through the Arms Mediation and the Mercy of my Saviour Jesus Christ in whom I believe O Lord help my unbelief I shall make as much hast as I can to come to that glory and the Lord of Heaven and Earth take my soule I look upon my selfe intirely in him and hope to find mercy through him I expect it and through that Fountaine that is opened for sin and for uncleannesse my soule must receive it for did I rest in any thing else I have nothing but sin and corruption in me I have nothing but that which instead of being carried up into the Arms of God and Glory I have nothing but may throw me downe into Hell And here is the place where I lye downe before him from whence I hope he will raise me to an eternall 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 lye upon this place he will receive that Soule that ariseth out of it and receive it into his Eternall mercy through the Merits through the Worthinesse through the Mediation of Christ that hath purchased it with his owne most precious Blood Christ Jesus receive my Soule my Soule hungers and thirsts after him clouds are gathering and ●●●ust in God through all my heavinesse and I hope through all impediments he will settle my interest in him and throw off all the claim that Sathan can make unto it and that he will carry the soul in despight of all the calumnies and all that the Devill and Satan can invent will carry it into eternall mercy there to receive the blessednesse of his presence to all eternity That Lamb of God into his hands I commit my soul and that Lamb of God that sits upon the Throne to judge those 24 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 worship 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 Indeed if Christ justifie no body can condemn and I trust in

of Jesus Christ I desire you that you would be silent and joyn in prayers with me and I trust in God that we shall all meet and live eternally in Heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happinesse where every tear shall be wiped from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God blesse this Kingdome and Jesus have mercy upon my Soul Amen August 1641. The King went to Scotland Octob. The Irish Rebellion began whereby above 100000 Protestants were murdered Novemb. Decemb. The King came from Scotland to London and was entertained with most pompous solemnity and after went to Hampton Court the Earl presented a Remonstrance wherein was expressed the Kingdomes grievances they desire a Guard Sir Wil. Belford was displaced and Cottington made Constable of the Tower but he was soon displaced and Col. Lunsford was made Lieutenant of the Tower but he also was displaced and Sir John Byron was made Liev. of the Tower in Lunsfords stead but he also with much ado removed and Sir John Conyers was put in his place To the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Peers now Assembled in Parliament The Humble Petition and Protestation of all the Bishops and Prelats now called by his Majesties Writs to attend the Parliament and present about London and Westminster for that Service THat whereas the Petitioners are called up by several and respective Writs and under great penalties to attend the Parl. and have a clear and indubitable right to Vote in Bils and other matters whatsoever debatable in Parl. by the ancient Customes Lawes and Statutes of this Realm and ought to be Protected by your Majesty quietly to attend and prosecute that great Service They humbly Remonstrate and Protest before God your Majesty and the noble Lords and Peers now assembled in Parl. that as they have an indubitate right to Sit and Vote in the House of Lords so are they if they may be protected from force and violence most ready and willing to performe their duties accordingly And that they doe abominate all actions or opinions tending to Popery and the maintenance thereof as also all propension and inclination to any Malignant party or any other side or party whatsoever to the which their owne reasons and conscience shall not move them to adhere But whereas they have been at severall times violently menaced affronted and assaulted by multitudes of people in their coming to perform their services in that honourable House and lately chased away and put in danger of their lives and can find no redresse or protection upon sundry complaints made to The High Commission-Court and Starr-Chamber voted down and pluralities non residencies damned by Parliament both Houses in these perticulars They likewise humbly protest before your Majesty and the Noble House of Peers that saving unto themselves all their Rights and Interests of Sitting and Voting in that House at other times they dare not Sit or Vote in the House of Peers untill your Majesty shall further secure them from all affronts indignities and dangers in the premisses Lastly whereas their fears are not built upon fantasies and conceits but upon such grounds and objects as may well terrifie men of good resolutions and much constancy They doe in all duty and humility protest before your Majesty and the Peers of that most Honourable House of Parl. against all Laws Orders Votes Resolutions and Determinations as in themselves null and of none effect which in their absence since the 27th of this instant Month of Decem. 1641. have already passed as likewise against all such as shall hereafter pass in that most Honourable House during the time of this their forced and violent absence from the said most Honourable House not denying but if their absenting of themselves were willfull and voluntary that most honourable House might proceed in all their premisses in their absence and this Protestation notwithstanding And humbly beseeching your most Excellent Majesty to command the Clerk of the House of Peers to enter this their Petition and Protestation among their Records They will ever pray to God to bless c. Jo Ebor. Th. Dures Rob. Co. Lich. Jo. Norw. Jo. Asa. Gul Ba. Wels. Geo. Heref. Rob. Ox. Ma. Ely Godf. Glouc. Jo Peterb Mor. Land Twelve Bishops were impeached of high Treason and ten imprisoned in the Tower and afterward all disabled from ever sitting in the Parl. they are Voted down root and branch Nulla contradicente The same night there were bonefires and ringing of Bels All Popish Recusants inhabiting in and about the City all dis-affected persons and such as being able men would not lend any money for the defence of the Common-wealth should forthwith confine themselves to their own Houses and not to goe forth without speciall license An Ordinance to apprehend dis-affected persons in the City whereof were four Aldermen put in safe custody in Crosby House and some in Gressam Colledge A letter sent to Mr. Pym Mr. Pym Do not think that a guard of men can protect you if you persist in your trayterous courses and wicked designs I have sent a Paper-messenger to you and if this does not touch your heart a Dagger shal so soon as I am recovered of my plague-sore In the mean time you may be forborn because no better man may be endangered for you Repent Traytor Jan 1641. The Irish proclaimed Rebels the King demands five Members Lunsford assaulteth the Citizens at Westmin an Act to carry on the War in Ireland till it were reduced Febr King signs the Bill for taking away Bishops Votes March the Queen went to Holland one of her ships sprung a leak and much treasure lost and when she return'd there was a great storm Van Trump's Mast broke and after eight dayes turmoil driven back again broke and lost 3 ships The King went to Theobalds where a Petition from the Par. was presented desiring him to let the Militia abide neer Lon and not carry the Prince away he being at Newmarket the House presented a Declaration the King went to York sends a message to the Parl. that he would raise 2000 Foot and 200 Horse at Hull and go for Ireland Sir John Hotbam denies the King entrance in April May som Members leave their seats and go to the King at York Binion a Silk-man the Kentish Malignants and Sir Edw Deering frame petitions against the Parl. but rejected fined and imprisoned The King interdicts the Militia but the Messenger was hang'd at the Exchange The Lords and Gentry of Ireland and Scotland petition the King to return to his Parl. the Gentry of York shire do the like but rejected The K. set on foot a Commission of Array June The Great Seal carried to the K. The Earle of Warwick Adm. Money and Plate brought in for the Cause the King besieges Hull 500 men went from London to it Proclamations and Declarations against the Parliament read in all Churches and Chappels within the

most willingly humble my selfe then kneeling down said I will try first how I can lye and laying his head over the block said Am I well now Execut. Yes And then as he lay with both his hands stretched out he said to the Executioner Here lye both my hands out when I lift up my hand thus then you may strike And then after he had said a short prayer he lifted up his right hand and the Executioner at one blow severed his head from his body which was taken up by his Servants and put with his Body into a Coffin as the former March 19. 1648. An Act for Abolishing the House of Peers THe Commons of England Assembled in Parl finding by too long experience that the House of Lords is uselesse and dangerous to the people of England to be continued have thought fit to Ordain and Enact and be it Ordained and Enacted by the present Parliam and by the Authority of the same That from henceforth the House of Lords in Par. shall be and is hereby wholly abolished and taken away and that the Lords shall not from henceforth meet or sit in the said House of Lords nor shall Sit Vote Advise Adjudge or Determine of any matter or thing whatsoever as a House of Lds in Parl. Neverthelesse it is hereby Declared That neither such Lords as have demeaned themselves with Honour Courage and Fidelity to the Common-wealth their Posterities who shall continue so shall not be excluded from the Publick Councels of the Nation but shall be admitted thereunto and have their free Vote in Parl if they shall be thereunto Elected as other persons of interest Elected and Qualified thereunto ought to have And be it further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Peer of this Land not being Elected Qualified and sitting in Parl. as aforesaid shall claim have or make use of any Priviledge of Parl. either in relation to his Person Quality or Estate any Law Vsage or Custome to the contrary notwithstanding Hen Scobel Cler Parl. On Thursday July 25. 1650. The General and Army Marched from Mordington to Coppersmith Col. Hackers Regiment being drawn up in the way his Excellency made a Speech to satisfie them concerning Capt. Ogles Troop being sent back into Northumberland in regard of his interest in that County that Cap. Greenwoods Troop appointed for Berwick should March with the Regiment in the stead thereof which gave great satisfaction Col. Bright's Regiment being drawn up Maj. Gen. Lambert appointed Collonel thereof coming to the head of the Regiment was received with great Acclamations A List of the Regiments of Horse and Foot Randezvouzed and Marched with the Lord Gen Cromwell into Scotland Eight Regiments of Horse THe Lord Generals in number 663 Maj. Gen. in number 663 Col. Fleetwoods in number 663 Col. Whalies in number 663 Col. Twisden in number 663 Col. Lilburn in number 663 Col. Hackers in number 663 Col. Okey in number 744 Consisting with Officers in all 5450 Ten Regiments of Foot THe Lord Generals in number 1307 Col. Pride 1307 Col. Bright 1307 Col. Maliveryr 1307 Col. Ch Fairfax 1307 Col. Cocks 1307 Col. Dunell 1307 Col. Sir Arthur Hasterigs 5 Companies 550 Col. Fenwicks 5 Companies 555 Consisting with Officers in all 10249 The Traine 690 The whole thus The Traine 690 The Horse 5450 The Foot 10249 The Totall 16354 A Letter from Liev Gen David Lesley to the Lord Gen Cromwell My Lord I Am Commanded by the Committee of Estates of this Kingdome and desired by the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly to send unto your Excellency this inclosed Declaration as that which containeth the State of the Quarrell wherein we are resolved by the Lords assistance to fight your Army when the Lord shall please to call us thereunto And as you have professed you will not conceal any of our Papers I doe desire that this Declaration may be made known to all the Officers of your Army And so I rest Bruchton 13 Aug. 1650. Your Excell most humble Servant DAVID LESLEY For his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell The Declaration of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly of Scotland as followeth THe Commission of the Generall Assembly considering That there may be just ground of stumbling from the Kings Majesties refusing to subscribe and emit the Declaration offered unto him by the Committee of Estates and Commissioners of the Generall Assembly concerning his former carriage and resolutions for the future in reference to the Cause of God and the Enemies and Friends thereof Doth therefore Declare That this Kirk and Kingdome doe not owne nor espouse any Malignant Party or Quarrell or Interest but that they fight meerly upon their former Grounds and Principles and in defence of the Cause of God and of the Kingdome as they have done these twelve years past And therefore as they doe disclaime the sin and guilt of the King and of his House so they will not owne him nor his interest otherwise then with a subordination to God and so far as he ownes and prosecutes the Cause of God and disclaimes his and his Fathers opposition to the work of God and to the Coven and likewise all the Enemies thereof And that they will with convenient speed take into consideration the Papers lately sent unto then from Oliver Cromwel and vindicate themselves from all the fa●shoods contained therein especially in these things wherein the Quarrell betwixt us and that party is mis-stated as if we owned the late Kings proceedings and were resolved to prosecute and maintaine his present Majesties interest before and without acknowledgement of the sins of his House and former wayes and satisfaction to Gods people in both Kingdomes West Kirk Aug. 13 1650. A. Ker. August 13. 1650. THe Committee of Estates having seen and considered a Declaration of the Commission of the Generall Assembly anent the stating of the Quarrell whereon the Army is to fight Doe approve the same and heartily concur therein Tho Henderson The Lord Generalls Answer to the former as followeth I Received yours of the thirteenth instant with the Paper you mentioned therein inclosed which I caused to be read in the presence of so many Officers as could well be gotten together to which your Trumpet can witnesse we returne you this Answer by which I hope in the Lord it will appear That we continue the same we have profest our selves to the honest people of Scotland wishing to them as to our own souls it being no part of our business to hinder any of them from worshiping God in that way they are satisfied in their Consciences by the Word of God they ought though different from us but shall therein be ready to perform what obligations lye upon us by the Covenant but that under the pretence of the Covenant mistaken and wrested from the most native intent and equity thereof a King should be taken in by you to be imposed upon us and this called The Cause of God and the Kingdome

company also exprest a dislike thereof Mr. Drake also read a Letter in this meeting but to whom it was I know not neither know I the Contents of it I was at least a dozen times called out of the Room whiles the Company were there so that I am not able to give so ful and particular an accompt of the Contents of the Letter and of the Commission and Instruction What Mr. Drake did about the Commission and Instructions after he was gone from my house I know not what and by whom he sent I know not until Maj. Alford declared before the High Court That he received the Papers from Mr. Drake carried them to Gravesend and delivered to one Mason and he caried them to Holland There was at this meeting Maj. Huntington M. Drake D. Drake M. Jackson M Jenkins M. Cauton Maj. Alford M Gibbons Maj. Adams Cap. Farr and my selfe with others whom I cannot remember There is one thing more I make bold to mention That there are other persons besides those I have named who did now and then come to my house as M. Robinson M. Nalton M. Haviland M. Blackmore Col. Vaughan Col. Sowton were present at one time or another but at what particular meeting I cannot positively say Thus I have cleerly laid open the whole matter of Fact so far as I well remember and distinctly know of passages about these meetings and Transactions at my House Tower of London July 22. 1651. I attest the truth of this Narrative under my hand Christopher Love Mr. Love's Speech made on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill August 22. 1651. BEloved Christians I am this day made a Spectacle unto God Angels and men and among them I am made a grief to the godly a laughing stock to the wicked and a gazing stock to all yet blessed be my God not a terror to my self although there be but a little between me and death yet this bears up my heart there is but a little between me and Heaven It comforted Dr. Taylor the martyr when he was going to Execution That there were but two stiles between him and his fathers house there is a lesser way between me and my fathers house but two steps between me and glory it is but lying down upon the block and I shall ascend upon a Throne I am this day sa●ling towards the Ocean of Eternity through a rough passage to my Haven of rest through a red Sea to the promised Land methinks I hear God say to me as he did to Moses Goe up to Mount Nebo and dye there so goe thou up to Tower-hill and dye there Isaac said of himself That he was old and yet he know not the day of his death but I cannot say thus I am young and yet I know the day the kind and the place of my death also it is such a kind of death as two famous Preachers of the Gospel were put to before me Iohn the Baptist and Paul the Apostle we have mention of the one in Scripture story of the other in Ecclesiastical History and Rev. 20.4 The Saints were beheaded for the word of God and for the testimony of Iesus But herein is the disadvantage which I am in in the thoughts of many who judge that I suffer not for the Word or Conscience but for medling with State matters To this I shall briefly say That it is an old guise of the Devil to impute the cause of Gods peoples sufferings to be contrivements against the State The Rulers of Israel would put Ieremiah to death upon a Civil account though it was the truth of his Prophesie made them angry because he fell away to the Chaldeans so Paul must dye as a mover of sedition The same thing is laid to my charge whereas indeed it is because I pursue my Covenant and will not prostitute my p●inciples to the lusts of men Beloved I am this day to make a double exchange I am changing a Pulpit for a Scaffold and a Scaffold for a Throne and I might add a third I am changing this numerous multitude upon Tower-hill for the innumerable company of angels in the holy hill of Zion and I am changing a guard of Sould●ers for a guard of angels which will receive me and carry me into Abrahams bosome This Scaffold is the best Pulpit I ever Preached in for in the Church Pulpit God through his grace made me an instrument to bring others to heaven but ' in this he will bring me to heaven and it may be this Speech upon a Scaffold may bring God more glory then many Sermons in a Pulpit Before I lay down my neck upon the block I shall lay open my Case and that without animosity or revenge God is my record whom I serve in the spirit I speak the truth and lye not I doe not bring a revengefull heart unto the Scaffold this day before I came here upon my bended knees I have beg'd mercy for them that denied mercy to me I have prayed God to forgive them who would not forgive me I have forgiven from my heart the worst enemy I have in all the world and this is the worst that I wish to my Accusers and Prosecuters who have pursued my blood that I might meet their souls in Heaven I have no more to say but to desire the help of all your prayers that God would give me the continuance and supply of Divine grace to carry me through this great work I am now to doe that I who am to doe a work I never did I may have a strength that I never had that I may put off this body with as much quietnesse and comfort of mind as ever I put off my Cloaths to goe to bed And now I am to commend my soule to God and to receive my fatall blow I am comforted in this though men kill me they cannot damne me and tho they thrust me out of the world yet they cannot shut me out of heaven I am now going to my long home to heaven my fathers house to the heavenly Ierusalem to the innumerable Company of Angels to Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new Covenant to the spirits of just men made perfect to God the Judge of all in whose presence there is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures for evermore Then he kneeled down and made a short Prayer privately Then after rising up he said Blessed be God I am full of joy and peace in believing I lye down with a world of comfort And then saying The Lord bless you he lay down with his head over the block and when he stretched out his hands the Executioner did his office The humble Petition of William Jenkins Prisoner Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner is unfeignedly sorrowfull for all his late miscarriages whether testified against him or acknowledg'd by him and for the great and sinfull unsutablenesse of them to his Calling and Condition That upon earnest seeking of God and