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A86997	Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.	The several speeches of Duke Hamilton Earl of Cambridg, Henry Earl of Holland, and Arthur Lord Capel, upon the scaffold immediately before their execution, on Friday the 9. of March. Also the several exhortations, and conferences with them, upon the scaffold, by Dr Sibbald, Mr Bolton, & Mr Hodges. Published by special authority.	1649.0		.xml	application/xml	12361	311	62	I am going to die , and the Lord receive my Soule : I have no reliance but upon Christ , for my selfe I doe acknowledge that I am the unworthiest of sinners ; my life hath beene a vanity , and a continued sinne , and God may justly bring mee to this end , for the finnes I have committed against him , and were there nothing else , but the iniquities , that I have committed in the way of my Life , I looke upon this as a great justice of God to bring me to this suffering , and to bring mee to this punishment , and those Hands that have beene most Active in it , if any such there hath beene , I pray God forgive them , I pray God that there may not bee many such Trophees of their Victories , but that this may bee as I said before the last shew , that this people shall see , of the bloud of persons of Condition , of persons of Honor ; I might say something of the way of our Triall , which certainely hath beene as extraordinary , as any thing I thinke hath ever beene seene in this Kingdome ; but because that 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 , that I repine at my 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 selfe to Him , I shall desire to roule my selfe into the Armes of my blessed Saviour , and when I come to this * place , when I bow downe my selfe there , I hope God will raise mee 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 Armes , Mediation , and the Mercy of my Saviour Iesus Christ , in whom I believe , O Lord help my unbeliefe . 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 happinesse , welcome Lord .	cache/A86997.xml	txt/A86997.txt
