It is fit God take me away, before I fall into theſe temptations that I ſee others falling into, and many others, I fear, will fall: I wiſh the Lord may pre-vent it. Yet bleſſed be his name, that I am keeped both from preſent evils and evils to come. [Here he turned about a little, and ſpake ſome words to Mr Hutchiſon, when turning again to the people, he ſpake as followeth] Some may expect I will regret my own condition; but truly I neither grudge nor repine, nor deſire any revenge. And I declare I do not repent my laſt going up to London; for I had always rather have ſuffered any thing than ly under reproaches as I did. I deſire not that the Lord ſhould judge any man, nor do I judge any man but myſelf: I wish, as the Lord bath pardoned me, ſo he may pardon them for this and other things; and what they have done to me may never meet them in their accounts. I have no more to ſay, but to beg the Lord that when I go away, he would bleſs every one that ſtayeth behind.
His laſt words immediately before he laid his head on the block after his doublet was off, were theſe: I de-ſire you, gentlemen, all that hear me this day, to take notice (and I wiſh that all who ſee me might hear me) that now when I am entering into eternity, and am to appear before my judge; and as I deſire ſalvation, and do expect eternal ſalvation and happi-neſs from him, from my birth to my ſcaffold, I am free from any acceſſion by my knowledge, concern-ing counſel or any other way, to his late Majeſty's death; and I pray the Lord preserve his Majesty, and pour his beſt bleſſings on his perſon and government; and the Lord give him good and faithful counſellors.
Turning about to his friends, he ſaid, Many Chriſ-tians may ſtumble at this, and my friends may be diſcontented: but when things are rightly conſidered
