The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years / With their several characters from the best historians. As Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c., and a table shewing how the respective sentences were executed, and which of them were mitigated, or pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the State-tryals.

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1720
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Credit: The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years / With their several characters from the best historians. As Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c., and a table shewing how the respective sentences were executed, and which of them were mitigated, or pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the State-tryals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ « ] the three Creeds, m. The ApofHes Creed, the Eficene Creed, and Athanajims Creed are the lierefiesof the Nicolaitanes. 7. That he the faid Edward Wightman is that Prophet fpoken of in the eighteenth of Deuteronomy, in thefe Words, / tuM raife the?n up a Prophet, &c. And that that Place q( Ifdiph, l alone have trodden the Wine-pref : apd that that place, Whofe Fqn is in his Hand> are proper arid perfonal to him the faid Edward Wightman. 8. And that he the faid Wightman, is that Perfon of the Holy Qhoft fpoken of in the Scriptures ; and the Comforter fpoken of in the fixteenth of St, Johns GofpeJ. 9. And that thofe Words of pur Saviour Chrift of the Sin of Blas¬ phemy againft thp Holy Ghpft, are meant of his Perfon. 10. And that that Place, the fourth of Malachiy of Elias to come, is like wife meant of: his Perfon. 11. That the Soul doth fleep in the fleep of the firft Death, as well as the Body, and is mortal, as touching the Sleep of the firft Death, as the Body is : And that the Soul of our Saviour Jefus Chrift did fleep in that fleep of Death as well as his Body. 12. That the Souls of the eled faints departed, are not Members poffefs'd of the triumphant Church in Heaven. 13. That th^ baptizing of Infants is an abominable Cuftom* 14. That there ought not to be in the Church the life of the Lord's Supper to be celebrated in the Elements of Bread and Wine ,* and the Ufe of Baptifm to be celebrated in the Element of Water, as they are now pradis'd in the Church of Eng¬ land. But that the Ufe of Baptifm is to be ad- minifter'd in Water only to Converts of fufticient Age of Underftanding, converted from Infidelity to the Faith. 15. That God hath ordained and fent him, the faid Edward Wightman, to perform his Part in the Work of the Salvation of the World, to deliver it by his Teaching, or Admo¬ nition?