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.

Date:
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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    rIJ ] nit ion, from the Pj .(7 of the Nicolatidnes, zs Chrift was ordained .id fent to lave the World, and by his Death to deliver it from Sin, and to reconcile it to God. 16. And that Chriftianity is not wholly profefs'd and preached in the Church of England, but only in part. Wherein he, the fajd Edward Wightman, hath before the faid Re¬ verend Father, as alfo before our Commifli oners for Gaufes Eccleftafticak within our Realm of England, maintain’d his faid moll perilous and dangerous Opinions, as appeareth by many of his Confeflions, as alfo by a Book written and fubfcrib’d by him, and given to us. For the which his damnable and heretical Opinions, he is by divine Sentence declar'd, by the faid Reverend Father the Bifhop of Coventry and Lichfield, with the Advice and Confent of learned Divines, and others learned in the Laws affifting him in Judg¬ ment, juftly adjudged, pronounced and declared to be an obftinate and incorrigible Heretick, and is left by them under the Sentence of the great Excommunication, and therefore, as a corrupt Member, to be cut oft from the reft of the Flock of Chrift, left he fhould infed others profefling the true Chriftian Faith ; and is to be, by our fe- cular Power and Authority, as an Heretick ptmifhed ; as by the Significant of the faid Re¬ verend Father in God, the Bifhop of Coventry and Lichfieldy bearing Date at Lichfield the fourteenth Day of December, in the ninth Year of our Reign, and remaining in our Court of Chancery, more at large appeareth. And altho’ the faid Edward Wightman hath, fince the faid Sentence pro¬ nounc'd againft .him, been often very charitably mov'd and exhorted, as well by the faid Bifhop, as by many other godly, grave, and learned Di¬ vines, to diffuade, revoke, and remove him from the faid blafphemous, heretical, and anabaptif- • *...