The speeches, discourses, and prayers, of Col. John Barkstead, Col. John Okey, and Mr. Miles Corbet, upon the 19th of April being the day of their suffering at Tyburn : together with an account of the occasion and manner of their taking in Holland : as also of their several occasional speeches, discourses, and letters, both before, and in the time of their late imprisonment : faithfully and impartially collected for a general satisfaction.

Barkstead, John, d. 1662., Okey, John, d. 1662. Selections. 1662., Corbet, Miles, d. 1662. Selections. 1662.

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The Several SPEECHES and PRAYERS, of Col. John Okey, Col. John Barkstead, and Miles Corbet, Esq at the place of Execution, April 19. 1662.

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Then Col. Okey spake further, as followeth.

Mr. Sheriff,

It is not only our Judgments now, but it was our Practice when we were beyond the Seas; we did shun any Disputes, nay, we avoy∣ded occasions of seeing our own Countrymen, because we would have nothing to do with the affairs in England, but to pray for them, and to perswade to be quiet, and to sit still; so that we may say, as Paul did in another case, They neither found us in the Temple disputing, or wrangling, or stirring up the People; only our work was to pray for them.

Page 60Then Mr. Corbet said, Now we have done speaking to men, we may now speak unto our God; truly, he must help us, and give us his own Spirit: men may say prayers and reade them, but to pray in the Spirit, and to pray so, as to be accepted with God, requireth much strength and assistance from Him. Then Mr. Corbet addressed himself to Prayer.

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